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When governments pass legislation recognizing marginalized groups, does public discourse actually follow? We tested this across 4 countries and 7 years of data. The answer: yes — but only under the right conditions.
youtu.be/aNWerFMCWdw
Decriminalizing same-sex relationships and its impact on social media discussions in Asia dlvr.it/TSywhd
Just gotta love a good ol mansplain sometimes, puts us squarely away in our correct little places with correct little emails and titles. Congrats @JiaqiZhangVic! Enjoy it, you must ;)
I suggest picking a personalized alias for your email rather than using [email protected] (though Grok says this option may not be available to you yet). For people not familiar with Columbia's IT system (like I wasn't until I asked Grok just now), the numbers in that email make it look like a spammer or undergraduate, not a professor, which may bias people you don't know you yet slightly against you.
K0k!l J retweeted
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
K0k!l J retweeted
Life update: After graduating from my PhD, I moved to Singapore, to join the Defence Science Technology Agency as the Deputy Head (Information Management), Technology Development, in the Information Programme Center.
My lab is called The LAN Shop, and we will be working on the intersection of how language, networks and automated agents produce collective behavior in the online space.
I made a website: quarbby.github.io/lan_shop.h…, which I will periodically update with the ongoing projects!
Singapore is where I grew up and where my parents live, and I am glad to be home for this next stretch of my academic career.
🤖 Made with AI
K0k!l J retweeted
i'd love to see interesting things people have built with 5.6 sol.
i will send the person who made the coolest thing a special gift from the openai archives.
K0k!l J retweeted
Great initiative by @AalokDThakkar
A regularly updated repository of grants, fellowships, and awards in the sciences for students, postdocs, and faculty.
aalok-thakkar.github.io/gran…
Do check it out. Worth bookmarking!!
K0k!l J retweeted
@ReviewAcl FYI, the “official comment” button isn’t visible to the authors anymore (since ~8 hours). Multiple authors from my batch have complained. Appreciate it if you could fix this at the earliest. Also, I think the authors deserve extra time because of these issues. Thanks!
Built to catch hate. Trained to flag the word 'queer,' though not as a slur.
The tools meant to catch harm can end up penalizing the people they were built to protect. Worth sitting with this Pride Month.
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#pridemonth
Decriminalizing same-sex relationships and its impact on social media discussions in Asia dlvr.it/TSywhd
In the world of LLM-as-a-Judge and other off-the-shelf toxicity models, this is worth auditing for: identity terms can inflate toxicity scores independent of actual content. Treat the score as a biased relative signal, test it against your own labeled data before you let it gate anything.
5/6
K0k!l J retweeted
About 3 years ago, I wrote an article comparing demographic factors and various life opinions such as politics to the one and only Messi vs Ronaldo debate.
A few days ago an official university study from Singapore did a similar research, let’s compare and discuss
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Why do some fans prefer Ronaldo over Messi? The answer lies in their political ideology
Aamaan Alam Khan @aamaan_alam reports
#ThePrintFeature
theprint.in/feature/fans-pre…
K0k!l J retweeted
Gue nambahin sedikit ya kak Novia. Hasil risetnya ini menarik banget, coba gue sajiin pake bahasa yg lebih nyantai lagi. Ini penting nih biar ekosistem kita gak toxic wkwkw
Indonesia masuk 11 negara yg lebih condong ke Ronaldo, bukan Messi. Datanya akurat dan surveynya beneran ada dari NTU Singapore, kurleb 10k respondennya dari 26 negara, Juni 2026, jadi risetnya gak main2 ini ya bukan survey ala2 tiktok
Yg mau gue highlight di sini penelitinya bilang kslo Messi dan Ronaldo itu proyeksiin dua nilai hidup yg beda. Messi lebih quiet, family oriented, team first. Sedangkan Ronaldo itu dominant, self promotional, personal excellence above all. Jadi orang milih pemain bola itu kayak dg cara yg paling deket sama diri mereka sendiri
Tapi, nah ini yg paling penting nih, peneliti juga bilang korelasi ini paling kuat di kalangan muda. Nah makin tua makin ilang efeknya, jadi bukan kalo lo suka Ronaldo berarti lo gini gitu bla bla, lebih ke pola statistik level populasi aja
Artinya, jangan langsung ngejudge temen kalian yg ngefans Ronaldo itu pasti otoriter atau yg ngefans Messi pasti woke yak. Generalisasi kayak gitu justru gak diiyakan sama peneliti yg bikin studinya sendiri
Coba dah, kalian sendiri ngerasa preferensi Indonesia ke Ronaldo ini mewakili gak buat circle lo masing-masing?😆
Ada studi terkait Messi dan CR7 yang menarik banget.
Ngomongin preferensi 26 negara apakah mereka lebih suka Lionel Messi atau Cristiano Ronaldo.
Poin-poin penting:
> 8 negara lebih memilih Messi (Korea Selatan, Argentina, Finlandia, Spanyol, Inggris, Norwegia, Amerika Serikat, Kanada)
> 11 negara lebih memilih Ronaldo (Nigeria, India, Prancis, China, Singapura, Portugal, Malaysia, Mesir, Meksiko, Turki, Indonesia)
> Secara ideologi politik (taraf pembagiannya mengacu spektrum politik dua partai Amerika Serikat), orang-orang yang lebih liberal secara signifikan lebih memilih Messi. Yang lebih konservatif memilih Ronaldo.
> Orang-orang yang sering mengonsumsi video pendek lebih memilih Ronaldo.
> Personalitas orang-orang yang suka Ronaldo: tingkat kepercayaan diri tinggi dan penerimaan pada otoritarianisme.
📸 HOLA
K0k!l J retweeted
🔵 Bir üniversite araştırmasına göre, Lionel Messi hayranları çoğunlukla sol görüşe sahipken Cristiano Ronaldo hayranları sağ görüşlü ve muhafazakâr değerlere daha yatkın.
K0k!l J retweeted
Yapılan bir araştırmaya göre, Ronaldo ve Messi taraftarlarının siyasi görüşleri ve karakter özellikleri birbirinden tamamen ayrılıyor:
🔺 Cristiano Ronaldo destekçilerinin daha muhafazakar ve sağ görüşlere sahip olduğu, Lionel Messi destekçilerinin ise daha liberal ve sol görüşlere eğilimli olduğu saptandı.
🔺 Ronaldo'yu destekleyenlerin otoriter lider imajına inandığı, yüksek özgüvene sahip olduğu ve bireysel başarı odaklı, güç aşığı, lider özellikli kişiler olduğu belirtildi.
🔺 Messi'yi destekleyenlerin ise daha demokratik yöntemleri tercih ettiği, analitik düşünme yetilerinin güçlü olduğu ve alçakgönüllü, takım çalışmasına yatkın, sakin bir mizaca sahip olduğu bulundu.
🔺 Sosyal medya alışkanlıklarında da Ronaldo'yu destekleyenlerin günlük reels tüketiminin daha fazla olduğu ve sosyal medya hesaplarını daha aktif kullandığı öğrenildi.
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🚨🚨Studi Universitas menemukan korelasi antara pilihan Messi/Ronaldo dengan orientasi politik.
• Orang berhaluan kiri/progresif cenderung lebih menyukai Lionel Messi.
• Orang berhaluan kanan/konservatif cenderung lebih menyukai Cristiano Ronaldo.
• Survei melibatkan 10.661 orang dari 26 negara.
• Orientasi politik adalah faktor paling kuat untuk memprediksi preferensi.
• Messi juga disukai oleh orang dengan pemikiran analitis.
• Ronaldo lebih disukai oleh orang dengan kepribadian otoriter atau self-esteem tinggi.
D'après une étude universitaire, les personnes de gauche préféreraient Lionel Messi et celles de droite préféreraient Cristiano Ronaldo
➡️ l.lequipe.fr/4f7
