Dropped some #zines off at Mindset Boardshop in Sarasota. The owner, Ryan, just moved here a year ago, is into #PunkRock and sometimes uses the parking lot behind his shop as a place for bands to play. I’m so excited to share this stuff with folks in town who have no idea about Sarasota’s #PunkPast.
#ParadiseLost #skateboarding #Florida #LocalHistory #OralHistory #PrintMedia #IndependentPublishing

Dropped some #zines off at Mindset Boardshop in Sarasota. The owner, Ryan, just moved here a year ago, is into #PunkRock and sometimes uses the parking lot behind his shop as a place for bands to play. I’m so excited to share this stuff with folks in town who have no idea about Sarasota’s #PunkPast.
#ParadiseLost #skateboarding #Florida #LocalHistory #OralHistory #PrintMedia #IndependentPublishing

And I don't remember if I posted this. It has already begun last week, but still interesting to know if you are interested in #yiddish and/or #OralHistory :

"This fall, the Other Music Academy (best known as the organizer of Yiddish Summer Weimar) invites intermediate Yiddish students to join The New Zamlers, a seven-session online workshop that connects Germany and the United States through storytelling. Inspired by the historic zamlers—volunteers who once gathered words, folklore, and everyday accounts for the Yiddish archives—participants will interview each other to collect and present contemporary Yiddish life stories. The course, led by Adrien Smith (University of Texas at Austin) and Jake Schneider (Berlin-based Yiddish activist and poet), combines language practice with oral history training, peer-to-peer interviews, and reading and discussions about present-day Yiddish culture and community.

All sessions will be conducted in Yiddish, appropriate for students who are able (or currently learning) to ask questions and express opinions on familiar topics. Over two months, participants will strengthen their speaking and listening skills, gain hands-on experience with oral history methods, and participate in the creation of new Yiddish narratives. As a final project, students will create short multimedia stories based on their interviews and share them in celebratory “watch parties.” Alongside developing language and research skills, the project offers the chance to build connections with fellow learners across the Atlantic and to think about how Yiddish is lived, reclaimed, and narrated today."

https://yiddishsummer.eu/main/workshops/the-new-zamlers.html

Die neue Folge ist da! In "SBK117: Graswurzel-Journalismus" spreche ich mit Aram Radomski über die Fotos und Videoaufnahmen, die er in den späten 80er-Jahren vom Zustand der DDR gemacht hat. Gezeigt wurden sie im Westfernsehen und haben das Bild der DDR stark geprägt. Seine bekannteste Aufnahme ist die von den Montagsdemos in Leipzig vom Kirchturm aus. Hört rein! https://www.staatsbuergerkunde-podcast.de/sbk117-graswurzel-journalismus/ #podcast #oralhistory #ddr #geschichte #montagsdemo #leipzig

Die neue Folge ist da! In "SBK117: Graswurzel-Journalismus" spreche ich mit Aram Radomski über die Fotos und Videoaufnahmen, die er in den späten 80er-Jahren vom Zustand der DDR gemacht hat. Gezeigt wurden sie im Westfernsehen und haben das Bild der DDR stark geprägt. Seine bekannteste Aufnahme ist die von den Montagsdemos in Leipzig vom Kirchturm aus. Hört rein! https://www.staatsbuergerkunde-podcast.de/sbk117-graswurzel-journalismus/ #podcast #oralhistory #ddr #geschichte #montagsdemo #leipzig

"Asking scientists to identify a paradigm shift, especially in real time, can be tricky. After all, truly ground-shifting updates in knowledge may take decades to unfold. But you don’t necessarily have to invoke the P-word to acknowledge that one field in particular — natural language processing, or NLP — has changed. A lot.

The goal of natural language processing is right there on the tin: making the unruliness of human language (the “natural” part) tractable by computers (the “processing” part). A blend of engineering and science that dates back to the 1940s, NLP gave Stephen Hawking a voice, Siri a brain and social media companies another way to target us with ads. It was also ground zero for the emergence of large language models — a technology that NLP helped to invent but whose explosive growth and transformative power still managed to take many people in the field entirely by surprise.

To put it another way: In 2019, Quanta reported on a then-groundbreaking NLP system called BERT without once using the phrase “large language model.” A mere five and a half years later, LLMs are everywhere, igniting discovery, disruption and debate in whatever scientific community they touch. But the one they touched first — for better, worse and everything in between — was natural language processing. What did that impact feel like to the people experiencing it firsthand?

Quanta interviewed 19 current and former NLP researchers to tell that story. From experts to students, tenured academics to startup founders, they describe a series of moments — dawning realizations, elated encounters and at least one “existential crisis” — that changed their world. And ours."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

#AI#GenerativeAI#ChatGPT#NLP#OralHistory #LLMs #Chatbots

"Asking scientists to identify a paradigm shift, especially in real time, can be tricky. After all, truly ground-shifting updates in knowledge may take decades to unfold. But you don’t necessarily have to invoke the P-word to acknowledge that one field in particular — natural language processing, or NLP — has changed. A lot.

The goal of natural language processing is right there on the tin: making the unruliness of human language (the “natural” part) tractable by computers (the “processing” part). A blend of engineering and science that dates back to the 1940s, NLP gave Stephen Hawking a voice, Siri a brain and social media companies another way to target us with ads. It was also ground zero for the emergence of large language models — a technology that NLP helped to invent but whose explosive growth and transformative power still managed to take many people in the field entirely by surprise.

To put it another way: In 2019, Quanta reported on a then-groundbreaking NLP system called BERT without once using the phrase “large language model.” A mere five and a half years later, LLMs are everywhere, igniting discovery, disruption and debate in whatever scientific community they touch. But the one they touched first — for better, worse and everything in between — was natural language processing. What did that impact feel like to the people experiencing it firsthand?

Quanta interviewed 19 current and former NLP researchers to tell that story. From experts to students, tenured academics to startup founders, they describe a series of moments — dawning realizations, elated encounters and at least one “existential crisis” — that changed their world. And ours."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

#AI#GenerativeAI#ChatGPT#NLP#OralHistory #LLMs #Chatbots