Our language around #AI ought to employ a digestive, rather than cognitive, metaphor according to which models *ingest* and *regurgitate* data, rather than ‘learning’ and ‘thinking’.

SH-01a and Ghosts. #ambient #synthsky

Technofascists:

Scenes from County Mayo… 😊

Semiotic paradox alert!

Farage: ”It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views… should not be allowed into the UK”. Really? 🤨 #REFUK

I saw an academic unironically suggest that instead of assessing students’ understanding and competence through their writing of essays, arguments etc., we can assess the “quality” of their prompts, and I feel us slipping further and further into dystopia.

"Top psychiatrists increasingly agree that using AI chatbots might be linked to cases of psychosis. In the past nine months, these experts have seen or reviewed the files of dozens of patients who exhibited symptoms following prolonged, delusion-filled conversations with the AI tools."

Your risk of blood clots after a Covid infection are 30 times higher. There are risks with all medications, the risks are very small compared to the far greater risk from COVID itself! Much of the media is focused on the incredibly small risk. www.hdruk.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

I'll start replying to my emails like this. #science #academia #academic #philosophy #philsky

Bottled water drinkers ingest an average of 90,000 more microplastic particles every year, study finds. apple.news/AzHpEVXylTLe...

#Trumpland #USCorruption

The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic... Key findings: -Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views -More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025 1/

Agrivoltaics boost crop yields even when the solar panels aren’t generating power. New research from Canada shows that shading crops with elevated solar panels creates a cooler, wetter microclimate that can lift yields and improve performance across dozens of crops. buff.ly/6eqClf1 #ShareGoodNewsToo

#PhilMind #PhilPsych #CogSci

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains

Perfect

It’s just the actual universe. 🤷‍♂️ #Blueskyism

Here’s to 2026

There are still people who argue that nonhuman animals don‘t have cultures 🤷‍♂️.

Going on an adventure… #Dublin #Ireland

it appears your manuscript "in preparation" was not published in 2025 after all, mr. bond

Over 6 million children in the US are suffering from long covid. In the UK tens of thousands of children have #Longcovid. Any child, regardless of health status can get long Covid.

"Hi Carol. Our feelings for you poets haven't changed, the republic just needs a little space." #philsky

"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions." This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam. (Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)

Universities embracing generative AI be like:

Great behind the scenes video from Apple TV’s #Pluribus, but don’t watch it until you’ve seen the series as it contains major #spoilers! #AppleTV youtu.be/9C5Un2ikvLQ?...

How I’m walking out of 2025

I think it's clear that soon the whole of internet will be flooded by AI slop. What will happen when we can't trust anything online? That's the question we should be asking. But I don't see this question being asked, let alone answered. I think we are heading towards a collapse.

Basically, the whole of #Dublin is coughing rn… Take care out there, people! 😷 #COVIDIsn’tOver #Flu #RSV #Adenovirus #Ireland

#HigherEducation #GenAI #CriticalAILiteracy #CAIL

Renowned programmer Rob Pike received automated spam from an #AI system that was granted unsupervised access to Google Workspace. You can see his (entirely justified) response below. This kind of unsupervised use of AI is extremely worrying and irresponsible. #AIEthics

What is long covid? Not a mild cold.

Not now, super-massive runaway black hole!

The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit. Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Transcribing interview with a great Parkinson’s scientist - love his advice to young researchers: “Pick your area, stick with it, and accept that at some point in your life it will be flavour of the month, and at some point in your career, it will be ’I can't believe you're still working on that’”

shout out to the developers of the shingles vaccine. Instead of getting incredible pain I got two small sores that are slowly healing and some minor discomfort. (If you are over 65 it is free)

joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene... (Generative) AI use and human agency. Point 6 (of 12): there’s times when using genAI not accurate AI is immoral. WE DO NOT NEED TO ACCEPT INACCURACY IN ALL APPLICATIONS. Many are perfectly tractable using more reliable means than #genAI. #AIEthics

No kidding. Thanks, #LifeCycle! 😂

also applies to academia.

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

University of North Carolina at Asheville’s Philosophy Club carries on philosophy despite department closure thebluebanner.net/19397/arts-f...

Plato argued in the Republic that the 'tyrant,' or someone with unlimited wealth and power, would live the worst possible life because his soul would be devoured by lawless, unlimited desires that could never be sated. I think we've gotten confirmation of this from more cases than Trump lately

Immigration is good for this country! Let the truth ring out 🔔

Zoologist & primatologist Dian Fossey was murdered #OTD in 1985. She is best known for researching the endangered #gorillas of the Rwandan mountain forest. #WomenInSTEM Fossey's memoir 𝘎𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵 was adapted into the 1988 movie of the same name (w/Sigourney Weaver). gorillafund.org

The new ‘digital natives’… #ComputerLiteracy #CriticalAILiteracy #CAIL

AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs” you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.

Happy St Stephen’s Day to those who celebrate!