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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 4h

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4h

“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 5h

THIS! Anthropic researchers have fallen into fantasy land and brought LOTS of people with them.

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spooky october name @dormin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's worth asking why a minor clerical error is so horrifying and the answer is it's because it means this girl will face much of the same bureaucratic cruelty that society is supposed to reserve for those of us tainted by transness

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20h

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 6h

Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just imagine if the UK had some sort of national broadcaster that had a duty to act in the public interest.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21h

We who oppose anti-terrorism laws have always maintained they will eventually be used against citizenry. Look how the Patriot Act is being used to monitor American citizens. Flock cameras, our communications, churches, clubs being monitored. Look how it's being used against citizens in the U.K.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

Presumably the Free Speech Union will be running an angry campaign against Anthropic's new policy. Will it contravene the new legal duties protecting the freedom of speech of students, academics and external speakers in English university settings? And is Claude a snowflake?

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Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems

The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Every time when I think "oh those are so great, I should reread them", I remember and... 🫠 Can't do it. Maybe in another ten years or so. 😅

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.

There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight.

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 07/10/2026

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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🇨🇦 Dr Soledad Miranda-Rottmann 🧠 @neurolatina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hope the Nobel Prize committee will be awarded for the discovery of the existence of women this year.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by citizen he means who can accrue and control property and wealth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stop normalizing sexual assault. Fucking shun people who have done it. Start acting like the victims fucking MATTERED.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is fucking absurd how much y’all want boys to have an unobstructed successful future and treat girls like fucking cannon fodder every last high school girl out there is more valuable to the world than a boy or man who has committed sexual assault

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don't these people have jobs to do?!

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can tell lots of colleagues are thinking the same because I copy-edit their articles for a journal and let me tell you, it's a pain in the bum. 🙃

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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still remember an afternoon on Twitter when every woman was posting in a blind rage about the Kavanaugh hearings, just *seething* over what was happening, and all of a sudden the game started and instantly all of those voices were swamped by every guy on the site excitedly talking about football.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

LOUDER FOR THE BACK ROW

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sounds alarmist and absurd to suggest that the Tories would follow, but they are currently just a couple years behind the far-right parties on these issues. Badenoch is radicalising the party at speed.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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James Barišić 🇭🇷 @james.barisic.fr · 27/09/2026

This is why no British dual citizen should tell the British state about any other citizenship they hold. The goalposts keep changing and they're coming for you next.

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And when it happens, it will be Biden's fault.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Susanne Wosnitzka @donauschwalbe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Was KI auch noch alles kaputt macht: Freundinnen, die für Online-Lexika schreiben oder solche betreiben wie FemBio, ersahen via VG-Wort-Meldungen wesentlich weniger Klickzahlen für ihre Seiten, weil die Leute nur mehr die KI-Zusammenfassung nutzen & daher nicht mehr auf die Webseiten selbst gehen 😔

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

The Tories said the reduced subsistence allowance would be loaded onto pre-paid card that would not allow cash withdrawals, and would "prevent spending" on alcohol, cigarettes, or gambling.
The party is yet to detail how its proposal would work, but shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said it would be "a version" of the pre-paid Aspen card issued to asylum seekers living in government-funded accommodation.
These cards cannot be used to make contactless, telephone or internet payments, whilst asylum seekers whose applications have failed cannot withdraw cash.

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Every time I read something like this, I hear Murderbot (via Kevin R. Free) in my mind with "set some damn restrictions!"

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Dr B Mikus @melancholerical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

God four years already. Feels like it was just about last year. Still paying like it, too...

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

📣 Oxford University Voltaire continues to grow. Launched earlier this year with Voltaire's complete works and correspondence, OV's first major update has arrived, bringing Voltaire's marginalia and more than a dozen new items of correspondence to the resource. Read more on the blog: bit.ly/4dHYBK3

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Headsoccer @headsoccer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Merz: "Es gibt in Deutschland keine Enteignungen von privatem Eigentum" Es sei denn, du willst Kohle abbauen, dann werden ganze Dörfer enteignet und abgebaggert.

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