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  We zijn er even niet, maar dit was de staat van onze minibieb net voor we vertrokken. Met bijdragen van de overburen, die even kwamen vragen of het goed was als ze er ook af en toe iets inzetten (uiteraard, graag zelfs!) #minibiebmaandag

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  Grading the last exams of the year while listening to Ernst Reijseger's Colla Parte for solo violoncello — such gorgeous music https://www.allmusic.com/album/colla-parte-versioni-per-violoncello-solo--mw0000387039

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Kladderadatsch/116903284956301375 was geweldig om afgelopen zaterdag met @Kladderadatsch op De Kaaij te spelen! #kladderadatsch #BrassAanDeWaal

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  Sam de Vlieger interviewde me voor Montessori Magazine over onderwijs in een tijd van "AI" chatbots https://magazine.montessori.nl/markdingemanse/ Waarin we praten over Maria Montessori, de echoput van ChatGPT, en het werk van Ivan Illich #onderwijs #genAI #montessori

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  Inhoud van onze minibieb op #minibiebmaandag! Op de bovenste plank Mau Mau, een UNO-versie die je krijgt als je er jong genoeg uitziet in de ICE in Duitsland. We hebben er drie, dus de kids vullen 'm aan zodra die weg is. Inhoud bijna volledig veranderd t.o.v. vorige week, met wat nieuwe boeken erbij via vrienden, familie, buren en toevallige voorbijgangers Doorloop nog steeds heel erg hoog. Misschien moeten we wat John Grisham, Tom Clancy en Dan Brown erbij zetten voor de vulling 🤣

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  There's a detailed 1913 map of the Togo Plateau, a forest reserve in Ghana bordered by six communities. Cartographically interesting is that that Akpafu-Todzi, the oldest present-day village of the Mawu, breaks out of the frame of the map The reason is that surveyors Grüner & Sprigade correctly understood that this was historically the most important Mawu village (with Odomi and Mempeasem both established later) I've written about the map on my blog: https://ideophone.o...

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  Inhoud van onze minibieb. Gisterochtend kwam een meneer die uit z'n fietstas er een aantal goede kinderboeken bijzette en 's middags was Stoner er bijgekomen Een Donald Duck pocket die de kids uithadden was al meegenomen net nadat ze 'm erbij gezet hadden #minibiebmaandag

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  Out now! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ Cristine Cuskley PDF https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3699968_2/component/file_3699969/content Our commentary on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models" by Futrell & Mahowald

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  Pretty chuffed to hear from the organisers that my "How not to use AI" preconference workshop helped set the tone of the following days, and that scholarly values and the benefits of slowing down were recurring conversation topics If your conference or grad school is looking for a workshop format that avoids the tired marketing cliches and productivity narratives around "AI", I'd be happy to do a rerun (time permitting) https://ideophone.org/how-not-to-use-ai-workshop/...

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  Gisteren weer #heksennacht in Nijmegen en #Kladderadatsch was van de partij om de protestmars te ondersteunen (foto Milou Brandsma) ⚧️✊🏳️‍🌈

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  1 mei 1975: Straat- en Strijdorkest #Kladderadatsch treedt op tijdens een Vietnam-manifestatie in de aula van de Radboud Universiteit (foto via Regionaal Archief Nijmegen)

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  @tante chef's kiss: "This also shines through in Cory arguing that we need to “liberate” technology. What a strange idea: Technology doesn’t need liberation, people do." Thank you for writing this cogent piece.

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  Bijzonder om bij de inclusieve #dodenherdenking in Rotterdam te zijn. Sprekers Biessaan Al-Haj (Palestijnse gemeenschap) en Enseline Lenahan (Maluku), en na de 2 minuten stilte —gedeeld met heel Nederland— bloemen en kransen vanuit een breed mozaïek aan gemeenschappen, van Afghanistan en Bosnië, Kaapverdië en Nigeria tot Oekraïne en Yemen. Nooit meer is nu.

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  Kladderadatsch gaat op zeilzwerftocht door Zeeland! Op de tjalk de Vrijbuiter koersen we door de Zeeuwse delta en geven we optredens op de plekken die we aandoen, van vr 24 tot ma 27 april https://www.kladderadatsch.nl/optredens/zeilzwerftocht-met-de-vrijbuiter/ #Kladderadatsch 1/2

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  Een technologie die woorden aaneenrijgt zonder begrip, en die ontworpen is om te overtuigen zonder overtuiging, kan geen betrouwbare rol spelen in het leerproces. Maria Montessori waarschuwde al tegen nutteloze breedsprakigheid! https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18929096

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  @resonanzfilter such a key question. Indeed, what's in it for them? David Widder, Sarah West and Meredith Whittaker have written very cogently about this when it comes to open-washing: https://davidwidder.me/open.pdf #dhd2025

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  Our #LLM openness tracker https://opening-up-chatgpt.github.io/ now includes >30 instruction-tuned ('chat') alternatives to ChatGPT. Most promising newcomer is AmberChat by LLM360: "we release all intermediate model checkpoints, our fully-prepared pre-training dataset, all source code and configurations, and training details. We are committed to continually pushing the boundaries of LLMs through this open-source effort." Refreshing to see something diffe...

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  New! Interactional foundations for critical AI literacies https://zenodo.org/records/19452872 Why do Anthropic engineers talking to Claude sound like Azande witch doctors addressing their potions? What does Mambila spider divination have in common with prompt engineering? Why are LLMs so irresistible to interact with? If you're interested in questions like that, and in luminaries like Lovelace, Adorno, Suchman and Weizenbaum, you may be interested in this paper: https://doi.org/10.528...

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  New :OpenAccess: paper! The multimodal nature of communicative efficiency in social interaction A study of how people use speech and gestures in repair sequences, by @marlourasenberg with @wimpouw, Aslı Özyürek & moi :doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22883-w #linguistics @linguistics@a.gup.pe #communication #interaction

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  This is stunning. Vasily Grossman in Life and Fate 1960, writing on "this machine whose dimensions and weight will continually increase as it attempts to reproduce the peculiarities of mind and soul of an average, inconspicuous human being." And pointedly noting in the same breath: "Fascism annihilated tens of millions of people." (I looked this up because of a post by @maelle) #AI #GenAI #fascism

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  "To find a solution, you have to first know your problem. There is not enough effort put into understanding problems that persist within datasets." Great to see the prolific @abebab featured in the Time 100 AI https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6308999/abeba-birhane-ai/ #time100ai

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  Post #dhd2025 we've made a big push to add more models to EU OSAI. We're now at >125 models and counting, including 20 code models https://osai-index.eu/the-index?type=code #LLMs if you are interested in breaking big tech monopolies, contributing to critical AI literacy and building transparant and reproducible pipelines, no better way than voting with your feet

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  Eight books I built on in my lecture & can recommend for #dhd2025 — the lower row with Suchman, Illich, Eubanks and Franklin perhaps less familiar in some DH quarters but all the more relevant for how they study the intersections of culture, technology, science, and the social Refs at https://markdingemanse.net/dhd2025

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  "If we want machines that support human activity, we must begin with paying attention to how people actually do things in the first place." Ada Lopez writes on Suchman for the Futures Library https://futuresoflanguage.org/ #FuturesofLanguage

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  New! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ Christine Cuskley https://zenodo.org/records/18944023 Our commentary on Futrell/Mahowald "How linguistics stopped worrying and learned to love the LMs”, forthcoming in BBS

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  Ekoplaza heeft een rad van fortuin met allerlei prijzen. De kids vertrouwden het rad niet, dus we hebben even onder de motorkap gekeken... we ontdekten dat het rad altijd precies 3622.5deg draait. V: um, dat zijn 10 rondjes, dus 0, en dan de helft van 45 graden. Altijd de 10% korting op bloemen! #Ekoplaza #FirstWorldProblems