Rot op met je 'eigen kracht'. We zijn een samenleving, een maatschappij. We hoeven niet alles zo veel mogelijk zelf op te lossen. We mogen elkaar helpen. We hoeven niet alles kapot te bezuinigen. Prachtig als mensen onafhankelijkheid willen en krijgen, maar dat is niet wat deze wet doet.

A handwritten note next to the exlibris of this book: "libro de consuelo para qien se quisere Aprovehahar"(book of comfort for them who would want to make the most of it). From Aprecio y estima de la divina gracia by Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. www.google.nl/books/editio... #BookHistory

Writing IS fundamental for the job. Removing it to make humans the baby sitters of the text extruding machines a) dehumanises humans, and b) does not save time.

At Corporate Facebook: a journal of AI generated papers launched w Claude, cause "AI can now write papers." The goal is "making machine authorship legible and building a clearer taxonomy of knowledge production in the age of AI." I don't even know where to start 🫥🫠 #ScientificPublishing #academicsky

All our problems will be soon solved, we just need to use it more to be more efficient. More, better, progress!

Our AI cheerleader keeps posting that AI is great for summaries 🫠😬

Bibliographical entries for Croisset's Año Christiano: quarto Me: great, how many volumes? Catalogue: volumes. Me:

Binnen 3 dagen heeft dit echtpaar op de pagina's van NRC: -onzin over transzorg verspreidt -gedaan alsof ADHD niet echt bestaat -gedaan alsof QAnon eigenlijk wel een punt heeft -gedaan alsof Pizzagate gedeeltelijk wel klopt -gedaan alsof vooral progressieven clientèle van Epstein waren

Tired of collating the transcriptions from a project shared with me, archival pictures, and my own transcriptions so I could add the items in a DB. I am finally making a master document with all the info, links, and descriptions. This is why you need to revise your #DataManagementPlan 🤦 #academicsky

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Twentieth-century futurism was largely a project of “don’t worry about the problems of the present. Corporations will build you such a lovely future.” 21st-century futurism has mostly been billionaires and their courtiers whining about the mean environmental movement blocking their cool ideas.

#OtD 14 Feb 1779 British coloniser captain James Cook was stabbed in the neck and killed by a Native Hawaiian as he tried to kidnap local leader, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. After his crew killed a local chief, Cook had also to shot and killed a Hawaiian person stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8558...

I don't have a great way to frame it otherwise than a kind of macho entitlement. Obviously a lot of open source developers aren't women but there seems to be this "get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich" vibe to a lot of those running AI agents.

JFC. Er is zo veel hype rond "tijdwinst" (die is nooit bewezen) terwijl het echte probleem bij het ondergefinanciering van publieke diensten ligt. 🙄 En het maakt niet uit of de chatbot Amerikaans of Europees is, waarom weigeren we om mensen waardig te belonen voor hun werk? #ResistAI

Happy St Cyril and Methodius Day! May you all invent lots of lovely alphabets today.

LOL I jinxed it, rejected 🙃

Checking my inbox every two minutes because a) I am struggling with this section of the chapter and b) @rebpaf.bsky.social's conference acceptance/rejection should arrive one of these days.

What a disappointment. What is unfair is what is happening in Gaza, not jurors being asked about complicity.

All of those esoteric questions about how we define consciousness are fine and interesting, but the tech companies are not pushing those questions as part of a quest to advance understanding. They want us believing they're making something powerful that we must accede our agency to.

#ReligionStudies #Medievalsky

Jfc

Helaas is dit signaal heel hard nodig. Greenpeace bezet Lelystad Airport. www.greenpeace.org/nl/klimaat-c...

GenAI flattens everything into a mass of mediocre boredom. To all of those claiming it can be a tool for multilingualism: you are denying people their own voices, forcing them into a straight jacket.

Wild claims here: "the new opportunities offered by Generative AI tools, particularly in: enhancing idea generation and exploration, supporting authors to express content in a non-native language, and accelerating the research and dissemination process." Plus, how can u responsibly use stolen data?

Chatbots are all about simulation not cognition. The question is, why do some ppl fall for it? Including scientists who claim to be objective (you know, the ones that always tell us minorities we are emotional and biased). I suspect it is because some of them use chatbots a lot and see them as BFF.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Again and again, we see higher ed institutions ignoring and rejecting the collective expertise of their faculty and staff 🫠

They are dismissed as hysterical or non-expert or irrationally cautious. Then you wake up one day and Peter Theil and Elon Musk own your water and your attention and your political process. Then the men emerge to tell us what women told us a decade before.

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Kunst voor Gaza #Alkmaar www.planteenolijfboom.nl/kunstvoorgaza

In this video, inspired by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I read Evgeny Morozov's essay, 'Socialism after AI' or, as much as I could endure. Morozov writes about 'AI' using glittering generalities, lacking understanding or acknowledgment of the actually existing industry: youtu.be/NUby9eTbsuM

Ayer terminé de leer Ayer.

Anyone who has ever used software that is not fit for purpose knows this. Same thing on steroids because the expectations and gaslighting are ratcheted up. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

If anyone has a grade 1-5 teacher in your network who is a Luddite or AI Hater and who would be willing to be interviewed for Season 2 of the podcast, please put them in touch! Our DMs are open. The guest can be anonymous, as we know that it can be dangerous to speak out against AI in these times. 😞

Academics that claim these things can be used for analysing qualitative texts: HOW? Why would it work for your corpus if it doesn't work here? The disconnect is real.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!

12 pointe for historians!

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries! Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

#BookHistory #GLAMS 😨

And formally provably so because to drive you need theory of mind. You can indeed show with maths the limits of maths since it's a formal engineered system with knowable limits, see Gödel etc. We created trains which ban humans from tracks so the system can be safely automated, not so for roads. 1/n

LOL welp

"The human body is an obstacle to efficiency (...) [but] real learning is slow. It is not oriented towards immediate use and immediate disposal." Efficiency in edu & research cheapens our work. We are already squeezed by new managerialism, time to reclaim our agency. #ResistAI

Such a good find! #WhatIAmReading

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

If you were at my talk today, this is what I meant about getting us locked in a harmful infrastructure & how resources are being siphoned for this BS. It's a tulip fever, gadver.