Reposted by Alberto BruzosThe Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social · 4hUnder Muskism, the human is expelled from the productive process altogether. Listen to Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on our latest episode, Muskism pod.fo/e/659efc 052
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"The question is whether students and teachers actually want this and whether AI avatars can deliver meaningful educational benefits rather than simply offering a more sophisticated chatbot." 011
Reposted by Alberto BruzosBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Many out there want to treat AI in education seriously. Then there's this from *Napster*. "Trained on a teacher’s material, courses, and papers, these digital twins will live online, becoming a 'copy of yourself that you can then use to scale your time.'” www.wired.com/story/napste...wired.comNapster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone TeachersOnce the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom. 32613
Reposted by Alberto BruzosM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!zenodo.orgCrockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research 315950
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Out now: pca.st/episode/ab65...pca.stRogue, with Eryk SalvaggioWhen is AI 'going rogue' and when is it just sloppy oversight by the companies designing the models? The answer won't surprise you -- probably -- but in this episode we discuss why we can… 022
Reposted by Alberto BruzosDan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Book launch for 'AI, Infrastructures and Sustainability' on Wed 2nd; register for the livestream spui25.nl/programma/ai... with eds Anne Mollen & Fieke Jansen and authors Patrick Brodie, Gerwin van Schie & myself. The book is open access & downloadable from link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 13315
Reposted by Alberto BruzosDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...nytimes.comSilicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something. 11831304
Reposted by Alberto BruzosPedro Fernández Riquelme @pedrofriquelme.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Publicado el número 14 de Refracción con artículos, reseñas y un monográfico sobre ecolingüística: revistarefraccion.com/numeros#cato... @diegofuckingforte.bsky.social @abruzos.bsky.social 032
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 09/07/2026In case you'd like to extend your visit... www.booking.com/hotel/es/hos...booking.com 000
Reposted by Alberto BruzosJane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who are." /2chronicle.comOpinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame. 210329
Reposted by Alberto BruzosIgnacio Sanchez Prado @isanchezprado.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I am very grateful to my friends in St Louis on the Air, producer Emily Woodbury and host Elaine Cha for the kindness of inviting me for a farewell interview, where I spoke about the importance of the humanities and the interdisciplinary programs in universities Link: www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui... 0325
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Let this World Cup be a reminder that we do not live in an age of science, technology, economics, and merit, but in an age of scientism, economism, technophilia, and proceduralism. The objective of these pursuits is not truth, but the ability to make outcomes desired by those in power appear true. 0439
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026La regularización de migrantes en España no sólo es lógica, porque la economía depende de su trabajo, sino que además es justa y consecuente con un programa político de izquierda, puesto que los migrantes adinerados han tenido y siguen teniendo opciones para acceder fácilmente a la residencia. 020
Reposted by Alberto BruzosDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The fantastic murals in the Pilsen neoghbohood of Chicago. 29812
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 22/06/20261/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...matteringpress.orgPredictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony 34117
Reposted by Alberto BruzosChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing. 28972081025
Reposted by Alberto BruzosCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/202611. Addendum: here are the words characteristic of LLMs. Notice anything? It reads like an email from our upper administration. 2126165
Reposted by Alberto BruzosEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026This image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks 72853115
Reposted by Alberto BruzosGina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵) 55528
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...huggingface.coThe Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethicsMagnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research 76431
Reposted by Alberto BruzosSebastiaan Faber @sebasfaber.bsky.social · 01/06/2026¿Cómo se lee --y practica-- la política española desde Estados Unidos? Hablo en @lamarea.com con @vrupu.bsky.social. "Lo que se consiguió en España se ha visto con mucha más admiración desde fuera que desde dentro". @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social @cbamadrid.es www.lamarea.com/2026/06/01/v...lamarea.comVicente Rubio-Pueyo: “En política conviene no moralizar demasiado” | lamarea.comVicente Rubio-Pueyo, autor de 'Un país entre dos tiempos', ha combinado su trabajo académico con un continuo compromiso político. 02111
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29/05/2026This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...senate.ucla.eduJune 2: Senate Faculty Conversation on Education White Papers 815871
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Something I hope people will consider is that the reason there are so many enraging anti-education pieces coming out right now is that there's a full-court press from PR departments in tech & asset management. Nothing about the last year went according to script for their investments. 17917
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"One of the greatest issues with teaching today is that there is pedagogical science given to produce studies that over-generalize broad findings in outcomes. The reality is that every single classroom activity or technique depends on the instructor." 000
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"The short term goal of education, in my opinion, is to fight deskilling. The long term goal: to ensure the persistence of these skills to allow students to arrive to the world in which AI will be normalized without being so cognitively incapacitated that they cannot have a meaningful life." 1148
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...ignaciosanchezprado.substack.comA Year of Teaching AnalogicallyWhat a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating 24519
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/05/2026We can solve grade inflation by make As & Bs proportional to the gold & silver specie in each department’s vault. Or… We can recognize that grade inflation is economizing bullshit in service of anti-education culture wars & not a real problem. 58316
Reposted by Alberto BruzosJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Interesting framing from two members of Harvard faculty conflating their intramural angst about the challenge of ranking and sorting the spectacularly excellent with the entirety of education. Hubris much? 44210
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Fútbol a sol, sombra y paraísos fiscales @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/futbol/futbo...elsaltodiario.comFútbol a sol, sombra y paraísos fiscalesEl deporte que alguna vez ayudó a narrar destinos nacionales hoy circula entre fondos soberanos, plataformas de apuestas, paraísos fiscales y branding geopolítico. 010
Reposted by Alberto BruzosSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...hyperallergic.comHow Scientists Use and Abuse PortraitureMany scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous. 7501242
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Brillante aquí @nuriaalabao.bsky.social: "Hablar de prioridad nacional, pero vivir a costa de los migrantes" ctxt.es/es/20260501/...ctxt.esHablar de prioridad nacional, pero vivir a costa de los migrantesLa clase media española se sostiene en parte gracias al trabajo, las cotizaciones y las rentas de alquiler que extrae a la población extranjera 142
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 09/05/2026“I can only imagine he did it for a little glory and recognition from the academic community and his peers.” 110
Reposted by Alberto BruzosBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The Canvas breakdown this week has once more shown how dependent universities are on "Big Edtech" firms. Lots to unpack on edtech platforms, data, and infrastructures from this case alone so this international multi-authored piece may help explain a few things... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comDigitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concernsHigher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige... 17031
Reposted by Alberto BruzosSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from. 593472991
Reposted by Alberto BruzosEmmanuel Rodríguez @emmanuelrog.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Este libro de Wacquant es un pequeño hito editorial. Se trata de un análisis de la forma de dominacion racial de los antiguos esclavos negros tras su emancipación formal en EEUU: el régimen llamado Jim Crow. Se trata de uno de esos pocos ejemplos donde sociología e historia funcionan como una 👇 22716
Reposted by Alberto BruzosG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 07/05/2026Comics people, what do we think of the nine-panel grid, aesthetically? Does it still have utility? Or has its time come and gone? 16327720
Reposted by Alberto BruzosDerf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026"Young people were protesting Vietnam at Kent State, chock full of first-gen students from the Rust Belt working class. The solution from right-wing leaders was to cut public aid to higher education to raise tuition, making college not a public good but a costly personal obligation." 27919
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMédéric Gasquet-Cyrus @medericgc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Une excellente émission autour de la langue française, de la grammaire et du purisme, avec @anneabeille.bsky.social et Julie Neveux du Collectif des Linguistes atterrées @tract-linguistes.org en grande forme, ainsi que Jean Pruvost. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...radiofrance.frN'y a-t-il qu'une seule façon de parler le français ?. 0286
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Excellent, must-read article. " AI is welcomed as a silver bullet precisely because there is no silver bullet for high-quality, accessible education. (...) AI is attractive to employers (...) because it seems to offer a way to produce expertise at scale without relying on quite so many experts". 120
Reposted by Alberto BruzosJoshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The wealthy will keep their human teachers, the poor will get AI, and the middle class will have a mix of the two, initially anyway. Maybe eventually there will be gov. vouchers to purchase private human teaching because we care about equity after all. Surely a market for that and labor to exploit 1196
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMaría Méndez Santos @mariaparrula.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Convocatoria de premios de investigación: 💫A la publicación del año (2025) 💫A la carrera destacada Cualquier lengua y origen. Temas de traducción, lingüística, literatura, etc. ℹ️ ilingua.uvigo.gal/es/convocato... Fecha límite: 31/5/2026 Presenta tu candidatura o postula a alguien🤩 001
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Happy birthday, @davidnaimon.bsky.social ! Actually, your interview with Dionne Brand is my favorite episode! 131
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Ya no me acordaba yo de lo de la oficina de Toni Cantó, y (ay) qué feliz era en el olvido. 000
Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 27/04/2026"El proyecto se articulará a través de la red regional de escuelas oficiales de idiomas (...). Pero la medida pilla por sorpresa a los representantes del profesorado (...), que se debaten entre el escepticismo, el desconcierto y el enfado, y se preguntan qué novedad aporta esta iniciativa." 200
Reposted by Alberto BruzosMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026The artist, Roc Albalat, shared this with me: vimeo.com/1169676738vimeo.comLatent Heat by Roc AlbalatThe video essay reinterprets technical images from the cooling industry, transforming them from tools of efficiency into critical lenses. It helps reveal how data… 032