On AI and 'epistemological pollution'. "...these zombie references call into question the accuracy of the papers that cite them." ➡️ Don't cite anything you haven't read. ✅️ But: structural inequalities shape vulnerability to AI slop. ❓️How do we (the 'research community') address those inequalities?

¿es el monte un forest?

I have a small collection of snapshots from 1980s Artifical Intelligence books, and guess what: [Automating the Synthesis of Expertise (1984), from the book "Machine Intelligence", second edition]

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Department of Philosophy of Science at the Sharif University of Technology, Iran

how it's going

where does the practice of saying "thank you for sharing" comes from in the US? honestly is one of my cultural shocks, and i cannot explain why but it bothers me, it's cringy

A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"

what search engines do people use? I want to stop using google and is not even for the politics, but just very bad searching results. is starting to feel a little bit like when twitter became boring.

i might not agree with everything david graeber said - but this is spot on!

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Here's a sad thought: Mexican local media were the ones providing the public with crucial information on Mencho's death and the resulting violence, while artificial intelligence generated uncertainty and panic via false images and information. But the money is going to AI, not local journalism.

cómo le explico a los gringos el concepto de "facturar" si acá los recibos sirven para sus taxes aghhh

Animal studies scholar here. Any time a technology is advertised as only being used on animals, it will soon be used on humans. Thank you for your time.

traducir mis "datos" me mata. hoy descubrí que (por lo menos para mí) usar "would" no transmite lo mismo que conjugar un verbo en pospretérito. siento que se le escapa una ambiguedad

and some people still think it’s an exageration to analytically compare capitalism and ai with parasites

Geortzel asks for more after Epstein is out of prison. Epstein says he will send another 50k Goertzel to Epstein: "You won't regret it ;) The AI we build will thank you one day!"

the fact that this was written 30 years ago only confirms the eternal return forever and ever, now and in the next life

faculty are so lost about how to advice about non-academic labor markets that one very well intentioned faculty suggested we could become best seller authors as an "alternative" career 🤣🤣🤣

it’s such a straight line from “we need enlightenment values now more than ever” to appearing in the epstein files

me and the girls finding out that everything is political

The genocide is ongoing.

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

así o más clara la importancia de pensar el poder y las élites políticas siempre de manera transnacional y no desde el excepcionalismo 😤😞

segundo intento a ver si esta sala de chat sirve para algo mas que para la audiencia gringa - ¿recomendaciones en español sobre libros/textos sobre duelo? (quizas no directamente duelo, pero textos que quizas los hayan conmovido para acompañar procesos/afectos de perdida)

"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." December 12, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865),

honestamente lo único que me sorprende de los epstein files es la cantidad de emails que se mandaba esta gente!!

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a job

i'm accepting now that my "peak" in academia was being mentioned in an acknowledgment section along with sylvia yanagisako and katie stewart

Last night, government forces bombarded an @msf.ca hospital in South Sudan. This is part of an alarming and dangerous pattern: 🚨 Attacks on healthcare are becoming normalized in conflict zones. Pay attention. Demand accountability. #NotATarget

pasen recomendaciones de lecturas sobre el duelo - de preferencia en español. y si tienen sobre estar "a distancia" aun mejor!

I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”

uno de los pocos momentos en mi vida donde se me sale un poquito el sentirme parte de la comunidad imaginada *nationalism_intensifies*

seriamente pensando revivir un grupit pre pandemico (completamente cero academico) donde personas de muchos lados de mi vida nos juntabamos a discutir la frustración del trabajo en la vida

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

la música que más me llega al fondo de mi ser se me pegó al corazón viendo mtv entre 1997 y 2002

and then the reaction to this critique is also fed by american exceptionalism logics of "omg we are the worst, we are so unique in every way" without any transnational historical perspective of power aaaaaghhh

load bearing tweet for a settler colonial society

As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.

“Return CBP to the border” i.e. back to killing migrants so we can go back to brunch

Bandcamp PROHÍBE música generada por IA 🔥 «Cualquier uso de herramientas de IA para suplantar a otros artistas o estilos está estrictamente prohibido de acuerdo con nuestras políticas existentes que prohíben la suplantación de identidad y la infracción de la propiedad intelectual» ✊

omg i cannot believe (or maybe sadly im not really surprised) that with everything that is going on usains are not only NOT questioning the logic of american exceptionalism but they are either mourning it or now using it to explain how exceptionally "bad" they are aaaaaa 🫠

No sé si esto pudiera ser más insultante: las deepfakes de morras semidesnudas que hace grok estarán disponibles sólo para quienes paguen su palomita azul. Esos cuerpos = un producto para usuarios premium.

This is horrific and barely being reported on in the UK media. Shame on the British government. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

qué bibliotecas les gustan y recomiendan para trabajar en la cdmx?

tfw a job that doesn't cause immense amounts of domestic and global suffering is not elite

bueno yo de todo esto solo puedo decir que nunca pensé ver la transformación de mi mama de señora panista fan de fox a alguien que pone en su foto de perfil que condena la agresion imperialista de eua contra venezuela

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago