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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Anne Zell @annezell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tenure-track Psychology position announcement! If you are passionate about teaching and mentoring undergraduate students and would be excited to teach Research Methods plus courses in your specialty area(s), please apply to our open position at Augustana University tinyurl.com/3au5y2zd #psychjobs

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/08/2026

God this is so, so good.

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Anne Zell @annezell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use... h/t Dr. Nesi / Technosapiens

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2025

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 17/02/2026

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

Hey.

This is a message out there to all of you who, in trying to create a tribute to our children, choose to use AI.

When you feed these images into AI, you're feeding their data set. That means they will now use little pieces of Abel and Maya and the others the next time someone asks for the image of a 12 year old.

While most companies are trying their best, some of them aren't; a few weeks back, Grok was freely and cheerily offering up images of naked, underage children. This is horrifying.

I know that some people out there are trying to create clickbait images, but not you. You're trying to show your respect and love, but could we ask you do it in a different way? There are actual provided images of most of the victims out there; sharing those is equally as powerful and less dicey, morally. The RCMP even created a composite for you.

Thanks.

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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Rethinking Schools published my article about pushing back on some of the arguments made by those seeking to rush AI tools into schools.

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Resisting AI Mania in Schools

A former English teacher takes on many of the arguments of AI promoters.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026

“ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do” played over video of ICE engaging in acts of violence should be the wall to wall DNC media strategy right now

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 29/12/2025

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Bill Shillito @solidangles.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Students who take AP Statistics are 3x more likely to be able to tell the difference between correlation and causation.

Screenshot of a College Board social media post promoting AP Precalculus. Large text reads “Students who take precalculus are 3x more likely to earn a college degree.” Below the text is an icon of a diploma with a ribbon. The bottom text says, “See why more schools are making AP Precalculus part of their math pathway.”

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.” For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution. Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I'm stress-maxxing. I'm losing sleep pilled. I'm in my fuck fuck fuck era

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/06/2025

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"It was the average of times"

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"To describe references to nonexistent scientific research, in an official federal document related to public health policy, as 'some formatting issues' is like saying the Titanic confronted 'some evening issues.'” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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As more fake citations emerge in the ‘MAHA’ report, White House struggles with a defense

To describe references to nonexistent scientific research as “some formatting issues” is like saying the Titanic confronted “some evening issues.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

ChatGPT will give you accurate information just as cheerfully as the most toxic bullshit - and without any of your own understanding to fall back on, you have no choice but to take everything it says at face value. Study after study shows that high levels of knowledge are needed to error check AIs.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

if you are a woman of color with imposter syndrome, I want you to remember nothing you do today will be worse than this

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks. now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...

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Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers

Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Few things better summarize the fact that "tough on crime" is about social control, not actually fighting serious crime, than the contrast between these two stories, both of which came out today.

Trump expected to order a crackdown on D.C. crime, homeless encampments
The president campaigned against D.C. as a “nightmare of murder and crime.” He is considering an order to crack down on petty crime and clear homeless encampments.

DOJ orders corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams be dismissed
The office of Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove had been involved in discussions with the Southern District of New York and Adams' team about the pending case, a Justice Department official previously told NBC News

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“President Trump is breaking the law. Here are some examples.” See? It’s not hard.

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Lily O’Farrell @lilyofarrell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Cartoon about the male friendship recession and ‘Mankeeping’ 🧵

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 24/01/2025

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

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Anne Zell @annezell.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Make your plan to vote! For any other SD folks here, Sioux Falls Simplified can help you learn about the candidates and issues ahead of time so that you're prepared: www.sfsimplified.com/your-2024-el...

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Your 2024 Election Day survival guide

There's quite a bit on the South Dakota ballot. Here's your one-stop guide to help you feel smart and empowered on Election Day.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Jimmy Kimmel hoping people will share this with Republicans. He suspects that most people don’t actually know the things that Trump says and does. He’s right. So Kimmel presents what Trump says. The media has normalized Trump and sanewashed his comments. It is misinfo. youtu.be/Oy0zq8YzY9w?...