This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research. Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.

The best moment for #DigitalSovereignty was long time ago. The second best moment is NOW. Not tomorrow. 👉 european-alternatives.eu 👉 www.goeuropean.org 👉 github.com/diselostudio... 👉 buy-european.net/en/categories #DSA #Europe

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Freedom of speech is the foundation of our strong and vibrant European democracy. We are proud of it. We will protect it. Because the @ec.europa.eu is the guardian of our values.

We strongly condemn the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former Commissioner Thierry Breton. Link to full statement: link.europa.eu/NtMX4K

I quite often disagreed with @thierrybreton.bsky.social and his approach on the digital sphere. His intense relationship with Elon M is not exactly what I see as a good approach to policy making. But the US can't invoke sanctions on a EU commissioner doing his job, this has to be rebutted.

So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄 HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats. Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.

Also no about the semantic point; most who work in the area make a figure like the left one. Actually it's semantically and pragmatically vacuous, not just wrong but useless. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Do people reject science because they don't understand it? Or because they simply don't like the answers?

The US just banned a guy from the country (Imran Ahmed) for pointing out that X is full of hate speech

people are saying the autonomous vehicles all stopped in sf last night and that's not true because i think we can all agree that, definitionally, it's not autonomous if losing its connection to the internet means it stops in the middle of a goddamn intersection

“Cobots” are framed as collaborators—but in practice, automation reorganizes workers around machines. This is augmentation-washing: empowerment language concealing less agency and more labor. Sarah Fox and Samantha Shorey for @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...

Original research worth anything takes time. A lot of time. The culture of speed and convenience in which we live is incommensurable with the craft of research.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

In contrast, we show that "any factual AI system ... is so astronomically unlikely to be anything like a human mind, or even a coherent ... part of that mind, that claims of ‘inevitability’ of AGI ... are revealed to be false & misleading. 7/n irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...

I'm not in marketing but an angry guy shrieking "Guess what asshole...AI isn't going away so you might as well accept it!" doesn't strike me as the way you'd pitch an ostensibly useful product

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

This is gaslighting. OpenAI and Anthropic are selling business software by conning people into paying them service contracts to work out how to make their software work. Also apparently you can’t “solve billion dollar problems” with AI now? Good stuff

X has spent years fighting scrutiny and suing researchers, writes CCDH's Imran Ahmed, arguing the EU’s fine isn’t censorship but enforcement of the public’s right to understand how platforms shape the online world.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

It’s true if you don’t know how to use Gemini to turn your bar graphs into filthy but derivative anime porn, I won’t even read your paper.

Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.

Thick as mince and thick as thieves. A column about the absolute idiots European legislators have made of themselves over the naming of food, at the behest of meat lobbyists. You laugh and then you weep. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our democracy is under attack. We have to defend it!   It is unacceptable that Russian espionage exists within the EU, and even more so that we don’t get to the bottom of it. We must secure the right of inquiry to address for the European Parliament to investigate interferences in our democracy.

Hetzelfde dreigt te gebeuren met privacy (AVG/GDPR) en AI regulering.

🚜 De nieuwe Europese Commissie dient onder het mom van vereenvoudiging, om “competitiever te worden”, het ene dereguleringsvoorstel na het andere in. Deze week werkt de Commissie aan een versoepeling van de pesticidenrichtlijn. apache.be/2025/12/20/e...

FOMO is: een datacenter neerzetten voor AI met het stroomverbruik van 2,5M huishoudens. Zonder bewezen nut behalve voor de bouwers. Tijdens een klimaatcrisis en energietransitie. 'AI-gigafabriek' van 22,5 miljard kan rekenen op kritiek: 'Dit is van de zotte'

Reading "Stop Treating ‘AGI’ as the North-star Goal of AI Research" by Blili-Hamelin et al and particularly struck by this passage: icml.cc/virtual/2025... Short 🧵>>

I think the answer to stopping the harms of the Big AI companies is *not* to say "we need to kill all the AI", even though we hate seeing the creeping impacts of that bad AI in our lives. The model has to be how Bluesky is a better alternative to Twitter. We need a tolerable AI alternative instead.

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

🎙️ New episode of Misguided: The Podcast🎙️ I’m joined by psychologist @profsanderlinden.bsky.social to discuss how people can build resistance to manipulation, the economics of fake social media accounts, and the future of combating disinformation. matthewfacciani.substack.com/p/foolproof-...

We need a United States of Europe, now! 🇪🇺

“If AI chipmaker Nvidia is the one selling shovels during the ongoing AI gold rush, in other words, CoreWeave is the one buying those shovels in bulk and leasing access to the digging sites.“ Fixed ending: ‘… where Nvidia is pointing to, telling them one more foot and you strike the mother lode!’

Finally @mmitchell.bsky.social explains why generative AI hype can blind us to the AI breakthroughs that we should really celebrate. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

To encourage innovation, incentivize newsroom staff by not just tying their performance reviews to AI, but also a variety of other technologies, like bullhorns, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, egg whisks, and those cool Daft Punk visor helmets with the scrolling LEDs

The Sunk-Cost Economy

Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership. We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027. Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.

We kunnen blijven hopen op Amerika. Óf we nemen verantwoordelijkheid voor Europa. 🛡️ Met een Europees leger. 🚀 Met onze eigen digitale en defensie-kracht. 🇪🇺 Met één stem.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

Another good moment to ask "what problem are we solving" when we add an AI summary to articles that already include an abstract but you don't know it's an AI summary until you read to the bottom of it and also it shows up as the default?

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

"Encoding all of humanity’s skill and know-how into checklists is an enormous, possibly quixotic undertaking, but the frontier labs have billions to spend, and the sheer scale of their demand is reconfiguring the data industry." Really well-reported story here.

No, you do not need "AI skills." "AI skills" refers to prompt engineering - being able to 'prompt the model correctly' to get anything approaching what you need. It is quite literally gaslighting you into doing the "intelligence" work for a so-called "AI." www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...