Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”

I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"

If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Consider yourself warned - hal.science/hal-01816707 - issues.org/how-academic... - journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... - www.theguardian.com/science/2017... - astro.theoj.org/post/168- - royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

There should be a term for what it’s like to listen to long-standing podcasts and then one day getting to the Covid years. Such a weird experience. Somehow depressing and uplifting at the same time.

It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left. YALL, THE TITLE!!

The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol

Jeg har et debatindlæg i @jyllands-posten.dk i dag om at højrefløjen agerer imod danske værdier og kulturarv, når de forsøger at begrænse transpersoners rettigheder: jyllands-posten.dk/debat/breve/... Her kommer lige nogle highlights i en tråd 🧵

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.

Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

“Tailoring your assignments to make them difficult for AI tools often means not being able to ask the kinds of questions you want your students to answer, and not having them do the kind of work from which they would learn the most”

old Soviet joke: a man goes to a newsstand daily, picks up the paper, but never buys. one day the seller says “comrade, why don’t you ever buy a paper?” he replies, “I’m only looking for obituaries.” “but obituaries are at the back, not the cover!” he replies: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Teaching a clinical psych bachelor intro course. Most of my students learned that schizophrenia is 'due to a dopamin problem', depression is 'because of serotonin', and that the gut microbiome 'causes' anxiety disorders. I'm so disheartened about the state of psych textbooks.

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

For some reason, I’ve lately found myself approaching research articles less as an explorer and more as a consumer. Help, I seem to be stuck in this mode.

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

i'm followed by a lot of academics, so let me just get this one PSA out there: there is no tool which detects AI-generated text, and it is plausible that no such tool is possible. revision history, however, is more or less adequate proof of human generation.

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Medunderskriver på dette indlæg af @stineliv.bsky.social: Selvom intentionen er god, så risikerer et forbud mod sociale medier for børn under 18 at skubbe denne målgruppe ud i mørket - både hvad angår social støtte, juridisk sikkerhed og demokratiske rettigheder. jyllands-posten.dk/debat/kronik...

I made a "critical 4E" starter pack, of people who are sympathetic to 4E cognition—that is: embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended—cognition, but also interested in exploring its moral and social and political implications. See examples of work in the area! nickbrancazio.com/home/feminis...

Interesting article arguing that co-present phone use isn't inherently bad, but may have good, bad, or even neutral consequences depending on context. Just like we found in “On the Hermeneutics of Screen Time” (which isn't cited). One step closer to qual research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Well this is grim

NEW POST: What is the Pedagogy of the Depressed? It's what happens when you sit through three online "AI for educators" courses as I have recently. open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

ai bros are really giving the game away when they claim the tools are going to give us time for what matters but they are trying to eliminate art, relationships, music, grief, and mourning.

New article: On the Limits of AI in Education ... some of the big issues that need to be factored into our ongoing discussions around AI and education 🔓- pedagogikkogkritikk.no/index.php/nt...

Sad day for the phil-tech community. In just a year and a half, we have lost Bruno Latour (1947-2022), Ian Hacking (1936-2023), Albert Borgmann (1937-2023), and now Don Ihde (1934-2024). RIP Don.

Nanna Scheldes nye Zetland-artikel “Jeg har fået min søn tilbage igen: Sådan gik det, da mobilerne blev smidt ud af klasseværelset” er et interessant casestudie i resultatet af – og problemet med – en meget kraftig journalistisk vinkling. www.zetland.dk/historie/seW... (1/7)

Mastodon never really clicked, but here's to Blue Sky. Just went all-in and deleted my Twitter profile. It just got too bad. So it's either this now or I'll have to come crawling back to Facebook. Yikes.