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🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Bombay Bicycle Club & Nilufer Yanya:
🎵 Meditate (feat. Nilufer Yanya)
#BombayBicycleClub #NiluferYanya
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LUUmAhHHhiyIPTgofoMYz

🔊 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pistaccio:
🎵 Positive Affirmations
#Pistaccio
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nL9vRMtp9yCwqD8cxeicM
https://pistaccio.bandcamp.com/track/positive-affirmations

As long as the middle is more concerned with keeping the left out than about having the right in, the right will remain in power. And at some point the middle will cease to be relevant.
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#neoliberalism

Last #LeapDay, 2020, I was in #Kyiv giving a tutorial on discourse processing by invitation from Kyiv-based #nlproc company Grammarly. 💙 💛
My husband accompanied me, and we had the most wonderful time…

Ich wurde durch Ralph Butler @… auf einen DLF- Beitrag aufmerksam:
Wenn es uns wirklich wichtig ist, die Demokratie zu schützen, dann müssen wir verstehen, wie die Ideen des Neoliberalismus die Marktregeln interpretieren und welche Rolle sie dem Staat zuweisen.
Nach dem Gespräch mit Thomas Biebricher wird auch noch eine Studie zitiert, …

Ich kann das Jammern der Justiz über die Cannabis Amnestie schon verstehen, aber halt auch nicht. Das Problem ist doch, dass die nun zig tausende PAPIER-Akten durchgehen müssen. Na klar ist das aufwendig. Aber das liegt doch auch in der Rückständigkeit Deutschlands und dem von Neoliberalen kaputtgesparten Staat.
Das ist also von den Ländern recht heuchlerisch, sollen die halt mal endlich digitalisieren, ffs.

Unix for Poets, a tutorial about text processing with Unix tools by Ken Church, updated by Dan Jurafsky and Chris Manning. IMO, something like this belongs at the beginning of every #nlproc curriculum. https://web.stanford…

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

Maite Taboada is giving the first keynote at #DGfS2024
She’s starting by giving an introduction to sentiment analysis #nlproc #linguistics

Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?
Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)