These stunts are creating a parallel reality among the people I know that is very difficult to demystify. The average person has zero chances to understand who this technology actually serves.

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles: 1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations, 2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers, 3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises. Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

that's because the entire knowledge and information ecosystem is polluted with slop and right-wing ideology

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

I was wondering the same thing!

how much did google pay to slip an entire magazine of corporate propaganda into this weekend's @irishtimes.com newspaper disguised as public communication about AI

this moment of western powers recognizing palestine is precisely the moment we must not let them normalize the hypocritical status quo where they speciously nod to palestine and simultaneously criminalize advocacy against the genocide of palestine. we must see this as an opportunity to keep pressing

been writing job descriptions for the @aial.ie this weekend. looking forward to posting them publicly in the coming months

i would rather read your imperfectly written, typo riddled idiosyncratic ideas that show you have read my papers and are familiar with my lab’s work than a grammatically perfect and generic genAI written application/email … every damn time

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

It’s definitely “crumbling empire” kinda behavior.

Getting close to 50k views and I'm wondering is it just everybody is scared to say this and pleased I did? Because if there's so many of us who agree, trust me I'd know if 1k people disagreed with me let alone 50k, why are we letting AI ruin our universities? Together we can turn back the tide.

No #WeAre hashtag, no world leaders marching arm in arm to protest the massacre of 31 journalists in one attack. This is white supremacy in action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Her name is Freje Jernise ❤️

If you would like for me to come to your conference or convening and give a 45-minute rant about what makes good digital privacy trainings and guides, particularly for high-risk populations, hit me up.

On @antonsavage.bsky.social NewsTalk Radio this morning: We warned Helen McEntee (then Minister for Justice) five years ago about Data Protection Commission's refusal to stop the flow of data about Irish people to data brokers - as now exposed by RTE Prime Time. www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wa...

Hell on earth.

jesus christ. transport regulators need to get their acts together.

“Meta did all of this on purpose, not informing us, as they want to generate content. It’s despicable. And who is responsible for creating that Threads ad using children’s photos to promote the platform for older men?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

the only selling point this has is the fabricated fomo

Massively shameful, decidedly uncool, pathetically pandering to OpenAI. Reconsider, @ox.ac.uk

Put it in the Louvre

Great story this morning by @rowenamason.bsky.social. Reform has taken £100,000 from an interior design company which had no contact details on its website and used stock images to illustrate its projects. HMRC has tried to wind it up. Very odd. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Is this the year we finally break up @neuripsconf.bsky.social?

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

3 teens commit suicide so far encouraged and guided by these chatbots and openAI goes full steam ahead and targets product at teens. also, age prediction is digital physiognomy

Don't let anyone tell you boycotts can't work. Don't let anyone tell you boycotts are just performative. When the right opportunity arrives, like it did for Tesla and Target, boycotts can do real damage. Disney is another perfect opportunity to use what power we do have.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Wilhoit's Law: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Unfun fact: Some AI data centers are as big as 4 football fields and use as much electricity as 80,000 households. Tech companies are taking up huge amounts of land, power, and water to make AI slop - often against the wishes of local communities. Let’s talk about it.

3/3 Amba will break down the political & economic incentives behind the boom & help map out how we can collectively fight back to create a more equitable and sustainable future. Tune into the livestream to hear the conversation on Wednesday, Sept 24th, from 5-6pm ET. Link to register in the card.

2/3 To help us understand the forces driving this expansion, @ambakak.bsky.social, Co-Executive Director of the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social , is co-hosting our live show at Climate Week NYC.

1/3 Who really benefits from the AI data center boom, and what are we sacrificing in return? The public narrative is one of inevitable technological progress. But the reality on the ground for many communities is strained energy grids, drained water supplies, and rising utility costs.

This problem requires no new law. It requires a better DPC. bsky.app/profile/john...

In any case, after our legal battle all the way to Europe's highest court, the online ad industry's consent system will soon be kaput www.iccl.ie/digital-data...

The issue is not that people don't read terms and conditions. 1. The massive data free-for-all in online ads ("RTB") makes it impossible to obtain lawful consent. (See industry admission that RTB is incompatible with consent) 2. The DPC knew all of this since 2017 and refused to act.

The Govt is on the wrong track here. www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...

It’s being looked into. Grand so.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

The first #Aras25 online political ads are out Who is trying to mimic Mamdani, who is in serious message testing mode, and who has very strong views about what you should really actually be angry about? www.thebriefing.ie/the-first-ar...

the powerful are aligned supporting genocide and silencing critical voices. use your power and hit them where it hurts, boycott these products. and pass it on

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

do not scroll past this hot take. watch it with sound on. i dare you

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

The point is to reinforce what has been true for decades: the fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

What does this statement mean? You only just first became aware of MAIDs? Or location data? Or the particular company selling them? Many data brokers sell these data. Why did you not investigate the security issue in RTB that is the source of so much of this when I told you about it?