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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2h

As @jbpleasa.bsky.social wrote recently: "I don’t think that Alpha deserves attention because of what it will do to education in any direct way. It deserves our attention because of the way that it raises and provides at least one set of answers to deep questions about what schooling is for."

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Pay Attention to Alpha Schools — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Library Community: We’re building a CoT community for those involved with or interested in libraries. Andrea Baer is leading this effort and if you’re interested...

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 41m

Think about the type of person who would actually want to be an executioner. Not just someone who supports the death penalty in the abstract but who is so depraved that they are genuinely willing to kill people while believing that they are righteous for doing it.

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1h

When all hope is gone You know chatbots say so much

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11h

New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 21h

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 23h

hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a long discussion going on in my mentions about whether or not "LLMs" (quotes explained in a sec) apparently getting mostly* correct answers to arithmetic questions is "inconsistent" with the stochastic parrots metaphor. >>

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 30/09/2026

Screenshot of a tweet by Henry Ford from 1908. It says: "i am a horse, and so r u"

(parody of a tweet by Sam Altman)

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Lana Sinapayen @sinalana.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

AI people are so tiresome

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Trump going all-in on "AI" self-regulation is no surprise, but please interview ppl from, e.g., @cdt.org, @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, or anyone else with a perspective on regulation not informed by a primarily Rosy relationship w/ big tech

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I think one of the most important parts about learning a language is learning how to explain your own culture, which is part of why I tried to explain the concept of Medieval Times in Spanish to my friend in Colombia today

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Additionally, be aware of responsibility washing. See e.g. 📝 Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Cover image of Amnesty International (2026). Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI. https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 30/09/2026

I am an SI hater

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The particular pathologies of AI, especially scaling and accelerationism, are symptoms of the actual restructuring taking place in relation to energy politics and increasing authoritarianism." danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morb...

danmcquillan.org

AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum

This is the abstract for my Rogers Chair Public Lecture for Western University on 20th March 2026 at 5pm GMT, hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies. URL for the talk t...

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, this certainly unambiguously clarifies the political project "AI" enthusiasts are supporting, even if they remain in denial about that

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like part of what's going on with "AI" products is that tech people heard the user research phrase "you are not your users" and have taken it not as a call for epistemic humility, but rather as an injustice that they need to correct at all costs

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like seriously, this is such a clear example of what many people (such as Drs. Emily Bender and Alex Hanna and Timnit Gebru) have been saying about how we don't need to wait for new committees or regulations. Extortion is already illegal

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I get that organizers have to be careful about how they talk about false consciousness so people don't feel like their experiences are being dismissed, AND YET I am very tired of tech people uncritically regurgitating their bosses' Taylorist wet dreams about what their job actually entails

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if every person at an organization who interacts with Microsoft salespeople sent them a link to this article and said "your product sucks and you treat your workers like shit so we're canceling our contract with you"

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

that's what I get for downloading and opening illuminated_manuscript (FULL VERSION) high_quality.pdf.mp4.exe

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Because each response is grounded in retrieved source documents, the agent can reason from the specific oral history transcript, permit record, or newspaper article that informed it" Counterpoint: no it can't and it's outrageously irresponsible to suggest that it can

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wages were won through people power. We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity, based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...

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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

The belief by many people in the humanity that learning humanities somehow makes you de facto ethical is real a blind spot.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

when STEMbros (its a particular type, and does not include everyone in the field) scream about the inanity or pointlessness of history, Im reminded immediately of that moment when I was a #histSTM survey and a computer science major laughed loudly when I was teaching the Bhopal disaster.

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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026

Something I haven’t seen really elaborated on in the discourse of Effective Altruists taking over everything from the AI industry to US national tech policy is that this produces a deeply insular intellectual monoculture that is dominant but isolated from other non EA-ist intellectual thought.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Why do we wait for those carrying the batons to confess when our bruised bodies tell the whole truth?" - Mohammed El-Kurd

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My pressure cooker went rogue after I destroyed the seal, overfilled it, set it for 6 hours, and left the house

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026

Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.

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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators

State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That’s queer, too.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Incredibly this is not even the most egregious example of reading a weird (derogatory) software thing and getting jumpscared by a weird (derogatory) Christian thing (the Mythical Man Month is high on that list). But it's up there for sure.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled

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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026

Valerie Veatch's documentary Ghost in the Machine, and Matteo Pasquinelli's book The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence are both very good correctives on this.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Girl dinner

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right? Like, you're telling me the same editorial board who endorsed Moulton also greenlit this? I'm shocked!

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think this makes a lot of sense. Not at all surprising that Ezra Klein would "pass" (derogatory) a test like this, since the "Abundance" brand of kindler gentler neoliberalism has basically been grown in a lab to appease tech bros

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Fiona Apple Bot @fionaapplebot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, you silly, stupid pastime of mine

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to wound the autumnal kitty @blurry-line.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I firmly believe that we (queer ppl and especially trans ppl) should never talk to the press about intra-community conflicts. I can’t see any way that it can benefit us, and it’s obvious how it can hurt us.

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