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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/11/2025

I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world And by design LLMs destroy shared context

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This is well worth a listen - cheers @the-syllabus.bsky.social for sharing 🙏

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

So excited to introduce @gemmamilne.bsky.social on Weds ☺️ Registration details 👇

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Matt McDowell @handle.invalid · 12/08/2025

There is soon going to be an historical primary-source black hole for the past thirty years of human existence... if it doesn't exist already, of course.

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A different take from me back in 2023... (Not a perfect take, but something I've been thinking about a lot since I wrote these pretty high level / early thoughts) www.newreal.cc/magazine/roa...

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🥶 Are we hurtling towards a quantum winter? 🥶 Had a great time chatting hype in quantum on @crackingquantum.bsky.social! We touched on: ❄️ Too little or too much hype in quantum? ❄️ Alternative 'norms' for science-entrepreneurs ❄️ 'Spinning out, better': equitably, democratically, and for the many

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Dani Shanley @danishanley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Woohoo! SO excited my pal @gemmamilne.bsky.social will join us on the hype train, helping us kick-off the hype studies conference in Barcelona in September!

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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Chaired by fab writer, researcher and pal @gemmamilne.bsky.social - we'll be discussing what happens when LGBTQ communities meet the categories, classifications and labels assigned to them! Please (if you can) preorder a copy of the book with Lighthouse - it really helps! 📚

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M Smallman @melaniesmallman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fascinating pre #PCST2025 workshop on #scicomm teaching & AI. Great to welcome @gemmamilne.bsky.social @samillingworth.com & more for an insightful discussion. Thanks to everyone who came!

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Nice new podcast by the lovely Ash on all thing quantum! Give it a listen :)

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Cracking Quantum Podcast @crackingquantum.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

New podcast series on everything quantum! No physics knowledge needed - just me talking to scientists about what it all really means Come join me on on: Youtube youtube.com/playlist?lis... Spotify open.spotify.com/show/1j84GCr...

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I so enjoyed this chat with @melhogan.bsky.social and @danishanley.bsky.social on all things 💫hype💫!

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Been thinking recently about a ‘turn to badness’ re the explicitness of immoral behaviour usually more ‘hidden’ in the cult(ure) of tech startups etc (think: VCs proudly & openly promoting defence investments) - looking for good readings on cynicism / explicit badness - anyone?

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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Ok, time to dust off some Hannah Arendt, for absolutely no particular reason: "In totalitarian regimes, provocation, once only the speciality of the secret agent, becomes a method of dealing with his neighbor which everybody, willingly or unwillingly is forced to follow" (OT, ed. 2004, p. 556) 1/

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

📣 Wee bit of news 📣 (Not April Fools’ fodder…) Totally thrilled to have been given a Lectureship at the University of Glasgow, which I start today! I’ll be focusing on my research programme on the political economy of deep tech, based in @uofgasbs.bsky.social 🚀 I’m so excited to get started 🌱

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/03/2025

it's a fucking CHATBOT

Claude may also have a hand in building its own successor. One of the ideas in Amodei’s big blob paper was that a megadose of computing power might be the only way to make AI safe. “We’ve been looking at how to help Claude accelerate the development of our actual Claude app,” says Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer (and Instagram cofounder).
It’s not a stretch to see Anthropic’s deep embrace of Claude as a test run for humanity’s future relationship with AI. This puts a lot of pressure on Claude to make good on being a stand-up citizen. Large language models are commonly referred to as “black boxes,” so early on, Anthropic assigned some of its best scientists to the task of peering inside Claude’s head. Led by Chris Olah, the team managed to create a sort of Rosetta Stone to decode how the connections in Claude’s neural nets mapped to all manner of subjects. Then they tested how they could manipulate Claude’s thinking. Indeed, when they dialed up the intensity of the virtual neurons that evoked the Golden Gate Bridge, Claude became madly, deeply obsessed with the span, to the point where Claude declared that it was the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Chloé Bate @4lfch103.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In 2023, Scotland saw 1,172 drug related deaths (DRDs). Approaches to death prevention are complex as solutions require coordinated action across different sectors. How can we explore how causes of DRDs interact in our health and social care system? Let's use systems mapping!🧵 (1/17) #systemscience

# STOP THE DEATHS, WE CAN PREVENT DRUG DEATHS" in bold white letters on a black background.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 14/03/2025

This is a cool story about the Swiss furnace working around the clock to resize gold bars in the rush sparked by Trump - on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

May 12th - Laura Bates on The New Age of Sexism and the ways AI and the new horizon of evolving technologies may come to affect the rights and safeties of women. Chaired by @gemmamilne.bsky.social 🧵

Event banner for an event with Laura Bates featuring details from the cover of the book The New Age of Sexism, particularly the face of a female presenting person that looks AI genereated

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Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🎺🕵️‍♀️ Unofficial starter pack @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social go.bsky.app/CAYjEDd

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Super interesting! Great to read about real-world examples of 'alternatives'; critique is limited without possible, material, copy-able, structures. (I was very flattered find out this morning that some of my words are quoted in the conclusion too!) 👏 @melissaterras.bsky.social

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm not exaggerating when I say I've just sent this to every mum-pal I have in my Whatsapp - Hayley Nahman *so* eloquently captures the experience of reflecting (or not!) on the madness of birth/pregnancy/early motherhood: haleynahman.substack.com/p/200-hey-fr... Sharing for the mum-pals on here!

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#200: Hey from oblivion

Too much to see, too close to see it.

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This is such a great film - congrats @bondhack.bsky.social @cynthiao.bsky.social @dangarrahan.bsky.social 👏 The way Windhorst squirms at so many points throughout is cracking viewing too..!

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Ana Costa @anacostadoesthings.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

First ever MSc Science Communications cohort 😍 proud of every single one of them. A big shoutout to @gemmamilne.bsky.social for her amazing course on Science journalism @uofglasgow.bsky.social #uofglasgow

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hey @glasgowwestend.bsky.social 👋 (or anyone else who might be in the know) - we want to donate a load of baby/toddler toys before Christmas (heard it’s more useful than after..!) - any specific local charity shops / toy drives asking for toys? Don’t want to inundate where not needed / miss a call!

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This is excellent! Such clarity and ambition, and awesome to see this properly explained in a Glasgow-specific news outlet (not ‘hidden’ in planning docs), so it gets the broader (but local) eyes and debate it deserves and needs!! Great work @garethdennis.bsky.social & @glasgowbell.bsky.social 👏👏

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Found this super thought-provoking - instead of focuses on the technical specifics: "AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power."

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Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Gary Marcus wrote a classy rebuke of Newton’s nonsense. Bless you, @garymarcus.bsky.social

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This story is totally insane, the title / summary does not do it justice! Amazing investigative work from @sooophie.bsky.social & @jackiedavalos.bsky.social

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just read an article that refers to ‘infrastructures of feeling’ (v cool to see in local journalism!) but cites Davies 2023 for the term. I’ve read the intro and Gilmore isn’t cited re the term but is quoted later in the chapter (so journo not misreading). Is there more than 1 use of this term? Or…?

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thought this was a great piece - captures and weaves together so much which can often end up lost in too-long, ‘too-political’, too-academic pieces which many cannot / will not access. More clear-eyed no-nonsense pieces like this pls!

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Can we talk about this now? Thanks to @bellingcat.com for an amazing couple of days at Bellingfest. For those who missed it, many of the sessions are online here. Brian McClendon of Google Earth and Pokemon Go fame was an amazing end of day highlight www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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BELLINGFEST DAY 1

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Watching a panel and ofc the investor is wearing a vest - I know it's beyond parody now, but genuinely curious: what's the deal with / history of the investor 'uniform'? Were they given out as merch at one point? Is there a celeb VC Steve-Jobs-turtle-neck effect? Does @dieworkwear.bsky.social know?!

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Interesting comment at this Quantum Health conference re the impact of knowing more about our health / predicted mortality (in early diagnosis) - are we moving towards a demand for a ‘personalised retirement age’ (if you know you won’t make it to the state retirement age, why pay NI)?

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Currently listening live! @zsk.bsky.social interviewed me months ago for this series - I've been very excited to hear how she has pulled together what sounds like a great array of moderator stories and experts!

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

very interesting to see the biographer of the world's richest man, who loves to post excerpts of his book after key moments at subject's companies, post absolutely nothing about how the billionaire became the president-elect's most important supporter on the way to the white house

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I regret to inform you that - yes - turning my phone off and on again did in fact solve the problem 🫠🫠

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Bitcoin is now at an all-time high, the play here is that by legitimizing all sorts of cryptocurrencies and preventing the SEC from prosecuting scammers, a new class of betting instrument that trillions can slosh into has been born

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/11/2024

Kinda sad these kinds of dark anti-intellectual patterns in publishing from Google and other companies aren't discussed really as much as they should be given how much the apparent successful research is lauded. Impossible things are possible if you fudge the results. cacm.acm.org/research/ree...

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Agreed. Also not sure I agree with Clearsky showing you who blocks who openly…

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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I started STS scholars (broadly construed) starter pack! It's VERY incomplete! I wasn’t sure if there was an easier way to do this than just going through my followers & adding people. Probably missed lots of folks! Please let me know who I missed or if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/H4NcX46

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This is also fab! Thanks @eryk.bsky.social for including me 🙏

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

This is a super useful list! Thanks @angecass.bsky.social 🙏 go.bsky.app/LRFUZxm

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Gemma Milne @gemmamilne.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Had lots of super interesting-looking folk follow me in the last 2 days - thank you! But also, am I on a list of some kind?!

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