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Estamos adoptando la ia en nuestras universidades sin un análisis serio al respecto? Corremos detrás del hype sin pensar en sus consecuencias y siendo víctimas de la estrategia comercial de grandes empresas? @olivia.science et al. plantean distintos puntos 👇 zenodo.org/records/1706...

Nieuw Onderzoek | Twee van de vijftien projecten zijn recentelijk nog van start gegaan, terwijl de omvang van het Israëlische geweld in Gaza al volledig duidelijk was. Een project moet kleinere chips ontwikkelen, relevant voor bijvoorbeeld drones en geavanceerde AI-systemen

I'm sure their motivations for shoehorning it into every product imaginable are purely noble and have nothing to do with trying to inflate the perceived value of the technology before the bubble bursts, right? A little surreptitious user data scraping is just icing on the cake.

Hegseth's grasp at macho militarism, including pretty explicitly calling for soldiers to commit war crimes, reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich's reaction to Abu Ghraib: "It is not enough to be equal to men when the men are acting like beasts."

Calls for privatization shifts “science to learn about the universe” to “science to deliver profitable technologies.” This would obv wipe humanities, which "for all the vicious attacks on silly-sounding thesis titles, they guide how we plan, execute, interpret & disseminate science." #academicsky

"resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force. (...) For however headily mystified and abstracted its operations, privately owned AI is always and everywhere a vehicle for accumulation."

I feel like not nearly enough people understand this: "Where real thinking involves organic associations, speculative leaps, and surprise inferences, AI can only recognize and repeat embedded word chains, based on elaborately automated statistical guesswork." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

First time at Utrecht's public library @ Neude. They have a cute machine that prints short stories in Dutch or English, and currently an exhibition about forbidden books.

And yet, every scientific conference and meeting has at least one track with: AI and knowledge production, or how to integrate ethically AI in research. [Redacted] 😒

I was at a dinner this weekend & someone who did not know me mentioned "a good recent paper against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia," and that it is being circulated among their colleagues who are critical (this is at an arts academy). ☺️

Met zulke vertegenwoordigers hebben wetenschappers en universiteiten geen vijanden nodig.

""Llegué a Bogotá. Ya no tengo visa para viajar a EE.UU. No me importa", reaccionó el presidente colombiano. "La sede de Naciones Unidas no puede continuar en Nueva York", agregó."

Hear hear! (Ik schreef ook een variant van dit verhaal: www.villamedia.nl/artikel/opin...)

The campaign against Bookingcom and Airbnb is part of our broader No Room for Genocide campaign. Join this global call! No Room for Genocide call: loom.ly/6fRahpM Toolkit: loom.ly/hD0P0lM

Dit herinner me aan hoe Nederlandse univs op alle mogelijke bochten zich wringen om de samenwerkingsverbanden met Israëlische universiteiten niet te verbreken. Bestuurders vinden het "vreselijk" maar er moeten commissies worden aangesteld, want de VN, & alle NGOs onderzoeken deugden natuurlijk niet.

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

We're going to be hosting a one-day event in Cambridge on Dec 3rd focusing on the Publish Review Curate model. More info very soon but save the date!

Dockworkers from across Europe gather to plan trade squeeze on Israel Dockworker unions are fast becoming an important factor in exerting pressure over the war in Gaza.

Ik heb gewoon serieus geen woorden hiervoor. De medeplichtigheid van zich journalist noemenden aan de opkomst van het fascisme is godverdomme niet te verteren. Het gaat zó snel. En ook vanuit de georganiseerde beroepsgroep trekt niemand aan de bel. Gekmakend. Gekmakend.

I love the pleading sign: please take this books away 🥺 #BookHistory

Ppl have (rightfully) mentioned that to understand politics today, we need to consider gamergate. I'd go a decade earlier: Something Awful.

I wish university administrators understood what these tools can and cannot do. And instead of buying them they could pay tutors better or at least have a free pizza day.

Also Plato hasn't published anything new in years, he's just coasting on his early stuff now.

At Birzeit University, getting a degree can mean doing time in Zionist prison. In our latest (Dis)order Report, Maysa Mustafa and Zach Hussein recount the experiences of Birzeit students who have been surveilled, arrested, or killed by the Israeli occupation.

To celebrate the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah from prison, the ebook edition of YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED, tr. an anonymous collective, is available to download for free for the next week via all ebook platforms, including Kindle and Apple Books, until 30 September.

At what time is the Rapture? Also, curse whomever started that matcha frenzy, I hope all these companies are using dried grass.

I'm sure this also applies to universities' boards and admins. Its truly shocking how most ppl don't know how these tools work but are happy pushing them.

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Dit geldt niet alleen voor de laatste bijdragen tegen een boycot: er worden "veel (onwetenschappelijke) standpunten herhaald die de afgelopen twee jaar zijn gebruikt om de voortzetting van de vernietiging door Israël te ondersteunen." www.folia.nl/nl/opinie/16...

The current artwork was commissioned by "Hope Ignites Chicago, a nonprofit whose mission is “to guide and nurture young people in need to become college-educated, career-ready, and community-minded men and women.”" However they used AI slop for "cost-efficiency." 🫠 #ResistAI

Referencing is part & parcel of scholarship: through footnotes, hyperlinks, or with side notes. Example of the latter in a 1710 text by Isidoro Gil de Jaz on the fracas between the Colegio Mayor de Todos los Santos & the Real Universidad in Mexico City, #NewSpain. #BookHistory #HistoriaDelLibro

Jeezusmina 😳 "Het valt de AIVD op dat binnen de ‘rechts-terroristische beweging’ een „fascinatie voor geweld” steeds belangrijker wordt, terwijl ideologie juist minder belangrijk wordt. Zo worden in online kanalen veel filmpjes gedeeld van schietpartijen, dierenmishandeling of martelingen."

This is so ffd up

Research assistant says enough st00pid computer, it's time for scritches.

#BookHistory a new episode of #BookTok. I wonder if people have prepared Bibles for the previous Rapture announcements? PS Also, who was doing research on highlighters for Bibles at @sharpnews.bsky.social? @renskehoff.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social

This series was horrible. I was shown one of the films when I was very young, I think I was 8 or so. It gave me such horrible nightmares. Besides traumatising kids, Evangelicals are a powerful force dictating foreign policy in many countries re:Israel.

This!!! It's all about "lowering costs" for them, while societies and specific regions will deal with the problems (water and energy scarcity), deskilled people, exploited workers, and flooding the information ecosystem with fakes.

Vandaag staan zes willekeurig gekozen rebellen terecht in de zogenoemde "veelplegers"-rechtszaak in Den Haag. Vijf voor acties die onder het demonstratierecht vallen... [1/6]

Deze mensen zijn niet zozeer aan het rellen, ze zijn aan het vieren dat ze voluit aan de macht zijn, en anderen die hen niet zinnen, hun wil op kunnen leggen, aan kunnen vallen, gewelddadig kunnen bejegenen, uit kunnen schelden, of erger. #extreemrechts

On Sept. 15, Israeli forces fired on a clearly marked MSF water truck delivering 10,000 litres in #Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan. Destroying infrastructure while making humanitarian aid nearly impossible is not just cruel, it’s illegal.

With all respect, tacos are Mexican. It's fine if unitedstatians like them but Mexican shock should be centered. And anyways, unitedstatians have committed horrible taco crimes themselves so... (using yellow cheese? 🚮).

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Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Another way to put it is: they are obsessed with the idea that with enough repression and punishment, they can create their peaceable kingdom--on the corpses of their enemies and the corpse of the US Constitution. Behind that is the fantasy that a wholly homogenous USA can be created....

The irony at genocide’s heart.

LMAO

De wetten om anders­denkenden aan te pakken liggen klaar in de Tweede Kamer www.ftm.nl/artikelen/de...