@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-01 15:51:00
Trump Throws Literal, Actual 'Great Gatsby' Halloween Party As Food Aid Runs Out For Families Nationwide
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-throws-literal-actual-great
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-01 15:51:00
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2025-09-30 18:03:16
Only started reading Katabasis, but if there ever was a book about the literal dark side of academia, this sharp-tongued novel should be considered.
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online2025-09-02 10:03:11
It's not a punishment... it's a very literal cause and effect. From episode 104.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-09-29 20:42:33
This is a good thread on Bluesky wrt to enabler-brain and why some people (who you'd think are decent people) suddenly, out of the blue defend objectively terrible people and behavior.
(The reason is it makes them feel better—even when they know they side with literal racists.)
https://bsky.app/profile/amyhoy.bsky.social/post/3lzytgqdqbk2l
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-09-30 08:23:49
A quick call for help: many moons ago I've seen a rage-style comic on Twitter that shows the diff btw junior & senior developers (happy, listening to EDM, shipping vs old man w/ long beard, sitting in dark, next to a tower of literal shit, bleary eyes).
I can't find it anymore – any clues?
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-08-31 03:31:43
Having just been in Hawaii (big island) and now San Jose/Sunnyvale, the combination of absolutely gorgeous weather and car-centricity is just fucking ridiculous. People are biking through the dark depths of frozen icy winters in various more livable places, but god forbid you design a pleasant and safe bike network in literal paradise.
#BanCars
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-09-30 04:02:06
@… Awesome, in the literal sense.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-30 16:00:58
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 08:49:10
NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking
Rukhshan Haroon, Kyle Wigdor, Katie Yang, Nicole Toumanios, Eileen T. Crehan, Fahad Dogar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23434
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-27 06:26:36
Were The Holocaust happening today, Western media would be awash with quotes from Hitler, the Third Reich, and Nazi sympathisers justifying it.
Israel has not only turned Gaza into a literal wasteland, it has also turned the West into a moral wasteland.
(And only the latter is self-inflicted.)
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-28 14:33:58
"i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real."
-- Jamelle Boule
https://bsky…
@ripienaar@devco.social2025-08-28 06:42:54
It’s that favourite part of the month where media tells us just how much Europe is refusing to support literal nazis.
“Tesla sales fell 40% across Europe in July”
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-08-27 21:53:46
Sharks risk losing their bite as oceans turn acidic: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/sharks-risk-losing-their-bite-as-oceans-turn-acidic-study/
Toothless sharks? Ocean acidification could erode predat…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-09-27 02:07:16
Finished "Count Zero" (1986) by @… and have to buy the sequel ebook, "Mona Lisa Overdrive". Just staggering works of #SciFi.
A) where's the fairest place to buy ebooks I can read on my phone;
B) dude was (is?) a literal prophet…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-21 23:56:32
Chiefs star Travis Kelce's latest venture is literal roller-coaster https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6738088/2025/10/21/travis-kelce-jana-partners-six-flags-investment/
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-10-23 14:55:20
Literal #enshittification of everything. As far as I can tell, it’s not April 1st today. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/kohler-toilet-camer…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-10-22 04:21:34
minimizing the literal nazi talk from a potential key Trump person… again.
I don't think the American media will ever learn. The day they 'resist' as they are taken off the air by the fully authoritarian regime they'll probably say something like:
"today, in a controversial act, the administration declared that this news channel broadcast license has been changed. The new license will only allow reruns of the Presidents past speeches to play 24/7. After an immediate stay was requested by this station, the Supreme Court has ruled the change to be lawful. Goodnight America.”
#trump #TheAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@npr/politics-v8m4p3ukz/-/a-L0fqOCw2R9S7wUBllP74TQ:a:3195441-/0
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-08-26 08:05:11
Am ***I*** a needle in somebody's haystack!?
https://arxiv.org/html/2502.05167v3
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 20:41:14
I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-22 07:03:43
Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.
It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.
To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.
(Equally, …
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-08-15 21:20:17
About as literal choreography/staging as you can get. #TOTP
@scott@carfree.city2025-09-15 21:44:27
Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-10-23 18:18:54
This week's #climate solutions digest 💖 I send this email out every Thursday to my (literal) 3 subscribers! It is truly a labor of love.
If you have been wanting some positivity in your life, I am here for you. 🌈🌞🌊
https://www…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2025-10-16 17:54:31
Today I Learned that Google Docs is very insistent that a/path/to/anything/whatever.json.gz should be rendered as "a/path/to/anything/whatever.json.gz" — turning the literal "whatever.json.gz" at the end of the path into a link to a fake TLD. I'm having to do a lot of "break link" extra clicks while working on a document today and it's quite the waste of my time.
I feel like I must
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-08-17 03:04:33
I'm not pleased with what is being done to most tasks here, but I do love total perfect CPU utilization...
#FreeBSD #Sysadminnery
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-16 04:23:57
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-10-16 14:15:43
Exordia (2024) by Seth Dickinson is a fun romp on trolley problems if your idea of fun includes "nuke Kurdistan or else we nuke the world". Obama is president, and an alien appears in Central Park to drag some broken people into a battle over an artifact that can change the universe. These aliens have actual Original Sin, and visibly so. Humans freak out at the alien wrongness, a metaphysical brand that shows the entire alien race is doomed from birth to go to a literal hell when t…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-15 20:50:35
I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2025-09-12 12:45:56
"And now Kirk has become the pretext he was so dutifully searching for. More content for his fellow influencers to share and comment on and monetize and fuel their endless culture war. A war that has just become a lot more literal."
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-logical
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-08-07 23:28:29
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-17 10:31:20
Do LLMs Understand Wine Descriptors Across Cultures? A Benchmark for Cultural Adaptations of Wine Reviews
Chenye Zou, Xingyue Wen, Tianyi Hu, Qian Janice Wang, Daniel Hershcovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12961
@peter_mcmahan@mas.to2025-10-12 00:44:56
Just watched Monster Squad (1987). Virtually all of the protagonists (most of whom were 12 years old) were literal sex pests, throwing around slurs and celebrating arbitrary police violence. We were 100% rooting for the monsters by like 20 minutes in.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-09-13 02:05:22
Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-08-19 05:16:42
literal death camps https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115053536220552160
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-10-09 05:32:51
I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.
@mlncn@social.coop2025-08-03 20:17:42
With apocalyptic haze from wildfire smoke descending on many parts of North America now a frequent occurrence, we should have experts letting us know if we should expect a thick and hearty smoke with aromatic notes of cedar, a thin haze redolent of classic LA smog, the lung-coating miasma of fire imbued with Canadian tar sands, or a literal tire fire.
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 08:24:02
Embedding the Teacher: Distilling vLLM Preferences for Scalable Image Retrieval
Eric He, Akash Gupta, Adian Liusie, Vatsal Raina, Piotr Molenda, Shirom Chabra, Vyas Raina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12014
@compfu@mograph.social2025-10-06 14:15:19
Steven Spielberg's "Artificial Intelligence" (2001) was on Netflix and I had never seen it. I had heard that the final act is very sappy and... spoilers... yes it has issues in my opinion (voice-over narration *and* an alien for exposition dumps?!) but the act works well in the context of the movie: I wasn't aware that this is a modern Pinocchio's tale and the movie is quite literal about it.
But what really blew me away were the animatronic robots:
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-10 10:36:01
Iterative model of self-referential quantum evolution
Andrei Galiautdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07940
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-14 18:17:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvDEahDeXE
also the actual literal most racist football club in the world is an israeli team and we are all surprised
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-06 18:00:08
Russ & Daughters which has been on New York's Lower East Side for 114 years is about the size of a subway car.
"Russ & Daughters for me was a literal mom and pop. Because it was my mom and pop," says Niki Russ Federman,
who is a fourth generation co-owner of the family business.
"As a kid, I would wait at the doors for the produce delivery guys to come, and they would wheel in with their handcarts. They had sacks, 50 pound sacks of onions, carrots…
@maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza2025-08-11 02:13:31
So just for my amusement I asked chatgpt "why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air" and got this response, which is not, quite, right.
#chatgpt
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-10-12 18:43:48
I might buy these just to encourage companies. The literal only time I care about noise cancellation is sitting on a plane/train, and I don't care if they are wireless at that point.
Come on you cowards, now make them good!
https://gizmodo.com/belki…
@theadhocracy@indieweb.social2025-10-05 00:35:17
Question for the ether: I have an *old* WordPress site backed up. Not sure on exact version, but from 2009. I have all of the files, but no database (or at least no .SQL export file; I may have the literal files of the db, not sure).
I want to run the site locally on Windows, so that I can see what it looked like. Don't really need content, just mainly the layout and page structure, CSS, basically the theme is what I want to recover. Is this possible? #wordpress #indieweb
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 12:18:17
Designing LLMs for cultural sensitivity: Evidence from English-Japanese translation
Helene Tenzer, Oumnia Abidi, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11921 https://
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-09-14 12:01:38
TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-04 14:51:07
Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what k…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-15 10:13:42
Evaluating LLMs on Chinese Idiom Translation
Cai Yang, Yao Dou, David Heineman, Xiaofeng Wu, Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-08-08 16:08:45
Man, I'm a sucker for history but this was *fascinating*.
It's shocking how far things fall in America from their apogee. This is close to Gary, Indiana which at one point was the world's biggest manufacturing hub, and now has literal trees growing out of the gorgeous old buildings.
Next time I'm passing that way I'm gonna see if I can find this.
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-06 10:23:10
Can Large Vision-Language Models Understand Multimodal Sarcasm?
Xinyu Wang, Yue Zhang, Liqiang Jing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03654 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 12:06:32
Are BabyLMs Deaf to Gricean Maxims? A Pragmatic Evaluation of Sample-efficient Language Models
Raha Askari, Sina Zarrie{\ss}, \"Ozge Alacam, Judith Sieker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04764
