Jasmijn Bastings

New video is up! Why is the simplex method so fast? At STOC'26 we presented the best theory yet

“We all know that OpenAI is not doing this “for the good of science”. These pdfs are exhaust fumes from their internal benchmarking effort.”

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.

Breaking: Under 16s impose social media ban on Government. It’s too much to expect ministers to be able to cope with the extremism and disinformation they encounter on X and Facebook. At their age they’re too easily convinced that immigrants are dangerous and of the need to bring back “real bins”.

In film, "we'll fix it in post" is what you say when something went wrong on set and you don't want to redo it. AI research has made it our entire methodology: train the model, then patch whatever comes out. Our new ICML oral argues this can't be the basis of a science of AI. 🧵

I thought I was writing an essay explaining a decision to stop using the em dash — or least use it way less — because of how AI chatbots have appropriated it. Instead, I found myself arguing passionately in favor of it. 😑

Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.

Like clockwork

And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.

New on Transponder: Britain has become a dark mirror for trans rights www.transponder.blog/britain-has-... #trans #rights #uk #EHRC #LGBT #gender

📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...

I finally got around to launch my personal blog and the first post is my book review of Karen Hao's Empire of AI. You can read it here: www.transponder.blog/book-review-...

look how they massacred my boy

“If a machine can defeat the best of our species at chess, ‘a domain that humans have viewed as sacrosanct, something that is quintessentially possessed by human intelligence,’ then what human endeavor is safe?” -- Washington Post, 1997

It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.

"In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world." If you want to read up on just how bad things have gotten in the UK, read this article.

Heads up, #NLProc community! The 7th GeBNLP workshop is heading to AACL! 🌏 (and it'll be remote-friendly! 💻) While we’re still finalizing the details, we're putting this on your radar! 🚨 ✨ Start brainstorming those submissions now and stay tuned for the updates! #GeBNLP #AACL2026

Excellent thread "We risk all of science if we rush to build 'AI Scientists' before we understand the value of human science." ⬇️

I'll speak about building community-centred harm taxonomies at the “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI” workshop, April 29th, 11am-3pm, Amsterdam. amsterdamnlp.github.io/blog/biaswor... in connection with the PhD defence of @ovdw.bsky.social #NLProc #bias #AI

I'll speak about building community-centred harm taxonomies at the “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI” workshop, April 29th, 11am-3pm, Amsterdam. amsterdamnlp.github.io/blog/biaswor... in connection with the PhD defence of @ovdw.bsky.social #NLProc #bias #AI