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I just added a recipe for backing up your #Discourse using restic, and a bunch of other updates, to my guide to Discourse deployment, as part of working on deploying a new Discourse instance. A bunch of plugins that I used to recommend adding are now in the core, which simplified the install.

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

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…

"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 […]

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

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 …

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…

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 wish discourse around cars was more nuanced.
For many people cars are an essential accessibility and mobility aid to be able to participate in society.
Not everyone lives in a city with moderate weather and/or has a body that can withstand heat or cold, standing around or doing strenous walks.

Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
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The Product Picnic
Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

(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…

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

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

If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…

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…

Thoughts on keeping parts (assets *and* #nix code) of your public :nixos: #NixOS config private?
https://dis…

Public, reusable flake with private parts
I am looking for a way to have a public flake that is reusable as inputs in other flakes, but some parts of the flake are private. I think this is a very common thing, people sharing their config, but don’t want to share their secrets of course or some network settings. If those private parts are just plain files, then agenix or sops can be used, encrypted versions of those secrets are published (still kinda meh, but okay). The problem arises if some nix code should be concealed as well. Her…

I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.

💬 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.

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…

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

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 …

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…

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…

“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.

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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"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

In Onlinezeitungen dominieren wenige User den unangenehmen Ton auf der Seite
#Hassrede #PublicDiscourseIndicator
https://

"..in the UK. Populist rhetoric has moved away from talking about immigrants in general and towards the demonisation of particular ethnic or religious groups, and away from a concern about current immigration numbers towards demands for deportation of legal migrants. Associating immigrants and asylum seekers with crime is part of that pattern."

mainly macro: Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse…

Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK
  I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...

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

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
[1/1]:
- The Content Moderator's Dilemma: Removal of Toxic Content and Distortions to Online Discourse
Mahyar Habibi, Dirk Hovy, Carlo Schwarz

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…

Judicial Ethics -- Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p16#a251211p16

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.

Despite the discourse, I'm looking forward to a month or so of not having to convince the kids it's actually morning and that they have to get up for school because it won't be pitch black out.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/#

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.

I morgen tidlig tager jeg til Trondheim for at deltage i konferencen Nordisco (Nordic Conference on Discourse and Interaction). Jeg har én bekymring og én begejstring, begge til torsdagens program:
Bekymringen er om jeg kan få lŸftet diskussionen i mit oplæg om antropomorficering af chatbotter (dårligt tid til at tænke det igennem) 🧐
Begejstringen er at aftenen sluttes af med et Nor-disco 🥹💃🪩

We’ve updated the draft GCVE BCP-05 standard to introduce flexible record types, making it easier to extend, enrich, and structure security advisories.
Comments are more than welcome!
#gcve #cve #vulnerability

GCVE BCP-05 drafting - Best practices for the "container" format - modified CVE Record Format
Thanks @claudex . This is an excellent point and would also improve the ability to parse GCVE records reliably. Below is a proposal for a record_type field that would serve as a key within each GCVE record. Feel free to comment. @cedric I incorporated the idea concerning the sync of the comment (not sure if the most efficient way). Proposed update to BCP-05 (following the online workshop of 6th December in Belgium) The record_type field defines the semantic category of the content submitted by…

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.

Protip: if you get tired of the flood of AI discourse, just read it as being short for "Artificial Inseminaton" for a while.

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…

ANN: Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: Book Talk at Sogang University #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou

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…

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…

It was the fuckaroundiest of times.
It was the findoutiest of times.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115427416994675909

The joys of running #proprietaryGarbage expecting an FHS environment and whatever other shenanigans on :nixos: #NixOS...
If anyone has any idea how to get the CEWE Fotobuch software to behave on NixOS, be my guest:

Getting CEWE Fotobuch to launch
I am struggling hard to get CEWE Fotobuch (a proprietary software to layout and order printed photo albums) to run on NixOS. Yes, it’s “proprietary garbage” as Tony would put it, please no discussions whether it’s good to use it or not. 🙂 It can be downloaded from this landing page, or the tarball directly from here. Apparently, there is only this one tarball link, which always points to the latest version, there are no stable links to old versions as confirmed in this thr...

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.
The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.
Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to Jeff Bezos.
Musk’s response?
Rage-tweeting at Trump officials, including the immortal question
“why are you gay”
—th…

Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means
Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like …

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."

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…

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…

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Briley L. Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03493

Surveying the State of Writing Education in Physics and Astronomy
Writing is a critical skill for modern science, enabling collaboration, scientific discourse, public outreach, and more. Accordingly, it is important to consider how physicists and astronomers are trained to write. This study aims to understand the landscape of science writing education, specifically in physics and astronomy, in higher education in the United States. An online survey probing various aspects of their writing training in both undergraduate and graduate school was administered to …

Wat hiërarchie betekent in een autoritair systeem: zelfs de olicharchen die het helpen bouwen moeten buigen voor de leider. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/elon-musk-discovers-what-hierarchy-actually-means/

Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict? (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutors-can-indict-a-ham-sandwich
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p91#a251105p91

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

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

ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression
Tom Burgert, Oliver Stoll, Paolo Rota, Beg\"um Demir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20234

ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression
The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitations in the cue-conflict experiment by Geirhos et al. To address these limitations, we propose a domain-agnostic framework that quantifies feature reliance through systematic suppression of shape, texture, and color cues, avoiding the confounds of forced-choice conflicts. By evaluating humans and n…

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

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…

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…

@… @… you might be able to require MFA for users, which is probably a good step towards minimising that risk. Not sure, though. Discourse has lots of plugins that can do that sort of stuff.

Browns rookie Shedeur Sanders wasn't playing for a reason. We just saw why https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6813524/2025/11/17/browns-ravens-shedeur-sanders-debut/

Seeing FTM DIY discourse, oh boy

I donated to https://theguardian.org/
"To advance and inform public discourse and citizen participation around the most pressing issues of our time through the support of independent journalism and journalistic projects at the Guardian."
The Washington Post has given up on what they used to stan…

If you are listening to the "Fulltime #Nix Podcast", maybe reconsider that choice.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-a…

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…

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

There’s way too much negativity in the discourse about electrons

ANN: Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: Book Talk at Sogang University
https://ift.tt/FT4yLNl
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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Open Political Corpora: Structuring, Searching, and Analyzing Political Text Collections with PoliCorp
Nina Smirnova, Muhammad Ahsan Shahid, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17465

Open Political Corpora: Structuring, Searching, and Analyzing Political Text Collections with PoliCorp
In this work, we present PoliCorp (https://demo-pollux.gesis.org/), a web portal designed to facilitate the search and analysis of political text corpora. PoliCorp provides researchers with access to rich textual data, enabling in-depth analysis of parliamentary discourse over time. The platform currently features a collection of transcripts from debates in the German parliament, spanning 76 years of proceedings. With the advanced search functionality, researchers can apply logical operations t…

"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

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 …

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 …

"Quiet Piggy!" -- Subscribe to Civil Discourse and become part of a community that believes ... (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/quiet-piggy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p167#a251118p167

ANN: Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: Book Talk at Sogang University
https://ift.tt/SuLE7sl
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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The Week Ahead -- The news gods didn't give us Thanksgiving week off, and there's no reason ... (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-6e1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p37#a251201p37

AIRwaves at CheckThat! 2025: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Implicit Claims on Social Media with Dual Encoders and Neural Re-Ranking
Cem Ashbaugh, Leon Baumg\"artner, Tim Gress, Nikita Sidorov, Daniel Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19509

AIRwaves at CheckThat! 2025: Retrieving Scientific Sources for Implicit Claims on Social Media with Dual Encoders and Neural Re-Ranking
Linking implicit scientific claims made on social media to their original publications is crucial for evidence-based fact-checking and scholarly discourse, yet it is hindered by lexical sparsity, very short queries, and domain-specific language. Team AIRwaves ranked second in Subtask 4b of the CLEF-2025 CheckThat! Lab with an evidence-retrieval approach that markedly outperforms the competition baseline. The optimized sparse-retrieval baseline(BM25) achieves MRR@5 = 0.5025 on the gold label bli…

Is Justice Done? -- You've probably seen or read at least something about the story that is the subject of tonight's post. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/is-justice-done
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p8#a251031p8

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Matteo Fuoli, Weihang Huang, Jeannette Littlemore, Sarah Turner, Ellen Wilding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24866

Metaphor identification using large language models: A comparison of RAG, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning
Metaphor is a pervasive feature of discourse and a powerful lens for examining cognition, emotion, and ideology. Large-scale analysis, however, has been constrained by the need for manual annotation due to the context-sensitive nature of metaphor. This study investigates the potential of large language models (LLMs) to automate metaphor identification in full texts. We compare three methods: (i) retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), where the model is provided with a codebook and instructed to …

A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies
Noah D. Finkelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01467

A principled way to think about AI in education: guidance for action based on goals, models of human learning, and use of technologies
The rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies has the potential to dramatically influence higher education, raising questions about the roles of institutions, educators, and students in a technology-rich future. While existing discourse often emphasizes either the promise and peril of AI or its immediate implementation, this paper advances a third path: a principled framework for guiding the use of AI in teaching and learning. Drawing on decades of scho…

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…

Trump's Power Grab is Headed for the Supreme Court (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-power-grab-is-headed-for-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p53#a251023p53

Multilingual Hope Speech Detection: A Comparative Study of Logistic Regression, mBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa with Active Learning
T. O. Abiola, K. D. Abiodun, O. E. Olumide, O. O. Adebanji, O. Hiram Calvo, Grigori Sidorov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20315

Multilingual Hope Speech Detection: A Comparative Study of Logistic Regression, mBERT, and XLM-RoBERTa with Active Learning
Hope speech language that fosters encouragement and optimism plays a vital role in promoting positive discourse online. However, its detection remains challenging, especially in multilingual and low-resource settings. This paper presents a multilingual framework for hope speech detection using an active learning approach and transformer-based models, including mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa. Experiments were conducted on datasets in English, Spanish, German, and Urdu, including benchmark test sets from …

Comey Moves To Dismiss (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/comey-moves-to-dismiss
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p7#a251021p7

C-QUERI: Congressional Questions, Exchanges, and Responses in Institutions Dataset
Manjari Rudra, Daniel Magleby, Sujoy Sikdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21548 https://

C-QUERI: Congressional Questions, Exchanges, and Responses in Institutions Dataset
Questions in political interviews and hearings serve strategic purposes beyond information gathering including advancing partisan narratives and shaping public perceptions. However, these strategic aspects remain understudied due to the lack of large-scale datasets for studying such discourse. Congressional hearings provide an especially rich and tractable site for studying political questioning: Interactions are structured by formal rules, witnesses are obliged to respond, and members with dif…

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…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
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- DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement
Shaoqing Lin, Chong Teng, Fei Li, Donghong Ji, Lizhen Qu, Zhuang Li

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,…

Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Large Language Models During the 2024 US Election Season
Sarah H. Cen, Andrew Ilyas, Hedi Driss, Charlotte Park, Aspen Hopkins, Chara Podimata, Aleksander M\k{a}dry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18446

RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection
Yufeng Li, Arkaitz Zubiaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15793 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15793…

RAVE: Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection
The rapid spread of misinformation on social media underscores the need for scalable fact-checking tools. A key step is claim detection, which identifies statements that can be objectively verified. Prior approaches often rely on linguistic cues or claim check-worthiness, but these struggle with vague political discourse and diverse formats such as tweets. We present RAVE (Retrieval and Scoring Aware Verifiable Claim Detection), a framework that combines evidence retrieval with structured signa…

Session-Level Spoken Language Assessment with a Multimodal Foundation Model via Multi-Target Learning
Hong-Yun Lin, Jhen-Ke Lin, Chung-Chun Wang, Hao-Chien Lu, Berlin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16025

Session-Level Spoken Language Assessment with a Multimodal Foundation Model via Multi-Target Learning
Spoken Language Assessment (SLA) estimates a learner's oral proficiency from spontaneous speech. The growing population of L2 English speakers has intensified the demand for reliable SLA, a critical component of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Existing efforts often rely on cascaded pipelines, which are prone to error propagation, or end-to-end models that often operate on a short audio window, which might miss discourse-level evidence. This paper introduces a novel multimodal found…

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…

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…