I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

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this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Computer Science university programmes are telling their students to rely on AI to write code (instead of learning how to do it). This is what happens when you rely too much on these tools www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why are straight white men overrepresented in positions of power? | Steve Phillips

If you want to understand the powerful backlash to AI, and why it's open season for refusing such projects, local data center movements are a great place to start. Especially since they've gone national.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. https://cnn.it/3PwIbeB

"The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Do you wanna guess what the kids call anything that feels fake, hollow, or emotionally unresonant? They call it AI.

My Feb 2026 Katz Lecture for @uofwa.uw.edu 's Simpson Center for the Humanities is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc... Unfortunately, the recording doesn't include the Q&A. Two things I remember from that:

Once dismissed as a non-reliable source, Wikipedia is now the only lighthouse left in this ocean of AI slop that the internet has become

It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.

It shall be done with all chat bots, but let's start with ChatGPT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This article that was going around the other day wasn't claiming that AI tools don't make workers more "productive" in some sense (they do self-report that they are getting more done!) but does suggest people end up working more while being less engaged & more stressed. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

No one has seriously said LLMs aren’t important or that AI is categorically junk. Some of us have said that there is something bigger than tech. It’s called power — governance, civic norms, etc — & refusal is absolutely part of how we think soberly about that power. Who has it & how they use it.

After all that's happened in the past week on X, I wonder: who is still using the platform? Why aren't people just leaving it massively, as in the wave when Musk took over?

What are we doing to the young generations? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If 2023 was the year AI slop was embraced by spammers and social media influencers, and 2024 was the year the slop era began in earnest, 2025 was when slop became embedded in our cultural institutions and social spheres. On the slop layer that we all must navigate now:

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

"As limited as the recognition of Palestine – a state with no territory or sovereignty – is, it is a step in the right direction, because it re-establishes the existence and the rights of Palestinians as individuals and as a collective" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I couldn't have said it with better words www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Applications are invited for the post of temporary 48-month Postdoctoral Research Associate within #UCD School of #Philosophy. Further details, along with a link to apply, may be found at www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n.... #PhilJobs #PhilSky #MoralPhilosophy #HistoryOfPhilosophy #BMoral #IrishResearch

I wrote about the fantasy that we can teach children how to use AI responsibly in schools when the adults outside them are not.

AI shaming | patreon.com/lubchansky

The question is: will he ever pay for his crimes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hadn't thought about this! Jobseeking process turning into another nightmare thanks to AI www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

I wonder if we shouldn't consider science at the edge of a new paradigm shift, now that it is no longer confined to human thought and rationality www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

As a journal editor, I agree 💯 with @catherinedevries.bsky.social. To me, the lit review is the single most important part of any paper. There are many ways to do one, and it is often hard to do well, but this essay gives some excellent advice: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter...

Alistair Bunkall "For the third day in a row dozens of Palestinians were shot dead as they went to get food" Israels aid distribution isn't about helping Palestinians survive. Its about keeping them in a permanent state of starvation, controlling them, moving them & killing them

For the third time in three days, scores of starving Palestinians have been unlawfully killed or maimed in southern Gaza en route to food distribution sites established by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Statement on the need for thorough and independent international investigation and accountability

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

There isn't one single day that this guy doesn't leave us speechless www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I had the great pleasure of talking with @neilselwyn.bsky.social about some of my research on AI and the future of higher education. Podcast at this link 👇

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

I want to give credit to Metz/Weise here for stating plainly that LLMs cannot decide that something is or isn't true or false. Stating the actual, real limitations of these models is necessary, and it's good to finally see this happening in the mainstream media without any throat clearing

#Blackmirror is happening

By Sean Carrol, the president of ANERA: "Israel is now openly exploiting aid as a tool of war; senior Israeli officials have declared what effectively is the intent to use starvation as a tactic to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages — a clear violation of international law."

This is so, so bleak, but I thought this part was actually kind of poignant: people are searching for meaning in a world that has sought to eliminate all the spaces where they can learn and discuss big questions. This is what you end up with. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

Report:Nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force reservists sign letter opposing Gaza War - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/reportnearly-1000-israeli-air-force-reservists-sign-letter-opposing-gaza

Teens are shouting out loud that they need the government to take action towards social media regulation. There's no other way out. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Some may choose to ignore the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, but they won't be able to normalise them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"systems designed in the name of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control are, and will always be, anti-democratic and inhumane"

The scary targeting of activists and migrant rights defenders continues. Also David Yambio, co-founder of @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social and close friend and ally, was targeted in a spyware attack. All solidarity with you @davidyambio.bsky.social!! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Well, now at least we can compare the answers different AI apps give to the same question. It could be a way to spot the biases generated by 'sensitive content' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've always thought that the danish hygge is something that all cultures have www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What the...? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This shows such a limited understanding of what humans can do and be. Technology will never replace empathy, critical thinking and the ability to deal with the unforeseen