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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 7h

Most generative AI drives basically the same phenomenon: atheoretic and often meaningless opaque, frequentist networks of associations wrapped neatly in clean, intelligible, grammatically correct human language.

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ash @ashhull.bsky.social · 21h

Calm your moobs, bro!

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 8h

It’s absolutely fucking WILD that this was committed to writing, given that every Muslim and pro-Palestinian who appeared in the media from late 2023 onwards was asked whether they supported Hamas and required to renounce terrorism.

Asking Jews to pass a purity test and renounce self-determination according to a perverse interpretation arbitrarily applied, isn't just an extreme position, it's a racist one.

That's before we consider the Green party is now backing violent dismantling of Israel.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 8h

A new trade union has just been officially registered, the UK Hospitality Union It's a v under-represented part of the workplace re. unions: "Members include...baristas, hotel staff, restaurant staff, chefs, event caterers, bar staff, housekeeping." Be interesting to see how they fare

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UK Hospitality Union | trade union

At the UK Hospitality Trade Union, we are the united voice for workers across the UK's hospitality sector. Our mission is simple: to advocate for fair treatment, safe working conditions, and equitable...

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 8h

I HATE THIS ERA I HATE THE SLIDE TOWARDS PURITANNICAL MORALITY I HATE THIS SO MUCH IT MAKES ME FEEL CLAUSTROPHOBIC AND I'M JUST A STRAIGHT WHITE CIS WOMAN THIS ISN'T AFFECTING ME IN THE LEAST AND STILL IT MAKES ME FEEL COMPRESSED

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 8h

I know it's a silly Fess, but I like this. Not the eating method or the dumping-as-method-of-assertion, but the self-worth to draw the line at being mocked (presumably behind one's back) for a triviality. I think it's worth taking oneself sufficiently seriously to pushback on mockery as needed.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026

The etymology of this word is a journey. Enjoy! 😆 My favourite part — not sure if there but still worth clicking — but I've heard attestations it's a variant of blah blah from Ancient Greek ears hearing Germanic gobbledygook. This bit is good for the present.

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Barbarian - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"foreign, of another nation or culture," from Medieval Latin barbarinus (see barbarian… See origin and meaning of barbarian.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026

I'm seeing so much of this interpersonally in the NL context where the solution to work problems is seen as "care less" or "ignore it" but GOES FURTHER often offloading onto others. No deep connection nor time for others, but also active transfer of emotional / cognitive responsibility onto them.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 04/10/2026

The waves of this hit me daily in new and depressing ways. I wish I could grit my teeth and pretend it's not the spectre over everything, but that's silly: its shadows touch everything.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

People should differentiate "I don't like" and "this is bad". "I don't like jazz" is personal subjective, it does not mean it's bad, just that it is not to ones taste. "Political corruption is bad" is a statement of objective fact, it is a harm and net negative.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I disagree with this vehemently. But only the bit about the collars being put on children. Adults on the other hand...

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a nation of generally lovely people, like every other nation. It does seem to have a few too many curtain twitching nosey parkers who think their poo smells of roses and everyone else is a wrong 'un. And racists. It has those too.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FEED THE "THAT'S BAIT" MEMES RIGHT INTO MY VEINS! I think I just had an intimate personal moment. This is old school trolling. Just like in the Olde Days. Back before they let anyone on the internet,

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

British people: please stop thinking of the USA as your slightly eccentric transatlantic cousin, and instead regard it as the unhinged, dangerous, global bully, as everyone else does.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whoever wrote this is the worst monster humanity has ever vomited forth. Whatever they are talking about. I didn't read it. But fuck them anyway.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ted Lasso is soft, sweet, and easily digested. Like rice pudding. Comfort food. WHICH IS OKAY! It's okay to like this sort of thing. It's okay to like something comforting and unchallenging. It's okay to not like it too. Having strong opinions about telly is not a personality.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 03/10/2026

This was emotional both as a diasporic Cypriot and as having left Cyprus at 18 — esp near the end hearing that certain Cypriot linguist academics in Cyprus hate our language so much they want to see it die and be replaced with Modern Greek. Makes sense as we were/are not taught it at school...

cyprusthepodcast.podbean.com

*NEW EPISODE!* 55. The Grenglish Project: Cypriot Greek in the Diaspora with Anna Charalambidou and Petros Karatsareas | The History of Cyprus Podcast

In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Anna Charalambidou and Dr. Petros Karatsareas—two linguists whose work explores how language, identity, and culture evolve in Cypriot and diasporic communities. Toge...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And so the summer blockbuster of 2030 will be The Big-Tittied Wizards/Jedis vs. Big-Tittied Transformers VII: Faster and Furiouser, Also It's The Matrix

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By law nobody should be allowed to direct a company until they've kept bees long enough to produce 40 jars of honey without losing a hive. Competent leaders should easily be able to provide for a colony's needs while ensuring that they are productive. And we need more bees.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The problem is... Men!" A word from Tyler. "This is why women choose the bear, and I don't blame them." A word from Jonathan.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The idea that reading a book in public is considered 'performative' says everything you need to know about the dramatic decline in the intelligence of society.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Harry is the diminutive form of Harold, therefore Barry is short for Barold, Gary for Garold, Larry for Larold, Carrie for Carold etc. See also: Lenny for Leonard, thus Jenny for Jeonard etc. I have spoken.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am sad that Dame Esther has died. But, you know, That's Life. I shall celebrate her by listening to the works of Ivor Biggun. (This is a deep cut for Gen X UKists)

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Drew Starr @thedrewstarr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So…dewterium?

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember a LONG discussion thread back on #ChemTwitter about the proper way to draw/represent the S-O bond in DMSO Lots of strong opinions from the populace #ChemChat 🧪

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"What's up in Global Fuckery today, Louis?" "Well, today, children, we're going to look through the Uncritically Adhered To Capitalist Hegemony Window. Oh look! Some poverty and exploitation!" "Can we still have shiny things though?" "Oh you sillybilly! Of course you can have shiny things!"

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, there is a vital relationship between language, power, and persuasion. Learning and teaching are relational and context specific. LLMs foster corrosive ‘facts’ that are shaped by white language supremacy and homogeneity.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fifth, LLMs are good for a handful of tech companies that sell the products (often to public institutions), but these same companies take no responsibility for the harms generated by their technologies.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Third, LLM applications steal creative and scholarly work, devalues it, and resells it Fourth, LLMs make stuff up and are bullshit machines that produces plausible but often wrong information because it is an automation that is based on probability rather than on information or knowledge.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. Workers in East Africa, India, and the Philippines feed algorithms with their "hidden labour" in "digital sweatshops" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

washingtonpost.com

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’

Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These tools are associated with what I consider bad politics and ethics for a number of reasons (in addition, I am a hater). First, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am deeply concerned that the course descriptions include "we will use GenAI to refine research problems, and we will experiment with tools that help us discover, filter, and summarize literature" and use AI as a "thinking partner".

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ...

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I sincerely believe that if we had any kind of democracy worth defending Tom Watson would have been jailed and banned from politics for life around 2018 when it became clear he was engaging in internal sabotage of the party he was supposed to be the deputy leader of.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rookie error. Policy is a three sex-worker minimum hire in order to provide a tie-breaker. Personally, I find 11 to be the minimum number so that in the case of no-shows, there is a chance of being properly quorate. After all, during the debate section of the evening one must observe procedure.

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Louis Redux @louisredux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

QUICK! HIGH ALERT! THERE'S A BROWN TERRORIST* NEAR AN AIR BASE! PANIC! OVER REACT! LIE! MAKE SHIT UP! BE AN HORRIFIC RACIST SHITHOUSE! *He tries to intimidate and terrify people in service of a demonstrably harmful political ideology...oh THEY'RE the only people allowed to exaggerate are they? ;-)

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Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can anyone recommend good apps or tools for simple to-do lists? I don't want anything gamefied or fancy - at the moment I just do it in a Word doc on my phone but I'm wondering if there's anything you use that works well for you? I feel like a to-do list reduces the ambient Grim in my life.

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Chris WoooOOOOooomack @hollowoak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you won't listen to me, listen to Rick Steves. Fellas (and other male-parts-havers), get yourself checked!

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

You should never walk past homeless people without acknowledging them. Just say sorry you have no change - it's not hard. 95% of us don't even look them in the eye. You are like 3 missed pay cheques from sitting in the same spot.

anon_opin GOLD from 14th November 2023

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Christina Birkel @christinabirkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Life hack: Have your own back! How often do you follow through with promises you make to yourself? Not often? ...start small and build rapport with yourself. Trusting yourself and believing in yourself can lighten the load and guide decisions. #MondayMotivation #mentalhealth #chemsky #matsky

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