Lawrence Nault- Stone & SignalDec 27

2026 prediction:
“AI” will become the new “bot.”
A word used to demean, discredit, and dismiss books, videos, posts, and studies—without evidence.

When everything is accused of being AI, the term loses meaning.
And in that vacuum, genuinely AI-generated work quietly becomes normalized.

Language matters. We’re burning this one down fast.

#MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #AIethics #DigitalDiscourse #OnlineCulture

N-gated Hacker NewsOct 29
🎉 Oh joy, another tech genius move: banning teens from chatbots because, you know, that's where all the real danger is! 🙄 Meanwhile, adults will continue their deep, meaningful conversations with AI about how to reboot their routers. 🤖💬
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/technology/characterai-underage-users.html #technews #AIethics #chatbotban #teenprotection #digitaldiscourse #HackerNews #ngated
Character.AI to Ban Children Under 18 From Using Its Chatbots

The start-up, which creates A.I. companions, faces lawsuits from families who have accused Character.AI’s chatbots of leading teenagers to kill themselves.

The New York Times
Florent MoncombleOct 22

📣 After an initial hiccup 😅 it really IS out!

New to #CorpusTools, TruthScraper is a browser extension that lets you build a corpus of posts from Truth Social.

More info & download links 👉 https://fmoncomble.github.io/truthscraper/

Bug reports and feature requests welcome!

@linguistics

#linguistics #discourseanalysis #digitaldiscourse

The-14Jan 27, 2025
Online platforms risk becoming ideological echo chambers that undermine meaningful dialogue
#Tech #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Decentralization #ElonMusk #EchoChambers #PoliticalPolarization #Democracy #X #Twitter #DigitalDiscourse #OnlinePlatforms #Polarization
https://the-14.com/online-platforms-risk-becoming-ideological-echo-chambers-that-undermine-meaningful-dialogue/
Dasha DayterNov 6, 2022

If you’re into linguisticy things, especially digital language, social media discourse, persuasive contexts… don’t miss out on our FREE, FULLY ONLINE # conferences “Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2”
Reg link & more info https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Language-and-Persuasion-2/

You can watch the video presentations right now, and the live Q&A will be 18-19 November
#linguistics #persuasion #digitaldiscourse

Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2

Universität Bayreuth