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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 11h

Striking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?"

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 11h

I ended up bringing #DHmakes to a symposium for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic’s 25th Anniversary last week, as an extended metaphor through the performance art of spinning in public. Here's more or less my remarks from the closing panel.

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What do Spinning and the Law Have in Common? - Quinn Daedal

I was invited to speak on the closing panel for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic's 25th anniversary. I sat at the front of the room with my tiny Electric Eel Wheel Nano spinning wh...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026

I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I use the lens of "practice" for things like writing (and cooking) because they rely on all of these dimensions of skills, knowledge, attitudes and habits of mind. A chef is like a writer in that they have to be able to look in the pantry and make a meal (a writer working from sources/info), and...

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/09/2026

One of the things i’ve been thinking about is that LLMs, unless very carefully steered otherwise, fail to perform a key function of conversation: “repair.” When you notice someone is misunderstanding you or is unconvinced and you adjust to communicate more effectively.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.

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stevemoniak.bsky.social @stevemoniak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“You could never create a single account on a single Meta service, of which there are many, and you still aren't safe. If you're talking to someone who has installed Muse, Meta could, presumably, access, read, analyze, and upload that information to its services.”

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus: "If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?" I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication. undark.org/2026/09/25/o...

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AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem

Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

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Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

That being said, I really hope this is the last lesson people'll need to to stop purchasing or at all trusting meta's or other "AI" companies' products. bsky.app/profile/wolv...

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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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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

Admin: you have declining majors therefore you don’t get lines Faculty: ok, we increased enrollments & attracted more majors! But we can’t offer small classes bc our faculty #s haven’t increased & we have less time for research Admin: You don’t need tenure lines bc you don’t do any research

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

It is exploitative of people, bad for students, and bad for disciplines when highly trained academics are excluded from scholarship simply bc institutions are too cheap to invest in giving them the resources for doing it. This isn’t just true at R1s. It’s true everywhere.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

It is not ok to deny faculty members in the humanities the resources to create research knowledge or make resources to do resources conditional on attracting majors.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

What FACULTY on the other hand should care about is (1) how do we do great research; and (2) how do we create an impactful education for students that allows them to understand how research knowledge is created in a discipline and empowers them to create it themselves.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026

Can I just add that Drew’s excellent point here is why the entire discourse about declining humanities majors is so ridiculous and makes me want to scream every time I encounter it.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

👇🎯 If you send kids the message that the only majors that are good are business & STEM from the time they’re in middle school, & then you don’t find the humanities & social sciences at the college level, it all becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy & that was clearly the point in the first place.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As someone in a STEM discipline, I really abhor the kind of messaging that Mark describes. The messengers aren’t people who actually care about STEM. It’s really a shorthand for “do something practical, focus on your relation to the labor market”.

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 27/09/2026

According to Turnitin, AI models are only trained by data belonging to customers using its AI detection feature. Time to turn it off.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just saw ch*tgpt’s new commercial on how it’s “leveling the field” for some disabled people. Maybe so(?), but this damned company didn’t/isnt ultimately developing the product for them (get real), and even if this feel good narrative is true, it doesn’t cancel all of its other documented harms.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Women are NOT safe around men.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Myth busting about Scotland's 'need' for data centres feat. angry moorhen (Follow us on insta at stopaidatacentres.scot)

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education?

During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, a central plank of his broader push against “woke” ideology in higher education.

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Tim Ricker @timricker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recruiting a new PhD student to start Fall 2027. Research would focus on Visual Working Memory, possibly with a developmental approach (but not necessarily). Check out my lab website where the are links to the application and contact info if you have questions. rickermemorylab.com

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Memory & Attention Laboratory

The Memory and Attention Laboratory at the University of South Dakota is part of the Human Factors & Applied Cognition program in the Department of Psychology . We study memory, attention, and...

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Notably the journalist who covered it is part of the Tarball Center for AI journalism, funded by by a who’s who of EA/rationalists and AI-tied philanthropy. It’s an industry aligned group, like we used to see with tobacco and still see with fossil fuels. Sucks to see this in science.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Academic freedom now exists only if it doesn't rely on any university infrastructure (whether emails or a bulletin board). I'd love to see @aaup.org putting resources towards this issue. Building alternative spaces is hard and we could use help! (Perhaps they already do but I haven't seen it.)

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.

Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/09/2026

The @nytimes.com, along with other outlets widely read among the PMC like @theatlantic.com fabricate a "reality" of the university through "reporting" that has no equivalent counterweight, no equally widely-read forum where university workers can broadcast what is actually going on in these places.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From Serena Jampel, one of the writing tutors I worked with at Harvard on the difference between the human tutor and AI and how a writing tutor can help a student find their voice. Lots of wisdom and also this truth: "the more you use it, the more you use it" www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

And that was another remarkable feature of the Writing Center. Sometimes students would resist my feedback, insisting that their structure would make sense once they added a bit more reasoning. In doing so, they were often pushed to articulate their thinking more clearly, and to affirm their confidence in their position.

An LLM cannot do that, because it does not have its own opinions or thoughts. It is only trained to engage the user: the more you use it, the more you use it. That’s actually the antithesis of writing instruction, which aims to cultivate independent thought.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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