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Mark Dingemanse

@dingemansemark@scholar.social
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language, technology, social interaction • firstgen academic • co-founder EU Open Source AI Index osai-index.eu • lapsed web developer • based in the Netherlands • Onderzoekt de wondere wereld van taal • he/👉

Cover photo is the painting Nighthawks by Hopper

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago
Pretty chuffed to hear from the organisers that my "How not to use AI" preconference workshop helped set the tone of the following days, and that scholarly values and the benefits of slowing down were recurring conversation topics If your conference or grad school is looking for a workshop format that avoids the tired marketing cliches and productivity narratives around "AI", I'd be happy to do a rerun (time permitting) https://ideophone.org/how-not-to-use-ai-workshop/ #workshop #CriticalAI
How not to use “AI” (workshop)
The Ideophone

How not to use “AI” (workshop)

The mirage of "AI" reaches us through a narrative centered on inevitability, productivity, and efficiency. It is therefore at loggerheads…

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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I was supposed to finish this last week but then the #Claude Code leak happened, promptly giving me an excellent opening example (h/t @jonny for their digital archaeology work that drew my attention to the magic prompting techniques) (I think it is likely btw that #Anthropic shifted the #Mythos announce forward to this week to bury the leak & its security implications)
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 2mo ago

We zijn er even niet, maar dit was de staat van onze minibieb net voor we vertrokken. Met bijdragen van de overburen, die even kwamen vragen of het goed was als ze er ook af en toe iets inzetten (uiteraard, graag zelfs!)

#minibiebmaandag

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 2mo ago

Inhoud van onze minibieb op #minibiebmaandag!

Op de bovenste plank Mau Mau, een UNO-versie die je krijgt als je er jong genoeg uitziet in de ICE in Duitsland. We hebben er drie, dus de kids vullen 'm aan zodra die weg is. Inhoud bijna volledig veranderd t.o.v. vorige week, met wat nieuwe boeken erbij via vrienden, familie, buren en toevallige voorbijgangers

Doorloop nog steeds heel erg hoog. Misschien moeten we wat John Grisham, Tom Clancy en Dan Brown erbij zetten voor de vulling 🤣

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago
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@europlus@social.europlus.zone @davidgerard@circumstances.run see this priceless thread by @xgranade@wandering.shop on exactly this issue: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116624772859472926
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Cassandra has had an adventure: "There's a temptation to be "nuanced" or to hold "…" - The Wandering Shop

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago

Inhoud van onze minibieb. Gisterochtend kwam een meneer die uit z'n fietstas er een aantal goede kinderboeken bijzette en 's middags was Stoner er bijgekomen

Een Donald Duck pocket die de kids uithadden was al meegenomen net nadat ze 'm erbij gezet hadden

#minibiebmaandag

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 7mo ago
@tante chef's kiss: "This also shines through in Cory arguing that we need to “liberate” technology. What a strange idea: Technology doesn’t need liberation, people do." Thank you for writing this cogent piece.
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago
Out now! For robust research, center values, not technology, w/ Cristine Cuskley PDF https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3699968_2/component/file_3699969/content Our commentary on "How linguistics learned to stop worrying and love the language models" by Futrell & Mahowald
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago

Grading the last exams of the year while listening to Ernst Reijseger's Colla Parte for solo violoncello — such gorgeous music

https://www.allmusic.com/album/colla-parte-versioni-per-violoncello-solo--mw0000387039

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 4mo ago

Gisteren weer #heksennacht in Nijmegen en #Kladderadatsch was van de partij om de protestmars te ondersteunen (foto Milou Brandsma) ⚧️✊🏳️‍🌈

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org sound linguistic reasoning too 🤣 "“In [Montaclair's] view, the medal is not a forgery. A forgery implies that there is a genuine medal. As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery,” Lallois said."
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 2mo ago

RE: @Kladderadatsch@mstdn.social

was geweldig om afgelopen zaterdag met @Kladderadatsch@mstdn.social op De Kaaij te spelen!

#kladderadatsch #BrassAanDeWaal

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Kladderadatsch: "Kladderadatsch!" - Mastodon 🐘

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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we can consider "AI" at different time depths — deep learning (2010s), cybernetics (1950s), automation (1800s), but in this paper I argue that to understand its *interactive* appeal we must further broaden our outlook It's not a big jump from divination to deep learning — they are united by the generative use of chance. People have always been eager to ascribe meaning to random processes, and that's where we must start to understand the appeal of present-day LLMs https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19452872
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 3mo ago

There's a detailed 1913 map of the Togo Plateau, a forest reserve in Ghana bordered by six communities. Cartographically interesting is that that Akpafu-Todzi, the oldest present-day village of the Mawu, breaks out of the frame of the map

The reason is that surveyors Grüner & Sprigade correctly understood that this was historically the most important Mawu village (with Odomi and Mempeasem both established later)

I've written about the map on my blog: https://ideophone.org/the-gruner-map-a-1913-map-of-the-togo-plateau-in-present-day-ghana/

#mapping #ghana

The Gruner Map: a 1913 map of the Togo Plateau in present-day Ghana
The Ideophone

The Gruner Map: a 1913 map of the Togo Plateau in present-day Ghana

Few historical maps of Ghana's Volta and Oti regions have been invested with so much political and sociohistorical meaning as…

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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Groeten vanaf De Vrijbuiter 🎷🎺🥁🪗 #Kladderadatsch
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 7mo ago

Ekoplaza heeft een rad van fortuin met allerlei prijzen. De kids vertrouwden het rad niet, dus we hebben even onder de motorkap gekeken... we ontdekten dat het rad altijd precies 3622.5deg draait.

V: um, dat zijn 10 rondjes, dus 0, en dan de helft van 45 graden. Altijd de 10% korting op bloemen!

#Ekoplaza #FirstWorldProblems

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago

"If we want machines that support human activity, we must begin with paying attention to how people actually do things in the first place."

Ada Lopez writes on Suchman for the Futures Library https://futuresoflanguage.org/

#FuturesofLanguage

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Futures of Language

Human interaction is too important to be left into the hands of merchants of hype We study artisanal and artificial ways of languaging to better understand language + technology, and to reimagine our linguistic futures. Read about project, team, papers and news — or check out the growing Futures Library Latest from the library Keep [...]

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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@olivia @djoerd @Iris I sent our uni board and my dean an email about this some weeks ago, telling them how utterly demoralizing and disrespectful it is to have these kinds of courses advertised in the uni newsletter that goes out to all employees the clear implication of these courses is that folks are not 'smart', 'creative' or 'efficient' unless they use GenAI. Apparently, buying into harmful productivity myths and marketing hypes really fits with our uni's mission
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 4mo ago
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@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org 😵‍💫 Solidarity. Pick your fights. If you have room, perhaps point folks to the open letter (original has nearly 2000 signatories https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e German translation available https://openletter.earth/gegen-die-unkritische-anwendung-und-implementierung-sog-kunstlicher-intelligenz-ki-in-der-deutschen-wissenschaft-und-im-hochschulalltag-3094a789) One thing I sometimes think about is that when the slop tide turns, everything built on the shifting sands will crumble, and the only structures and scholarly work with any chance to remain standing are those we've built by ourselves, anchored in actual empirical work
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago

Bijzonder om bij de inclusieve #dodenherdenking in Rotterdam te zijn. Sprekers Biessaan Al-Haj (Palestijnse gemeenschap) en Enseline Lenahan (Maluku), en na de 2 minuten stilte —gedeeld met heel Nederland— bloemen en kransen vanuit een breed mozaïek aan gemeenschappen, van Afghanistan en Bosnië, Kaapverdië en Nigeria tot Oekraïne en Yemen. Nooit meer is nu.

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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still laughing when I think about this we put quantification in your qualification, why don't you like it? surely you must want to speed up and scale up your work, any work, busywork, qualitative work, what does it matter the whole premise of this kind of study is so clearly coming from folks who'd rather not have to think about pesky qualitative issues 🫠
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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Wij wensen voor 1977:

  • Meer levende muziek op straat;
  • Één keer per week vrij muziek maken op straat (dwz zonder vergunning voor ieder die maar wil;
  • UW medewerking om dit voor elkaar te krijgen!

#Kladderadatsch bij of na de eerste straatmuziekdag, 1977 (R.A.N. F84100)

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 7mo ago
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"The quality and integrity of scientific research rests on a set of core values that most scientists share and uphold. [E.g., in the NCCRI code, Honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, independence, responsibility.] Language models present an unprecedented opportunity to undermine all of these principles in one fell swoop." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18944023
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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@futurebird @wlaatje I love how the crash brought out the handlers with joysticks and other controls, and how five people are needed to get it on its feet again after it crashed (it wouldn't have finished otherwise) Could have come right out of Suchman's "Demystifying the intelligent machine" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-21836-2_3 As Lipp writes, robots need a lot of care https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03063127221081446
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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@grvsmth @jonny my intuition is that this is not a market that is easily saturated — there will always be a particular charm to checking your horoscope or reading tea leaves whereas divination &c were usefully limited in applications, LLMs assert broader relevance and so are insinuating themselves into mundane processes where people used to use common sense or talk to one another. What is being eroded is not so much jobs but human relations & cognitive resources
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 19mo ago
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As a relative outsider I hope I can be permitted the observation that #dhd2025 at times seemed oddly split, with some workshops awash in unabashed (and unexamined) technosolutionism while others displayed more ethical & societal awareness & deeper theoretical grounding (e.g. #greeningDH, #datafeminism) Eubanks 2011: "We must actively choose the kind of technosocial worlds we want to inhabit"
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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@jakob@pxi.social @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org the IKEA Prize for Compositionality, another legendary linguistic award
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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7 mei 1977: Straat- en Strijdorkest #Kladderadatsch tijdens de door hen georganiseerde eerste Straatmuziekdag. Frank Koster speelt snare, Servaes Kusters dikke trom, en net daarachter is ook nog zanger Peter Freijsen te zien (met baret). Foto via het Regionaal Archief Nijmegen, F84103 49 jaar geleden #opdezedag
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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Het was geweldig! Terugblik van Mathijs: https://bsky.app/profile/mathijsvandesande.bsky.social/post/3mkle6hfy5c2u
Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 (@mathijsvandesande.bsky.social)
Bluesky Social

Mathijs van de Sande 🟥🔻 (@mathijsvandesande.bsky.social)

Gisteren weer thuis gekomen van een geweldige 4-daagse zeiltocht met ons straatorkest Kladderadatsch door Zeeland, op de tjalk De Vrijbuiter. Geweldig veel gespeeld - soms voor publiek, soms slechts voor de meeuwen en zeehonden, maar altijd vooral voor onszelf...

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 19mo ago

Post #dhd2025 we've made a big push to add more models to EU OSAI. We're now at >125 models and counting, including 20 code models https://osai-index.eu/the-index?type=code #LLMs

if you are interested in breaking big tech monopolies, contributing to critical AI literacy and building transparant and reproducible pipelines, no better way than voting with your feet

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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We hebben alweer een hoop optredens gepland staan dit seizoen — de volledige lijst vind je altijd op onze website https://www.kladderadatsch.nl/
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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Grossman did not live to see this incredible novel published. The KGB seized the manuscript in 1960 and it went missing for twenty years; Grossman died in 1964. The ms resurfaced in the 1980s thanks to a dissident and appeared in English translation in 1985
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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@MichaelTBacon oof that doesn't sound great 🫤
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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@MichaelTBacon @jonny 😊 can't say I've read a lot of Adorno, but I found his The Stars Down To Earth (1957) pretty amazing as an early example of critical analysis of horoscope columns and their attractions, with wide-ranging implications also for today
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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@whatzaname @tante oh yes I was under a strict word limit but have this Adorno quote stocked for another occasion "He caters above all to narcissism as one of the strongest and most easily approached defences. Often his references to his readers' outstanding qualities and chances seem so silly that it is hard to imagine that anyone will swallow them, but the columnist is well aware of the fact that vanity is nourished by so powerful instincts" For columnist, read ChatGPT — chef's kiss
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 6mo ago
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@maelle@mastodon.social wow. Looked up the page in the 1985 edition. Incredible foresight esp considering Grossman was writing in 1960. https://scholar.social/@dingemansemark/116277854301827041
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Mark Dingemanse: "This is stunning. Vasily Grossman in Life and Fat…" - Scholar Social

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 16mo ago
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@xgranade@wandering.shop a slide I often use to illustrate this point: Victoria Welby pointing out in 1911 that simplistic ways of thinking about thinking can lead to "a false psychology, and educational ideals and methods that aim at the development of thinking machines, from which you grind out any desired product"
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 19mo ago

@resonanzfilter@fedihum.org such a key question. Indeed, what's in it for them? David Widder, Sarah West and Meredith Whittaker have written very cogently about this when it comes to open-washing: https://davidwidder.me/open.pdf

#dhd2025

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Tessa Gengnagel (@resonanzfilter@fedihum.org) - FeDiHum

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 4mo ago
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@plexus@toot.cat 🤯 excellent point!
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 5mo ago
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@ErikJonker en hoe ontdekken we voor welke "bepaalde scenario's" dat geldt en voor welke niet? en wie mag dat ontdekken? Daarom, geen *betrouwbare* rol Mogelijk interessant, de stelling komt uit een stuk met meer detail https://zenodo.org/records/18929097
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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark@scholar.social
· 2mo ago
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Onze uitwisseling vond plaats in de tijd dat ik ook een stuk aan het schrijven was over deze thema's: Goed onderwijs bouwt op waarden en demystificeert technologie. Lees het hier: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18929096 (Verschijnt na de zomer in "Als wij denken", red Dastani/Kleemans/Stronks)
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