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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This piece I have written for @prospectmagazine.co.uk says things about the AI narrative being pushed by the industry that I have been wanting to say for some time. I hope it might help to bring about a more critical and discerning position in the media. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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We’re all going to die, but not from AI

That artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It’s time to challenge it

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026

A very important message from Omer Reingold to our TCS community, especially us (arg, already) senior researchers: "snap out of it." Please, digest, and share. theorydish.blog/2026/09/29/s...

As for depression: the next time you have the urge to lament, or even celebrate, being “the last generation of human mathematicians,” perhaps keep it to yourself. Contemplating the end of your profession from the relative comfort of an established, tenured career is a privilege, and it comes with responsibilities. Senior academics are not merely individual researchers; we are stewards of our field, and we owe our junior colleagues active leadership rather than abandonment.

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Thor Berger @thorberger.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Gaskell accurately describing what it's like to work with Codex.

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

You may find the comments by Melanie Matchett Wood on the discovery of a counter example to Erdős’ Unit Distance Conjecture as interesting as I did 👇🏼(see previous post for a link)

A screenshot of p.17 of the paper available at https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29ad73/unit-distance-remarks.pdf

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Hiding in plain sight! 2.3M conserved non-coding sequences traced back 300M years across 284 plant species Ground-breaking study out in First Release @science.org from labs of @madelaineb.bsky.social, @idane.bsky.social & Zach Lippman ▶️ doi.org/10.1126/scie... ▶️ www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/hiding-...

Phylogeny of the 284 species of plants included in Conservatory data set. Conservatory uncovered ~2.3 million conserved non-coding DNA sequences across 284 plant species from 72 families including eudicots, monocots, gymnosperms, and algae. Illustrations by Professor Madelaine Bartlett.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

As you begin to build your 2026 reading lists (which is a thing I assume some people do), consider adding my really very short book on AI and Eugenics. Disabling Intelligences:Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI has a lot in under 50k words. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cover of Disabling Intelligences over a rainbow glass background

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Year Progress Bar @yearprogressbar.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Date: 2025-12-30 Days elapsed: 364 of 365 Year Progress: 99.73% [▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓]

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Dang, hard disagree. The best papers to write and read are works of art, not merely a list of data and statements. Don’t let LLMs take this away too, for gods sake.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare. I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I feel like if your AI company has to apologize to the estate of Martin Luther King Jr you should just flood your servers and walk into the ocean

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/10/2025

Joe’s boss here. I pay him for a combination of research and service to the community. Peer review, of course, checks the latter box.

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scary angel drags you to heaven @shiningangelx.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

we’d love to turn off the machine that convinces children to kill themselves, but we can’t really justify losing our ability to lay off customer service agents, now can we?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/08/2025

i think a clarifying question for ai harms researchers is "could this or any harm you research entail abandoning / destroying this form of technology" and if the answer is some version of "we want to make it better" then you're not a roadblock you're a whetstone

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Meta's actions are telling and appalling here, but the solution isn't better guidelines/more content moderation: it's less (read: no) fake people.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/08/2025

"Our new white paper on why we're worried Grammarly is mad at us"

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 14/07/2025

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Interesting side note: «Morning Pledge» isn't the work of a single living artist but was produced by an anonymous corporate collective called «Thomas Kinkade Studios®,» which continues to churn out images in Kinkade's signature style long after his death in 2012. It's basically analog AI slop 6/

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Morning Pledge

Thomas Kinkade loved this country. He believed in the founding fathers and their view of their fledgling republic. He absolutely knew that the United States was a beacon of hope for the world, promisi...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Academics don’t finish projects, we just lose the energy to keep doubting them

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 12/06/2025

Because a calculator is a device made for a specific purpose, our trust in it would be immediately corrupted if it were to give an incorrect answer. It would be useless. If you take away the specific purpose you also take away the criteria to determine if something works or not.

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Trusting your own judgment in a reflexive way is hard but crucial to democratic autonomy. The externalization of judgement weakens this moral muscle

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I am sitting in a public library working on a grant, and a grandmotherly woman is patiently teaching a small boy how to read at the table next to me. Another woman is knitting nearby. The children’s section is packed with kids. Things in my country are bleak, but libraries are where I find hope. ❤️

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 11/06/2025

Trying to read a PDF and I am being prompted in three separate places to use an LLM to summarize the fucking article. Is this what they mean when they say that gen AI is inevitable

screenshot of a PDF with two "ask AI assistant" buttons and toolbars, as well as a button to summarize the PDF with AI

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/06/2025

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 03/06/2025

Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no. So, effectively “LLMs for coding” are largely a cover story for improving throughput by relaxing quality standards

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

We can't just tell people to not watch video or scroll instagram or whatever, but if we get busy at an early age showing the deep pleasure that can be had through engagement with writing, those other things become less tempting, or if tempting, they can at least be compartmentalized.

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Amelia Abreu @ameliaagain.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Absolutely ghoulish that these people admit that they see kinship and community as problems that they desperately want to offload to earth-destroyer machines

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Haley L. @haleyhaala.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Many are lauding the potential of ChatGPT to "help" people with their writing. Looking at writing not as a deficit to be fixed, but as a site of social interaction between writers *and* evaluators, our #facct2025 paper explores how this played out in a real life situation. arxiv.org/abs/2505.08127

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"You Cannot Sound Like GPT": Signs of language discrimination and resistance in computer science publishing

LLMs have been celebrated for their potential to help multilingual scientists publish their research. Rather than interpret LLMs as a solution, we hypothesize their adoption can be an indicator of exi...

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 11/05/2025

Whenever I see Trads use flourishing descriptions of traditional women's past, I think back to the actual daily life of the women who had to live through it.

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An exhausted mother making matchboxes. Her child is asleep on the floor under the table. c.1900.

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Sarah Shulist (she/her) @sarahling.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

There's maybe something here, but it's also worth thinking about how "brains" are not the main reason that the US has been the base for so much research success. The infrastructure and system for financing it are a significant, and not easily replicable, factor.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.

The Cut headline reading “Are we all living beyond our means now? With rising costs of living, debt, and the doomscrolling-to-checkout pipeline, we’re overspending more than ever.”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

scammers are using LLMs to take up all the slots in community college courses in San Diego as part of a financial aid scam. Hard to see a way this doesn't eventually kill remote learning for these colleges. Huge deadweight loss generated by LLMs.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Lest you believe this is about the elite ivies, $20 million dollars in federal grants and funding have been cut across UC Irvine. This is about attacking economic mobility, destroying free thought, & creating fungible, powerless workers for the oligarchic bosses. Our kids’ futures are at risk.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like. With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:

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Flyover Country

What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.

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lakerat61.bsky.social @lakerat61.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE. Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:

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As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly.
Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process.
They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years.
They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe.
We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release.
We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not
"being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims."
Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is.
We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting.
Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center.
The wait had already been too long a week ago.
I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community.
Jaime Cook
Prek-12 Principal
Sackets Harbor, NY

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/04/2025

“We tend to take them for granted, but there’s something quietly radical about even the idea of a library and the intellectual freedom these local institutions inspire.” www.huffpost.com/entry/librar... #libsky

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Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.

"The public needs to wake up before our libraries are gone," one "livid" librarian said.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I attended a library vendor AI demo/upsell today and I wish I could explain to them that everything they are selling could be achieved by hiring like two more people in our library

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is inaccurate. There is no known vulnerability with Signal's core tech. The memo was discussing phishing attempts, which Signal has worked to mitigate. And it was hastily reported. It's important not to spread misinfo that can confuse people into moving away from meaningfully private comms.

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