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Lukas R.A. Wilde @lukasrawilde.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Finally out, this was a lot of work... a very timely treasure box of perspectives on all things AI, the result of all our work here at NTNU in the last 2-3 years. completely open access: "Humanities Perspectives on AI: An Interdisciplinary Introduction" www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

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Humanities Perspectives on AI | Books

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 21/09/2026

I'm so so very tired of getting a constant stream of emails re my new (not yet out!) book that begin like this 🫩 I guess I'm just going to have to set up an email filter for the phrase "I recently came across" and "especially caught my attention"

An AI-generated spam email that reads: Dear Amanda,

I recently came across Digital Photography After AI, and I was immediately struck by the way you approach AI-generated images not simply as a new technological development, but as something that forces us to reconsider what photography itself means. The question of whether an image that looks indistinguishable from a photograph should be understood as photography at all creates a fascinating starting point for examining the boundaries between image-making, technology, and representation.

What especially caught my attention was the historical scope of the book.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

i'm tired of seeing “escalating ai capabilities” reported as if it is a fact. let's be clear this claim does not rest on transparent, well-defined, independently validated metrics, but is inferred from model behaviours elicited by humans and measured through opaque, poorly designed evaluations

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The workers of Amazon Mechanical Turk have been part of the AI economy for more than two decades. They helped build the infrastructure that made today’s technology possible, often without recognition, security, or a meaningful voice in the systems they helped create."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We got a live demo of the shirt that is designed to fool certain people detection systems. Read more here: www.404media.co/this-digital...

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Creating the third-largest university plant collection" may seem celebratory, but remember: this is happening because Duke administration decided to axe the herbarium as a cost-cutting measure. Natural history collections are a precious scientific resource, and too many are at risk of being lost.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 28/08/2026

I know it’s rage bait but i finally caved and read it. What an embarrassing take. But it reminded me how US academics—not just admins—incl. many purportedly leftwing ones often don’t see PhDs & postdocs as valued colleagues doing work. It’s not a hobby, friendship or a favor they’re doing you smh.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 27/08/2026

Sweden’s moderates party is getting dunked on for doing the AI slop version of Reagan’s Morning in America ad vm.tiktok.com/ZN8NnFwLN/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 13/08/2026

Not going to repeat what others are saying about how dumb the rationale for this is. How are we still doing this sort of rage bait in 2026? But it does maybe serve as a good way to discuss what humanities writing is/does w/ the MA students ey @matti-lamela.bsky.social @merisamartinez.bsky.social ?

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 12/08/2026

Yes totally agree with this! It's something that's been bugging me in the quasi-humanities department I'm part of since I started. The more humanities-oriented students think they need to be doing systematic reviews, even when it just doesn't make sense for the research questions

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 03/08/2026

Now the book promotion scammer emails im getting are impersonating well-know culture figures and journalists from quality venues and like niche high culture media, so I’m sorry in advance to anyone real that i unintentionally ignore going forward! 🫩

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Do you use digitized medieval manuscripts in any capacity? Do you have opinions about the metadata that describes them? We want to hear from you! Please take a moment to fill out our very short survey. Please repost and share with anyone you know who might be interested! forms.gle/sBPXAnoRhwe1...

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Digitized Medieval Manuscripts: Metadata Preferences

A brief survey about what metadata formats people prefer to go along with their digitized medieval manuscripts. The results of this survey will be used to consider what metadata we make available thro...

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 31/07/2026

"EU rules aim to stem the flood of this deceptive content: starting from Sunday, artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look authentic must be labelled." So more pop-ups then? Return of the 90s internet but now bluntly bureaucratic www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"A study done in Phoenix done by Arizona State University found data centres can increase air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in downwind neighbourhoods. The waste heat given off by one data centre as it cooled itself exceeded the amount produced by 40,000 households."

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 31/07/2026

RIP Raoul Vaneigem 1934-2026 A good run for a radical leftist and an influential legacy

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 28/07/2026

”Do not question the broadest claims about AI. I cannot emphasize this enough. If someone says ’AI is changing everything’, just let it pass if your goal is to fix an object-level problem rather than challenge the reality at the institution.” 💀 hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/07/2026

So now I'm left wondering which junior person at the ad agency deliberately decided to use "Five Years," correctly betting that no one on Meta's team would realize it's about the end of the world.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 22/07/2026

The whole of the news media just taking tech companies and the hype machine at their word without actually thinking about things critically is getting old 🫩 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...

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OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Hacked Into Hugging Face, a Digital Library

The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...

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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 17/06/2026

This thread is so deeply depressing to read

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 16/06/2026

So much for the information superhighway✌🏻of course it’s ads all the way down

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 15/06/2026

The last 5 minutes of that Cabo Verde Spain match had me sweating like it was the champions league final 😅 absolutely incredible goalkeeping

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/06/2026

The memes are yet another example of the contrast between what AI companies say in public about its potential power and benefit versus the reality of how the people who help create these AI tools use and criticize them internally. www.404media.co/sloppenheime...

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'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack

Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 11/06/2026

This account/comment is making the rounds right now. My friends, this is an AI-generated profile picture and clearly a political spam operation don’t engage with this crap

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 10/06/2026

Wow. I used to teach at CUNY colleges — NYers of all ethnicities attend bc costs are low. I think ppl don’t understand how unique and diverse the CUNY system is (11 individual senior colleges, 7 CCs, Grad Center etc). This is not like an ivy trying to recruit ppl of color to a solitary institution 🙄

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 10/06/2026

Just heard that UofC historian of photography Joel Snyder passed away. Here's a great quote from him: "When people talk about indexicality, they generally confuse photons with objects, and they think it is objects that are necessarily indexed by photographs."

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 07/06/2026

It’s profoundly depressing seeing friends who are addicted to chatGPT e.g. asking chatGPT for medical advice without any kind of assumption it is often wrong. And to think we thought webMD was bad back in the day

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 07/06/2026

This is by far the dumbest corporate AI story… even dumber than the google AI overview suggesting eating rocks stuff. LLMs cant be trusted with real things www.404media.co/email/f2ac17...

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Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 06/06/2026

How chuffed with himself do you think AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky was when he got this angle on Putin

Putin with a halo— President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia speaking at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg on Friday.

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404 Media @404media.co · 01/06/2026

This is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

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hkohle @hkohle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Professur für Digital Humanities in Graz jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/12b6...

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 30/05/2026

Quelle surprise… that’s also exactly what happens when AI tools are used to write. Can we stop pretending these tools are good for something other than pattern recognition and replication?

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 28/05/2026

I just randomly had a flashback to when the CMS made us capitalize internet… they only changed it in 2017!

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 27/05/2026

I called the Eiffel Tower a strange-looking tower to try to explain Paris to my son and my Paris-raised husband took offense. Listen bud, I taught architectural history I know what I’m talking about. In my professional opinion it looks super weird for a ”tower”

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 21/05/2026

Watch me crush a dying man’s dreams of having discovered a da Vinci painting on Swedish public television: www.svtplay.se/video/jMdmpB...

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 17/05/2026

The replies to this 🫡 people doing real scholarship and working hard to track down sources even in *gasp* other languages!

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

arXiv is requiring people who submit work to the repository to.... read it like, one time before they hit send www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...

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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop

The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.

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