If you in the US, Handmade Palestine has delicious cold-pressed #OliveOil. I have bought it as a gift and tried it once, delicious 😋 Plus, you help Palestinian farmers. handmadepalestine.com/products/ext...

A pretty huitzilin

THIS IS BULLSHIT “Fundamentally, we are bottlenecked by the availability of human talent, right?” - Sam Rodriguez, Future House founder, CEO; creator of an “AI scientist” WRONG YOU SOLVE THAT BOTTLENECK BY PAYING PEOPLE YOU DON’T NEED TO MAKE SOME UNTESTED AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

the fuck it will

#GLAMS #BookHistory This will further (media) illiteracy and continue the destruction of human knowledge ecosystem, tho ofc fits perfectly with the expansion of authoritarianism and fascism 😖 Welcome to the golden age of BigTech-fueled functional illiteracy.

In its current form, what is called AI – again, not reducible machine learning technologies – is a product of platform capitalism, and its large-scale implementation is used to solidify dominant and increasingly monopolistic power and property relations. Of course, this has to be rejected 5/

i HATE this. Ffing pay an indexer to index concepts. Think of it as #OpenScience and #FAIR

ufff... I will not be buying nor reading Tokarczuk's next novel. It is a shame cause she can really write and is usually very sharp; I would have expected her not to fall for the "inevitable & advanced" narrative of the thieving & exploitative gadgets.

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Screams in historian #skystorians

Een van de co-auteurs, Roel Dobbe, staat later vandaag in NPO Radio 1’s *De Rode Draad* tussen 19:00-19:30 om over corporate capture in AI regelgeving te spreken.

Spain’s Cliff-Nesting Gulls Are Actually Beach Bums - bioGraphic

Me working on my presentation: needs more gifs.

Not you field of expertise? Ask colleagues! Asking a HUMAN who has spent years reading and thinking about their field will yield amazing recommendations and they will be happy to hear someone is interested in what they study.

I must say again—because so many do not see this: fascism does not start with concentration camps, that is where it can end. It starts with hollowing out the rule of law; with limiting rights; with denying some of us their existence on the basis of who they are. So that is where must be stopped.

Markuszower, hoe verwerpelijk hij ook is, is niet het probleem, maar het symptoom. De ongemakkelijke waarheid is dat hij hardop zegt wat het kabinet al langer in woord en daad uitdraagt: Palestijnen met een geldig NL visum weren, terwijl het Israëlische geweld in Gaza gesteund blijft worden.

#BookHistory #GLAMS #Publishing

Het is heel misleidend dat een database op hetzelfde niveau wordt geplaatst als een mens. Menselijke gesprekken starten niet aan de hand van een ‘prompt’. Mensen laten zich ook leiden door wat *niet* wordt gezegd maar wel gecommuniceerd.

divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived

The chatbot of the police in the Netherlands reacts to a report of incitement of violence against Palestinians as a case of antisemitism. Likely because the word Palestinian was mentioned. Thinking of the scholars who claimed recently AI can help democracies & governance. LOLwelp #ResistAI #Racism

#VorDerLeyden presidency 😍 I wouldn't trust that woman with watering my cactaceas while I'm on holidays. She will only move a finger when there is a corporate lobby behind it.

Millions of Palestinians mark 78 years since the Nakba https://aje.news/va6lz0

Bezorgde burger. Cartoon voor @trouw.nl. #AZC #asielzoekers #ExtreemRechts #FvD

Este #CorporateSpeak del Tec me ha matado 100 neuronas. La mercantilización de todo. #QueFeoSiento

Our baby is now a paper! #ResistAI #academicsky

Jetten beschouwde deze gek als iemand met wie het kabinet zaken zou kunnen doen. Maar waarom niet, er zijn toch geen rode lijnen.

Reminds me of this essay. Not only are shortcuts doomed to fail, as they don't address the roots of the issues, but we waste precious resources which could be used to tackle complex social issues. ssir.org/articles/ent...

#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr

Comments turned off on that thread so I'm replying here. But the context you're missing is that the chili thing was actually one of the worst targeted harassment campaigns I've seen in my 32 years online, including gamergate

“We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth — the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “information”. — as quoted in Guest et al. (2026)

Wat steeds gladgestreken wordt met het label 'bezorgde burgers' is dat ze woedend zijn over het feit dat anderen hulp krijgen. Ze zijn pislink en bereid geweld te gebruiken om te voorkomen dat mensen die aan oorlog, honger of god weet wat ontsnapt zijn, tijdelijk in een echt bed mogen slapen.

Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

"Universities increasingly invoke #AcademicFreedom as if this suspends the need for responsibility and accountability. Academic freedom, however, does not mean that all forms of programming or arguments are equally legitimate, nor that institutional platforms are neutral by default."

I found the 4 books! But no idea where the issue was! #academicsky

"If I’m doing math billions of times that doesn’t make the base process somehow more substantial. It’s still math, still a machine designed to predict the next token without being able to reason, meaning that yes, they are just fancy pattern-matching machines."

I am missing 4 books in this query and I have no idea why 😭

These vulnerabilities are inherent to how LLMs work. It's what epistemic nihilism looks like, and the purpose of a system is what it does. That ASU administrators would roll this out is evidence that they do not understand the tech. Many university administrators gush over perceived ASU tech-savvy.

#WhatIAmReading Samuel Fisher's The Chameleon by @saltpublishing.com. A delightful book about book(s) but not how other books write about books. 📚

All while increasing the amount of resources used, agreeing with theft and exploitation, and carrying water for the hype of technofascists! Science is really rotten and has never dealt with its colonialist and racist underpinnings. All of this so ppl can publish more! And faster!

Would you trust your phone company under an authoritarian regime? 👁️ You trust your phone. You use it every day. To message. To call. To live your life. And Your phone company knows everything about you: who you are, where you live, who you talk to, where you are, where your friends are. (Thread)

Question for #bookworm 📚

@postnl.bsky.social misschien is het een idee om een melding op de website & app te zetten ivm de #storing? En ook de klanten te informeren als die geholpen is, want we kunnen niet elke dag blijven proberen. Het geld zal worden terug gestort maar we kunnen niet 20 dagelijks betalen om te proberen.

Hebben wij eigenlijk nog een premier of zo, die reageert op dingen?

Zijn er eigenlijk nog politici die durven benoemen dat dit allemaal vreemdelingenhaat en terreur is waar we tegen moeten opstaan? www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...

Love it when non-historians think we just warm up a chair googling sh1t. #skystorians

Katchadjian's "La Libertad Total" is composed only of dialogues, and you never learn the names of the characters, who are only indicated by a letter. Reminds me of Sorokin's The Queue. #WhatIAmReading

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

I discussed this with @melhogan.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social too here: bsky.app/profile/melh... 3/