Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 18hshoutout to the guest artists for my new book, including Sarah's Scribbles! Get the book HERE ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun 84785674
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23hthe 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... 6232100
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 721707812
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialChokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 21hThis is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent. 8552209
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 09/10/2026❗Attention, union supporters ❗ We're asking Wizards and Hasbro to voluntarily recognize our union—and you can help! Sign our petition today and show our leadership that you want change in the gaming industry. actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp... 7900536
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialGavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 09/10/2026You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol... 12504254
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me 9659147
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialKevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A Korean king ordered a bunch of linguists to come up with a written language to increase literacy due to the difficulty of chinese and they came up with one of the easiest to read languages in existence. 10596185
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2024Happy Hangul Day! It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn! So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes! 17846258
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You don’t have to give Anthropic credit for protecting its machine from mean humans. Or for any other reason as long as they organizationally threatening the wellbeing of actual humans. I don’t care what they do to T&C but it’s absurd to take them at their word about why or how. 212716
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 205125483110
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/10/2026Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one. 15722181
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/10/2026This 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 10674171
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...thebulletin.orgHow the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big businessThere is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom. 6282112
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJosh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 09/10/2026this is nice! from a low of about 1,000 animals, there are now over 180,000 giant tortoises on the Seychelles! there are more tortoises than people! 🎉🐢 www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comScientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles islandFree-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme 17717
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Academia distilled. 4933170
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialOmar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026At some point it does make a dent in my psyche how much Europe is normalising speech against immigrants. Because all of that, all of it, was made up by the US first in the 1850s after they invaded and occupied half of Mexico and then in the 1930s as Mexicans were blamed for the Great Depression. 152
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Reminder that Spotify's CEO is a straight up villain.latimes.comSpotify boycott: Artists leave 'garbage hole' platform after CEO invests in AI weaponsDaniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal." 214945
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The same company that doesn't pay artists seems to always find the money to pay this jackass. If you're still using Spotify... why? Pretty much every alternative is better in every way.variety.comJoe Rogan Renews Nine-Figure Spotify DealSpotify and Joe Rogan have entered into a new multiyear licensing agreement, continuing a relationship that began in 2020 for his hugely popular podcast. 30875287
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026Such a good thread both for letting you know what's going on in Paris and for showing standard police tactics. Telling protesters to disperse while blocking all the exits, singling people out with the intent to harm, and using tools that we know cause serious bodily harm? That's the cop playbook. 2507201
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialStephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anticipating that student protests in France may spread. Will add here 🧵 1249
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h... 712071503
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.social🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 883118041437
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 07/10/2026The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents just dropped! www.ahmath.org/statements 14436201
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialcara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me: 141881546
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 10164722526
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere). 141038323
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 102143424723
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialUnited Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...unitedwizardsofthecoast.comDungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWAToday, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli... 10875852768
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10894822978
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialtante @tante.cc · 03/10/2026So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now. theatlantic.comI Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken - The AtlanticThe industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes. 1225654
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I joined many, many other experts on campus sexual violence to talk about the Cornell case with @chronicle.com. This piece is an excellent overview of how Title IX—and society—has changed over the past decade to make it harder for survivors to come forward.chronicle.comAt Cornell, a Rape Case Defines an EraA new generation of college students has reason to be both fatalistic and fed up. 08329
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialLoish @loish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Dang yall, thanks so much for the support 😭 Usually I ignore the random AI accusations but I wanted to take the chance to talk about how important it is to do your research in times like these. Didn't expect to get soooo many kind comments though! We gotta stick together, my beloved art community ♥️ 452717469
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Personally I’m starting to doubt the consciousness of people who work for Anthropic 858542
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026Anyway if we want to talk about restorative justice in rape cases, we have to make...a shitload of changes to the culture first. Because at this point, it feels like a bunch of people pointing at gun at a woman and saying "WELL WHAT MINIMAL CONSEQUENCE DO YOU ACCEPT? DON'T RUIN HIS LIFE." 241564
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.wired.comMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and FamilyMillions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. 381195690
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing. 311800322
argenos.bsky.social @argenos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Even if that were true, couldn’t you make the exact same argument about pro “AI” bros? They all seem to get their info almost exclusively from the propaganda spit out by the AI companies 130
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialAlex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bullshit, and shame on @science.org for this tie-in to an agitprop engine for the freaks in the AI "safety" movement. Super gross look for the magazine. 73510
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialChuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I asked questions and made provocations at the front side of the talk about how we feel pressure from limited computing resources, how our students feel parallel pressure, and how we know the realities of letting particularly cloud and GenAI resources grow in use unchecked (or, at least, we should). 1116
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.” 542082583
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation. 2742251002
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialCaroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?! 5293438751
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialOmar Rafael Regalado Fernández @mathchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A side project I have been working on over the last couple of weeks has finally matured into a paper. The contradictory views about the fossil record of Mexican dinosaurs seem to be a database management problem. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | A hundred years of dinosaur research in Mexico: skeletal completeness and phylogenetic information of the dinosaur fossil record in MexicoThe dinosaur fossil record from Mexico is sparsely documented since most of it is fragmentary remains with little taxonomic information and a lot of it conti... 13112
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026here is a link to the full filing after today's redactions were lifted. /9 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.comExhibit Public Redacted Memorandum of Law – #1977, Att. #1 in In Re: OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-md-03143) – CourtListener.comLETTER addressed to Judge Sidney H. Stein from Davida Brook dated September 17, 2026 re: Public, Redacted Version of News' Plaintiffs' Memorandum of Law. Document filed by Daily News LP, The Center fo... 256195
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye 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 4253912350
Reposted by @argenos.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread" 6757327
