Conor Linehan
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Researcher in Applied Psychology and Human Computer Interaction. University College Cork
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Esheru
3 days ago
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/
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Daryl Feehely
2 days ago
If you are thinking of following suit, here's a list of EU tech alternatives:
european-alternatives.eu
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mattie lubchansky
4 days ago
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
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Mark Sugrue
5 days ago
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.
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Sebastian Deterding
5 days ago
A lovely gentle and accessible dialogue on the limits of computationalism.
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Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them)
15 days ago
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/...
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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10778004251401851?_gl=1*c7vi2h*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMzODMyMDI3Ny4xNzY2NDcyMzc2*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NjY0NzIzNzUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjY0NzIzNzUkajYwJGwwJGgyMDM4MDk1NTM3
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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
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David Lynch's Worlds
18 days ago
#TwinPeaks
#ChatGPT
#LogLady
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Joe Michaelis
21 days ago
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
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š¶ stuart reeves š¶
21 days ago
why is the ACM stabbing authors in the back with generative AI text effluent?
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Dan Bennett
22 days ago
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...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=384038&jobTitle=Lecturer%20in%20Human-Computā¦
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ŠŗŠ°Š“Š¼ŃŠ¹
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The Sanders Institute
about 1 month ago
AI is a crisis for the climate.
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Naomi Klein
about 1 month ago
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
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Animal Photo Reference Repository
29 days ago
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! Itās succinct, easy to read, and doesnāt shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends.
scz.org/blog/the-rea...
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The Reality of AI Animal Content ā Sedgwick County Zoo
If you spend any time on social media, youāve probably seen them ā bears bouncing on trampolines, apes caught on doorbell cameras, or ārescuedā wild animals acting in ways that seem too good to beā¦
https://scz.org/blog/the-reality-of-ai-animal-content?fbclid=IwRlRTSAOka_hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEehuwv0W4fSqUX68i6zvfrcF1IEE1wXEEQ27hxuJesiiCtue0FrK0tcEJEwgU_aem_I8bP-ySH1Hv9VCjCCuFWHQ
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Eryk Salvaggio
about 1 month ago
Itās 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. ā¬ļø
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Paolo Crosetto
about 1 month ago
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
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Omar Sakr
about 1 month ago
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 personās willingness to tolerate it.
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Damon Beres
about 1 month ago
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.
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Get Your Kid a Watch
A smartwatch isnāt capable of doing that much harm. It can also do a lot of good.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/smartwatch-kids-screen-time/684975/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGc_N4ENl35djMXA5JDIYY5w&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Leigh Alexander
about 1 month ago
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!
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Darren Dahly
2 months ago
Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.
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Kevin Kretsch (DrKev)
about 1 month ago
Iām not so naĆÆve to think that AI will go away when the AI bubble bursts (after all the Internet didnāt 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.
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radical lisa loebotomy
about 1 month ago
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
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
about 2 months ago
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
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!
3 months ago
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins
about 2 months ago
You know the bubble is cooked when it can be explained like this.
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Thomas
about 2 months ago
Iāve already said so and phones arenāt the problem here. The problem is companies offering sycophantic human simulator software that is objectively harmful and is not controllableāsomething thatās somewhere between religion and drug, for profit.
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Thomas
about 2 months ago
Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal. Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down. Itās pretty simple.
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Matt Thrower
about 2 months ago
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.
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
about 2 months ago
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.
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
about 2 months ago
Sign here
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Jesse
2 months ago
40 years ago weād 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 thatās all like ābet you wonāt commit suicide chickenshit bitchā & the government is like hereās $5 billion
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Carl Quintanilla
2 months ago
Pope Leo:
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lauren bre
2 months ago
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)
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Michael
2 months ago
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
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Dr Selena Wisnom
2 months ago
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Iris van Rooij š
2 months ago
āWe 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.ā
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Iris van Rooij š
2 months ago
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 āactivismā. As if that is an insult. In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, Iām a proud scientific activist.
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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users ā in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
https://zenodo.org/records/17065099
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Radley Balko
2 months ago
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.
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Eoghan Daltun š
2 months ago
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??
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Olivia Guest Ā· Īλίβια ĪκεĻĻ
2 months ago
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...
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Sebastian Deterding
2 months ago
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 āā and yet, and yet, all it will achieve is Gutmenschen shelfware.
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Eoghan Daltun š
2 months ago
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.
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Esther Mondragón
2 months ago
No reading, no writing, no learning "what does it mean to ālearn how to use ChatGPTā? 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 thisā
apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia?cdlnk=OFNhOGFlak5qRTE1cjhPbXR6eWMvL2VMRER0cVArcDNzT1Q0cjhVU3N2NVhYUG5GT3dKcjFsZVM2dDFPMyt5SVhVRStyQ3BvRVA4bTU5R1k5MnplSGc9PTo6YzQ1Mzc5NzAzODk5OTI2ZDkzNTY1NmUxNmQ3MjU5NTk%3D
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Malinda Lo
2 months ago
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. š§š»āāļø
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Dr Abeba Birhane
2 months ago
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 canāt expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time ā regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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Wai Yen Tang Ph.D.
3 months ago
The Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (CTAC) Test: Development and Validation by Cian O'Mahony Mike Murphy
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The Critical Thinking About Conspiracies (CTAC) Test: Development and Validation
How should we measure people's vulnerability to unreasonable conspiracy theories? This is a key question for those designing interventions that aim to limit the spread of inaccurate beliefs. We argue...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.70120
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
People treat it like thereās some kind of competition for whoās been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure weāre all victimized as little as possible
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