A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives: european-alternatives.eu

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.

A lovely gentle and accessible dialogue on the limits of computationalism.

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The most generous reading of this is as art intervention, giving AI researchers an opportunity for reflection by applying AI slop to their own work and reputation and seeing the damage it does to

#TwinPeaks #ChatGPT #LogLady @logladyfilm.bsky.social

What the absolute shit is this? ACM using AI summaries instead of abstracts in search results?! So, if I understand correctly, instead of the author's own summary of the work (i.e. an abstract) we are better off with some regurgitated slop version of that summary instead? @chi.acm.org

why is the ACM stabbing authors in the back with generative AI text effluent?

Apply for my old job as Lecturer in HCI at Bristol. It's a lovely group and a good place to work. I only left because my wife lived in a different country. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

AI is a crisis for the climate. @naomiaklein.bsky.social

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

Since AI slop is again all over Scientific Reports, a thread on the economics of grey-zone publishing. Why does slop keep getting published? What does it mean for science? How can we stop this? Background readings: Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

The way in which these people are so transparently evil, and so transparent in their desire to enact violence and reinforce existing oppressions, will never cease to be astonishing. The only thing more astonishing than that is the average person’s willingness to tolerate it.

Loved this story by @ibogost.com, which is nominally about the Apple Watch, sure, but more remarkably about granting young people the right amounts of agency and dignity in the digital world that we really have no choice but to live in.

this is all generative tech! almost all the time, it is better to just do the thing yourself than to try to build a monkey with poor cognition that can occasionally, in perfect conditions, do it for you emergence is only useful in contexts where a random vector is desirable and intentional!

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

I’m not so naïve to think that AI will go away when the AI bubble bursts (after all the Internet didn’t go away when the dot com bubble burst). But it is really sad that such an unreliable, unethical, and massively polluting technology is embraced by so many.

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

And I'll repeat this because why not. This is really what companies want. They want us to be totally isolated from other people. And all our interactions to be mediated by their LLMs, in a way that literally edits and devalues what we know and say. 7/n bsky.app/profile/oliv... 6/n

You know the bubble is cooked when it can be explained like this.

I’ve already said so and phones aren’t the problem here. The problem is companies offering sycophantic human simulator software that is objectively harmful and is not controllable—something that’s somewhere between religion and drug, for profit.

Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal. Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down. It’s pretty simple.

Remember: if AI did even half of what it promises, tech firms wouldn't need to shove it down our throats, unasked for, at every opportunity. It's snake oil. Resist.

Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.

Sign here bsky.app/profile/kris...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Pope Leo:

I have my students co-develop class policies, and they pretty much unanimously chose to ban AI in the class. There were a few questions about using Grammarly, but those were the only real exceptions any students expressed (and even then, we talked about alternatives to that and they were open to it)

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper. He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Most of Ireland's uplands are commonage, ie co-owned by local farmers. The ONLY real income from commonage is via subsidies, almost always for ecosystem-killing sheep. This is why Irish mountains are all empty wastelands, kept that way by your taxes. Why are we STILL not paying farmers to rewild??

yes, really messed up stuff, see thus by me and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social (2025). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... and: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Feeling existential weariness today at so much academic effort promising to create AI systems and design frameworks that "augment rather than replace", support wellbeing sustainable just etc etc etc –– and yet, and yet, all it will achieve is Gutmenschen shelfware.

In Ireland • Nature is haemorrhaging • Water bodies are sick and dying • Greenhouse gas emissions from land are soaring • Flooding is ever more catastrophic • Etc... Because we've turned nearly all wild, natural habitat into barren monocultures of grass or shitka. Mass REWILDING is the solution.

No reading, no writing, no learning "what does it mean to ‘learn how to use ChatGPT’? What are you teaching them? Copying and pasting the output of a chatbot? My advice would be to teach them how computers work, how to code, how to think about the processes behind all this” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

I realized yesterday one reason I am so angry at "AI" is because the companies behind it stole my words to make the monster they worship. I don't want my words to be part of this, but they gave me no choice. May the monster they created eat them and destroy them. 🧙🏻‍♀️

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (CTAC) Test: Development and Validation by Cian O'Mahony Mike Murphy @conorlinehan.bsky.social @gillian-murphy.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible