A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!

Begrijp ik hieruit dat GL-PvdA er ook voor kiest om Tata Steel te sluiten? 😉

Wéér heeft het vervuilende Tata Steel meer belastinggeld nodig om te overleven. Hoe lang blijven partijen als VVD, GL-PvdA en D66 volhouden dat Tata nog een toekomst heeft? Trek de pleister er af: sluit Tata Steel en bouw groene bedrijven en woningen voor de toekomst. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ge...

“Isn’t it cool?”

Techbro’s duwen ons steeds verder in onze bubbels. In het ergste geval komen mensen in een radicaliserende contentkoker van (migratie)leugens, geweld en vrouwenhaat. De terreur van dit weekend is er niet los van te zien. Tijd om onze digitale wereld terug te pakken 👇 www.trouw.nl/binnenland/m...

Goedkope, schone energie uit eigen land, hoe kun je daar in godsnaam op tegen zijn? fd.nl/samenleving/...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Please please PLEASE take this into account decision makers!

Now *this* is how to do reporting on the latest for-profit edtech-AI snake oil outfit to promise hyperaccelerated learning through fully surveillant clasrooms and teacherless schooling all the way to big investor injections of capital and raids on families' incomes sfstandard.com/2025/09/19/a...

Europe stands with Estonia in the face of Russia’s latest violation of our airspace. We will respond to every provocation with determination while investing in a stronger Eastern flank.

Now confirmed: "Estonian airspace violated by three Russian military jets" www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

People should ask whether automated decision-making provisions in Europe's GDPR and AI Act offer protections equal to human decisions, and whether AI explanations are reliably fit for purpose, writes Peter Douglas.

The purpose of education, if there is "education" under techno-fascism/Christian Nationalism, is compliance and control. "AI" serves this perfectly. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/how-do-you-w...

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Dit gebeurt toch niet echt? Antifascisme is nu iets slechts?

"The chances of #AGI’s arrival by 2027 now seem remote. The government has let #AI companies lead a charmed life, with almost zero #regulation. It now ought to enact legislation that addresses costs and harms unfairly offloaded onto the public." ~ @garymarcus.bsky.social

The reason why LLMs fail to play a game of chess, even though they can cite the rules from their training data, is an awesome example of what's stopping autonomous AI agents from being reliable. Great discussion between @garrykasparov.bsky.social ♟️ and @garymarcus.bsky.social 🧠 on limits of GenAI.

"I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves." - Carl Sagan

Phasing out Russian gas faster doesn’t mean jumping to American LNG or gas from other autocracies. We need to accelerate the green transition and invest in more nuclear energy. It’s smart geopolitics that secures our clean energy future. It’s a win-win.

Bijzonder slecht nieuws voor de kenniseconomie en de maatschappij in Nederland: “Ontslagen en opleidingen weg op universiteiten: 'Boosheid, verdriet en berusting'” nos.nl/l/2582822

¿Qué hay detrás de la carrera por la AGI? Un paquete de ideologías agrupadas en el acrónimo TESCREAL (transhumanismo, Extropianismo, singularitarismo, cosmismo, Racionalismo, Altruismo Efectivo y largoplacismo). Ideas de una secta a la que se le está dando el control del mundo.

"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine." >>

There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.

"Humanity is now obsolete. To quote the fifty-third president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln: 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.'"

My paper with @ericelmoznino.bsky.social on AI consciousness and the danger of people seeing it (whether or not it is there) is out in @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This paper yields the same conclusion as what @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social recently posted on the danger of 'seemingly conscious AI'. mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-co...

"Nothing is achieved when an AI does someone's homework! There's not a goblin we feed the homework to!" - @edzitron.com I no longer think it's a question of it, but when it bursts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wSt...

Onze bossen branden en oogsten mislukken. Maar richting Prinsjesdag lijken oude partijen klimaatverandering vergeten. Volt kijkt voorbij de waan van de dag en zet klimaat op 1. We sluiten Tata Steel en bouwen Tata Stad, gaan van fast fashion naar circulair en kiezen voor de trein. nos.nl/l/2582367

Call for Papers, 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-p...

Musk gebruikt X als politiek wapen voor zijn eigen antidemocratische overtuiging. Democratische politici zouden hier niet aan mee moeten werken: je kunt niet tegelijk X voeden én beweren democratische waarden te beschermen. #eXit www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Even over Vandaag Inside. We hebben deze week iets te veel getetter vanaf deze talkshowtafel gehoord. Getetter dat groepen Nederlanders wegzet als tuig. Media en politiek hebben de taak om haat te bestrijden met nuance en medemenselijkheid. Ook talkshowtafels. Wilfred Genee en ik spraken elkaar 👇

History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally. Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

There are times in life I am jealous I didn't think to create something, and then there are times when I realize I could never create a work of satire this perfect. This new project of his is amazing.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

Months ago, to observe, I joined a 100k+ member women's group for generative AI fans who want to monetize their work. So far I have yet to see evidence. The ones making money are those teaching others how to do so, gen AI for Etsy, master prompts etc, even how to monetize teaching AI monetization

AI agents promise to “put our brain in a jar while a bundle of AI systems does our living for us”, writes Meredith Whittaker. “But as in fairy tales, so in life: relying on magical fixes leads to trouble,” she warns

Last night, Russia sent drones into Polish airspace. They were shot down. We see a pattern: the hack of Von Der Leyen's plane, the attack on the EU embassy in Kyiv, and now drones invade EU airspace. The longer we wait without acting the higher the costs becomes.

An essential read as the new academic year begins. It is high time for Universities to stop peddling so-called AI to students and staff and focus on real education and research instead

“When it comes to the AI technology industry, we refuse their frames, reject their addictive and brittle technology, and demand that the sanctity of the university both as an institution and a set of values be restored,” the authors, led by @olivia.science, write.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Gary Kasparov (legendary Chess Player) & @garymarcus.bsky.social are having a sobering conversation about AI, LLMs and Deepblue in this @theatlantic.com piece. Many people believe generative or any AI show signs of "intelligence", but Marcus attributes it to brute forcing with pattern recognition.

Spanje doet wat Nederland niet durft. Kabinet, volg in deze voetstappen en help deze genocide stoppen. www.trouw.nl/buitenland/s...

Dit is ongelooflijk goed nieuws! We kunnen onszelf en Europa niet snel genoeg van de onderdanen van Trump ontdoen; Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman—we zijn geopolitiek allesbehalve autonoom als we niet heel gauw loskomen van de tech bro’s. Geweldig dus, deze stap. www.volkskrant.nl/economie/asm...

AI-in-education boosters: "Stop focusing on the cheating problem, with proper guardrails we can use AI to enhance learning." Google: "F** that! Kids, just scan your problem and we'll provide the answer!" This popped up when I was investigating a concept related to quadratic equations, btw.

Tech bros & tech shills seem to frequently play the victim / borrow the experience of people who have been sold the tech to scold those of us warning against its use. When the tech bros are calling warnings against bad products "elitist", it's worth keeping in mind where power lies.