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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 6h

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 1h

I prefer 2 words: corruption and collusion - it will garner more indictments and jail time.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 4h

Marketing disguised as "scholarship," polluting the knowledge ecosystem, defying and destroying scientific and empirical methodologies in order to save their failing business model and impose their faulty products.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 5h

Education is not just under attack by legislatures and rightwing pundits, but POLICE:

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 5h

Education under ATTACK - LITERALLY and BRUTALLY.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 5h

It's MARKETING and NOT SOUND PEDAGOGY. Wake up Boston!

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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 6h

Deeply technical but satisfying thread on the specifics of computation and why an LLM that *frequently* arrives at the right number is not the same thing as a program that *calculates* the right number. Expect LLM boosters to pivot to "well, what even is 'addition' anyway?" shortly.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13h

Joined @arimelber.bsky.social on MSNOW talk about the AI bubble, Treasuries and the growing cost of AI data center debt, and how Oracle and Paramount’s debt threatens Larry Ellison’s future.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 20h

Not gonna lie, I have written some beautiful stuff this way. I once wrote an epic sentence at 3 a.m. that became the thesis of a chapter in my forthcoming book.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 21h

On my MUST READ list. Add it to yours.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 21h

It's RECORDING, and since doing so without other people's knowledge is ILLEGAL in many places across the globe they want to get around it with weasel marketing terms.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NONE of that is being spent on climate change, the industry is wedded to oil, hyperdata centers add to the problem by siphoning off water & creating pollution. Then there is lithium mining. All this will be quickly obsolete in less than a generation. Few jobs will be lost by an ai bubble bust.

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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excited to speak with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social later today! Tune in!

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Bubble can't burst soon enough for me. It will be historically HUGE and will have one of the SMALLEST impacts on the economy of any crash in recorded history.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For my Business History colleagues. My own research supports a similar non-traditional timeline.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For my colleagues interested in the history of capitalism:

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think part of the problem is that the whole thread doesn't show up, depending how a comment is shared. I saw your comment (I don't know you) under someone's critique of it. I only saw your clarification when I took time to pursue it further. Ambiguity increases since post lengths are nec'y short.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The billionaire-Trump-loving AI industry's open war on democracy: "On September 16, a similar test run by the Eko Movement showed 87% of the disinformation ads it contracted with Meta were approved, including AI ads depicting execution-style threats against lawmakers"

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The techbros have misunderstood the mission: the benefit of humanity ... and NOT the benefits of technology

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I saw it yesterday with my budding scientist daughter. We are still discussing it. Go see it. Use it in your history, political science, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, Women’s Studies, and Black Studies classrooms (while the disciplines still exist) when it becomes available.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was there. And we had choices beyond Google. I preferred Alta Vista like many historians. I was one of the first historians to create course and topical websites. Then came enshitification.

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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability.... At what point do societies or governments evaluate the long-term cost-benefit of this sector’s runaway growth?' @evansolomon.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seeing it tomorrow at the Zurich Film Festival!

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

name a publication more openly committed to its own obsolescence

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

... and the spaces women didn't enter.

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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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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Read Bender's important clarification and then the Op-ed

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As long as you are a rightwing Justice speaking to a room of millionaires and millionaires, it's okay.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The LACK of imagination by the techbros is why Ai is NOT creating an age of innovation. Porn, games, war & harassment are dead ends, even deadly. The same technology could be used across retail to show how clothes would look on the buyer & to custom manufacture using the buyer's real dimensions.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Willfully ignorant reliance on Ai systems KILLED Iranian children and civilians and nearly led the US into starting a war with China. When stupid people head a government, they will use Ai to everyone's detriment.

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Right Livelihood @rightlivelihood.org · 30/09/2026

What happens when an AI researcher challenges the direction of the industry from within? Meet @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, one of the 2026 Right Livelihood Laureates — a pioneering researcher confronting concentrated power in artificial intelligence. rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ILLEGAL USE of copyrighted material - unethical to the core.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/09/2026

a common misogynist pattern we've seen from oldschool twitter and of course offline misogyny: they seem to strip us of our job titles, degrees, even names and genders in some cases to help buoy their claims we're not experts nor scholars... I don't care that much personally, but it's a useful tell!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is my data politics collection. I’m not saying it’s exhaustive. It’s growing almost every day. And several volumes (like “The Nerd Reich”) are scattered elsewhere & in use. But my point is: I have one. And I think you should too.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's missing? is that women make 25% LESS than men, that women with a college degree historically earn the same as a man w/ a high school degree. Project 2025 aims to reduce the number of women going to college & in the laborforce. This policy is DESIGNED to make it harder for women to get loans.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 1965 Ralph Nader published "Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile." Switch out the end to "American Ai" and we are repeating history (sort of). Unethical to the core, knowingly unsafe as a product.

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Maura Doherty @molowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't anthropomorphize. Read this if you haven't already ⬇️

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