Reposted by Nolen GertzTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23hSo you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology. 946658
Reposted by Nolen GertzEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Guys, no one doubts that Tesla is responsible if its cars roll down hills and crash into people (or anything else). The problem is that until VERY recently, it was not accepted that it was possible for something on wheels that we forgot to put breaks on to travel downhill at high speed. 514123
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Publisher: "We love your new book!" Me: "Yay!" Publisher: "But can you just cut 30,000 words?" Me: 290
Reposted by Nolen GertzUTwente Philosophy @utwentephilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our next Philofilm screening will be Hitchcock's Spellbound with UT philosophy PhD candidate Maaike van der Horst on Monday 5 October 2026 from 19:30-22:15 at the Concordia Film Theatre: www.utwente.nl/en/bms/phil/...utwente.nlPhilofilm screening of Hitchcock's Spellbound with UT philosophy PhD candidate Maaike van der HorstThe next Philofilm at Concordia Film Theatre will be UT philosophy PhD candidate Maaike van der Horst presenting the classic Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller Spellbound: About Philofilm This m... 173
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Starting to think that people who use AI are actually hoping it blows up their lives. Like maybe it'll make you rich. Or maybe it'll make you broke. But either way, your life was definitely changed... 021
Reposted by Nolen GertzAndrás Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes 2934356
Reposted by Nolen GertzB.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis. 4313123
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Will be at the Koorts Film Festival today participating in a panel discussion on "A.I. in the film industry" at 1300 at Sickhouse. You'll never guess how I feel about the issue. If you're in Enschede, tickets are free... koortsfilmfestival.nl/program-2026/ 000
Reposted by Nolen GertzAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158851
Reposted by Nolen GertzLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359691992
Reposted by Nolen GertzG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026Every day we get closer to this: 121458442
Reposted by Nolen GertzPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978671388
Reposted by Nolen GertzDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6336731431
Reposted by Nolen GertzAndrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world. 92149775
Reposted by Nolen GertzNolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#NihilismAndTechnology 042
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Finally, AI you can literally throw in the trash... 072
Reposted by Nolen GertzChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026Nicholas Polson is the Robert Law, Jr. Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago. "The online platform where Polson posted his papers said it removed 257 of his works over the past month after his surge in releases." I have THOUGHTS given the racist shit I know UC folks said about mewashingtonpost.comUsing AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions. 310742
Reposted by Nolen Gertzandy™ @andylevy.net · 23/09/2026i gave mark zuckerberg’s ai access to my bank accounts, email, and docs. i am very smart 521723
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And yet publishers always expect me to have one... 010
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Foucault: "Society is a panopticon." Zuckerberg: "But what if we put a panopticon in every cell of the panopticon?" #NihilismAndTechnology 031
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Former student: "You don't remember me?" Me: "Sorry no." Former student: "But I almost killed you!" Me: "That doesn't really narrow it down..." 160
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What a great birthday gift from Trump. I couldn't have asked for anything better. Perfect. No notes... 040
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wow they're really going to great lengths to make AI Doomerism seem legit... #NihilismAndTechnology 130
Reposted by Nolen Gertzjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026yeah, this stuff is far from my area of expertise, but i have yet to see anyone convincingly explain how the causal chain is supposed to operate here. it feels like the "AI will kill us all people" spent too much time watching Terminator 2 and the Animatrix. 3702550297
Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Netflix is gonna release The Trolley Problem reality show any day now... 050
Reposted by Nolen GertzJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351441410
Reposted by Nolen GertzAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026on the one hand, people hunger for meaning! we are ruled by nihilist thieves, and it is so so good that people want more culture! on the other hand, not enough avenues to culture-making; people need places for collective meaning making (the opposite of explanation), not one directional talkytube 1519