Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Last week I presented a keynote at #SIGIR2026 titled "Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Towards Critical IR Theories and Practices". Slides: bhaskar-mitra.github.io/files/emanci... I went in nervously excited but several people appreciated talking openly about this topic. A quick thread. 🧵 1/

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I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

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a sci-fi story I read once (can’t remember anything else about it) had the twist of ‘humanity’ being a kind of neural parasite that had been in symbiotic relationship with a dumb ape for so long it had forgotten it was a parasite. LLMs almost make me wonder if ‘language’ isn’t that

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Respect for this legend!

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