Happy New Year!

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Amazing 😳 digital archaeology How AI’s annoying blandness “accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire”

Der hervorragende Schweizer ÖV war das Resultat politischer Weitsicht, vieler staatlicher Investments und einer Service-Public-Mentalität. All das fehlt heute. Vor allem in diesen vollkommen vergifteten deutschsprachigen Bullshitdiskurs.

"Rein statistisch ist die Kantonsratsfraktion der SVP-Schwyz einer der gefährlichsten Orte des Landes, gerade für Frauen. Sie finden das Beispiel empörend und willkürlich? Sie haben vollkommen Recht." cedricwermuth.ch/der-gefaehrl...

4hs to go to back this project: wemakeit.com/projects/res...

Happy ACAB Day!

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

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In der Schweiz gibt es Armut. Zur Wahrheit gehört aber auch, dass die durchschnittlichen Schweizer:innen zu den reichsten zehn Prozent der Weltbevölkerung zählen. Und das zeigt sich dann an der Urne. Der Leitartikel von @lukastobler.bsky.social

La majorité du Conseil national vote un changement de loi qui permettra l’exportation de matériel de guerre dans des conflits armés internationaux voire dans des conflits internes. Business first. Une tache sur la neutralité de la Suisse et l’engagement de promotion de la paix. Référendum en vue..

Same and same. Us haters should all come out together at the same time to show our strength in numbers. I live, breathe and practice my hatred of AI as a vocational calling. It gives me purpose.

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Comment freiner cette croissance effrénée? 1️⃣ En rétablissant un prix adéquat des billets de trains et d'avion. 2️⃣ En finançant le train, pour offrir des alternatives efficaces: 80% des destinations au départ de la Suisse sont en Europe! [5/]

But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit. And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.

UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE

I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.

Zum ChatGPT-"Interview" in der Sonntagszeitung. Es hat mich unglaublich fest aufgeregt. Vielleicht merkt man es. Ich poste aus Platzgründen meinen Rant von Linkdin als Screenshot. Zum "Interview" (Paywall): www.tagesanzeiger.ch/hey-chatgpt-...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Die kommende #Abstimmung über die Initiative Für eine soziale Klimapolitik – steuerlich gerecht finanziert ist wieder mal ein Lehrstück für hegemonische Dominanz 1/

Take note, #Switzerland

Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

#NewBookDay! The upside of reviewing two book manuscripts in the first month of the teaching term… 🤩

The new "the dog ate my homework".

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well

Just to pre-empt any Amazon/sales bullshit taking place this month.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

New article! I wrote about Mamdani's win and the NYC I once lived in and loved: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...

Allegra editor Faduma Abukar Mursal is speaking at UniSG/online on Nov. 10th, 10.15 to 11.45 CET — "Ordinary confinement: warfare, displacement, and urban marginality" Zoom ID 655 9084 8325 | Passcode: etalks

back this innovative & artistic knowledge co-production project between Switzerland and Cameroon: wemakeit.com/projects/res...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha They could borrow some money to pay all the artists and writers whose stuff they’ve nicked while they’re at it.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

Big win for #anthropology and #AfricanStudies, too, tonight! #NYC

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

#gathering! Online launch of "Alternatives to Extractivism. A Manifesto of Propositions and Unresolved Questions" THU, 20 Nov, 12.00-13.30 CET, for a presentation and discussion on the manifesto's contents. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Coastal contact zones reveal how sea and land dynamics shape climate risk. Making lived experiences of adaptation visible to funders and planners is key to more just urban transitions. By @jonschu.bsky.social 📖 www.ijurr.org/article/cont...

Always absolutely mind blowing how much of the deficit & national debt is framed around not wanting to incur costs for the future generations but our gerontocracy would rather incur trillions of climate debt than spend a nickel on cutting carbon.

Well, this explains everything about me (1979 baby).

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz

Radio 4 interviewed some folks on AI yesterday and one proponent rolled out the usual 'people are scared of new technology' nonsense. People aren't scared of new tech. They're scared of the devaluation and loss of jobs, which is happening. They're scared of thirsty data centres. This isn't hard.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

"Die Bahn muss dem Gemeinwohl dienen und darf nicht auf Gewinnmaximierung ausgerichtet sein"! @bahnfueralle.bsky.social stellt das Konzept "Zukunftsbahn für alle" vor und hat u.a. ein Ticketsystem entwickelt, das auf einen Bierdeckel passt. @deutschebahn.com #Verkehrswende rdl.de/beitrag/die-...