it seems the only rationale for jumping on the genai bandwagon is the fabricated fomo (not actual benefit to research) and this is not surprising tbh. the ai industry has poured millions into setting much of the ai "potential benefit” discourse

Pogroms.

(thing i saw circulating recently) (sorry)

What can we expect from Epstein's MIT Media Lab? www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apo...

I need to really start asking folks where they think everyone is going when they say they're afraid of being left behind, and whether that's actually a place they want to go to.

@royalsociety.org I hear you’re blocking people calling on you to cancel Elon Musk’s fellowship. His presence besmirches your name. He’s a danger to British democracy. Reconsider.

The 'resist' entry is after the 'profit' one in the dictionary. www.codejoy.org/courses

I use bibtex & biblatex so not manually, but I get why somebody would and — obviously! — this isn't some unknown reason. Many journals also typeset them manually. People in fields that take reading seriously (a lot of AI adjacent fields have given up; look up their levels of cryptogyny) get it.

As always, -the unearned confidence of the tech promoter; huge claims about people across disciplines are fine (but they'd better be nice) -a failure to imagine others' work other than as mere labour -a refusal to consider counterevidence; better to delete and repeat -"who's the *real* leftist?"

What these (accidental or not) boosters are claiming is just mishmash and sophistry — stay vigilant because their ignorance is weaponised and harmful to science. The point of my paper is nuanced however but this is the basic takeaway if you don't have time to check the pdf. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

When you see people reason about AI and especially if they say we can't understand it or that it is a black box, remember: They likely have fallen for a variety of hype, don't know themselves how these models work (even tho we do) or don't know what "understanding" in science and engineering is. 1/2

I log on here to poast very seriously

1. I am not an AI researcher 2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about. 3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents" medium.com/@emilymenonb...

Absolutely done with any and all of the excuses. If you have a genuine, real and material reason to be on that site then **your job is to stop that being a reason**, not to just passively succumb to it and do nothing at all Because otherwise: YOU JUST PROLONG THE HARM IT CAUSES

'There are voices from Palestine there but not elsewhere' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Global south communities are huge there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website 'Political influencers are there' Fine: help them get off the white nationalist website

THERE IS NOTHING TECHNOLOGICALLY UNIQUE ABOUT X. It is a website where you post short sentences with images, videos and hyperlinks attached. IT IS NOT MAGICAL AND SPECIAL, YOU CAN DO THAT IN FOURTEEN FUCKING MILLION OTHER PLACES.

I'm screaming into the void here: anyone still wedded to doing volunteer labor for Elon Musk on a website that literally runs on a fossil-fuelled data centre choking a community Memphis that also includes child abuse material as a DESIGNED FEATURE - they cannot be reached. They're done. They're gone

The authors probably created the 'slopcast' "Join AI literacy consultant Jordan Mroziak to explore how AI can actually amplify creativity, curiosity, and community in middle school" bsky.app/profile/amle...

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.

You pissed off a bunch of shysters. (That is a GOOD thing.) Unfortunately, the shysters are in bed with institutionalised power. They're now trying to make you look stupid by misrepresenting and wilfully misunderstanding you. It's the oldest trick in the book. Anyone with half a brain sees it.

I’m assuming it’s much worse than even a few years ago now, too, since most of the fascists have taken their masks off. Values flow down the org chart.

A torment nexus to tell people they looked away from the screen for 0,1 seconds and thus lost their bonus of 5USD per decade.

The A.I. parrot requires 40 barrels of sunflower seeds for every query.

Epstein's MIT Media Lab? www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apo...

Der Artikel beschreibt ein neu identifiziertes Phänomen namens "AI brain fry". Mentale Erschöpfung durch intensiven Gebrauch von KI-Systemen, die die kognitive Belastungsgrenze überschreitet. Es geht dabei nicht um Burnout-Mechanismen, sondern um kognitive Überlastung durch KI-Interaktion selbst.

I think a better world is possible, and I’ve been in more functional organizations, but it starts at the top and with the operating model. If you have functional management with long term strategy, there’s a hope, but so many orgs are just fucked at the core.

But then once everyone confronted the true enormity of the situation and what it would take to accomplish real change, well that’s just a bummer.

I was using frameworks we’d developed in our consulting practice which are really good at “stop wasting time solving the wrong problem” which was what every organization was doing, treating bias as an interpersonal rather than a structural problem. (All the mandatory training making things worse etc

Never thought about it like that, but I think ‘rando’ [affectionate] is the clearest description of my academic background.

A few years ago I was doing gender bias workshops for tech companies until I started taking too much psychic damage. At one (major) company, after hearing some of the stories, I was like quit, please get out of here and work anywhere else.

I gave a keynote this week here event.sdu.dk/cultures/con... with the theme: Cultures, Bodies and Technologies on "What is AI, and why is it harmful?" but I also pre-recorded a copy in case I was ill — enjoy (I guess 🥲)!

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

The Irish State Examinations Commission used an AI generated image in one of the English papers for the 2026 leaving cert (Irish college entrance exams) www.examinations.ie/archive/exam...

There are no black boxes in STEM, humanities etc. disciplines, only in cultural belief systems.

A mutual shared an informative post with this image and my eye-beam loving ass saw this and thought “BUG MAGNIFICATION BEEEEEAM!”

Enough of my tomfoolery and buffoonery, here is the informative post, bsky.app/profile/oliv...

... that exposing it to pertinent data will make it self-adjust towards practically interesting activities. Fundamentally, nothing more "mysterious" than cellular automata, which even though (often) deterministic and self-contained can produce unexpected results.

I'm in the impression that there's a general misunderstanding of emergent complexity and what it implies. As far as I understand it, an ANN is a system inspired by (not necessarily emulating) biological processes that aims to make complex behaviors emerge from simple elements with the expectation...

Thanks to @eam0.bsky.social & the @iltasky.bsky.social crew for a fantastic ILTA conference in Dublin last week! to all of the zine workshop participants! ❤️ & to the fab critical tech keynote speakers @abeba.blacksky.app @discoursology.bsky.social @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

Reminding myself now to create a testing pipeline for eurocentric gendered speech patterns in local models across subjects. This thought may be currently informed by exhaustion and melatonin.

Oh cool, so chatbots train you to do the exact opposite of critical thinking. “Sycophancy is a safety issue”

Thinking about Sam Altman talking about GPT-5 being like having a team of "PhD-level experts in your pocket", brings to mind the extent to which academic expertise is now woman-coded. Sure, much of STEM goes the other way, but thinking about research into the dynamics of occupational segregation.

Another useful angle is this to help see it too bsky.app/profile/oliv...

When you see people reason about AI and especially if they say we can't understand it or that it is a black box, remember: They likely have fallen for a variety of hype, don't know themselves how these models work (even tho we do) or don't know what "understanding" in science and engineering is. 1/2

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

elon musk provoking shankill road loyalists into conducting an anti-immigrant pogrom reminds me of how loyalist compounds in northern ireland fly apartheid south african, rhodesian (and more recently) israeli flags. there's a global alliance of settler-colonialist terrorists, musk is part of it.

Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant. "A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder