However, be aware that your post, once posted, is most likely already on a third-party server owned by a three-letter agency, a foreign government, a private company, or an academic institution. bsky.social/about/blog/5...

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

"while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions."

Your instance of ChatGPT helped you clarify some ideas on a thorny problem (perhaps related to AI itself..) that you'd been thinking about for ages, but had never quite managed to get over that last hump. Now, however, with its help (and encouragement), you've arrived at truly profound conclusions.

"Practically the only people still pretending scaling LLMs is “all you need” are grifters."

"In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

My new book Artificial Media (Springer) is out. But beyond announcing, I ask: what does it mean to create with machines? In Mirrors of Thought I explain why artificial media is not just a trend, but a paradigm shift in creativity and culture. open.substack.com/pub/mirrorso...

"If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”

"People who attend the “March for Australia” rallies will almost certainly be marching alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis," "Politicians from all sides should be at the counter-protests this weekend to demonstrate that neo-Nazis have no place in Australia." @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

A great review of all the global collaborative efforts in LIS Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another wonderful open access early online article from JALIA www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza. Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Owl Core. Good Morning Blue Sky

A great paper by Professor Spencer Lilley on decolonising Māori collections. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An important reflection by Dr. Waseem Afzal at Charles Sturt University www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Have a look at the early online version of this JALIA article with its gorgeous photos of some amazing libraries! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very much looking forward to this event we’re putting on at UTS, with @uts-sps.bsky.social’s own @archiethomas.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️👏

"That is the real risk: not that machines become people, but that we forget—we were never what we think we are."

Griffith University’s Indigenous Research Unit (IRU) and Library collaborated to develop the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research guide libraryguides.griffith.edu.au/researching-... #libraries

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon 🔗 www.404media.co/researchers-...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

A PhD opportunity in my university. hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...

This is tomorrow! Wednesday. And we'd love you to join us as we talk First Nations storytelling and publishing and Tasma's breathtaking novel I AM NANNERTGARROOK. It's online and free! With thanks to the Australian Society of Authors.

There’s a growing sector of jobs that should not need to exist: fixing errors made by AI, redoing shoddy work by AI, and correcting mistakes by people who used AI stupidly. In other words, it’s people doing the work but now with extra steps. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception. Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs. Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

Identity is a complicated thing. Who you are is a co-created, co-currated experience. Indian-Ugandans are Africans, & the only person who didn't think so was Uganda's former brutal dictator Idi Amin. www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

For LLMs to truly make the leap, not just in producing coherent texts, but in creating meaningful interactions with emotional impact and presence, a new space must be opened. This space is neither technical nor grammatical. It's communicational.

When Cloudflare Closes the Gates to AI

⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted again today. The eruption lasted from ~5am to ~3:40pm. This is its 10th eruption in the last 3 years, most recently the 6th July 2024. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the mud volcano temple caretaker. Best with sound on!

Here’s something absolutely cooked about books in Australia https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heres-something-absolutely-cooked-about-books-in-australia #auspol

If you have a copy of the Australian Academic and Research Libraries (AARL) 23 (3), 1992, Confronting the Future: University Libraries in the Next Decade hiding in your shelf, please contact [email protected] as we are looking for it. AARL is one of the precursor journals to JALIA.

For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites

Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #TechBillionaires #FutureOfHumanity #InnovationRisks

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

“The great cities of the world have great museums and libraries. They have these places ... that really knit together the stories of the city, but are also places for community.” Caroline Butler-Bowdon spoke to Tim Williams of The Grimshaw Podcast, about libraries and museums shaping cities.

Worth watching, or listening to on your podcast app. And its not just about jobs. Six ways in which AI can harm humanity.

"We’re at a point where this is not predominantly a technological problem. It’s political. It’s really about power and who gets the power to shape the incentive structure."

So true! Misinformation Research Matters! scienceupfirst.com/misinformati... via @scienceupfirst.bsky.social

How will AI affect the way we treat each other? In "hybrid systems" of humans and machines, how will AI (whether simple or complex, like LLMs) affect not just human-machine interactions, but human-human interactions in the presence of machines? Might AI change human social and ethical behavior? 1/

How Human Presence Shapes Dialogical AI

The Invisible Machines That Shape Our Lives New substack post: mirrorsofthought.substack.com/p/from-the-t...

Inspired by the documentary The Thinking Game, I explore, in this text, how Demis Hassabis’s journey reveals a unique fusion of brilliance, humility, and vision. A story that challenges us to think beyond the obvious.. mirrorsofthought.substack.com/p/the-thinki...

My main conclusion after reading AI Con from Emily Bender.

In this new text, I explore how large language models function as an amplifying dialogical mirror, mirnot merely reflecting our words but transforming them, revealing perspectives we may not have considered, and enriching our understanding of ourselves. mirrorsofthought.substack.com/p/the-dialog...

My latest article, 'Beyond the AI Hype: A Critical Look,' dives into the prevailing discourse from figures like Eric Schmidt and Dario Amodei, challenging the notion of an 'underhyped' AI and the illusion of a purely statistical reality. mirrorsofthought.substack.com/p/beyond-the...

What's driving Meta, Amazon and Microsoft's atomic investment? The extreme power demands of the AI boom are sending companies scrambling for power: https://tcrn.ch/44fXhd5?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_