MASKINENE KOMMER, GOD SOMMER: Sesongens siste episode er her! Vi snakker om KI med @idajahr.bsky.social og får knust noen myter. Also featuring Pave Leo, kunnskapsministeren og en hel haug med apokalyptiske tek-menn. podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/e...

The country making news for something other than the embarrassing viking iconography

Crowdsourcing knowledge: I am looking for some writing on the origin of the shortening ‘bot’ for scripts, automated accounts etc, and also anything on the term «chatbot». Any good ideas?

good ML: * carefully designed for narrow contexts (or with awareness of context limits) * designed by ML and topical experts, with expert curated data and expert reviewed outputs * designed for specific needs and consumers, and kept up to date for both * clear training / comms on use and limits

Universitetsbiblioteket ved UiT har en ledig stilling som Fagansvarlig for samisk, finsk, kvensk og urfolksstudier! Å bidra til håndtering og formidling av materiale fra samisk- og finskspråklige litteratursamlinger vil være en sentral oppgave for stillingen. Søknadsfrist 14. juni. Mer info:

That Arthur C Clarke rule about "any advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" sounds fun until you see that the practical application is "we believe anything a tech CEO says by default because MAYBE they are a powerful wizard"

If you’d told me 15 years ago that in 2026 Donald Trump would be the Republican president and that I would be reading papal encyclicals muttering “fuck yeah, this Pope really gets it,” I would have laughed in your face. And yet here we are.

Bonnier gir ut individualistisk rags-to-riches skvip fra amerikansk 1930-tall, oversatt og fremstilt som om det var nye tanker. Kulturpåvirkning på steroider. Se her for informasjon om boka Bonnier nå mener de har råd til å gi ut for å nå «norske menn»: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/i...

I saw this once, months ago, and it DELIGHTED me, in a "two great tastes that taste great together" way Stumbled upon it again today Whoever made this mashup has my everlasting gratitude [Sound ON]

not unrecognizable but he does look like if Belgium had a dictator

True title of Blade Runner

Her kan norske politikere lære noe.

Happy 4/20 everyone I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

checkmate, fellow terrorists

Happy Easter!

Aldri igjen vil jeg høre at Critical Mass er til hinder for bilister eller "for radikal" fordi vi sykler i veien. Takk til Dieselbrølet for meningsmålingen! Den skal jeg bruke neste gang bilister hisser seg opp.

Some new exhibits just dropped in Musk v Altman trial including these texts with Mark Zuckerberg and Musk

Great. Love that my students will have to actively decline this option.

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.

In der Apokalypse wird es mein Motor und Antrieb sein, mich bis nach Kauai Island durchzuschlagen, dort zu Mark Zuckerbergs Doomsday Bunker vorzudringen und ihn höchstpersönlich aufzuessen. Ich bin sogar bereit einen eigenen Kult um diese Mission aufzubauen.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT? As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc. It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece??? What?

Board of Peace - Season 1

Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world." www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

everything about this is so unspeakably evil and rage-inducing, but the fact that a non-zero number of Republicans believe Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are the same guy makes me want to S C R E A M

at least we have the wise and steady hand of melania trump presiding over the u.n. security council on monday

Toje problematiserer som kjent Kjelléns rasisme og antisemittisme hver gang han skriver om ham. Unntakene er bare, eh, hver eneste gang, later det til.

AI slop is everywhere on Amazon, but especially in children's books. I was looking for something else when this popped up in the sponsored books. 1/

I gave Facebook my biometric data, in an attempt not to lose my account. They delted it anyway. And has my biometric data. This ... This is so much worse. thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...

Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia

Today, learn from activists who have resisted data centers and other exploitative projects. Sue Kasun and Erin Anderson interview Omar Lázaro García and Aurora Gómez. You can also read their conversation in Spanish! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/activis...

With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ... 1/9

was that his "they've made their decision now let them enforce it" moment?

Do you want to contribute to figuring out what “AI” should be in schools and education, or what effects implementation of “AI” tools and platforms will have on the practice of learning and/or the practice of teaching? Come do a PhD with us! (!deadline is March 9th!) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Bro is like “I invented bossware but for the home. Where’s my money.”

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more: www.404media.co/students-are...

if someone can come up with working adversarial garment that fucks with smart glasses, to almost any extent, I will not only buy it myself but promote it religiously ideally something that does lasting damage, but even compromising certain functions is better than nothing who is working on this??

Please repost this far and wide. We are looking for candidates with teaching backgrounds, but also other relevant backgrounds.

How do language models affect human communication, narratives and identity? Join our researchers live at or streamed #UiBAI #18 on Friday February 13th at 10.00 (CET): www.uib.no/en/ai/181273... @jilltxt.bsky.social @hannaroine.bsky.social @srettberg.bsky.social

Do you want to contribute to figuring out what “AI” should be in schools and education, or what effects implementation of “AI” tools and platforms will have on the practice of learning and/or the practice of teaching? Come do a PhD with us! (!deadline is March 9th!) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast? Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.

«What historians call the ‹perpetrator perspective,› evident in many Nazi photos and films, simply cannot be generated by AI. Instead, these images reveal the prompt behind them: visualizations of generic descriptions.» #GenericPastness www.jpost.com/opinion/arti...

Dette er altså selskapet som lager systemet ICE bruker til å arrestere toåringer. Tolletaten, PST (antar jeg), Forsvaret: Har dere virkelig tenkt over hva dere gjør? Var det ikke dette vi mente da vi sa «aldri igjen»?

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

I really admire Paris's efforts these past few years to provincialize the US tech sector such that we can begin to think around, beyond, and past it.

Confess I’m upping this at @techpolicypress.bsky.social one last time just for the lede: “Back last November, 87-year-old American novelist Joyce Carol Oates hurt the richest man in the world’s feelings by tweeting something mean about him.” techpolicy.press/grok-is-an-e...

NEW: I spoke with this bishop, who offered more context for his (entirely unprepared!) remarks. Turns out other bishops (e.g., in MN) agree with him, and he recalled the moment he told local priests to get their wills in order. “There was a little gasp,” he said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...

This is important. I fell for the headlines.