Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29/03/2026This is what I say to people who suggest that generative AI has been enshittified. No, boo-boo, these things were born shitty. 412523
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I mean I'm glad that I'm helping educate young people on TikTok and all that but also my 72 year old father just told me that he told all of his friends that he meets weekly at Waffle House in south Georgia to watch my Facebook videos about how large language models work. 823817
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 06/11/2025what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do? 524147
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroDr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts. 31651334
Reposted by Luis Morales-Navarros. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/11/2025‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong 1554311566
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroMicah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there 49102312325
Reposted by Luis Morales-Navarroali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 07/08/2025writing is thinking, drawing is thinking, telling stories is thinking. i understand the earnest impulse to get rid of "the boring stuff", but even the boring stuff is thinking. depriving yourself of time to think about things is sad, but depriving kids of time to think about things is just cruel. 227489
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroWill Mason @willmasonmusic.com · 05/08/2025Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is. 292546908
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...404media.coWikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.” 92010623
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 10/07/2025Every "tech" guy is just a VC guy in a subculture that gets called "tech" for no particular reason. Most real "tech" - like, i dunno, cutting edge materials research - doesn't get called that while "a new pizza delivery app" does 362449541
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroThomas Fuchs @thomasfuchs.at · 07/07/2025A very odd thing about Artificial Intelligence as a discipline in computer science is that it historically shifted from “understanding the human brain better” to “we give up on understanding the brain and will just replace humans despite having no fucking clue” 713834
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroWeizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 04/06/2025In this #WIConf2025 session on GenAI and Algorithmic Impact, Yasmin Kafai and @metaxa.net talk about computational empowerment and break down #AI #auditing into simple steps for end users. Contributions by @luismn.bsky.social 171
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroMichael Ann, sociotechnical femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Writing is a skill to be trained! I also worry that we’re losing sight of how writing is a crucial form of thinking. Plenty of ideas don’t fully develop until you’ve tried to work them out on the page, and I see AI writing assistance actively robbing students of this crucial idea development phase 1264
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 24/05/2025it feels like the call of our times is to figure how to make abstract/non-immediate harms (like climate, tech, how hurting one hurts us all) resonate enough for many people to act against their material/immediate comfort 1111
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroMark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Would it hurt people in tech to go and *talk* to someone with a degree in education? Most people don't understand what schools do. TL;DR: it's a lot more than info dumping into student's heads and it is certainly a lot more than daycare. 2348
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroParis Marx @parismarx.com · 21/05/2025When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants. 812519
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAmy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Here is Pope Leo’s page. Edit history is already fascinating: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Le...en.m.wikipedia.orgPope Leo XIV - Wikipedia 132
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews. 246188256426
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2025One of the organizing principles I am constantly working to embrace in my own life is that once people arrive to the fight with genuine readiness to act, no matter how late they are, they are welcome and can be organized and moved 141074156
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/03/2025After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities. 902199658
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAmy Bruckman @asbruckman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Why let corporations decide what is true or important? asbruckman.medium.com/why-let-corp...asbruckman.medium.comWhy Let Corporations Decide What is True or Important?It’s not good news that Facebook is turning off fact checking — but the system was already fundamentally flawed. Commercial platforms make… 053
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroCaleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 09/01/2025From Ursula K. LeGuin’s introduction to “The Left Hand of Darkness:” 111540
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Calling her "clairvoyant" and the like is just another iteration of the "magical negro" trope. She paid attention and wrote about issues that wealthy white folks didn't want to see. 1576131
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroEmma Amador @emmaamador.bsky.social · 02/12/2024✨ Very excited that my book proofs arrived! “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice” will be out with @dukepress.bsky.social in May 2025 ✨ It’s starting to feel real! 58515
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/01/2025a gentle reminder that a chatbot does NOT have personality, identity, gender, volution, intentions, or feelings... it is a computer program that's extremely good at predicting the next word in a sequence based on previous words it has "seen" 27778135
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 03/01/2025At Literary Hub, @julie-phillips.com writes about Ursula's activism, and her essay "The Election, Lao Tzu, a Cup of Water."lithub.comThe Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ActivismIn the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li… 021560
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Historian here. Can confirm! 011727
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroThe Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 01/12/2024"Overall, Black and Hispanic faculty received 7% more negative votes from college committees and were 44% less likely to receive unanimous “yes” votes than their white and Asian colleagues." - Kate Langin, Science www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicSky #PhDskyscience.orgRacial bias can taint the academic tenure process—at one particular pointBlack and Hispanic professors fare worse when voters include colleagues who are less familiar with their work, new study finds 7189115
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAndres Rodriguez Caceres @andresrodca.bsky.social · 27/11/2024New #sociology research paper from me and Julia Behrman: Demarcation and Difference: Language and Indigenous Self-Identity in Latin America. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 052
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 28/11/2024This editorial is rather astonishing in urging the public to move from "fear" to "caution" regarding the use of AI in medicine, without fully acknowledging the challenges that AI in clinical care and medical research have already posed, and without recommending the guardrails needed to garner trust. 29724
Reposted by Luis Morales-NavarroRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky 239349454595
Luis Morales-Navarro @luismn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Here are two pretty 🦄🦄 unicorns my 4yo niece drew. I love the necklace around the neck of the big one. 0140