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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Well, gosh, who would have thought … (oh wait, quite a few people)

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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

EN: Are you an American multi billionaire? Are you looking for the right advertising space? We still have some ad slots available to offer you. For a nominal fee—0 euros, in fact—you can have your logo appear on the footer of our parliament’s website. #LeaveX #Democracy #France

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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

#math version of this: - Look, we used AI to solve all hard math problems super quickly. - How do the solutions work and what do they say? - I’m pretty sure that’s your job.

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Reading Golumbia‘s Cultural Logic of Computation. For “the individual, and maybe even from the perspective of informal social groups, the empowering effects of computerization appear (and may even be) largely salutary.” But for “institutions, computerization has effects that we as citizens and […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

AbdouMalique Simone wrote years ago: “Infrastructure is the materialization of anticipation”. Is that not so appropriate for today’s “AI”.

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Finally, a sensible school strategy for AI! First dedicated AI literacy teacher in Scotland: “But rather than teaching pupils to embrace AI, Laycock's mission is to ensure they can question it, challenge it and use it responsibly.” www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6qjk9n7g…

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Scotland's first AI teacher warns pupils: Don't trust everything it tells you

Jamie Laycock says schools must help youngsters understand both the opportunities and dangers of AI.

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Locally Hated Pin. With social media, it's all too easy to be hated globally. Now being hated locally, that's an art form. It takes honest, despicable work to make everyone in a five mile radius despise you. collabs.shop/e80him

An enamel pin shaped like a brown sidewalk cafe sign with gold trim. The text on the sign reads "LOCALLY HATED," with a small coffee cup and croissant illustration below.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Oh, the irony. Schools (in Germany) try to reduce the use of "genAI" among students in classrooms, while giving them iPads and Goodnotes, which has "AI features". "Whether you're brainstorming on a whiteboard or taking detailed notes in your notebook, Goodnotes AI helps you effortlessly […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Nautilus director of organising Martyn Gray said: “For centuries, every seafarer, every maritime nation, and every decent human being has lived by an unwritten, unbreakable law: when life is in peril on the sea, you launch. You do not hold a committee meeting on the slipway. You pull them out […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

“”Can a bridge decide to collapse?” The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have […]

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

What a hero: Nihar B Shah interviewed authors of papers that would have been desk-rejected to see if they understood their own papers. medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-authors-… #FuckAI

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/09/2026

Today is the day! Cyberselfish—the book that nailed Silicon Valley's dangerous narcissism 26 years ago—is back in print!

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: union.place/@smolwaffle/11726364848… Being back Norman Fairclough! These headings (passive voice) are in the Beginner’s Guide to News Analysis or the Discourse Analysis 101… New tech, same rhetoric #DiscourseStudies @DiscourseNet

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Berlin FediDay @berlinfediday.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

🏫🌐 Neu im Fediverse! 🎉 Es gibt jetzt den Account @fedimachtschule! 🚀 Du hast Interesse daran, das Fediverse in die Schulen zu bringen? Dann: 👉 Account folgen 📧 In den E-Mail-Verteiler eintragen 💡 Ideen, Erfahrungen & Infos in das Pad eintragen Lasst uns gemeinsam das Fediverse in die Schule […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

"As part of their training, ((LLM technologies)) scour the internet, sweep through texts of dubious authority, and rummage through our language rubble." Elizabeth de Freitas on LLMs. de Freitas, E. (2024). Fragile texts and machine readers: trans/in/dividual reading tactics in a complex […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Nepal‘s foreign minister, Shisir Khanal, on #climatejustice “We have contributed so little to climate change,” he said. “It is imperative for those in the global community who benefit from larger, much more polluting economies, and whose historical contribution to greenhouse gases is much […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Important information on the "Knight in Shining Armor Saves the Girl" trope: This is actually pretty rare in actual folk tales - usually it is later addition when those tales were turned into literature in order to make them a better fit for bourgeois narrative tastes and preferences of gender […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

How can people not notice their overuse of negative parallelisms? (“It isn’t x. It’s y.”) One manuscript had five in one paragraph. Another had eight on one page. Most of the x’s are straw figures. #academicWriting

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

About AI music in Grace Chan’s Every Version of You: it’s like cotton candy: “It hits you like pure sugar. At first, it’s delicious. But the more you eat it, the more you realise it’s just the same sticky shit. And then, after a while, you realise you’re just eating mostly air.” Couldn’t say […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Ivan Illich was born 100 years ago today. This is a picture I took in April of the door to the house where he once lived. There is no better place to start getting to know him than this Lost Prophets podcast […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

A former dairy farm in North Somerset is set to become a climate-resilient nature reserve, giving birds, bats and newts more habitat and creating a new place for people to connect with wildlife. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd76ve… @goodnews #GoodNews #NatureRecovery […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Collapsology. Politische Bildung in der Post-Apokalypse. Am looking forward to reading this book.

Screenshot of the cover of this book, with black background and stark white letters: Werner Friedrichs / Tonio Oeftering (Eds.) Politische Bildung in der Postapokalypse: Die Zukunft vom Ende her denken

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Petition gegen Dauerbefristung in der Wissenschaft. Again. It's worth signing every single time. Might work at some point […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Overheard on the elevator this morning: "But if AI didn't really work as well as they say people would say something about it" *I turn and look directly into the camera* Credits roll.

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

This will be great: CfP Discursive Imaginaries of Change - Heterotopias, PowerKnowledge, and the "Great Transformation", 19–21 July 2027 | Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany #discoursestudies #academia #DNC2027

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: hcommons.social/@MerjaPolvinen/1171… “Against the forces of anti-intellectual fascists and AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics and immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties and pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests.” […]

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Estelle Platini @estelle.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11712686944… "The losses are largest in social science subjects,..." (The screenshot in the post seems generated though - it's not from the article)

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

An interesting thing about LLM-generated academic texts is that they are quite patronising about other scholars' work. Sentences like "Name (year) defines this mechanism precisely"... So this is how the LLMs were trained? The statistical winner is the academic who takes the position of deciding […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

If Tidal titled their recommendations "Albums you might enjoy", I'd be so much happier than the current "Albums you'll enjoy". That certainty!

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Thinking about the sci-fi novella "Profession" by Isaac Asimov, published in 1957. In the future, people's brains are tested for professional aptitudes, and then "Educated" by machine which trains their mind to do a job. One man is told his brain cannot be […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

An excerpt from Profession (1957), novella by Isaac Asimov. While technically not out of copyright, many copies are available on the web

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Oh no. Even my mastodon feed has AI slop now. I would really like to understand why people do it. Why give away the power over language and style? Why smoothen so much to similar tone and cadence and words and grammatical structures? I mean, I really want to understand. What is behind it? I […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Fury! This kind of AI-generated sentence is flooding academic writing: "This case is not merely xxx. It is a site where yyy." "This is not simply xxx. It is about yyy". I think what makes me furious is the reductive straw figure of "not merely". Whoever said it was "merely xxx" in the first […]

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Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Very interesting analysis by @netzbegruenung about Mastodon and Bluesky in Germany. For high-profile accounts active on both platforms, the Mastodon accounts saw on average a 193% higher increase in followers over the last six months […]

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Tennyson on genAI: Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null Dead perfection; no more (Or rather, Micah Nathan writing in the Guardian about what AI writing reminds them of!) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte…

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Since when does DeepL extend one's range of political theorists? Also: gender bias, anyone? And it isn't James, it's William. And and and I only have 12,000 characters for this article, so there's a reason for omitting first names.

A screenshot of DeepL. On the left, my dodgy German: "Diese Arbeiten sind an den Demokratietheorien von u.a. Mouffe, Connolly und Laclau orientiert, mit der Annahme, demokratische Diskussionen geschehen immer innerhalb Machtverhältnisse, und Konflikte, Antagonismen, Agonismen gehören zur Demokratie", On the right, the DeepL correction: "Diese Arbeiten orientieren sich an den Demokratietheorien von u. a. Chantal Mouffe, Étienne Balibar, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, James Connolly und Ernesto Laclau. Sie gehen davon aus, dass demokratische Diskussionen immer innerhalb von Machtverhältnissen stattfinden und dass Konflikte, Antagonismen und Agonismen zur Demokratie gehören."

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

While we're all talking about how "AI" increases efficiency, has anyone tallied up all the lost seconds, minutes and hours to waiting at pages like this, caused directly by "AI"?

A screenshot of the webpage that says: "www.tandfonline.com
Performing security verification
This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot.
Verification successful. Waiting for www.tandfonline.com to respond..."

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

The imagination is “a vital resource in all social processes and projects, and needs to be seen as a quotidian energy”. Love that. Quotidian energy. From Arjun Appadurai in The Future as Cultural Fact. #everydayEducationalUtopias

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Felicitas Macgilchrist @discoursology.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

Games night coming up: “billionaires & guillotines”: 2-5 players take on the roles of rival plutocrats, competing tooth and nail to accumulate the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution. Will you play the media baron or the property speculator? The aristocrat or the tech […]

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