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Emily M. Bender
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If your study is framed as asking whether "AI" does X as well as humans do, it's fundamentally misguided and I'd argue not scientifically sound. A short 🧵>>
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Better Things Are Possible
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Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them
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Annie Leymarie
8 days ago
Faster breakdown of nitrous oxide (GHG that helps destroy the ozone layer): "a feedback loop that adds another layer of complexity to climate projections." [Seen elsewhere: the breakdown of methane (GHG that helps produce air-polluting ground-level ozone) is taking longer:
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Adrian Bowyer
9 days ago
I've just chipped in a few quid. If you can afford to, please do so too. Ether way, please re-post.
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Shannon Mattern
10 days ago
“Bowen and Watson's own writing is embarrassingly sloppy, too often mirroring the imprecision and nonsense of even the best AI models. Typos abound. Metaphors fall flat… Research is misrepresented and citations too often come off as afterthoughts. The AI-generated index is useless.”
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alec karakatsanis
13 days ago
What we are seeing right now with leading Democrats is a defining moment of liberal propaganda. As you try to understand the situation, please read this article I wrote on Democrats, police, and body cameras.
campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-...
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VOLUME 4 (2023-2025) – Page 4 – Yale Journal of Law & Liberation
https://campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/volume-4/4/
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12 days ago
Georgia O'Keeffe, US artist (1887-1986)
#womensart
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Happy Friday, bitcoin is tanking again! Or is it tanking more?
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Adam Barnett
13 days ago
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made: 1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups 2. which incubate fake experts 3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks' 4. which get blurbed by politicians 5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media. Voila!
www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
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Emily M. Bender
14 days ago
I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year:
@ghostdoc2026.bsky.social
("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>
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Timeline cleanse courtsey of
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Veronika the cow exhibting flexible tool use - aka scratching her butt with a brush. Plus points for calming narration by the researcher and the adorable pairing of Veronika and her owner
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow (Veronika)
YouTube video by Antonio Jose Osuna Mascaró
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAk4PFEuWKQ
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ashley fairbanks
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rent is the biggest need right now now and this is a great place to give.
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EMERGENCY RENT FUND: Support Workers in Minnesota
Rent is due FEBRUARY 1st. Support our Emergency Rent Fund for Minnesotan workers and families facing eviction due to ICE Raids. We are calling for a rent moratorium, but regardless of if that happens ...
https://chuffed.org/project/167138-emergency-rent-fund-support-workers-in-minnesota
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Mark O’Neill 🐻
14 days ago
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The UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks site
Or, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was
https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub
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Ed Newton-Rex
14 days ago
Today I'm announcing the AI Shills Hub - free AI training, available now for every adult in the UK 🇬🇧 You'll learn: - Torrenting pirate libraries - AI scamming - Ensloppification - Misinformation 101 and much more!
aishillshub.org.uk
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AI Shills Hub
Upskill in AI using our range of free courses, all paid for by big tech!
http://aishillshub.org.uk
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Evan Greer
15 days ago
Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this
www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...
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If you were looking for a real shadowy cabal of global elites, the Atlas Network would probably be it. Glad to see them getting some attention
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Jake Grumbach
17 days ago
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
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18 days ago
Esther Mahlangu, South African Ndebele artist known for her bold large-scale paintings, including murals, that reference her Ndebele heritage
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Katie Martin
19 days ago
"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.
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Dave Jones
20 days ago
NEW: India is avoiding the fossil fuel detour 🪝 Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut >>> read in 5 graphics🧵
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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨
19 days ago
Cryptocurrency is privacy money! Meanwhile, here's a bust for bitcoin money laundering in June 2025 based on transactions on the Silk Road in 2013 (PDF)
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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COMPLAINT as to CHRISTOPHER CASTELLUZZO (1). (akw, ) [2:25-mj-16093-JRA] (Entered: 07/03/2025)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.581099/gov.uscourts.njd.581099.1.0_1.pdf
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Claes de Vreese
21 days ago
And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨
#TippingPoint
Source:
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Jess O'Thomson
4 months ago
It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
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Vera Kempe
24 days ago
What I find astonishing is that a handful of individuals are able to run a species of 8 billion+ into the ground and there seems so little combined agency of the rest of us.
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Donald Campbell
24 days ago
"It’s as if, having abolished feudalism, we reintroduced it in the cloud; we diligently tilled our data, while Silicon Valley collected the rent."
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The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce
Ofcom’s investigation into X is not just a regulatory issue. It will define our future relationship with America
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-uk-is-wedded-to-us-tech-time-for-a-divorce
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26 days ago
Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings
#WomensArt
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konnaire
30 days ago
Who else is building weird websites in 2026? Show me all the weird websites you love, or are building
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Molly White
27 days ago
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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Stop Funding Heat
28 days ago
Ofcom just sat in Parliament and suggested the reason they haven't upheld single complaint on climate coverage since 2020 is that "broadcasters that we regulate have a good understanding of the code and they are complying with the rules". This is what they've been green-lighting...
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Simon Evans
about 1 month ago
🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10
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Rua M. Williams
about 2 months ago
As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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she’s a grë̈m̈elinomenon 🏳️⚧️🐍
about 1 month ago
Blue sky, sorry for this, but are any of you a city/regional transportation planner, or know someone who is a transportation planner? My kid is writing a paper, and needs to ask some questions of a transportation planner, and her source fell through PLEASE let me know ASAP
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about 1 month ago
MELT, 2025 by US painter Jennifer Packer
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Glen O'Hara
about 1 month ago
Britain has talked itself into a flat tailspin. Had weeks of ppl telling me that the country's on the verge of catastrophe. In reality real wages are rising and the economy growing. God alone knows what ppl would say if we went back to the early 80s, 17% interest rates and four million unemployed.
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Gather Light Action
about 1 month ago
Bringing a few workshops and methods together from
@acuity.design
work on codesign, hope and civic assemblies Will upload site and more over the next week. First project soon
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Surely this should be reason for Ofcom to intervene in the UK? What are the sanctions for websites and apps that freely allow publication of CSAM?
@ofcom.bsky.social
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jael holzman
about 1 month ago
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
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Matt Binder
about 1 month ago
Elon Musk promised a lot of things by 2025 - colonists arriving on Mars - xAI achieving AGI - Tesla robotaxis serving half the U.S. - completely driverless robotaxis - a Tesla Roadster demo - DOGE cutting trillions none of them happened
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Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver
Musk is now infamous for his false promises, but even this is excessive.
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises
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🌒 West 🌒
about 1 month ago
Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!
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T&E
about 1 month ago
In November, we challenged the widely accepted view from the aviation industry that air traffic growth drives economic growth. The analysis found that this link is actually weaker than commonly claimed in many regions across Europe. 8/
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E J Hartley 💚
about 1 month ago
I create resources on Bluesky to help you discover amazing folks building us all a brighter future 💚 Community-Owned Infrastructure SP
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Emily M. Bender
about 1 month ago
I enjoyed doing this interview for El Mundo, especially the last question (English translation of that in this short thread):
www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...
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Emily M. Bender: "Las empresas pueden utilizar la excusa de la IA para perjudicar a los trabajadores de muchas maneras"
Emily M. Bender es una de las voces más críticas y lúcidas en el debate sobre la inteligencia artificial actual. Profesora de Lingüística en la Universidad de Washington,...
https://www.elmundo.es/papel/historias/2025/12/30/6952b5bc21efa0a0388b4594.html
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Aparna Nair
about 2 months ago
In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
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Molly White
about 2 months ago
Newsletter: Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/
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Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation
Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/
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In Otter News
about 2 months ago
It's now that weird time between Christmas and New Year..... So here are some otters in hats.
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Pavel
about 2 months ago
Learning a lot from
neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Smidge Project
2 months ago
🗞️ The New World has published a new article exploring the latest findings from the
#SmidgeProject
, following an in-depth interview with our Scientific Coordinator, Dr. Sara Wilford. Read the full article here:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
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Britain’s most dangerous radicals are… middle-aged men
Middle-aged men are being radicalised – and they’re fuelling the spread of extremism, conspiracy theories and political violence
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewald-britains-most-dangerous-radicals-are-middle-aged-men/
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Richard Jones
about 2 months ago
End of year overview of posts on my blog Soft Machines. Featuring -the UK's economic stagnation -why the UK's new nuclear build programme failed -good & bad reasons for growing UK manufacturing -scenarios for the future of AI -Moore's law -university/R&D policy for hard times
softmachines.org?p=3218
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The Year in Soft Machines – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones
https://softmachines.org/?p=3218
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
about 2 months ago
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.
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404 Media
about 2 months ago
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera. Here's 404 Media's guide to the PR team at Meta:
www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
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What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
https://www.404media.co/whats-the-difference-between-ai-glasses-and-an-iphone-a-helpful-guide-for-meta-pr/
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