Reposted by Andre GomesMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2hMeta trying to steal the Brazilian election really should be bigger news. 312346 123
Reposted by Andre GomesAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 5hThinking again about my research on censorship during the Early Modern and how ppl think the Inquisition was the worst but thankfully we are not in those barbaric times anymore. Social media should not be in hands of a few bootlickers. Also not in hands of many bootlickers. 03310 33
Reposted by Andre GomesAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 5hI don’t know any of these people, but the whole language, image, and a random sampling of the signatories tell me I should not be touching that thing with a ten-foot pole. (Someone recently taught me the word “entryism”, which seems relevant here. 😊) 162 6
Reposted by Andre GomesPlashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Weird, the relevant entries on my university risk register are all about the consequences of *not* adopting LLMs etc. Not a word about the dangers of doing so. 512145 121
Reposted by Andre GomesMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7hSCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht. 846160155891 16K
Reposted by Andre GomesAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 12hnow this is a man eating the frame 314724 147
Reposted by Andre GomesKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12hIt's also such weird framing; "stress, fear of disease, and constant worry about other people" is something I have LESS OF when I'm wearing a mask, for obvious reasons! I'm way less vulnerable to all that when masked! Obviously I'm more relaxed! 319313 193
Reposted by Andre GomesAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 8hFor those of you who are lucky enough not to have to frequent health care institutions or physicians’ offices (yet), this is absolutely the norm. They just don’t care, and often they mock you (had a nurse do that to me). And when you keep in mind how much they (ostensibly) had to study to get there… 253 5
Reposted by Andre GomesJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his WhatsApp channel…” 1/ 17836101868 3.6K
Reposted by Andre GomesRicardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 22hUn policier vient de me cibler intentionnellement avec un tir de LBD à la jambe. Je me trouve à seulement quelques mètres de lui. Je suis clairement identifié comme journaliste, avec un casque sur lequel le mot « PRESSE » est inscrit partout, et je porte également une caméra. @snjcgt.fr 1191319972 1.3K
Reposted by Andre GomesEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 23hParisian cops started tear gassing and using water canons before the protest had even properly started. Had never seen anything like it. This was us trying to get to the authorized starting point of the protest and we could hear the explosions of tear gas in the distance 821288 212
Reposted by Andre GomesDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/10/2026an expert here: designing chatbots to be anthropomorphic, sycophantic yes-men is a choice ai developers make 171319212 1.3K
Reposted by Andre GomesToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 16/10/2026As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market. 10235641081 3.6K
Reposted by Andre GomesARRA - Association pour la Réduction des Risques Aéroportés @associationarra.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Signalé : Une promo sur les masques FFP2 3M www.praxisdienst.com/fr-fr/produi... (Forme "poisson"). Ce sont des masques de bonne qualité.praxisdienst.comMasque respiratoire FFP2 3M™Aura™Masque de protection respiratoire 3M™ Aura™ en 3 parties pour une protection sûre contre les particules d'aérosols. 12220 22
Reposted by Andre GomesMaëlle Fouquenet @fouquenet.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026Zuckerberg et Meta sont des fientes de pigeons malades, episode 355273893. Ils ont invisibilise le compte Instagram de Lula et pousser celui de bolsonaro junior en avant. Ingerence manifeste dans une élection présidentielle. Ca ne change pas depuis Cambridge Analytica 48952 89
Reposted by Andre GomesCinéma et politique quitte l'époque contemporaine @cinemaetpol.bsky.social · 17/10/2026Aujourd'hui, on quitte l'époque contemporaine, mais rappelons-nous du 17 octobre 1961 et du massacre mené par la police des Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pacifiquement. Invisible pendant longtemps, le film "Octobre à Paris" de Jacques Panijel constitue un document précieux de cette répression 2341254 341
Reposted by Andre GomesScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026In Brazil, President Lula sues Zuckerberg, producing evidence that Meta was suppressing pro-Lula accounts in the run up to the last election round. paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...paydayreport.comLula Files Legal Complaint Against Meta Alleging Election TheftThe legal complaint against Meta for election interference is an unprecedented move 17677283 677
Reposted by Andre GomesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/10/2026Google signs a deal to remove 20,932 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. That is 0.07% of their unadjusted emissions in one year (2025) 114058 140
Reposted by Andre GomesLong Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 16/10/2026Olympic sprinter Beth Dobbin advocates brilliantly in this article: 🔹strongly rejects CFS label 🔹states there is no specialist NHS service 🔹conveys the severity of the disease 🔹raises the issue of how athletes are more 'believed' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...bbc.co.ukBeth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosisBeth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure. 525487 254
Reposted by Andre GomesDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Is AI eroding PhD students’ critical thinking and analysis skills? | It’s eroding everyone’s critical thinking skills.idp.nature.comIs AI eroding PhD students’ critical thinking and analysis skills?An expert panel debates the impact of artificial intelligence on doctoral programmes. 46415 64
Reposted by Andre GomesChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/10/2026But you know, maybe this is just the shit my generation got stuck with Maybe it’s our job to preserve the idea that brains are valuable and good, actually bsky.app/profile/chan... 533250 332
Reposted by Andre GomesDenis Colombi @uneheuredepeine.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Un plaidoyer vibrant pour la taxation des milliardaires à hauteur de 99,99% de leur patrimoine 441071215 1.1K
Reposted by Andre GomesEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Thinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >> 1433393 333
Reposted by Andre GomesOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/10/2026And to add insult to injury: such AI solutionism itself also contributes to the deskilling too, so it’s quite the predicament, as through job losses the skills die, etc. See example below from 1998: olivia.science/before/ web.mit.edu/slava/space/... 1376 37
Reposted by Andre Gomestante @tante.cc · 15/10/2026Claims of increased productivity rest on the affected people and organizations actually being able to measure productivity which - aside from traditional manufacturing processes - is often very hard to do if not borderline impossible. 2578 57
Reposted by Andre GomesGwen Pallarès 🏳️⚧️ @sornette.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Pour tous les collègues, y compris en éduc et en didactique, qui veulent absolument mettre de l'IA dans les cursus éducatifs, les cours, etc... 0711 11
Reposted by Andre Gomestante @tante.cc · 14/10/2026If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace. 3377106 377
Reposted by Andre GomesAdolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 14/10/2026Como diz Olivia Guest, "guardrails are a scam" 1021257 212
Reposted by Andre GomesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026Just posting here for posterity: I found a company ripping original analyses, findings and calculations I've done (clearly using an LLM) to sell subscriptions to their software product. lnkd.in/p/enhuFrdE www.greenseal.dev/blog/2026-10... archive.ph/wip/pdjqD 115361 153
Reposted by Andre GomesPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I just had a look back at these medals, presented by the NSF, and they used to be serious. My god, what a sad state of affairs. 5156 15
Reposted by Andre GomesLe Gisti @legisti.bsky.social · 14/10/2026LOI DITE « INTÉGRALE » CONTRE LES VIOLENCES : LES FEMMES ÉTRANGÈRES SACRIFIÉES ⋅ Communiqué du Gisti L’Assemblée nationale a adopté la proposition de loi dite «intégrale» contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles (VSS). Cette loi n’aura cependant d’intégrale que le nom… → www.gisti.org/7861 0612 12
Reposted by Andre GomesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026The CEO of TotalEnergies says "a world of disruption rather than a peaceful world" because it creates more opportunities www.reuters.com/business/ene... 116932 69
Reposted by Andre GomesNicolas Addington @naddington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026👀 arxiv.org/abs/2610.10072 26620 66
Reposted by Andre GomesBarbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A reminder that maths papers do not go through peer review but through refereeing, a process where the entire paper is carefully checked and that typically takes months. Refereeing caught a mistake in Wiles' original proof of Fermat's last theorem. Science doesn't usually host maths papers. 2274 27
Reposted by Andre GomesAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 12/10/2026Recommendations from the Journals Working Group of the Association for Human Mathematics just dropped: Venues that disseminate scientific publications should give authors *choice* and *consent* in whether and how LLM-based systems are used during the referee process. www.ahmath.org/recommendati... 12918 29
Reposted by Andre GomesSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Outlandish idea: How about doing science yourself? 1215 21
Reposted by Andre GomesDr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd · 11/10/2026If I had $25 million to burn on solving math problems, I would choose to support 130 grad students for 6 years each. And I'd still have enough left over for a ton of CPUs for my own experiments in computation. 36110 61
Reposted by Andre GomesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026If you are wondering why Anthropic aren't coming out and opposing statements like this, it's because they very genuinely do not care about climate responsibility and will burn absolutely whatever they can get their hands on to keep the grift going. www.capitalbrief.com/article/anth... 13616204 616
Reposted by Andre GomesThéotime Grohens @tgrohens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Thank you François for writing things so clearly and showing us we're not alone. lookingup.francois-rincon.org/an-open-lett...lookingup.francois-rincon.orgAn open letter to academic colleagues consuming genAI – Looking up 02011 20
Reposted by Andre GomesVincent Heidelberg ↙️↙️↙️ @astrovicnet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026C'est 9 fois et demi la durée de l'emprisonnement de Sarko pour avoir négocié avec des terroristes pour financer sa campagne, et c'est 6 mois de plus que Marine Le Pen, qui a détourné 4 millions d'euros. 171110839 1.1K
Reposted by Andre GomesKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026How many years and billions in investment, just to learn we should be doing it the way we've always done it 2447 44
Reposted by Andre Gomes-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"On est dans des bahuts où il fait 50°C en été, -5°C en hiver, il manque la moitié des profs, les chiottes n'ont pas de portes ni de papier et les plafonds gouttent sur les tables. Et dans un ans où deux, Parcoursup nous enverra n'importe où." BFM: "On comprend pas ce qu'ils veulent, ces merdeux !" 261246546 1.2K
Reposted by Andre GomesDr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pensées aux personnes qui choperont la grippe ou le covid cet automne et qui ne s'en remettront pas dans l'indifférence générale 911941 119
Reposted by Andre GomesMark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈 317767 177
Reposted by Andre GomesOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026The frequency of this being the case is also bloody nightmare inducing. Please treat others and their labour like you want yourself and yours to be treated. 1318 31
Reposted by Andre Gomes404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi... 11463228 463
Reposted by Andre GomesWinslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a display of remarkable audacity, France’s Health Ministry representative recently claimed (at the UN indoor air event) that the nation leads global indoor air quality efforts. This lie demands correction. Reality is different: CO2 levels in France public spaces are still skyrocketing 1/13 23829 38
Reposted by Andre GomesOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026are we finally going to accept it's all a scam, a "mechanical turk", it's all humans? 717754 177
Reposted by Andre GomesMarc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm not writing in the NYT and I won't word it carefully: it's clear that AI companies are stealing researchers' work (and why wouldn't they? they steal artists' and journalists' work with no consequences), and I warned my group about it this morning. 01813 18
Reposted by Andre Gomessamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/09/2026another day, another bit of evidence that the scientists who willingly hand over proprietary information to AI firms may experience some consequences 7273121 273
![Another related aspect — described by Valentina Ponomareva (1998) — is that:
it is impossible to create an absolutely reliable automatic system, and sooner or later people face the necessity to act after equipment fails. [...] If the cosmonaut loses such skills because of [their] passive role [due to being typically limited to monitoring and observation only], the probability of [their] choosing and carrying out the right procedure in an emergency would be small. This contradiction is inherent in automatic control systems.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreihjpp3lsakhze6g5xkqkzln6h6v2isjdbzniewwtulctis5u5ggji)
![After the paper was written, the author learned that the same result was also proved independently and by a different method by Ningyi Li [7]. The result is also contained in a paper (8] released by OpenAI on October 6, 2026, in which the proof strategy and specific choices of notation are identical to a preliminary version of the present paper that was uploaded to ChatGPT on September 8, 2026.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:thgrcc2e2qyxxtfmjp6vctxc/bafkreihhkayosq6gwp3c7k7vhx5m4sgkk4rhm3nkm54xq5qeaozcrp2m4m)
