Here’s your funding for mental health care, your street repair, your environmental code enforcement, your bike lanes, your bus routes, your homelessness caseworkers, your housing inspectors, your parks and libraries, your pre-k, your legal aid, your tree canopy,

“I do question how much the university administration understands the concept of free speech,” says USC journalism professor Afua Hirsch. “The point of free speech is that people have the right to say things that you might find uncomfortable or inconvenient,” she tells me.

Sign lang. linguists: Do you have a general term that refers to a document in a SL? I've been saying "long-form ASL video" to distinguish vlogs, reports, etc. from isolated sign video (in compling/NLP). But this comes from user interface and comp sci. jargon and I don't love it.

A painful example of how assistive technologies can be at total odds with the user's identity, community, and mental health. Sociotechnical failures like this need to be spread far and wide among engineering and medical circles.

Gallaudet students join the encampment at George Washington University to show solidarity with Palestine.

Given the choice, my parents would not have hesitated in 'restoring' my heterosexuality.

British Deaf Association responds to gene therapy trial to treat deafness: “Deaf children are not broken; what they need most of all is access to sign language” bda.org.uk/gene-therapy-r… #BSLinOurHands #DeafAwarenessWeek BBC Breaking News BBC Sky News BBC Radio 4

THE LARGEST ANTI-WAR AND PRO CEASEFIRE PROTEST IS MARCHING RIGHT NOW IN TEL AVIV “In Rafah and Sderot: children deserve to live". We are Jews and Palestinians demanding together to end the war & the occupation and to bring Israeli-palestinian peace. עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 is growing!

All that funding for gene therapy when it could just go to accessibility

Just wow. dailytrojan.com/2024/05/10/202…

1/ Listening to Israel argue before the ICJ is a disturbing experience. First time around I disagreed with everything said but could at least identify a consistent logic- "we are attempting to dismantle Hamas and that is our sole justification". That is no longer the case. --->

ASL users: Should LH signers fingerspell left-to-right or right-to-left (from the signer's perspective)? R-to-L feels more natural to me, unsure if that's convention though.

GPT 4o is noticeably smarter than 3.5, but cannot follow negative constraints (e.g. "don't say X") whatsoever. Looks like the inverse scaling challenging was right about this: More params --> less capable of parsing negation?

don't mock me google

Is Copilot really this reckless? Or a completely unhelpful hallucination? My user is 'lee' and there's a reference to it in the block below this one.

Slurs are a great example of how social dynamics fracture & reconfigure language, and vice-versa. LLMs simply cannot understand them without social & historical consciousness, and we should not trust them to assess harm until they provably gain this ability.