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Setting up a peer assessment assignment for my 100+ Mind & AI students. This could all go horribly wrong… 😬 #teaching #academia

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 5h

Meta is using a radical interpretation of a tax credit for “research and experimentation” to get billions of dollars off GPUs for its A.I. data centers. My latest with Jesse Drucker, @elitan.bsky.social and @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

nytimes.com

How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 1h

This is literally a scene out of Paddington. 😆

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 2h

Not without reason, Coulter pines are known as “widowmakers”. There happens to be a few on the outskirts of the #UCD campus, which I am very careful about walking around in windy weather (i.e. all the time)! 😯

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17h

GOAT OR BIRD????

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 5h

Today was one of those configurations of the sun and moon that made it look impossible that the moon is illuminated by the sun. I guess my poor monkey brain can’t handle three-dimensional geometry. 🌞 🌓 🤪

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 11h

There are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI

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Ángel Saavedra @polpsychangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people on the academic job market right now: so much of this is luck. Don't forget that, and never stop doing what you think is best.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 11h

Must have been written by Super Intelligence (sic)… 😂

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 13h

Having contributed to the advance of software engineering, it is sad to see the rise of a new profession, slopware engineering.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

karlbode.com

Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 20h

Jensen Huang appears to be the only tech CEO who is capable of writing his own name… 👀

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 20h

Forget ‘super intelligence’ (SI), how about ‘digital asbestos’ (DA)? We’re being asked to reorganise society around DA. DA in schools, DA in the workplace, DA in our cars and devices, DA in government. DA is the future, and we all need to (quite literally) get with the DA program! 😵 #GenAI #AIHype

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

Is the business profitable? No It’s on the road to profitability though, right? Also no But it will be extremely beneficial for the future of humanity? It might kill us all #OpenAI #GenAI #AIHype

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jack @j4ck.xyz · 22h

using mu.social when bluesky is down:

funny meme from a tiktok comments section with text "I"m too european for this...", with the EU flag behind the text.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 22h

It’s finally happened: Bluesky is having issues AND SWITCHING TO THE #EUROSKY CONTENT SERVICE (AppView) IN MU.SOCIAL FIXES IT!! Perhaps this federated social media thing works after all? 😅

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Carolyn Dicey Jennings @cdj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This years fellows include the wonderful @felipedebrigard.bsky.social ! Congrats, Felipe! This is also huge for philosophy, which rarely sees recipients of this fellowship #philsky

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Strongly against using terms like "honest" or "lie" or even "hallucinate" with respect to data retrieval systems, generative or no. #OpenAI don't want liability for a system they have not yet constructed to be sufficiently accurate or transparent that it can be used safely. #AIEthics #GPT-6.1Astra

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So pleased to hear this confirmed in the PM’s speech. Big congrats to @makevotesmatter.bsky.social and all who’ve campaigned for it! At last we have a chance to restore trust in our politics with a system where “everyone’s views count and everyone’s vote matters” 👏👏👏

theguardian.com

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

Interesting talk by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social on the dissipation of responsibility in joint projects with #GenAI systems. We ended up discussing determinism and agency in biological and computational systems, which was somewhat orthogonal to the topic, but relevant to whether #AI can make decisions.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'government now expects to fund just 16p in every £1 spent on teaching and supporting undergraduates in England, with students and graduates expected to pick up the rest. In 2012-13, university attendees paid just over half (52 per cent) of the bill.'

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

forbrukerradet.no

Breaking Free

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

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Unlock Democracy @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Prime Minister is right: First Past the Post is not fit for purpose in today’s multi-party politics. It bakes in instability and robs millions of voters of fair representation. It needs replacing. buff.ly/mdcUpSJ

buff.ly

Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans

Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

This is wild. If you squint a bit, it looks like a three-dimensional transparent cube in the centre of the image! 🤯 #JWST

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would rather see your burger menu made by hand with word art than that same greasy plasticy generic AI slop template everyone's using

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

I made a video to promote the Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition MA programme at UCD, of which I’m the Director. (Also, apparently this is what I look like now! 😳) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wudT... #PhilMind #EmbodiedCognition

youtube.com

MA in Philosophy of Mind & Embodied Cognition- UCD School of Philosophy

YouTube video by UCD College of Social Sciences & Law

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

finance.yahoo.com

Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

Is the business profitable? No It’s on the road to profitability though, right? Also no But it will be extremely beneficial for the future of humanity? It might kill us all #OpenAI #GenAI #AIHype

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

#Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, warns the Climate Change Advisory Council. #ClimateEmergency www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

rte.ie

CCAC warns that Ireland must prepare for climate extremes

Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saturday Night Live comments on the moment: "AI is not a weapon, it’s a tool: A tool for building weapons,' [the actress playing Amodei] declared. 'And I urge you to urge me to stop.'" techcrunch.com/2026/09/27/a... #ethics #AI #tech

techcrunch.com

Anthropic's Dario Amodei gets the 'SNL' treatment | TechCrunch

"Saturday Night Live" took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026

#Ireland, of course, is completely passive in all this. Nothing to do with government policy or the low-tax environment for big tech and agriculture while working people pick up the tab. 🤷‍♂️ #IrishProblems

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Adrian Boutel @aboutel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The FT runs some numbers on the revenue datacenters will need to bring in to break even on projected construction. “Heroic” doesn’t do it justice.

ft.com

What is the AI capex breakeven rate?

Heroic ROIC

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 28/09/2026

“In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's #Muse AI is stealing #Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.” #Meta #DataPrivacy appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Meta's Muse mascot sitting at a computer in an office and typing with headphones on | Image credit: Meta/Alexandr Wang

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 28/09/2026

That’s interesting because my university told me these would be switched off *by default* when we migrated to #MS365 because we haven’t subscribed to the paid version of #Copilot. I’m now wondering whether this is true. 🤔 #Micro$lop

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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 28/09/2026

A student in my philosophy of mind and AI class today described it as “rage bait every week”—and we haven’t even got to the AI part yet! (I’ve decided to take it as a positive. 😅)

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