Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met.
But we're still studying social media like it's 2010.
We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up.
osf.io/preprints/so...
preprint w/ Richard Rogers
Rich Sutton warned that computational scale ultimately outperforms human expertise.
Does his "bitter lesson" hold true when reproducing our own custom methods with LLMs?
We find: the bitter lesson is sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, and sometimes inapplicable.
deep-culture.org/the-occasion...
What’s the difference between latent space, vector space, feature space, and embedding space?
@louravn.bsky.social spelled it out for you in this short blog post deep-culture.org/whats-the-di...
It’s not just training data. It’s what gets incentivized — that’s why LLMs often write exactly like this. This isn’t common Internet speech. It’s human response ratings — and it’s rewarding the system for the appearance of nuance. ✨⬇️
Appreciate the distinction between "representational" and "operational: readings laid out by @ddzeeuw.bsky.social + @hetsalwel.bsky.social here.
Resonates with what @bentarnoff.com + I have been groping towards in Musk's relationship to social media and genAI.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Really interesting. Liable for content!
The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves
the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
enjoyed this "wayback studio" moment at @internetarchive.eu with @anthbrtn.com @iiil.li @idilg.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @digitalmethods.net @d-eepculture.bsky.social @publicdatalab.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & many more! ✨
🐈⬛🐈New 1.54 4CAT update 🐈🐈⬛
github.com/digitalmetho...
📽️ Show downloaded media in the Explorer. This works for media uploads and social media datasets if images/videos have been downloaded through 4CAT.
✏️ New "Upload annotations" processor that lets you add new data fields to existing datasets. (1/2)
A small 4CAT update just in time for the holidays - v1.52!
📊 Processors for regression analysis and dataset statistics
🧭 Test LLM prompts from our prompt library with the PromptCompass processor
🤖 Use Deepseek and Gemini 3 APIs with LLM processors
🐛 Many bug fixes!
➡️ github.com/digitalmetho...
