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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 10h

Computer Science Academia: There's nothing we can do. Let's accept and do research with LLMs. Mathematics Academia: We did not ask for this work to be done. OpenAI is an evil company. Mathematicians have a particular vision of progress that is informed by history and field-specific considerations

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 10h

This is a great example of what should be possible for truly every discipline!!!

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 12h

As a person in rhetcomp / writing studies where I often see folks talking and publishing about 'AI literacy,' I could not agree more.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But speaking of staying in one's lane, can we PLEASE switch the default position from "It's fine to use 'AI' for this thing I'm not an expert in" to "Yeah, I'd be really skeptical of any use cases and need to see strong evidence that it's okay, but I'm not the one who can produce that evidence"?

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting move from Norway with Smart Glasses being temporarily banned in public spaces due to the covert filming element.

arstechnica.com

AI glasses face their first major government crackdown

Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is pretty ahistorical actually. Just because what's going on now is ESPECIALLY toxic & corrupt doesn't mean "AI" as an ideology was ever okay. See: notaidoc.com See: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape... >>

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Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah that’s the thing. What on my list of to-dos should I not do so that I can instead have a civility lunch with someone? My nails? My writing? My research? My family? The groceries? Dinner? The laundry? Then i realize they got Beyonce’s 24 hours without Beyonce’s effort.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you seen @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social yet? If not, you are in for a treat --- a thoughtful, wry deep dive into the history, present, and ideology of "AI". Streaming for free on PBS's YouTube channel in the US & Korea, rentable on Kinema elsewhere. notaidoc.com

notaidoc.com

Ghost in the Machine

Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you want to know what’s better than remaining “curious and vigilant” about using chatbots for researching election information? Not using them in the first place.

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🔊 Listen Now: Midterm voting is underway. Some voters are relying on AI to make a decision

Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR One | 4:37

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026

a lot of people into ai want to talk about how it works, but they either mean the stack inside the software or the things it "can do now" that "can't be explained" but ai is a rhetorical technology. the way to understand how it works is to understand how rhetoric works

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Clay Tribune @claytribune.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The stochastic parrot frame is the single sharpest tool critics have for cutting through the hype. It's no surprise the industry reacts like a kicked hornet nest every time it comes up.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It undercuts the entire project, both from narrative and marketing perspective—and injures the egos of men who imagine themselves to be playing a key role in the most important project in history in the process.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

bloodinthemachine.com

The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first

servola.de

Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law

Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two essential people to read and follow, who speak from both professional expertise, and having worked in the belly of the beast.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just because you/I don't understand AI doesn't mean that no one does. So many people buy into this 'poorly understood' line that lets commercially-motivated tech companies off the hook for harms & near-catastrophes. Kudos to @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for this.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, definitely not, so we'd better not respond to any misreadings or misinterpretations of our work, lest we get shit on for looking like we don't understand that language is a social phenomenon thats re-negotiated and re-interpreted across people, cultures, and media! 🙆🏻‍♀️

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All excellent points. It's also incredibly goofy to act like critics of "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" tend to engage with that work in good faith and that willful misinterpretation as a result of sexism and jealousy is not a thing that happens to women ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is a bit odd to dunk on “on the dangers of stochastic parrots” 1) by being more than a little ungenerous in its reading; 2) taking for granted a claim it made first; and 3) ignoring its original context.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 01/10/2026

Meta slashed its federal tax bill nearly 71% by labeling AI data centers experimental The company's research tax credits trimmed $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill, up from $700 million in 2023 qz.com/meta-ai-data...

qz.com

Meta cut its tax bill billions by labeling AI data centers experimental

The company's research tax credits trimmed $3.9 billion from its 2025 tax bill, up from $700 million in 2023

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 01/10/2026

"AI" is not a human! It has no judgment at all. The idea of using it for *peer review*? Is LAUGHABLE.

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Allison Dieppa @amdieppa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We think it’s also important to acknowledge how the rhetorical strategy of re-framing critique-as-shaming—in addition to calls for middle ground positions—corresponds with a post-truth political worldview where all opinions are equally valid and must be treated as such.”

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 04/09/2026

New York is doing it. Los Angeles is doing it. On October 17 we have a chance to elect Vancouver School Board trustees who support removing Microsoft Copilot 13+ (a ChatGPT-based chatbot). See candidates and their stances here: aicaution.ca/vsb/trustee-...

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VSB Trustee Elections 2026

Text generation and chatbots are extremely harmful to learning. Join the movement to remove AI from schools.

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, I resigned from chairing CCCC 2027. NCTE (Emily Kirkpatrick) couldn't give me a definitive action plan for my safety and wanted to wait until we got closer to April to make a decision. (Emily let me know that she monitors my posts on this site. So, Hi Emily! 👋🏾)

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was struck by the extent to which this reviewer (and many other people, I'm afraid) have lost sight of the possibility of refusal. And so I want to reaffirm: There is no responsible use without the possibility of refusal. >>

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a thread about erasure of women's expertise and work in this area. As often happens, erasure comes together with overexposure. >>

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

If you were asked to consider the biggest threat to humanity in the next ten years, you might choose the worsening climate disasters or ever-growing number of wars. But tech oligarchs want us to believe it’s chatbots that can’t even tell truth from bullshit. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

For the past several weeks, we’ve been treated to breathless coverage of the supposed major threat presented by artificial intelligence. If we’re to believe the titans of the AI industry and the media reports mindlessly echoing their every utterance, humanity’s years may be numbered.

It’s not because of climate change and how we’re actively making our planet less fit for human habitation. Indeed, many of these prophets of AI doom don’t actually believe climate change is much of a threat at all. It’s also not because increasingly unstable geopolitics is shifting the world toward greater conflict and the risk of global war.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

disconnect.blog

The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Just as providers are using sophisticated A.I. tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies have been accused of using the tools to delay or deny care.... But as more hospitals and doctors use A.I., costs will continue to rise."

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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026

A common pattern we see is "sure AI is bad, but it's useful for {field in which the speaker is not an expert}" When you ask experts in that field, you find out how bad AI is.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is a profound indictment of most media coverage of Big Tech that your best bet for getting an informed understanding of AI and its dangers is following a decently curated list of Bluesky shitposters

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scoop: Meta's Muse AI can make phone calls. Internally, Meta has told employees that many of these calls will be made by human beings in a call center: www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if anyone is wondering, yes, I *am* thinking of a certain academic AI Task Force that issued a statement last year ringing alarm bells about (a.k.a. hyping) 'AI agents'

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David/Trout 2.0 @trout61.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have tried not buying snacks. It doesn't work.

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone and especially all the academics on AI task forces and initiatives should read this.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Knowing that someone has used ChatGPT to think means I will never ask them about anything. Their ethos is done. People don't talk enough about how using ChatGPT erodes trust and ethos. Professors and students using ChatGPT to outsource thinking are losing their credibility.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Automated grading of student writing should have been a clear no-go from the beginning. I wrote this over three years ago and I can't believe how many faculty have allowed themselves to be seduced by this. Students rightly see this as betrayal. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

insidehighered.com

Do not leave grading to the machines

Some lines we shouldn’t cross. This is one.

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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 21/09/2026

👇🏻

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Panic and fury are not the same thing. That’s why I used one word and not the other. this also responds to something that isn’t happening — it’s not that people aren’t furious; it’s that they are. And they are organizing around it. Manufactured panic is an op.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026

this is so fucking racist i could scream

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