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Jasmijn Bastings

@jasmijn.bastings.me
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Researcher, writer, photographer. 📸 bastings.art 📃 transponder.blog 📍 Amsterdam

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.
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Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra
We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Is it because of the Avondvierdaagse?
Once a year, Dutch kids, parents and teachers take part in a walking festival, heading out for four nights in a single week to explore their neighbourhoods, exercise and make friends. It’s a tradition...
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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18+ age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15/06/2026
Breaking: Under 16s impose social media ban on Government. It’s too much to expect ministers to be able to cope with the extremism and disinformation they encounter on X and Facebook. At their age they’re too easily convinced that immigrants are dangerous and of the need to bring back “real bins”.
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion therapy needs to confront the fact that the NHS has been doing it for decades.
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Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In film, "we'll fix it in post" is what you say when something went wrong on set and you don't want to redo it. AI research has made it our entire methodology: train the model, then patch whatever comes out. Our new ICML oral argues this can't be the basis of a science of AI. 🧵
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I thought I was writing an essay explaining a decision to stop using the em dash — or least use it way less — because of how AI chatbots have appropriated it. Instead, I found myself arguing passionately in favor of it. 😑
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Humans vs. Bots — Who Does the Em Dash Better?
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blair @blairaf.com · 09/06/2026
Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...
Poster entitled "Designing AI policy for and with trans communities"
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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
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Vera Neplenbroek @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Like clockwork
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.
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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 05/06/2026
New on Transponder: Britain has become a dark mirror for trans rights www.transponder.blog/britain-has-... #trans #rights #uk #EHRC #LGBT #gender
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Britain has become a dark mirror for trans rights
Mirrors are interesting objects: what others see as being left, mirrors show on the right. A dark mirror, then, shows a bleak alternate reality: one that’s the exact opposite of how everyone else sees it. Such is the case with UK gender politics today. On one of my many
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...
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The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics
Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research
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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 31/05/2026
I finally got around to launch my personal blog and the first post is my book review of Karen Hao's Empire of AI. You can read it here: www.transponder.blog/book-review-...
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Book review: Karen Hao - Empire of AI
For Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao conducted 300 interviews with around 260 people and scrutinized countless documents and correspondence. The result is an impre...
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 27/05/2026
look how they massacred my boy
A google search for "how many ps are in google", and the AI Overview says 2.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“If a machine can defeat the best of our species at chess, ‘a domain that humans have viewed as sacrosanct, something that is quintessentially possessed by human intelligence,’ then what human endeavor is safe?” -- Washington Post, 1997
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
It was quite surprising to read the Pope’s encyclical and find it is basically an STS or media studies textbook.
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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 24/05/2026
"In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world." If you want to read up on just how bad things have gotten in the UK, read this article.
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Gender Bias in NLP Workshop @genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Heads up, #NLProc community! The 7th GeBNLP workshop is heading to AACL! 🌏 (and it'll be remote-friendly! 💻) While we’re still finalizing the details, we're putting this on your radar! 🚨 ✨ Start brainstorming those submissions now and stay tuned for the updates! #GeBNLP #AACL2026
AACL 2026 Hengqin, China
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Excellent thread "We risk all of science if we rush to build 'AI Scientists' before we understand the value of human science." ⬇️
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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 24/04/2026
I'll speak about building community-centred harm taxonomies at the “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI” workshop, April 29th, 11am-3pm, Amsterdam. amsterdamnlp.github.io/blog/biaswor... in connection with the PhD defence of @ovdw.bsky.social #NLProc #bias #AI
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Measuring and mitigating bias in AI
Workshop “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI”
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Jasmijn Bastings @jasmijn.bastings.me · 24/04/2026
I'll speak about building community-centred harm taxonomies at the “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI” workshop, April 29th, 11am-3pm, Amsterdam. amsterdamnlp.github.io/blog/biaswor... in connection with the PhD defence of @ovdw.bsky.social #NLProc #bias #AI
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Measuring and mitigating bias in AI
Workshop “Measuring and mitigating bias in AI”
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