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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
It is truly fucking insane that people say things like “the person that the Democrats like best has the least chance of getting elected.” And this is supposed to be a Nobel prize winning economist? Nothing means anything. These people are so full of shit.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 24/05/2026
I’m telling you: stop donating to NPR. Whatever they used to be, they aren’t doing journalism anymore.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Cf. Wealthy Universities
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licerdo @licerdo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Microsoft reports are exposing Al's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
“Academic science is not only about productivity but also deep understanding, creative solutions & training critical thinkers as next generation of researchers. Now is the time for our community to evaluate whether AI products help or hinder these.“ @lmesseri.bsky.social & @mjcrockett.bsky.social🧪👇
nature.com
The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 20/05/2026
it bears repeating that AI is a machine for destroying information
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Companies continue to impale themselves on AI, destroying everything anyone ever liked about them and make them shittier and more stupid and less useful, because the whole time they’ve been working on embedding themselves so deeply into our lives they think we will be forced to use them anyway. No.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is also what is happening with AI by the way.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At this point, anyone who thinks an LLM is thinking or processing is truly just embracing a delusion based on an illusion. A trick.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This fucking asshole goes to a graduation and tells a bunch of families that the very expensive education they just paid for is already obsolete and that the students he is allegedly there to help honor can pay him later if they disagree. What an arrogant piece of shit.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 19/05/2026
"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/05/2026
This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
How do you go about “finding a new energy provider”? I have never been given a choice of energy provider in my entire life.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”
nsf.gov
NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Politics without substance can only be sustained for so long before it collapses. We need politicians who govern as if they, too, have a meaningful personal stake in the long-term success of our institutions and communities—leaders of our development rather than the shift-managers of our decline.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Who runs a country like this? Looters.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 13/05/2026
I feel like "adapt or die" is what was yelled at me to try and force me into heterosexuality & cisnormativity, white supremacy & ableism. "Everyone is doing it, it's the norm, you'll be left behind." A stark sign that techbros know & intend LLMs as a social technology for reinforcing oppression.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The fact that this idea has to be suspended rather than laughed out of the room on first sight is proof that the world is broken and simply does not work anymore. Don’t these people know what the fuck they’re doing? Didn’t they see what it was?
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honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I have never been so despairing of the future of higher ed than I am at this moment. Students and faculty are still trying to do the good work while those who run these institutions are frantically sowing the seeds of our own destruction. We’ve let AI in and we’ll never recover.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
newyorker.com
What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Why are they wrestling? Just end it. All it does is generate money for terrible people and destroy everybody else.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
These people aren't smart. They were never smart. They just have rich friends.
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia
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Tristan Stevens @tristanstevens.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins is the perfect avatar of our times; a man who thinks large language models are people and muslims are not.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Just shoot us into the sun already.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Being asked to do more with less is one of those internet era maxims that seems to imply ingenuity, but is actually just the managerial slogan for squeezing uncompensated labor out of workers unwilling or unable to leave their current employment.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There is no equivalent on the Democratic side for the pure, undiluted nihilism coming from the federal government right now. We basically have one party of technocrats and one party of Branch Davidians.
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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 28/04/2026
I swear they are absolutely intentionally destroying this country. They are being directed by someone to literally dismantle this country, and make sure it can never recover. They are paying $2B to NOT build more energy infrastructure when energy consumption is at an all-time high, and growing.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
When they start hiding in fortified citadels...what stage of imperial collapse is that?
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This woman has no moral compass. She does not need any more money. She just loves other billionaires and doesn't care what damage she does to the world. She has always been this way.
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Mz. April Daniels ⚧ @aprildaniels.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
If our classroom activities comprise teaching students how to use a commercial product then we are not teachers; we are salespeople.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I am going to be a massive humorless asshole about woo-woo shit, no matter how seemingly harmless, for the rest of my life due to this. astrology, homeopathic medicine, etc etc it's all bullshit and it's not fucking harmless. there are people who will die due to this who would have otherwise lived.
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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I figured out another reason why I so very much dislike AI. All the hype, all the marketing, the interface, it is about changing us, our patterns, our nature, to fit the AI's model. The computer isn't changing to fit us, we are told to change to fit it. And that is bullshit in my opinion.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In so many ways. Life outside the US is so much better and more humane in so many ways.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
At least Lex Luthor actually like built stuff lol we are ruled by nerd monsters who can't even make a calculator that can reliably do math! They can't even make Miis, released in 2006 in 480p for the 32-bit Wii gaming system, with legs, not even if they spend $70 BILLION dollars on it
fortune.com
Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook for the metaverse. Four years and $70 billion in losses later, he’s moving on | Fortune
Zuckerberg once framed the metaverse as the “successor to the mobile internet.”
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Musk and Zuck and Thiel and Altman and the rest are some of the unhappiest people to ever live, and they all seem willing to destroy the world in their search for just a moment of contentment. Not great for the rest of us.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
They think you're stupid.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Hope. Just the basic belief that better days could be ahead for all of us.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
in my lifetime, i've experienced the transition from a single channel black&white tv all the way to streaming, from rotary phones to smartphones, from lack of printed traffic maps to gps,.... never before have i seen a technology being shoved down people's throats as forcefully and urgently as llms.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Forget the manosphere?" These papers are officially endorsing and becoming active participants in rape culture.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can the meteor just crash into earth already?
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Just astonishing levels of propaganda here. Unreal. These people are beyond evil. They are so arrogant they actually think the rest of us are subhuman and therefore not aware or smart enough to recognize this BS.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Send Mark Zuckerberg to jail for the rest of his stupid life.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Or, we could just rely on human expertise from the jump and stop wasting amounts of money, resources, and time.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I hope she fucks right off. Never want to see or hear from her again.
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NKinNewEng @nkinneweng.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is AI in a nutshell. He created a product that is exactly like him.
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