OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Huh. What if the US used AI to lan the war on Iran and that's why the strategy sucks so extraordinarily? Could one use FOIA to find out? garymarcus.substack.com/p/in-the-ira...

A programmer reading the LLM-generated code from the Claude code leak: “one thing that is clear from reading a lot of LLM code (..) is that it is big on the form of what it loves to call "architecture" even if in toto it makes no fucking sense.” neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Skeive i akademia sensurerer seg sel på grunn av trakassering, faglig delegitimering knyttet til kjønn, seksualitet og skeivt forskningsinnhold. Det er helt på trynet, akademia har noen idealer de ikke lever opp til.

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Sondre Bolland is a PhD in didactics of computer science. He tested which of the department’s courses could be passed by total ChatGPT use - unfortunately 100% of the first semester course he tested and 92% of later courses. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7QLR...

Filosof Amund Ove Børdahl viser at «ytterligere kommentarer» i årets studentevalueringer av LES100 på UiB tilsvarer Georg Brandes sin dom i 1903: folk leser ikke lenger.

I’m speaking at this event on AI in education today. Prorector for education, Sigrun Eliassen, kicks us off by reminding us that the point of education isn’t products (essays, exams) but learning. www.uib.no/ai/181758/ui...

Im wearing my invisibility sweater in Morgenbladet’s long article about surveillance and Meta’s glasses. www.morgenbladet.no/kultur/overv...

If you search “when it happens” on bsky you’ll see a collaborative story about a future celebration. Is there a word for when this happens without the explicit hashtag of #metoo? Subtweeting? Algospeak only intelligible to humans to avoid algorithms picking up on it. Always plausible deniability.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

This is utterly jaw-dropping. A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils. www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Final panel at #CDNequinox is on research as a creative practice, with Jason Nelson, Alinta Krauth and Lina Harder.

Next up at #CDNequinox the Algofolk project explains how they collect and document algorithmic folklore yakng an Obsidian Vault.x @notsaved.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social Hanna Lauvli and Yagmur.

Next is the AI STORIES panel, which is also about AI characters! Hanna-Riikka Roine presents on affirmative narrative, a concept developed with @annesigrid.bsky.social and me.

Next up at #CDNequinox are @domford.bsky.social and Haoyuang Tang on AI-powered NPCs in games. Dom will talk about the promise of AI characters and Haoyuang more about the actuality.

Second #CDNequinox panel: Sérgio Roxo, Hannah Ackermans and Ella Holi talk about digital narratives representing or negotiating being in “the wrong body” from the point of view of queerness, disability and fatness.

Hanna Lauvli inyroduces the first panelists: Tom Legierse and @mikkomerilainen.bsky.social are speaking about Men, Masculinities and Feminist Gaming Futures.

Eid Mubarak and happy equinox as well! Here at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social we are celebrating with a one-day conference to share and discuss our research. CDN director @scottrettberg.bsky.social kicks the event off.

Today is the equinox, when day and night are of equal length for everyone on Earth. And it’s Eid! At @cdn-bergen.bsky.social we celebrate with a daylong conference to present and discuss our research. I can’t wait to learn more and see new connections. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Lukas Wilde wrote a paper I found really useful for thinking about AI chatbots called the ELIZA effect vs the character effect, and is now working on a book on AI characters with Jan-Noël Thon. Our conversation about AI charavger is the newest CDN podcast episode: podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/o...

Are you interested in being a guest researcher at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in the spring of 2027? Apply for our Fellowship! Funds cannot cover salary, but cover extra costs associated with spending a semester abroad for people with PhDs in full time jobs. Deadline 15 May. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

So many ways in which LLMs generate work for me as an academic. The journal editor hours skyrocketed because of tons of bullshit submissions and because of checking not-so-obviously-bullshit ones Reviewing and marking now involves checking every single doi All the negotiations around LLM 🧵

It's my turn to cook Wednesday lunch at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social today. I'm making carrot and lentil soup with bread from Godt Brød. Taking turns cooking for each other been one of the best community-building things we've done at CDN. Sharing homemade food is good for us. Oh, we have talks too!

If you're here at UiB, Regine Paul is discussing this book at the Comparative Political Economy seminar next Monday (23/3) at 14:15-15:30 in the 2nd floor meeting room in Christies gate 17. Please read the first two chapters if you attend the meeting. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Looking forwards to discussing LLMs as Derridian différance engines in the Critical AI Theory Reading Group in an hour! We have a listserv now if you're interested: lists.uib.no/list.uib.no/...

CDN welcomes applications for Marie Curie (MSCA) postdocs with projects related to digital narrative. MSCA postdocs are EU-funded two-year postdoc fellowships open to applicants from anywhere in the world. Read more here: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

A judge in London tossed out witness testimony after discovering the man was receiving coaching through a pair of smartglasses.

Last day to signup for CDN Equinox, our twice-a-year conference present research from the Center for Digital Narrative! This Friday here in Bergen :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Podcast om KI-venner med Philip Thingbø Mlonyeni, filosof på UiO som skrev PhD-avhandling om hvordan teknologi påvirker sosiale relasjoner. podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/d...

Bra kronikk fra Teknologirådet om risikoer ved "KI-venner" - ChatGPT og de andre praterobotene knytter oss til dem med emosjonelle bånd, og det gjør oss svært lett å manipulere: www.dn.no/innlegg/ki/k...

If you're a researcher in Norway who is concerned with the uncritical implementation of LLMs in universities, please consider signing the petition Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke and Holger Pötzsch at UiT have written. I wrote more about the background on my blog. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...

Maria Danielsen, Knut Ørke og Holger Pötzsch har skrevet et opprop om KI i høyere utdanning som jeg nettopp har signert. Signér du også om du ønsker en mer faglig og kritisk diskusjon av innføring av KI på universiteter og høgskoler! Oppropet skal sendes til Khrono. nettskjema.no/a/602234#/pa...

We all joined Orkut in January 2004, Google's first go at social media, and not that differenet from Friendster and LinkedIn except it ranked your friends based on how many friends they had. My real friends rapidly became invisible, I wrote in my blog. jilltxt.net/patchwork/

On January 24 2004, two days Orkut launched, I signed up. Orkut was Google's first social network platform, and I was fairly cynical - not much different from Friendster, LinkedIn and Tribe, I wrote in my blog, but creepier: rank your friends. jilltxt.net/rank-your-fr...

At snøvær og det å "få heng" nærast tar bort skilnaden mellom kvinner og menn i langrennsløypa er noko underkommunisert. Om det er det som er årsaken, då. Småsure manne-vibes her

First “criminal immigrants”, then just “immigrants”, then practically “brown people”, and now trans people. As predicted. “If you tolerate this; your children will be next.”

Next week's Critical AI Theory Reading Group will discuss David Gunkel's article "The différance engine: large language models and poststructuralism" link.springer.com/10.1007/s001... - Tuesday 17/3 at noon Norway time. uib.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Maybe you should apply to do a Computational Writing 2026 retreat at the Banff centre this September with @docmofo.bsky.social , Lillian-Yvonne Bertrand and others as your faculty mentors? Application deadline 25 March. www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Conference here in Bergen 15-16 October 2026: "Critical Theory in the Age of Monsters". Abstracts due 30 April. nordiccriticaltheory.w.uib.no/2026/03/13/2...

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Good summary in the coverage by @cornelluniversity.bsky.social: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Grammarly is no longer a friendly tool to help people become better writers, it is now a full on AI-plagiarism machine. I wrote a blog post showing how Grammarly's Expert review feature (discontinued yesterday) presented fake versions of academics without permission. jilltxt.net/grammarly-ge...

I signed up for Grammarly a couple weeks ago to check the AI-generated stuff and was horrified. It'd be hard to be a student and NOT just generate everything. And there are still so many confident errors. A silly one: their AI detector recommends "algorithm-generated" instead of "AI-generated".

Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look. prf-law.com/current-case...

I saw Kate Crawford, Kishonna Gray and a bunch of other researchers I knew as “experts” in Grammarly. Sorry didn’t screenshot it all but here’s a screen recording me and Kishonna made last week. jilltxt.net/temp/grammar...

Aaaaaand there it is www.wired.com/story/gramma...

New Australia Institute research shows that state and federal governments will provide $16.3 billion in subsidies in 2025/26 to some of the biggest, most profitable companies in Australia, an increase of 9.4 per cent on last financial year. Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bmdAaP

I took the train to Oslo today, so had time to write up a blog post about yesterday’s AI theory discussion, which was about @ryanheuser.com’s paper on LLM-generated poetry, Jameson, the gimmick, idealisation, rhyme and metre. jilltxt.net/do-llms-norm...