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Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
Vahid Ghafouri, Robert McNeil, Teodor Yankov, Madeleine Sumption, Luc Rocher, Scott A. Hale, Adam Mahdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14197

Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
We present a large-scale computational analysis of migration-related discourse in UK parliamentary debates spanning over 75 years and compare it with US congressional discourse. Using open-weight LLMs, we annotate each statement with high-level stances toward migrants and track the net tone toward migrants across time and political parties. For the UK, we extend this with a semi-automated framework for extracting fine-grained narrative frames to capture nuances of migration discourse. Our findi…

Anyone who follows me has probably gathered that I've become a fan of Discourse after running a few Discourse instances. They are currently requesting feedback.
I was pleased to see that they used a survey vendor that appears to have meaningful a11y — I didn't look for aria labels so I won't speak to that, but what I did notice is that there is explicitly-labeled support for keyboard-only interaction on every page, and I really appreciated that thoughtfulness.

Calibrated Generative AI as Meta-Reviewer: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Reviews of Peer Reviews
Gabriela C. Zapata, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Duane Searsmith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15035

Calibrated Generative AI as Meta-Reviewer: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Discourse Analysis of Reviews of Peer Reviews
This study investigates the use of generative AI to support formative assessment through machine generated reviews of peer reviews in graduate online courses in a public university in the United States. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics and Appraisal Theory, we analyzed 120 metareviews to explore how generative AI feedback constructs meaning across ideational, interpersonal, and textual dimensions. The findings suggest that generative AI can approximate key rhetorical and relational fe…

From Ground Trust to Truth: Disparities in Offensive Language Judgments on Contemporary Korean Political Discourse
Seunguk Yu, Jungmin Yun, Jinhee Jang, Youngbin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14712

From Ground Trust to Truth: Disparities in Offensive Language Judgments on Contemporary Korean Political Discourse
Although offensive language continually evolves over time, even recent studies using LLMs have predominantly relied on outdated datasets and rarely evaluated the generalization ability on unseen texts. In this study, we constructed a large-scale dataset of contemporary political discourse and employed three refined judgments in the absence of ground truth. Each judgment reflects a representative offensive language detection method and is carefully designed for optimal conditions. We identified …

We'll be rescuing another Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchange. If anyone is interested in helping us with disassembly and loading into the truck in Munich on October 23rd/24th, please let me know - more information in German at https://discourse.osmocom.org/t/ewsd-a

EWSD-Abbauhilfe in München am 23.+24.10.2025
Am 23.+24.10. werden wir (Thomas aus dem Fernmeldemsueum Dresden und ich nebst Helfern) eine EWSD in München abbauen, um sie im Anschluss per Lkw ins Museum nach Dresden zu verfrachten… Hierzu suchen wir noch helfende Hände, die uns vor Ort tatkräftig unterstützen können. Wer nicht ganz weiss, was dies bedeutet, kann sich ja die Zeitraffer-Videos der Rettung der EWSD ansehen. Grob ist es wie folgt zu umreissen: Abstecken aller KAbel/Steckverbinder hinten Auseinanderschrauben der Gest…

Das metadaten.community-Forum war down. Ursache war die Integration von Plugins, in den Discourse-Core (https://meta.discourse.org/t/bundling-more-popular-plugins-with-discourse-core/373574) in Verbindung mit einem bei uns konfigurierten sonttäglich…

Accuracy Paradox in Large Language Models: Regulating Hallucination Risks in Generative AI
Zihao Li, Weiwei Yi, Jiahong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13345 https://

Accuracy Paradox in Large Language Models: Regulating Hallucination Risks in Generative AI
As Large Language Models (LLMs) permeate everyday decision-making, their epistemic and societal risks demand urgent scrutiny. Hallucinations, the generation of fabricated, misleading, oversimplified or untrustworthy outputs, has emerged as imperative challenges. While regulatory, academic, and technical discourse position accuracy as the principal benchmark for mitigating such harms, this article contends that overreliance on accuracy misdiagnoses the problem and has counterproductive effect: t…

Online Anti-sexist Speech: Identifying Resistance to Gender Bias in Political Discourse
Aditi Dutta, Susan Banducci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11434 https://

Online Anti-sexist Speech: Identifying Resistance to Gender Bias in Political Discourse
Anti-sexist speech, i.e., public expressions that challenge or resist gendered abuse and sexism, plays a vital role in shaping democratic debate online. Yet automated content moderation systems, increasingly powered by large language models (LLMs), may struggle to distinguish such resistance from the sexism it opposes. This study examines how five LLMs classify sexist, anti-sexist, and neutral political tweets from the UK, focusing on high-salience trigger events involving female Members of Par…

"There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech," Bondi told Stephen Miller’s wife Katie during an episode of her podcast. "We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”
A Not-So Normal Tuesday - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-not-so-normal-tuesday

The whole "discourse" meme is rotting people's brains.
(Original title: Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie)
https://leftycartoons.com/2025/09/26/doin-discourse-with-ezra-and-charlie/

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all featuring the same three characters. Charlie, a white man in a suit and tie. Ezra, a white man in more casual clothing. And Reader, a Latina …

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025
https://ift.tt/qmNO1fC
Seeking chapters drawing on Foucault’s history of sexuality to analyze transgende…

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025
Seeking chapters drawing on Foucault’s history of sexuality to analyze transgender themes in Indian film, television, and web series. We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries throughout the world. Chapters will be included in The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema, alongside other chapters applying Foucauldian insights into power, knowledge, and discourse. (See Theme 13 below.) Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

Charlie Kirk's honorable legacy of civil discourse (Brad Polumbo/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3802057/charlie-kirks-honorable-legacy-of-civil-discourse/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p145#a250910p145

Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Megan Yeo, Sebastian Nosenzo, Daniel S. Palmer, Alexei K. Varah, Lucas Woodley, Ashley Nunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12507

Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Premium air travel is often associated with a disproportionately large carbon emissions footprint. This association reflects the increased space and amenities typically found in premium cabins that existing discourse suggests makes their carriage more fuel, and consequently carbon, intensive. One increasingly popular solution is disincentivizing the use of premium cabins in favor of all-economy cabins. How effective might such a policy be. To what extent. And how may the revenue impact affect t…

"The Nixpkgs core team has been tasked by the Steering Committee to provide leadership for Nixpkgs as a whole and to take delegated responsibility for its governance."
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/establishing-the-nixpkgs-core-team/69743

One of Charlie Kirk’s main legacies was a “watchlist” of professors who Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA, considered too liberal;
People on the list often were targeted for smears and death threats.
TPUSA also bussed people to the January 6 insurrection, and Kirk was a major proponent of “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theories.
Among many other horrific statements, Kirk said that stoning LGBT people to death is part of “God’s perfect law,”
and that gun dea…

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

due to the crackdown of any leftist discourse surrounding charlie kirk's assassination, bringing into context his own statements, viewpoints, and what they had to do with his demise, huge social media accounts are being banned on twitter, instagram, and bluesky.
for a friend of mine who's running “punkwithacamera” on Instagram, this also meant having the identity and address of doxxed, to the degree where even a member of the house of representatives of the united states of ame…

💬 All talks and workshops from #hacklu2025 have their own Discourse topic — making it easy to comment, share feedback, and follow updates per session.
👉 https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hack-lu/…

hack.lu
Hack.lu (and CTI summit) is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. It’s the 19th edition (21st → 24th October) of hack.lu in Luxembourg.

from my link log —
Intra-procedural lifetime and borrowing analysis in Clang.
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-intra-procedural-lifetime-analysis-in-clang/86291
saved 2025-07-15

LLMs Homogenize Values in Constructive Arguments on Value-Laden Topics
Farhana Shahid, Stella Zhang, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10637 https://

LLMs Homogenize Values in Constructive Arguments on Value-Laden Topics
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to promote prosocial and constructive discourse online. Yet little is known about how they negotiate and shape underlying values when reframing people's arguments on value-laden topics. We conducted experiments with 347 participants from India and the United States, who wrote constructive comments on homophobic and Islamophobic threads, and reviewed human-written and LLM-rewritten versions of these comments. Our analysis shows that LLM systemat…

The discourse around #Kirk is increasingly becoming an inversion of J. Butler's concept of #grievability. But instead of describing which group gets denied the mourning of society the opposite happens:
Now, society gets prescribed whom it absolutely has to mourn under duress.
We h…

Es ist so seltsam zu sehen, dass breite Teile dessen, was sich heute „Management“ nennt, sich mit Händen und Füßen gegen aktuelle Erkenntnisse in Sachen Produktivität, Arbeitsorganisation und Kultur wehrt:
> Today, big chunks English-language management and executive culture are effectively the opposite of what we know works when managing organisations. […] Managers and executives have already demonstrated, en masse, that they don’t care about costs, productivity, effectiveness, or…

Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

A Prosecutor Sues - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-prosecutor-sues

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

BIPOLAR: Polarization-based granular framework for LLM bias evaluation
Martin Pavl\'i\v{c}ek, Tom\'a\v{s} Filip, Petr Sos\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11061 https:…

BIPOLAR: Polarization-based granular framework for LLM bias evaluation
Large language models (LLMs) are known to exhibit biases in downstream tasks, especially when dealing with sensitive topics such as political discourse, gender identity, ethnic relations, or national stereotypes. Although significant progress has been made in bias detection and mitigation techniques, certain challenges remain underexplored. This study proposes a reusable, granular, and topic-agnostic framework to evaluate polarisation-related biases in LLM (both open-source and closed-source). …

Retired Justice Kennedy laments coarse discourse of Trump era and its effects on Supreme Court (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/retired-justice-kennedy-laments-coarse-discourse-of-trump-era-and-its-effects-on-supreme-court-00599414
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p16#a251009p16

(R)evolution of Programming: Vibe Coding as a Post-Coding Paradigm
Kevin Krings, Nino S. Bohn, Thomas Ludwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12364 https://arxiv…

(R)evolution of Programming: Vibe Coding as a Post-Coding Paradigm
Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), particularly large language models, have introduced new possibilities for software development practices. In our paper we investigate the emerging Vibe Coding (VC) paradigm that emphasizes intuitive, affect-driven, and improvisational interactions between developers and AI systems. Building upon the discourse of End-User Development (EUD), we explore how VC diverges from conventional programming approaches such as those supporte…

Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/09/post-truth-and-populism-in-politics-communication-and-discourse

I think it is a nice idea to highlight why we like working with #Nix and #NixOS to remind us, why we all are doing this in the end.
For me it is still the best experience in #freesoftware I…

A Taxonomy of Response Strategies to Toxic Online Content: Evaluating the Evidence
Lisa Schirch, Kristina Radivojevic, Cathy Buerger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09921 https://

A Taxonomy of Response Strategies to Toxic Online Content: Evaluating the Evidence
Toxic Online Content (TOC) includes messages on digital platforms that are harmful, hostile, or damaging to constructive public discourse. Individuals, organizations, and LLMs respond to TOC through counterspeech or counternarrative initiatives. There is a wide variation in their goals, terminology, response strategies, and methods of evaluating impact. This paper identifies a taxonomy of online response strategies, which we call Online Discourse Engagement (ODE), to include any type of online …

”This discourse has two sides; one is objectively true and the other one verifiably false. Therefore we must listen to both sides equally.”
—The Centrist Credo

keeping up with the discourse on x dot com

“Honestly, I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. When the discourse is being dominated by people invested in frameworks and libraries, all our default thinking will involve frameworks and libraries. That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.”
Mic drop by @…

Simplify
Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

WUGNECTIVES: Novel Entity Inferences of Language Models from Discourse Connectives
Daniel Brubaker, William Sheffield, Junyi Jessy Li, Kanishka Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09556

WUGNECTIVES: Novel Entity Inferences of Language Models from Discourse Connectives
The role of world knowledge has been particularly crucial to predict the discourse connective that marks the discourse relation between two arguments, with language models (LMs) being generally successful at this task. We flip this premise in our work, and instead study the inverse problem of understanding whether discourse connectives can inform LMs about the world. To this end, we present WUGNECTIVES, a dataset of 8,880 stimuli that evaluates LMs' inferences about novel entities in contexts w…

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
Theodora Moldovan, Arianna Pera, Davide Vega, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13197

Podcasts as a Medium for Participation in Collective Action: A Case Study of Black Lives Matter
We study how participation in collective action is articulated in podcast discussions, using the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a case study. While research on collective action discourse has primarily focused on text-based content, this study takes a first step toward analyzing audio formats by using podcast transcripts. Using the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC), we investigated spoken language expressions of participation in collective action, categorized as problem-solution,…

So, I’ve seen a few people in the last day going “ok, I think I need to make sure I have a backup account, so there’s some folks re-checking out Mastodon/Fedi accounts.
Help out the new/returning folks, as always.
Why are they? No reason, not like BlueSky is changing community guidelines on the fly or anything. (That was sarcasm, BTW)
Side note: the below only affects the primary “instance” of bsky.social, it does not apply to other PDSs not run by BlueSky (BlackSky f’rex)

"I want all social discourse to fit within my personal Overton Window." -- Basically all humans

Thanks @… for posting this on discourse 3 years ago #nix to trigger a mismatch a bit earlier than $currentDate

Data-Driven Modeling of U.S. Ideological Dynamics
David Sabin-Miller, Christopher Harding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11983 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11983…

Data-Driven Modeling of U.S. Ideological Dynamics
The dynamics of political opinion are a critical component of modern society with large-scale implications for the evolution of intra- and international political discourse and policy. Here we utilize recent high-resolution survey data to quantitatively capture leading-order psychological and information-environmental patterns. We then inform simulations of a theoretical dynamical framework with several different models for how populations' ideology evolves over time, including a model which re…

#charliekirk

Morgen um 10 Uhr findet die nächste metadaten.community-Stunde statt: https://metadaten.community/t/11-metadaten-community-stunde/855
Eine herzliche Einladung an alle Interessierten, insbesondere an Menschnen, die mit

Second blog post: what if the Ennies reviewed games from two years ago?
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/discourse/ennies_past.html
Basically, my theory is that it isn't really possible to evaluate the quality of games in general that came out in a given …

Crisis Messaging Journeys: Epistemic Struggles over CDC Guidance During COVID-19
Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10906 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Crisis Messaging Journeys: Epistemic Struggles over CDC Guidance During COVID-19
This study investigates how the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) communicated COVID-19 guidance on Twitter and how publics responded over two years of the pandemic. Drawing on 275,124 tweets mentioning or addressing @CDCgov, I combine BERTopic modeling, sentiment analysis (VADER), credibility checks (Iffy Index), change point detection (PELT), and survival analysis to trace three phases of discourse: (1) early hoax claims and testing debates, (2) lockdown and mask controver…

We’re closing in on this month’s release of OmniFocus 4.7, with planned dates, mutually-exclusive tags, and improved repeats!
Updated test builds are now available, adding new settings for Forecast counts and summary dots, adding support for keyboard modifiers when using drag-and-drop in Forecast on iPad and visionOS (bringing parity with the support already on Mac), and making other improvements and bug fixes.

Finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. A Lyft driver is asked by a woman to drive her and a mysterious box across the country for $200k. The rules are that he cannot look inside, nor ask about the contents. Everything comes undone along the way in a mostly fun, pulpy thriller kind of way.
Some dark satire about anxiety, the web, social media, public discourse, incels, etc.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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I don’t know if Trump is ignorant of American history and so does not realize what his office requires of him,
or if he understands exactly what he’s doing and is attempting to make things worse.
But as always, he is the great revealer.
He has shown us who we really are.
https://www.thebulwark.com/…

A History of Violence
And note on our community and the nature of discourse.

The US is clearly not OK any more.
"US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America"
European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down
https://www.

The natural-born posthuman: applying extended mind to post- and transhumanist discourse https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05202-4 "Newer discussions have expanded upon this idea through sensory substitution devices, such as The vOICe system which use…

The natural-born posthuman: applying extended mind to post- and transhumanist discourse - Synthese
As a basis for his extensionist theory on the philosophy of the mind Andy Clark attempts to provide a positive definition of the human as a natural-born cyborg, connecting it to Arnold Gehlen’s idea of the deficient being (Mängelwesen). This natural-born cyborg is a being whose cognition relies on the engagement in new kinds of perception-action-cycles with their external world - usually with the help of technology - thereby creating a systemic whole with this external world. Questions about…

Initiator of the #NixOS documentation team is stepping down:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-next-chapter-in-nix-documentation/68425

I could imagine the exact same discourse if American Eagle and Sweeney did a "Sydney has OK jeans" and she gave a OK hand symbol.
it sucks that dog whistles exist. It sucks you don't get to choose them. It sucks you don't get to ignore them, esp if you are a marketing team who's job it is to pick the right words.

Unlocking Latent Discourse Translation in LLMs Through Quality-Aware Decoding
Wafaa Mohammed, Vlad Niculae, Chrysoula Zerva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06866 https://

Unlocking Latent Discourse Translation in LLMs Through Quality-Aware Decoding
Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as strong contenders in machine translation.Yet, they still struggle to adequately handle discourse phenomena, such as pronoun resolution and lexical cohesion at the document level. In this study, we thoroughly investigate the discourse phenomena performance of LLMs in context-aware translation. We demonstrate that discourse knowledge is encoded within LLMs and propose the use of quality-aware decoding (QAD) to effectively extract this knowledge, showca…

Forgot to post this last night:
#youtube #discourse

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceria, Leonardo Blas, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09464

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Online narratives spread unevenly across platforms, with content emerging on one site often appearing on others, hours, days or weeks later. Existing cross-platform information diffusion models often treat platforms as isolated systems, disregarding cross-platform activity that might make these patterns more predictable. In this work, we frame cross-platform prediction as a network proximity problem: rather than tracking individual users across platforms or relying on brittle signals like share…

Seeing more “but but AI is sentient and alive it’s eugenics if you don’t like it” discourse from the botlickers.
This is so dehumanizing.
I’m a human being, not a fucking algorithm averaging numbers from a stolen set of other numbers on your graphics card, fuck right off.

Would anyone in my timeline know how I can posting privileges on the Purescript Discourse? I'm stuck in a never-ending bot conversation, and the moderators are not responding.

A History of Violence -- And note on our community and the nature of discourse. (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-history-of-violence-17a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p107#a250912p107

Fostering Collective Discourse: A Distributed Role-Based Approach to Online News Commenting
Yoojin Hong, Yersultan Doszhan, Joseph Seering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02766 https…

Fostering Collective Discourse: A Distributed Role-Based Approach to Online News Commenting
Current news commenting systems are designed based on implicitly individualistic assumptions, where discussion is the result of a series of disconnected opinions. This often results in fragmented and polarized conversations that fail to represent the spectrum of public discourse. In this work, we develop a news commenting system where users take on distributed roles to collaboratively structure the comments to encourage a connected, balanced discussion space. Through a within-subject, mixed-met…

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Jatin Agarwala, George Paul, Nemani Harsha Vardhan, Vinoo Alluri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20228 https://

Muse-it: A Tool for Analyzing Music Discourse on Reddit
Music engagement spans diverse interactions with music, from selection and emotional response to its impact on behavior, identity, and social connections. Social media platforms provide spaces where such engagement can be observed in natural, unprompted conversations. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and big data analytics make it possible to analyze these discussions at scale, extending music research to broader contexts. Reddit, in particular, offers anonymity that encourages div…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policyma...
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska

9 months ago I had no plans to even try out Bluesky, because it was extremely centralized. Now, with Blacksky and others, I'm not so sure. https://privacy.thenexus.today/can-we-please-stop-arguing-about-whether-bluesky-is-decentralized/

Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?
Nobody's changing their minds at this point, and the discourse is really

Don't Change My View: Ideological Bias Auditing in Large Language Models
Paul Kr\"oger, Emilio Barkett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12652 https://ar…

Don't Change My View: Ideological Bias Auditing in Large Language Models
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in products used by millions, their outputs may influence individual beliefs and, cumulatively, shape public opinion. If the behavior of LLMs can be intentionally steered toward specific ideological positions, such as political or religious views, then those who control these systems could gain disproportionate influence over public discourse. Although it remains an open question whether LLMs can reliably be guided toward coherent ide…

Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
Niloofar Mireshghallah, Tianshi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01645 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01645

Position: Privacy Is Not Just Memorization!
The discourse on privacy risks in Large Language Models (LLMs) has disproportionately focused on verbatim memorization of training data, while a constellation of more immediate and scalable privacy threats remain underexplored. This position paper argues that the privacy landscape of LLM systems extends far beyond training data extraction, encompassing risks from data collection practices, inference-time context leakage, autonomous agent capabilities, and the democratization of surveillance thr…

The #NixOS moderation team resigns "effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions."

An extremely overdue blog post about the last NSR camp and the games I ran and played there, including a lot of thoughts on playing D&D 4E again many years later
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/discourse/nsr_camp_2.html

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Sayem Hossen, Monalisa Moon Joti, Md. Golam Rashed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09935

Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Business communication digitisation has reorganised the process of persuasive discourse, which allows not only greater transparency but also advanced deception. This inquiry synthesises classical rhetoric and communication psychology with linguistic theory and empirical studies in the financial reporting, sustainability discourse, and digital marketing to explain how deceptive language can be systematically detected using persuasive lexicon. In controlled settings, detection accuracies …

Judging Data: Critical Discourse and the Rise of Data Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese Courts
Chanhou Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18605 https://a…

Echo Chambers and Information Brokers on Truth Social: A Study of Network Dynamics and Political Discourse
Emelia May Hughes, Tim Weninger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08676 https…

Echo Chambers and Information Brokers on Truth Social: A Study of Network Dynamics and Political Discourse
This study examines the structural dynamics of Truth Social, a politically aligned social media platform, during two major political events: the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade and the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago. Using a large-scale dataset of user interactions based on re-truths (platform-native reposts), we analyze how the network evolves in relation to fragmentation, polarization, and user influence. Our findings reveal a segmented and ideologically homogenous structure domin…

Why did we add Planned Dates to OmniFocus 4.7, when we already have both Due Dates and Defer Dates?
Defer Dates and Due Dates express constraints: you can't work on something before a date, or you need to finish something by a date. They affect the task's status: it's not available until its Defer Date, and it's overdue after its Due Date.
Planned Dates don't affect a task's status, they simply schedule when you currently plan to do the task. Goodbye, fake…

Planned versus Deferred date intended usage?
The defer date indicates when you want a task to become available. Until that date, it won’t show up in any perspectives that are filtering out unavailable tasks. It’s a way of hiding future work so it’s not distracting you today. You’ll start to see available tasks in various perspectives as soon as they’ve reached their defer date. The new planned date is for scheduling when you actually plan to do the task. It could be days or weeks or months later than the defer date. It doesn’…

Joint Modeling of Entities and Discourse Relations for Coherence Assessment
Wei Liu, Michael Strube
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Joint Modeling of Entities and Discourse Relations for Coherence Assessment
In linguistics, coherence can be achieved by different means, such as by maintaining reference to the same set of entities across sentences and by establishing discourse relations between them. However, most existing work on coherence modeling focuses exclusively on either entity features or discourse relation features, with little attention given to combining the two. In this study, we explore two methods for jointly modeling entities and discourse relations for coherence assessment. Experimen…

This excellent piece by Ken White is long, but worth your time to read if you want to understand how and why public discourse in America is broken.
https://www.popehat.com/p/how-free-speech-culture-is-killing-free-speech-part-one

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

It’s 1984 - Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/its-1984

Don’t understand all the people posting “[that PAC-Man AI article] was probably written by AI” meaning it as a serious contribution to the discourse.
Even if it was (it wasn’t) it wouldn’t change anything—the author of an article is responsible for its contents.
Their editor is responsible for signing of on it.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
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- The Content Moderator's Dilemma: Removal of Toxic Content and Distortions to Online Discourse
Mahyar Habibi, Dirk Hovy, Carlo Schwarz

Queuing for Civility: Regulating Emotions and Reducing Toxicity in Digital Discourse
Akriti Verma, Shama Islam, Valeh Moghaddam, Adnan Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00696 htt…

Queuing for Civility: Regulating Emotions and Reducing Toxicity in Digital Discourse
The pervasiveness of online toxicity, including hate speech and trolling, disrupts digital interactions and online well-being. Previous research has mainly focused on post-hoc moderation, overlooking the real-time emotional dynamics of online conversations and the impact of users' emotions on others. This paper presents a graph-based framework to identify the need for emotion regulation within online conversations. This framework promotes self-reflection to manage emotional responses and encour…

Post-truth and populism in politics, communication and discourse
https://ift.tt/yMC8Oiu
updated: Friday, October 10, 2025 - 11:21amfull name / name of organization: Sapienza University of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Maria Iacus, Francisco Rowe, Devika Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06435

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming social-science research by enabling scalable, precise analysis. Their adaptability raises the question of whether knowledge acquired through fine-tuning in a few languages can transfer to unseen languages that only appeared during pre-training. To examine this, we fine-tune lightweight LLaMA 3.2-3B models on monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual data sets to classify immigration-related tweets from X/Twitter across 13 languages, a domain character…

It's Time to Release the Epstein Files (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/its-time-to-release-the-epstein-files
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p58#a250904p58

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
Amy Rae Fox, Michelle Morgenstern, Graham M. Jones, Arvind Satyanarayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06786 h…

Quantifying Visualization Vibes: Measuring Socio-Indexicality at Scale
What impressions might readers form with visualizations that go beyond the data they encode? In this paper, we build on recent work that demonstrates the socio-indexical function of visualization, showing that visualizations communicate more than the data they explicitly encode. Bridging this with prior work examining public discourse about visualizations, we contribute an analytic framework for describing inferences about an artifact's social provenance. Via a series of attribution-elicitation…

Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks
Ze Shen Chin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06411 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06411

Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks
Although discourse around the risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown, it often lacks a comprehensive, multidimensional framework, and concrete causal pathways mapping hazard to harm. This paper aims to bridge this gap by examining six commonly discussed AI catastrophic risks: CBRN, cyber offense, sudden loss of control, gradual loss of control, environmental risk, and geopolitical risk. First, we characterize these risks across seven key dimensions, namely intent, competency, entity, p…

A Note About the Comey Case (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-about-the-comey-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p145#a251002p145

Multi-Lingual Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Multi-Label Hierarchical Learning
Nelson Filipe Costa, Leila Kosseim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20712 https://

Multi-Lingual Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition with Multi-Label Hierarchical Learning
This paper introduces the first multi-lingual and multi-label classification model for implicit discourse relation recognition (IDRR). Our model, HArch, is evaluated on the recently released DiscoGeM 2.0 corpus and leverages hierarchical dependencies between discourse senses to predict probability distributions across all three sense levels in the PDTB 3.0 framework. We compare several pre-trained encoder backbones and find that RoBERTa-HArch achieves the best performance in English, while XLM-…

Tracing the Techno-Supremacy Doctrine: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the AI Executive Elite
H\'ector P\'erez-Urbina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18079 https://

Tracing the Techno-Supremacy Doctrine: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the AI Executive Elite
This paper critically analyzes the discourse of the 'AI executive elite,' a group of highly influential individuals shaping the way AI is funded, developed, and deployed worldwide. The primary objective is to examine the presence and dynamics of the 'Techno-Supremacy Doctrine' (TSD), a term introduced in this study to describe a belief system characterized by an excessive trust in technology's alleged inherent superiority in solving complex societal problems. This study integrates quantitative …

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025
https://ift.tt/lPUiyVX
Seeking chapters drawing on Foucault’s history of sexuality to analyze transgende…

#CFP: Seeking Chapters on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Power, & Knowledge; Proposals Due July 1, 2025
Seeking chapters drawing on Foucault’s history of sexuality to analyze transgender themes in Indian film, television, and web series. We seek a diverse group of contributors from countries throughout the world. Chapters will be included in The Handbook of Indian Trans Cinema, alongside other chapters applying Foucauldian insights into power, knowledge, and discourse. (See Theme 13 below.) Proposals are due July 1, 2025.

How Growing Toxicity Manifests: A Topic Trajectory Analysis of U.S. Immigration Discourse on Social Media
Una Joh, Yiqi Li, Jeff Hemsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21418 https:/…

How Growing Toxicity Manifests: A Topic Trajectory Analysis of U.S. Immigration Discourse on Social Media
In the online public sphere, discussions about immigration often become increasingly fractious, marked by toxic language and polarization. Drawing on 4 million X posts over six months, we combine a user- and topic-centric approach to study how shifts in toxicity manifest as topical shifts. Our topic discovery method, which leverages instruction-based embeddings and recursive HDBSCAN, uncovers 157 fine-grained subtopics within the U.S. immigration discourse. We focus on users in four groups: (1)…

Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Lexical and Semantic Methods in Quantitative Discourse Analysis with BERTopic
Thomas Compton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19099 https://

Beyond the Black Box: Integrating Lexical and Semantic Methods in Quantitative Discourse Analysis with BERTopic
Quantitative Discourse Analysis has seen growing adoption with the rise of Large Language Models and computational tools. However, reliance on black box software such as MAXQDA and NVivo risks undermining methodological transparency and alignment with research goals. This paper presents a hybrid, transparent framework for QDA that combines lexical and semantic methods to enable triangulation, reproducibility, and interpretability. Drawing from a case study in historical political discourse, we …

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

The Discourse Is Broken -- That's not necessarily a good thing. (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ads/683704/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Rqh-RBCXaXmzfBoTU_lwXk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p51#a250730p51

What makes an entity salient in discourse?
Amir Zeldes, Jessica Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16464

What makes an entity salient in discourse?
Entities in discourse vary broadly in salience: main participants, objects and locations are noticeable and memorable, while tangential ones are less important and quickly forgotten, raising questions about how humans signal and infer relative salience. Using a graded operationalization of salience based on summary-worthiness in multiple summaries of a discourse, this paper explores data from 24 spoken and written genres of English to extract a multifactorial complex of overt and implicit lingu…

Capturing Opinion Shifts in Deliberative Discourse through Frequency-based Quantum deep learning methods
Rakesh Thakur, Harsh Chaturvedi, Ruqayya Shah, Janvi Chauhan, Ayush Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22603

Capturing Opinion Shifts in Deliberative Discourse through Frequency-based Quantum deep learning methods
Deliberation plays a crucial role in shaping outcomes by weighing diverse perspectives before reaching decisions. With recent advancements in Natural Language Processing, it has become possible to computationally model deliberation by analyzing opinion shifts and predicting potential outcomes under varying scenarios. In this study, we present a comparative analysis of multiple NLP techniques to evaluate how effectively models interpret deliberative discourse and produce meaningful insights. Opi…

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of ChatGPT in Higher Education: The Evolving Media Discourse
Yinan Sun, Ali Unlu, Aditya Johri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14692 https://

Sociotechnical Imaginaries of ChatGPT in Higher Education: The Evolving Media Discourse
This study investigates how U.S. news media framed the use of ChatGPT in higher education from November 2022 to October 2024. Employing Framing Theory and combining temporal and sentiment analysis of 198 news articles, we trace the evolving narratives surrounding generative AI. We found that the media discourse largely centered on institutional responses; policy changes and teaching practices showed the most consistent presence and positive sentiment over time. Conversely, coverage of topics su…

When Researchers Say Mental Model/Theory of Mind of AI, What Are They Really Talking About?
Xiaoyun Yin, Elmira Zahmat Doost, Shiwen Zhou, Garima Arya Yadav, Jamie C. Gorman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02660

When Researchers Say Mental Model/Theory of Mind of AI, What Are They Really Talking About?
When researchers claim AI systems possess ToM or mental models, they are fundamentally dis- cussing behavioral predictions and bias corrections rather than genuine mental states. This position paper argues that the current discourse conflates sophisticated pattern matching with authentic cog- nition, missing a crucial distinction between simulation and experience. While recent studies show LLMs achieving human-level performance on ToM laboratory tasks, these results are based only on behavioral…

LLM-Supported Content Analysis of Motivated Reasoning on Climate Change
Yuheun Kim, Qiaoyi Liu, Jeff Hemsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21305 https://arxiv…

LLM-Supported Content Analysis of Motivated Reasoning on Climate Change
Public discourse around climate change remains polarized despite scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change (ACC). This study examines how "believers" and "skeptics" of ACC differ in their YouTube comment discourse. We analyzed 44,989 comments from 30 videos using a large language model (LLM) as a qualitative annotator, identifying ten distinct topics. These annotations were combined with social network analysis to examine engagement patterns. A linear mixed-effects model showed that …

CCF: A Context Compression Framework for Efficient Long-Sequence Language Modeling
Wenhao Li, Bangcheng Sun, Weihao Ye, Tianyi Zhang, Daohai Yu, Fei Chao, Rongrong Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09199

CCF: A Context Compression Framework for Efficient Long-Sequence Language Modeling
Scaling language models to longer contexts is essential for capturing rich dependencies across extended discourse. However, naïve context extension imposes significant computational and memory burdens, often resulting in inefficiencies during both training and inference. In this work, we propose CCF, a novel context compression framework designed to enable efficient long-context modeling by learning hierarchical latent representations that preserve global semantics while aggressively reducing …

Validity Verification of the New TOEFL Writing Task Based on Classical Test Theory
Yinyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Validity Verification of the New TOEFL Writing Task Based on Classical Test Theory
The TOEFL iBT has introduced the Academic Discussion Task (ADT) to assess test-takers' ability to engage in academic discourse, reflecting the growing emphasis on interactive communication skills in higher education. However, research on the ADT's validity and fairness particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse groups, such as Chinese students, remains limited. This study addresses this gap by employing Classical Test Theory (CTT) to evaluate the psychometric properties of the ADT a…

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Ilias Chalkidis, Stephanie Brandl, Paris Aslanidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303

Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of instruction-following tasks, yet their grasp of nuanced social science concepts remains underexplored. This paper examines whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release novel datasets specifically designed to capture populist discourse. We evaluate a range of pre-trained (larg…

Resistance Technologies: Moving Beyond Alternative Designs
Iness Ben Guirat, Jan Tobias M\"uhlberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05223 https://arxiv.org/…

Resistance Technologies: Moving Beyond Alternative Designs
The discourse about sustainable technology has emerged from the acknowledgment of the environmental collapse we are facing. In this paper, we argue that addressing this crisis requires more than the development of sustainable alternatives to current online services or the optimization of resources using various dashboards and AI. Rather, the focus must shift toward designing technologies that protect us from the consequences of the environmental damages. Among these consequences, wars, genocide…

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
Naama Rivlin-Angert, Guy Mor-Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15524 https://

The Enemy from Within: A Study of Political Delegitimization Discourse in Israeli Political Speech
We present the first large-scale computational study of political delegitimization discourse (PDD), defined as symbolic attacks on the normative validity of political entities. We curate and manually annotate a novel Hebrew-language corpus of 10,410 sentences drawn from Knesset speeches (1993-2023), Facebook posts (2018-2021), and leading news outlets, of which 1,812 instances (17.4\%) exhibit PDD and 642 carry additional annotations for intensity, incivility, target type, and affective framing…

Beyond risk: A proto-framework for assessing the societal impact of AI systems
Willem Fourie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03666 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03…

Beyond risk: A proto-framework for assessing the societal impact of AI systems
In the discourse on AI regulation, 'responsible AI' is the dominant paradigm, with the focus on mitigating the risks related to AI systems. While this focus is important and necessary, it has limited use for a systematic consideration of AI's societal impact. This paper proposes a proto-framework for assessing the societal impact of AI systems by operationalising the concept of freedom. This proto-framework is intended as a step towards a fully operationalised framework to be used in policymaki…

Analyzing German Parliamentary Speeches: A Machine Learning Approach for Topic and Sentiment Classification
Lukas P\"atz, Moritz Beyer, Jannik Sp\"ath, Lasse Bohlen, Patrick Zschech, Mathias Kraus, Julian Rosenberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03181

Analyzing German Parliamentary Speeches: A Machine Learning Approach for Topic and Sentiment Classification
This study investigates political discourse in the German parliament, the Bundestag, by analyzing approximately 28,000 parliamentary speeches from the last five years. Two machine learning models for topic and sentiment classification were developed and trained on a manually labeled dataset. The models showed strong classification performance, achieving an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.94 for topic classification (average across topics) and 0.89 for sentime…

A RoBERTa-Based Functional Syntax Annotation Model for Chinese Texts
Han Xiaohui, Zhang Yunlong, Guo Yuxi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04046 https://arxiv.or…

A RoBERTa-Based Functional Syntax Annotation Model for Chinese Texts
Systemic Functional Grammar and its branch, Cardiff Grammar, have been widely applied to discourse analysis, semantic function research, and other tasks across various languages and texts. However, an automatic annotation system based on this theory for Chinese texts has not yet been developed, which significantly constrains the application and promotion of relevant theories. To fill this gap, this research introduces a functional syntax annotation model for Chinese based on RoBERTa (Robustly O…