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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oof, this makes me feel ill. It’s epistimicide on an unfathomable scale, and we’re being led into it to the joyful beating of the drums of “progress.”

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is about what I would expect. GenAI is a B or C student. For my part, this is driving a move away from graded homework and toward exams that test practical skills in a controlled environment.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Can you be a billionaire without also being a solipsist?

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I’m so grateful for the voice of @parismarx.com at this morning’s panel at FAccT’26 today. “There’s a real divide between what the government wants and what the public sees.”

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Is something “too dangerous” if it’s easy to slap on guardrails? Tigers are really dangerous. Tigers are at the zoo in my town. Don’t go in the tiger enclosure at the zoo. The zoo is pretty good at keeping you out. Under normal circumstances, tigers aren’t really something to be alarmed about.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I love running in lilac season: the sweetness in the air is magical.

Light purple lilac in bloom in the foreground, with leaves. The sun shines through the background foliage, illuminating a spider’s web.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Welcome to the Slopocene Epoch.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Particularly in the context of (appropriate) crackdowns on LLM-generated papers (e.g., on arXiv) and more and more tales of fabricated citations, two reminders: (1) LLMs do not "cite their sources" (2) Using an LLM to generate, complete, or fix LaTeX code can result in fabricated citations

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In this metaphor, who is the shark and who is the diver?

The AP reports that a shark has mauled a diver in Australia, but the linked article is about Walmart and Amazon competing for drone delivery dominance in rural areas.

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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I desire more in life than to be the “don’t summarise with AI”-guy on bluesky 😅 but reports like this keep coming in, so I’ll repeat ad nauseam, don’t summarise with ‘AI’! www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

tue.nl

Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?

Author: Maarten Paulusse Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will b...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Writing is “a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.com

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

AI is like if every website now emitted a smell when you clicked on it. Why? “It’s the future! So we installed it everywhere!”

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Just imagine installing an OS and needing to acknowledge that “the software is not intended for use in California” because it does not comply with their age verification law. 🫠

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

“Amazon, Microsoft & Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition & now the companies are coming under shareholder pressure over ‌the environmental impact” Lose the passive voice—PEOPLE are doing this💫 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

reuters.com

Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google have each recently abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers over community opposition and now the companies are coming under shareholder pres...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

oecs.mit.edu

Algorithmic Bias

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 14/03/2026

I certainly won't claim that all human scientific endeavors have always been good and noble and without any suffering to humankind. But I will say that the scientific impulse--the curiosity that drives us to work together to understand our universe--is one of my very favorite things about humanity.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

404media.co

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you still think what Grammerly is doing is “enshittification “ and recent but not committed to the long history of slavery, women’s ghost writing , colonialism and anti DEI that’s why they did it And will continue to until they learn

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/03/2026

Category error! I'm sick to the back teeth of comparisons to humans. It's so rife even colleagues do it. What's next? > I compared a rock and a person, and challenged them to stay still the longest and the rock won! Wow! Things thought up by the unhinged & those who wish to dehumanise for profit.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Community *is* the most important part. Don’t let corporations profit from driving us into isolation.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oof, yes: magical thinking and self-soothing for sure.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

the-reframe.com

Fix Your Hearts or Die

It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The grey goo that we used to be afraid of, the output of out of control nano machines? It’s actually this. It isn’t a sterile organic landscape, it’s an unsympathetically incongruent, incomprehensible, and untrustworthy information landscape.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Tha feeling when you open your laptop 30 minutes before class and it is closing applications to install an update.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Yes, they are harmful— especially in education— precisely because of their utility.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 14/02/2026

“If you look at major companies and corporations like Microsoft and Google, they are the very entities that are powering genocide, powering war. You start to realize that a lot of the claims around 'AI for good' start to crumble.” - @abeba.bsky.social

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Dr Brett H Meyer @bretthmeyer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

And not only completing it, but doing so well, producing a durable result worth being proud of. There has always been shortcuts. When the work matters, they’re always a trap.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Rhetoric didn’t shoot the guns.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

economist.com

Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

Independent research identifies few learning gains

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 15/01/2026

AI is a ruling-class idea Paul Ralph (Dalhousie University) www.linkedin.com/posts/pralph...

The ruling ideas of a time are the ideas of the ruling class. That's what AI is. A ruling-class idea.

To working people whose wages haven't kept pace with increased rent, food prices, etc., AI is irrelevant or making matters worse. Software developers losing their jobs because companies think they can make more money off cobbled-together AI slop should not embrace ruling-class fantasies about hyper-intelligent messiahs.

Scientists, including those who study software engineering like me, must stop incessantly discussing AI and pay more attention to working-class problems and phenomena. Bhaskar argued that the twin aims of science are to understand the universe and to emancipate humanity from suffering. No one said anything about enriching AI oligarchs. AI has become a black hole, vacuuming up all our intellectual bandwidth, funding, and publication opportunities.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 08/01/2026

can we stop for just a sec?

four panel illustration of a small child careening down a yellow plastic slide, flailing as they try to slow their progress to no avail, each panel their becoming more terrified and panicked,
with text on each panel reading
1. January 2026
2. January 2026
3. Also January 2026
4. ...January 2026

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/12/2025

I agree with all this — sick leave is essential to a healthy society. While we’re working on that, though, we need to make it a general norm that if you MUST be around others while sick, you wear a mask (preferably a good one).

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The key phrase in this op-ed: "scarcity breeds ingenuity." What's so remarkable about the human mind is how nimble it is, how capable we are despite *not* having read all the data on the Internet. The brute force methods of today's AI models are offensive to human cognitive elegance.

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