i got so mad about this article that i blogged about it aftermath.site/ai-romance-n...

Here's a very cool publication that I had a chance to be a small part of!! www.routledge.com/Feminist-Eth...

American friends who can travel, please come. I miss you. Joy, Care, and Resistance Forty-Third International Social Philosophy Conference University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada July 16-18, 2026 cswip.ca/call-for-pap...

The @usdot.bsky.social, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.

Our “is there a doctor on the airplane?” moment has come at last

I joined the @cyborggoddess.bsky.social podcast to talk about how cultural assumptions, power, and interpretation shape the way robots are built, deployed, and understood, and what that reveals about us. cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...

Behind schedule, but S4E6 of Cyborg Goddess is up!! I interview @jgcarpenter.com about her fascinating research into our relationships with robots, and something she calls 'the human gaze'. Get it here, or wherever you get your podcasts. #feminism #robots cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e6...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Yesterday I overheard a conversation where one person advised another to "AI search it" when neither of them knew the answer to the question before them. These statistical bullshit tools are advertised as powerful sources of knowledge. People accept them as such. And the consequences are deadly.

Tomorrow on the podcast: @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social close the book (and press play) on CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY. This week we're checking out Lena Dunham's 2022 film adaptation, starring Bella Ramsey and Andrew Scott!

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I worked for a big academic publisher and right before I quit they stopped copyediting/proofreading to cut costs. The editors are acquisitions editors; they are not checking citations, and there's no one down-chain to do it in most cases. That's how you get slop citations.

this piece by @marcusolang.substack.com is a must read “There’s a growing community (cult?) of self-proclaimed AI detectives, who have designed and detailed what they consider tells, and armed their followers with a checklist of robotic tells.”

NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions. More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Who could have seen this coming? (Literally, everyone working in this space)

I want my AI minister to talk about the desperate need we have for regulation, and to talk about safety in an era where chatbots are literally encouraging suicide and other harmful behaviour, but I guess that's not what we're getting. . .

To be 'fair' the Amazon AI can't lie. As Henry Frankfurt argues, lying entails knowing the truth and intentionally hiding it from others in order to deceive them. AI doesn't do that. It bullshits. It doesn't know or care what the truth is. It just spouts stuff that sounds good.

Grave of the Fireflies. I loved it. It broke me. I can never watch it again.

On news that Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, resurfacing this on worst case scenarios and what to do about it from Daniel Barcay, Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology.

"In October, based on OpenAI’s own estimates, WIRED reported that “every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis.” "

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Here’s my story about Kitimat’s new motto of “it’s not for everyone”, which originally was going to be a ranking of all 161 municipal slogans in British Columbia until my bosses were like “justin this video is 14 minutes long” and “did you just make of slogans for half of these”

New essay is up (no paywall): "The Work of Being Read." It’s about how our behavior shifts when we know AI is watching, interpreting, & scoring us, often incorrectly, but w/ real consequences at home, work, and school. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Please spread the word. We can show Premier Smith and her caucus that she's badly miscalculated and force this bill down.

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...

@katemanne.bsky.social If you haven't seen this, I think you should. Entitled indeed!!

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Any university that is not quadrupling its Gender Studies budget to figure out what is going on with all the right wingers apparently sincerely using terms like “alpha” are really missing an opportunity.

"Meanwhile, Common Crawl’s executive director, Rich Skrenta, has publicly made the case that AI models should be able to access anything on the internet. “The robots are people too,” he told me, and should therefore be allowed to “read the books” for free." WHAT?!!!!

Finally

Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social . bit.ly/48FNcJj

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

We are burning the planet, exploiting labour, leaving content moderators traumatized, so we can hand over our most intimate fantasies to tech bros. . .

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

"“Speed eclipses ethics,” he said. “The AI safety promise collapses the moment safety threatens profit.”

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social, a researcher at @dairinstitute.bsky.social. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

S4E5 of Cyborg Goddess is out today! In this episode I talk with Dr. Nicole Ramsoomair about the promises of convenience that LLM's offer, and what that convenience is costing us users. #ChatGPT #feminism Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts: cyborggoddess.opened.ca/podcast/s4e5...

"Kids, the 80s sucked. . . everything smelled of cigarette smoke." Yup, basically. And the 2000's sucked, too. I went to a club in the early 2000's and got a burn on my arm from someone dancing waving their hands around wildly while holding a lit cigarette. www.youtube.com/shorts/0dPSA...

OMG!!

It's weird to me that a guy I first learned about through his role on "The Man Show," which ended each episode with a pretty sexist segment called "girls bouncing on trampolines" is now someone whose return to television I am celebrating. But here we are!!

Oxford has fallen. Repeat: Oxford has fallen… 🤖 #HigherEducation #academia

I'm interviewed in this. I haven't seen a steep drop off but I've seen a smaller one and most glaringly a change in the scope of work people want to hire me for, because they think them AI generating work ahead of me saves time (it doesn't) and that I can quickly tough that work up (I mostly can't)

Creative production is one of the few arenas that generative AI systems can actually approach meaningful levels of full automation, if only because the quality of such content is subjective, human. Spend some time with these stories, I urge you. Understand what's happening, so we can fight back.