What the fuck is with this #trend of ppl arguing to use harmful & bigoted language and claiming they're "reclaiming it" as if that makes it so & justified.

Reclaiming language takes a lot more effort than just using it & declaring reclaiming. It must dismantle the harm to the people it targets, empower & transform the word.

Not every word can even be reclaimed. Often what's most powerful is not using fucking #slurs, & instead directly supporting communities / ppl harmed by them.

Continued 📚

A-K-M-E – Slurs come segnali linguistici

Piano Terra, viernes, 29 de mayo, 21:00 CEST

A-K-M-E – Slurs come segnali linguistici

t.me/akme_lab

29.05 – dalle ore 21:00

Tra NLP, modelli transformer e dinamiche algoritmiche

Nel contesto dei social network, gli slurs, ovvero gli insulti e i concetti discriminatori operano come feature linguistiche ad alta entropia, capaci di perturbare in modo significativo i modelli NLP basati su architetture transformer.

Analizziamo assieme cercando di comprendere il fenomeno da una prospettiva linguistica computazionale, osservando come i token tossici influenzino embeddings, attention patterns, loss surfaces e sistemi di ranking.

L’obiettivo è mostrare come la tossicità linguistica sia un effetto emergente dell’interazione tra strutture linguistiche, architetture transformer, dataset imperfetti e metriche di ottimizzazione.

– failure modes dei modelli di rilevazione tossicità: bias nei dataset, overfitting su pattern superficiali, misclassificazione in contesti ironici o citazionali

– analisi delle attention heads: heads specializzate nella rilevazione di segnali tossici, saturazione dell’attenzione e perdita di contesto pragmatico

– limitazioni delle context windows: difficoltà nel disambiguare uso descrittivo vs offensivo, soprattutto in sequenze brevi o rumorose

– propagation bias nei sistemi di raccomandazione: amplificazione dei token ad alta reattività, feedback loop tra engagement e ranking, distorsione delle distribuzioni linguistiche

– impatto sulle loss functions: penalizzazioni non uniformi, gradient explosion in presenza di token tossici, difficoltà nella calibratura dei modelli di moderazione

29 maggio a partire dalle 21:00

akme.vado.li

https://hacker.convoca.la/event/a-k-m-e-slurs-come-segnali-linguistici

"#Representative #JaredMoskowitz, a #Jewish #Democrat from #Florida, has received a surge of #antisemitic #deaththreats and hateful voicemails at his #congressional office, including calls to “kill all the #Jews,” according to recordings shared with media outlets.

#Moskowitz, who represents Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, publicized several of the messages this week amid what he and Jewish advocacy groups describe as a persistent rise in antisemitism. The voicemails, reviewed by outlets including CNN, TMZ and JNS, feature repeated #slurs, #Holocaust references, #conspiracy theories about Jews and #Israel, and personal #threats against the 'congressman.

A spokesman for Moskowitz told JNS that the recordings represent a small sample from the past six months. “These voicemails were from the last six months and represent a small sample size of the hateful voicemails the office receives,” the spokesman said."

https://vinnews.com/2026/05/17/jewish-florida-congressman-jared-moskowitz-receives-surge-of-antisemitic-death-threats/

"'Bad' words can be retrained." Linguist Karen Stollznow on the complex history of "bitch":
https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-evolution-of-bitch-says-about-gender-and-power

#etymology #slurs #words #bitch #language #linguistics #history

He stares me down and screams, “I think you’re a fag.”
And I freeze.
Of course I freeze. That word has history.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/words-for-gay-can-either-shame-or-shield-509e3e8a0ddb

#LGBTQ #Gay #ChildhoodMemories #Memoir #Slurs

John Davidson: "Tourette’s can make my body or voice do things I don’t mean, and sometimes those tics land on the worst possible words."
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/john-davidson-tourettes-tics-bafta-n-word-interview-1236671850/

#Tourettes #JohnDavidson #BAFTA #BAFTAs #slurs #ISwear

NHL player hurls antigay slur during Olympics hockey match

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/sports/nhl-player-antigay-slur-olympics