I did not sign up to become a forensic expert in determining whether someone made shit up and by what means, but thanks to ChatGPT this is everyone’s part-time job now.

Stop the madness. Slow the fuck down. Cooperation >> competition. Goes for any endeavor: you don't have to be "better" to reap the benefits, you just have to actually love people and want to help them in collective solidarity, instead of wanting to beat them at some fucking game. #AcademicSky 🧪

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Dat behang ☠️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My favourite kind of project: turning my own old clothes (2 pairs of trousers in this case) into things for my kids. Sustainable clothing with instant history, & a dent in the mending pile :) (Pattern: the casually stylish Waves & Wild Sunday Pants)

I played a small role in this and am very proud :)

Op de fiets passeren zoon (6) en ik een groepje brallende studenten. Zoon, bloedserieus: "Ik begrijp er helemaal niks van. Ik denk dat ze misschien Orks praten."

Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social for writing this 👇 "In praise of “rip-off” degrees" | The Observer share.google/aoaUSb8msQ2F...

Help out a confused elder millennial. Why are all the youtubers doing this face in their video thumbnails? Is it coincidence or A Thing? Does it have a name?

In mijn Nederland gaan we gewoon allemaal lekker niet bij extreemrechts aan tafel zitten.

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

Stop firing and deskilling librarians and archivists please

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

Ik keek laatst even op academictransfer met zoekterm 'linguistics' en zo goed als alle aangeboden PhD- en postdocposities hadden iets te maken met AI. Ik hoop dat de bubbel barst voor mijn vakgebied zichzelf proactief heeft afgeschaft in de race naar onderzoekssubsidies. :(

Probeer maar eens aan een oude Griek, een middeleeuwer of een Shakespeare uit te leggen dat hervertellen een probleem zou zijn.

Dit is geen vredesplan. Dit plan is een plan voor de annexatie van Gaza als mandaatgebied door de VS en Israël. Het plan creëert alle omstandigheden waaronder Israël uiteindelijk de macht in Gaza kan overnemen en de genocide kan voortzetten. 🧵Het Gaza-plan van Trump

Welcome to Trump Tower Gaza City how can I help you

Attempting to escape from my day job with @sallypointer.bsky.social's course in prehistoric textiles but it turns out I cannot escape from my day job

Is er eigenlijk een #naaisky? In mijn nopjes met deze nieuwe regenbroek voor de jongste. Stof een restje softshell van Vinted, patroon van Waves & Wild. Laat de herfst maar komen! 🌧

Say it with me now: heel het migratiedebat is een racistisch frame. Beginnen over migratie als probleem is een uiting van latent racisme. Ook als het komt van 'nette' journalisten, middenpartijen of bestuurders. Dit is de grens die we collectief moeten trekken om de fascistische golf te breken.

Shoutout to the lovely dr Crit Cremers who realised this about me when I was still a (terrible) undergrad student & had A Talk with me that he probably doesn't even remember but was very important to me! Support your procrastinating students :)

Zoon (6), diep zijn spel: En ik scoor alweeeerrrr. Ik ben... de Scoordenaar.

Het dreigt misschien vergeten te worden maar een demonstratie voor ‘remigratie’ is ook zonder rellen hartstikke fout.

Vanaf november gaat LinkedIn jouw data gebruiken om AI modellen te trainen! Wil je dat niet vul dan dit formulier in: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi... #Privacy

Today I am choosing to believe that right-wing governments think there's an actual organisation called Antifa because, "The Man Who Was Thursday"-style, they established it themselves and its 'members' are just oblivious secret agents all the way down

As an Open Access librarian I cannot recommend Knowledge Commons enough. It's non-profit, scholar-led, and has great functionality - not just as a repository but for collaborating, reviewing, profiling yourself or your group/lab, etc. And your uploads will get a doi and be indexed in Google Scholar!

Toen ik op een morgen uit onrustige dromen ontwaakte, ontdekte ik dat ik in mijn bed in een terrorist was veranderd

A reminder to everyone that Knowledge Commons (@kcommons.bsky.social) exists. This nonprofit website combines a persistent open repository (KCWorks - works.hcommons.org) with the option to create profile pages (like hcommons.org/members/cktai/). But readers do not need accounts to download.

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Amelia Bedelia moment, we read the word “confidential” in a book, 8yo asked what it means. “It’s something secret, something to be kept private.” A few pages later the word “confidentiality ” popped up, I asked if she recalled what it meant. She said “you wouldn’t tell me, you said it was secret!”

They've sure gone downhill since the days of Morse and Lewis

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

We did what refugees are never supposed to do: we wrote a book that names and criticises the humanitarian agency that is meant to be our “saviours” For years, they wrote about us. Reports, statistics, projects. Now we have written about them—about UNHCR, IOM, and the EU….. 1/2

i hate this genre of calculatedly whimsical posts

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

academische vrijheid =/= vrijheid van meningsuiting

of sterker nog, eigenlijk heeft het er wel mee te maken, maar in de zin dat Baudet en Waling zelf grote voorstanders zijn van afnemende institutionele autonomie en politieke integriteit *omdat het allebei fascisten zijn*

Iedere keer dat infantiele idee dat universiteiten debatclubjes zijn.

Bizarre framing door de NOS. Door de daling van Nederland in de internationale index van academische vrijheid in een context van Baudet-quotes te presenteren, suggereert het NOS-artikel dat Baudets geklaag door objectieve rapporten wordt onderbouwd. 1/n

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

the thing thats so galling abt the whole “Charlie was just a sweet boy who loved good faith debate“ line is that he was the opposite! He took advantage of naive college kids who believed in good faith debate, baited them into emotional responses and posted them online to a rabid fanbase of rw haters

It's been a thoroughly grim week, and its a thoroughly grim time generally. So here's a thoroughly wholesome picture of two absolute legends to help rekindle your faith in the universe.

Ah, eindelijk wat gezond verstand in de hele discussie. www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...

Fellow crafters/academics, I may just have found the best use for old conference badges!

I love the power of a mother-daughter movie date to make you forget about ww3 for a few hours. And also how Freakier Friday just fully leans into Jake actually being way more into Tess all along.

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

Als je als journalist niet kritisch bent richting rechts-radicale politiek dan faciliteer je dat. Iedere morele en ethische grondslag valt dan weg onder het werk dat je doet. Je bent een meeloper geworden.

This happens to be about Nigel Farage but I hate how this is basically relevant to national politics everywhere

In Nederland leeft nog steeds het idee dat Wilders alleen een probleem is voor zijn favoriete zondebokken: Marokkanen, moslims en links. Maar het besef wil maar niet doordringen dat extreemrechts een directe bedreiging vormt voor de democratische rechtsstaat, en dus een gevaar is voor ons allemaal.