“Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire (or the material conditions that shape desire)” Claire Wilmot @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This. #bibliosky

People think it is content which endures; but it is form which enables content to endure. (Ben Okri)

In 3.7: "LLMs do not improve one's writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one's driving ability." Love this! I tell my physics students, watching a football game doesn't make them better at playing, and watching me do examples isn't enough to build their problem solving abilities.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

(Hallusinasjon brukes som en metafor for det som gjør at mening i output avviker fra etablert sann informasjon om noe)

Herregud, nei, hallusinasjon er ikke et fagbegrep for løgn eller bløff.

Herregud, nei, det er ikke derfor.

Oh goody. Our institution is moving to Canvas in autumn 2026 and will be moving all our old courses onto the platform from Blackboard during the spring term. Waste not want not, I guess🙃

I'm not bothered about inbox zero, I'm more worried about BrowZine notifications zero. Apparently there have been 999+ new articles published in the journals I follow since I last checked back in June(ish). But today I marked them all as read ✅😵‍💫

Har du eller noen du kjenner planer om å søke doktorgradsstipend? Da kan det være noen tips å hente i siste utgave av Campuslivet (som jeg forøvrig jobber med å flytte til en ny plattform...). campuslivet.substack.com/p/sa-du-tror...

We wrote a thing about AI, fascism, and why framing this as "hype" is too apolitical www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hy...

Humaniora er studiet av det menneskeskapte. Data og teknologi er også noe menneskeskapt. "Humaniora gir oss innsikten i hvorfor og hvordan teknologi bør brukes. Uten denne balansen risikerer vi at kulturarven reduseres til datasett, løsrevet fra de menneskelige erfaringene som gir den verdi."

Two of my leading lights in conversation 🤩

Klart språk fra Gustav, i hvert fall 🙌 www.universitetsavisa.no/anniken-loe-...

I spend most of my day helping academics writie their first book, which means I've seen a lot of different approaches and also developed some principles to make the process as pain-free as possible :). I share what I've found to be most useful in this podcast episode : rightprose.co/podcast/star...

Del og spre ordet 💚 facebook.com/events/s/osl...

The black box of academic publishing is dark inside indeed - and I've not even mentioned Manucript Central yet - but it also contains other academics doing their best as editors to steward your work with care and respect.

Kjetil Rolness, den liksomintellktuelle med spalteplass i Aftenposten, lefler med farlig retorikk nå. På sin substack kaller han nå helt vanlige muslimer i Norge for islamister (det begrepet kan vi si mye om), og i lys av drapet på Tamima, og tidligere angrep utført høyreekstremister 1/4

Utmøtet (adj.). Tilstand når man har sittet i så mange og lange møter så mange dager på rad at man ikke lenger kan komme på en eneste kommentar forkledd som et spørsmål.

Så gøy å holde workshop om dette i dag! Elsker å fremme god forskningsdatahåndtering og bruk av samlinger som data i forskning! #bibliosky #arkivsky Er også alt for fornøyd med slide nr 2 her. Brukt alt for lang tid på å få den enkel nok.😅

This is a pretty eye-opening thread.

Wonderful insights and a bonus - a link to this amazing article theconversation.com/how-two-wome...

A breaking point for me, in terms of my own career pathway, was reviewing dossiers for a few men at elite R1's and realizing: their "research output" was no better than mine, but their teaching load was less than half, and I'd done four lifetimes' more service. That's when I considered quitting.

Klar for 18 timer med breiflabb 🌦️☔️🤗

Don’t know who made this but thank you

Obviously the answer to this question is no, but more importantly, I will not take a question like this seriously until it is demonstrated to me that the makers of LLM technology, and their boosters in business and the media, have even the slightest concern for the suffering of actual human beings.

So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al

It's a wage depression tool - and from the perspective of the ledger book, it doesn't matter whether you double someone's productivity, or you cut their wages in half. Both half your labor cost per unit output, and capitalism is systematically unable to distinguish those..

«Models don’t ‹generate› any new meanings but enclose and commodify those that already exist, working to freeze the embedded social relations in whatever turns out to be the most profitable forms for the interests that own and promote ‹AI.›» @robhorning.bsky.social on #genAI as commodified language

This 👇

The problem isn't that our teaching is antiquated or in need of reform. The problem is the corporate transformation of the university. Hence pizza theory.

Svært godt oppsummert om den *virkelige* sløsingen med offentlige ressurser i Norge: www.nrk.no/ytring/hit-f...

Det er noen år siden jeg var med å drive en blogg. Nå tenker jeg å gjøre det igjen. Nå i begynnelsen blir det nok mest om det som opptar meg faglig, med kanskje noe lengre tankerekker enn jeg får plass til her. Her er en lenke, og den første posten: stefanfisherhoyrem.com

Yes 🔥 "Men at maskiner kan være fabelaktige til å komputere betyr ikke at de kan etterligne nevroner som sådan. Nevroner gjør både komputerende og narrative operasjoner; komputerende maskiner gjør kun komputering."

It all comes down to control🙃

Must have lost my invite!

In my experience of reporter lingo, "wide-ranging" is to "delusional" as "tired and emotional" is to "plastered".

Er det bare meg som har blitt vilkårlig kastet ut som abonnent på @aftenposten.no i det siste? Riverty-roboten deres klarte visst ikke å trekke penger gjennom avtalegiroen og så sendte den *papirfaktura* for å purre. Ellers klarer de jo å ringe eller tekste når det skal pushes nye produkter 🫠

Why oh why do I have to reinvent a course every single time I teach it? #AcademicSky

Extraordinary to roll out the red carpet for plagiaristic, energy-guzzling AI companies while telling ordinary citizens to save electricity

This will be interpreted as a way to "make them essential" or something versus what it really is: effectively a free trial for a year so they can juice user numbers and claim to be "selling into the public sector." This means very little otherwise

“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.” Yes. Everywhere.

Different things work for different people. There are many ways you can use very short amounts of time for writing. The only way to figure out if and how 15-minute writing sessions will work for you, is to experiment!

…I’m also struck that they — in their brilliance, creativity, competence, and ethical commitment — represent what the academy *could be*, but it’s burning them all out, exhausting their goodwill. Their obligations are now to each other, rather than to the industry for which they’ve sacrificed.

I have some academic lady friends I’ve known for 20+yrs. This industry can be so cold, competitive, and selfish, but these women are so kind, generous, steadfast, and fun. We’ll sometimes get busy and go months without chatting, then reconnect as if no time has passed. I’m so grateful for them…

This great piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social confirms my realisation (thnx to @bildoperationen.bsky.social ‘s Platform Realism article) that Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick (2020) is the most useful tool for understanding the way we (apparently have to) live now. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...