Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Speaking Truth to Power seems so 1960s. Now is the age of Speaking Sense to Nonsense. It isn’t any more effective, sadly.

Also tiktok, so relevant both sides of the Atlantic.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

“When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared on the scene in the last 3 years. And they experience confusion … when they discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades (…)” zenodo.org/records/1706... 11/🧵

Freedom of the press is a counterpower. As Kant and French revolutionaries knew, to claim the freedom of the press is to claim the power of the people, opposed to that of the State and able to monitor it, judge it and, ultimately, overturn it. @marioricciardi.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1716...

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

come vi dico spesso,i #criminaliDiGuerra occidentali, da #Bush a #Netanyahu godono di impunità assoluta (mentre quelli non-occidentali finiscono alla #CortePenaleInternazionale)perché sono protetti a tanti livelli,non solo quello penale,ma anche mediatico www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/a...

quando, per un'intera settimana, i media dominanti italiani non scrivono una riga su #SoldatiIDF in #decompressionePsicologica in Italia da atrocità di #Gaza,sotto copertura di turisti,protetti dalla #DIGOS, vuol dire che li proteggono a livello mediatico www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/a...

voi parlate con me, protetti dall'anonimato. Certo,meno di americani, inglesi, e perfino cittadini africani. Gli italiani hanno forte cultura dell'omertà. Ma le cose stanno cambiando. Ne sapete qualcosa? Parlatene con me in modo sicuro qui: stefaniamaurizi.it/it-contactme...

scusate se ve lo segnalo a scoppio ritardato,ma ero risucchiata Se l'avete perso come me, NON lo perdete ora: #RiccardoIacona e il suo team di #PresaDiretta hanno mandato in onda il discorso di Julian #Assange nell'ottobre scorso a #Strasburgo: www.raiplay.it/video/2025/0...

a week ago we revealed that over the last year, #IDFSoldiers have come to Italy for #PsychologicalDecompression, disguised as tourists and protected by the Italian police's unit,#DIGOS. No top Italian media has reported on this in the last week [English] www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/09/i...

do you have any restricted info on #IDFSoldiers touring #Italy (and more in general #InternationalCriminalCourt state parties) disguised as tourists and protected by the #police? Please consider to share it safely HERE: stefaniamaurizi.it/it-contactme... www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/09/09/i...

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

New blog post: 70 years of AI hype. Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia." blog.stephenturner.us/p/70-years-o...

“If we just swallow it uncritically, we’re no better than those universities signing up for shiny tools without asking hard questions. The real job is to figure out—does this actually help outcomes? Or is it just vendor hype with an AI sticker on it?” businessof.tech/2025/09/09/a...

Preprint, Private governments and AI (in Italian) On what conceptually links the genocidal project on the Gaza Riviera and so-called AI zenodo.org/records/1552...

LLM is software running on computers. Writing about 'humility', 'reasoning', 'honesty about uncertainty' and 'hallucinations' is an unacceptable anthropomorphisation and can only be intended to deceive users. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science openai.com/index/why-la...

"When we suggest AI is doing exactly what a person does, [...] It's like saying that good conversations are never possible, and that mechanistic reinterpretation and remixing of words is all there could ever be"

Oh, and of course let me replug this openletter.earth/open-letter-... 15/n

@djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy @karenhao.bsky.social @samhforbes.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social @mmitchell.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social so I hope you (and others I cannot find on here) know that our power is in numbers and — most importantly — shared values. 14/n

@hagenblix.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @danmcquillan.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @brianmerchant.bsky.social @andreasliesenfeld.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy @evelinaleivada.bsky.social ...without you this work is not possible... 13/n

And finally, huge thanks to other scholars in these areas too, whose work buttresses academia from all this too: @danielatafani.bsky.social @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @tjheffernan.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social @bpfaffenberger.bsky.social 12/n

Also very important ❣️ HUGE thank you to all my co-authors @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social; full list here for those not on bsky: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... — sorry if I did not tag anybody! 11/n

We end on "Machine Yearning for a Better Present" because why can't we dream? Why accept that universities are not places of learning? Nothing, except industry and their paid shills amongst us, force us to accept this & this force is not one of reason, but one of regressive values & profit. 10/n

7. the kinda appealing, but substantively indefensible, idea that somehow AI is different to other technology, like calculators, in a pedagogical context — but we totally ban a great deal of technology in the classroom. (Section 3.7 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 9/n

6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points. (Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 8/n

4. the disregard for the corrosive power of anthropomorphism, which is taken advantage of by industry to sell & steal our data, in the base case scenario, and in the worst to abuse and push vulnerable groups to dependance and worse. (Section 3.4 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 6/n

3. the obsession with denying and rewriting history, pretending AI only appeared in the last 3 years or that it has no history before the last few decades, etc. (Section 3.3 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 5/n

2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies. (Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 4/n

We also go through many arguments that can be used as counters to typical false frames forced upon us, such as: 1. the powerful nonsense that we as experts know nothing (Section 3.1 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 3/n

As seen in the table & figure above, we dissect and explain how terminology is abused and contorted by industry — terms like 'generative' or 'agentic' are not able to isolate what is being critiqued. We have seen this countless times before; flitting from one nonsense buzzword to another. 2/n

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

The US cannot hope to “win” the AI race—which is the stated policy of the Trump administration—without solving its minerals problem, writes Jocelyn Hong. The US’s dependence on China for critical minerals will always be its Achilles’ heel.

Abysmal reporting. Level 4 isn’t something you ‘achieve’, like a videogame. It’s something you design for. I’m watching through my fingers.

Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open course AI chatbot. Luckily, there is @dingemansemark.bsky.social ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far. osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr...

"It was not always technology out of control, but technology that simply did not work." www.techpolicy.press/the-silicon-...

My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias

"Tesla later said in court that it had the data on its own servers all along." Whoops! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."

“El proyecto de la IA [...] integra aspectos geopolíticos, militares y económicos, y, a través de la construcción de infraestructura, prevé una expansión territorial que recuerda los tiempos de esplendor del colonialismo” mastodon.social/@motorhueso eljuegodelacorte.nexos.com.mx/la-ia-como-c...

“Cada vez que alguien dice que la IA es "inevitable", un multimillonario aplaude” Eugenio Tisselli

"This is the [...] longest-lasting result of so much of the AI explosion" and its "entire business model: Get people addicted to the thing to the extent they can no longer function without it, and they will simply have to learn to live with it doing a bad job." defector.com/it-took-many...

" we must look the human-in-the-loop in the eyes"

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

" Indeed, it seems that one of the many offerings of generative AI is a kind of psychosis-as-a-service" @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @emilymbender.bsky.social

where is the “llms as power centralising enshittificators regressing society, knowledge, culture to the mediocre” position cuz that's where i'd fit