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I do research like this too ☺️

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Thank you, also ahh it being UK is even scarier.

This US? Where's the source?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 1h

How do we get people to not just care, but take action?

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the latest anthropic cry abt "cruelty" & "abuse" of ai is truly stupid. i beg journalists to stop parroting amodei we wrote why dehumanisation of ai is impossible & 6+ yrs later, everything in this paper holds Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Yet we disagree robots should be treated as ‘slaves’. In defense
of her position, Bryson states: “But surely dehumanization is only
wrong when it’s applied to someone who really is human?” Our
position would be that ‘dehumanization’ is not so much wrong
for robots, it is impossible. One cannot dehumanize something
that wasn’t human to begin with. If one uses the term slave, one
implicitly assumes that the being one so names is the kind of being
can be ‘dehumanized’. One has already implicitly ‘humanized’ the
robot, before subsequently enslaving it. One should obviously not
enslave someone first taken to be human.

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😭😭😭 but also I can't help but wonder how much of this is culture?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21h

The one behind the IQ test that lets them further sort, categorize, and rank people in a way which allows them (or the state) to decide who or what is worth sharing resources with, including but not limited to: water, energy, education, citizenship, freedom, or life itself.

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Tell me again how it is good and proper for these companies to decide we can’t be mean to it’s word toaster but they can be mean to us humans.

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Dwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 2h

Systems must be evaluated in their totality and not based upon how we want them to behave in specific situations

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

Apparently Chi Phi bakes rape culture into initiation: “It was there, for the first time in my life, that I was sexually assaulted. It happened quickly: hands reached under the waistband of my basketball shorts and slathered fistfuls of spicy ‘mung’ all over my genitals. I felt shock and pain.”

cornellsun.com

GUEST ROOM | I Lived at Chi Phi in 2012. Now I Say Tear It Down and Build Something New

Jared Hoffman '15 shared his experience as a member of the Xi chapter of Chi Phi. He calls for the tearing down of the Greek system and of the Chi Phi house.

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This is the thing that gets me the most. computer scientists in AI seemingly have no concept whatsoever of construct validity. What theory of intelligence, agency, or consciousness are even being operationalized when you make claims that these systems have them?

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I would love so much to be underpaid to do this kind of work. Seriously.

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Put these men in jail already. Is this not conspiracy and treason at this point (seriously asking)?

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I think your coming from a good place, but these discussions are just meaningless without any kind of focus on power. At the end of the day these companies have the economic, cultural, legal, geopolitical power to make grand societal decisions for the rest of us and have been doing exactly that.

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But we never voted for Anthropic? We didn't have some global election that said we all want to live under OpenAIs code of conduct. The code of conduct might work you and your community, but that data center being built without our consent is being used to surveil and kill people in mine.

Keep in mind, competing with these companies is a nonstarter without billions of dollars to build the infrastructure and hire the people who are gonna tell us what our global community code of conduct is. Policymakers invest in and embed these products into pretty much every aspects of daily life.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h

One thing you're definitely missing here is scale. If a community in the western hemisphere comes up with a community code of conduct, and a different community in the eastern hemisphere comes up with one, do you really think they would be exactly the same?

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Is Bluesky trying to shoot missiles at children and I missed it? Is Anthropic now just a smol bean corporate citizen or is it *checks notes* one of a few corporate owners of a technological superstructure that enables state capacities for violence and apportions social resources of citizenship?

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 17h

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21h

I gave a version of this talk just now to PhD candidate students and it was such a cool and great experience! I am always so blown away by how ethical, caring, curious, etc., they are and especially so compared to certain colleagues. ☺️

youtu.be

The metatheoretical calculus of connectionism — or: how we reason over artificial neural networks

YouTube video by Olivia Guest

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17h

This is unsurprising because ai generated code *is* ai generated text. Code is text. People think code is different because you can test to see if it runs. But that just tells you if it runs (or passed the tests defined in the code) It does not and *cannot* tell you if it makes sense

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Désirée Zamorano @ladeziree.latinsky.app · 16h

Thanks to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social list I've made it through Muskism (great!) Empire of AI-Terrific @karenhao.bsky.social The AI Con -Terrific Plus @alexhanna.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social The Nerd Reich- tremendous! @gilduran.com Nvidia the Thinking Machine is proving a challenge

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 18h

I think this is actually the logic on why these companies don't use greedy decoding strategies to begin with. Increasing the "temperature" so they speak makes the product less likely to output the most likely token and this randomness makes the outputs appear more "creative" to the reader.

Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 18h

Is this why as adults they're more rejection sensitive?

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SO good: “…we are constantly strapping in for the future, making ready each time to throw out the communities, cultural practices, and values that we have come to appreciate in their imperfections, only to be told once again that the plane must return to the gate for another unspecified checkup.”

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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 09/10/2026

Small ask. Can you help Annie Altman get the truth out on what she said about Sam in her lawsuit? Just sign this petition:

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Sign the Petition

Release the Full Deposition Annie Altman Consented to Share

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maybe: leif weatherby @leifw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Found live footage of the HuggingFace incident

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Poster for a talk entitled "A Public Sociology of Platforms, Algorithms, and AI" Oct 14th

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Anyways that's my two cents and sorry for the long text thread. I could talk for hours about this but it's also hard not to bore people with the technical aspects. And these problems are complex, but not impossible to address. The social problems underlying our digital nightmare are more worrisome.

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Make it open-source so other communities can refine, modify, and iterate on those solutions so they fit their context and values. It's a win-win-win creates jobs, tackles enshittification, brings programmers attention back to the fact their work is meant to solve problems not create them.

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You have all these talented computer science grads who can't find work unless it's at basically Shinra. Tap into that labor pool! Invest in digital infrastructure with local labor and build digital tools that solve real problems within those communities.

There aren't any overnight fixes unfortunately, but there is plenty of low hanging fruit at least. I think Mandani's Pitt Crew policies are an excellent example of tool we can use here for us to claw back power from the tech oligarchs. Public funds for public code.

So the goal shouldn't be to get them all on one platform with infrastructure controlled by a handful of US tech companies. Rather have many platforms and solutions ideally with interoperability standards baked in operating more local and community level.

However, I think this problem of scale is worse. There is no one size fits all solution for every community of people on the planet. We have different values, different contexts, different ways of knowing and being in the world. You can't have one community code of conduct for a billion people.

So already we know if bluesky board and leadership start taking leads from Muskism we can switch to Blacksky or Eurosky without losing that social graph. Same with Fediverse apps. While these protocols don't fix or address all the problems with social media, they do largely address this fear.

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There are protocols folks made largely in response to that latter problem. ActivityPub which is what powers the social web (Mastodon, Ghost, Pixelfed) and AtProto which powers Bluesky, Eurosky etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

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Fediverse - Wikipedia

Scale is the biggest problem. It is the value they optimize for because it might as well equate with profit. Having one platform for 10 billion users is the goal, and its an impractical one. The social graph is problem number 2. People won't leave largely because of that second problem.

Valid fear but the goal shouldn't be to get everyone on one platform. God, I feel so bad because I can't properly address this in one skeet. But I'll try my best to be succinct.

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"The second is that, as a freedom of information response reveals, the government has no idea what they are being used for. You could be turning off your taps so the water can be used to nudify celebrities."

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"The first is that even Water UK – the body representing water companies, those paragons of environmental responsibility – has said there isn’t enough water to support the new datacentres."

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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

"For sure. Every citizen should do their duty. But the government has at the same time declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system, despite two startling facts."

theguardian.com

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

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You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Specifically, X and Meta are in essence misinformation companies. The US government is a misinformation government. Other companies and other governments are leaning that way.

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These platforms ultimately only exist and generate revenue because of their "users" and the data they extract from them. If regulators won't dare hold executives and developers accountable, we need to stop using their platforms. Talk to people offline about migrating to alternatives.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026

This company should not exist and their needs to be accountability at every level not least of all their executives. We have laws and we have norms, this appears well beyond the pale of either. We need to be talking to folks and getting off of these platforms if regulators won't address this.

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it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"

The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.

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