Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAlexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 6hi had not realized george osborne was working for openai. meta had clegg. pick your fighters, i guess 082
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5hRelevant also for our research institute @dondersinst.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστRuby Quail @quail.bsky.social · 3hThe democratisation argument for LLM coding is stupid because it has always been an insanely accessible pastime materially, like the main barrier was access to internet and a computer GUESS WHAT AI IS MAKING MORE EXPENSIVE 1254
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστDr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 4hI can't believe how inundated I've been with peer review requests recently. I've had 3 so far this week and it's only Wednesday. This must be the AI- effect. 1142
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1hIf you followed me for my strong opinions about computers, surprise! I also have strong opinions about public education 0253
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2hUniversity of Brighton management has given notice to terminate its recognition agreement with UCU alongside collective agreements covering key terms and conditions. This isn't just about Brighton. What happens here could have implications for branches across the UK. 01011
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@ @sven.blacksky.app · 2hIt's quite visible in the boosters' "stochastic parrot" discourse. They even created a wholly new school of thought: "The Benderites". 🫠 161
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation. 91099293
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAnna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 7hJust trying to fathom the mindset that regards music as something to... solve 4795
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστOisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 6hI’ve been a writer and illustrator for decades, and the rise of genAI slop has only provided further proof that many of the clients who hire creative professionals need them as much for their judgement as they do for their skills. 614026
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστDanie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 7hA little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it. 1025961
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστJohn Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 7hSeems depressingly relevant again 09921
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAntonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 18hAnything about AI coming from the USA or UK is terrible, but in the EU we also suck! 2175
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 4h"Andreessen is the epitome of the tech oligarchy... he is a cheerleader of a particular and exceptionalist worldview in which the US tech sector is glorified as the origin of all that is good in the world." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTech oligarchyPublished in Science as Culture (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2026) 0195
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026As a design consultant of a certain vintage, this is about my 4th round of some flavor of "everyone will build their own apps". 11397
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026They’ve sunk everything into the idea that regular people somehow want a layer of enterprise software between them and every aspect of their lives. They can’t imagine people don’t want to run everything like a business. 529337
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4ha 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! 15213
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAnna Dijkstra @annakarlien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026really pisses me off how when i'm googling an article it won't come up, but an ai summary will, as if ai has more of a right to access these texts without paying (: 4406
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 7hWhen your proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science, what will you do? When your colleague's proposal gets killed by an algorithm that has no capacity to understand science and amplifies biases by default, what will you do? That's where we're at 🧪 25023
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστDr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 8hThere are no responsible uses of AI in evaluating research funding applications. Just calling it ‘responsible’ doesn’t make it so. #EthicsWashing #GenAI 06916
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 5hNottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham. 14936
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστNeil Chadborn @neilchadborn.bsky.social · 5hToday & tomorrow are first days of strike as Uni council makes final decisions on massive cuts of courses &staff. Please show your #solidatity by sharing this, to encourage management to take our alternative financial proposals seriously. Compulsory redundancies not necessary!! @uonucu.bsky.social 02118
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026Everyone trying to sound reasonable like "I'm sure it's useful in *other* people's areas, just not in mine" just say it's not useful in your area and stop 712228
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My piece was stuck in production for a few months so it reads a bit outdated ... but nevertheless, the special issue as a whole is great: Hogan, M. (2026). "Rotting empires". European Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/1367... 13313
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστOldAmigan @nixen.bsky.social · 5hWell, it’s a (not so) public secret that farmers own more than 60% of the land in NL, so the space is there, only is not made available (see also the discussion about pollution by farmers and the need to downsize) 021
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 20hI’ve been fully brainwormed by @anthonymoser.com’s observation that Altman only has three facial expressions, so now whenever I see a photo, I note which one it is (here: ‘processing bad news,’ with overtones of ‘saw a ghost’; the third is ‘jackass’). 0176
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hFor all these reasons, I am distressed to know that this course is being recommended to our graduate students... 1131
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hthis technology and the political economy that has grown up around it “is an insult to life itself”. LLMs/GenAI are fundamentally unethical, and because they break trust, sow alienation and are caustic to communities of knowledge. www.yahoo.com/news/insult-...yahoo.com'An insult to life itself': Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki condemns AI artA clip of legendary Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki reacting to artificial intelligence (AI) art has reentered online discourse surrounding the technology’s surge in popularity. The video ... 14111
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hOur work [at the university] together is valuable. In the Department of Political Science we reflect and think about real world problems - food insecurity, the climate emergency, conflict, inequality and the challenges of being human. But 171
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hFinally, there is a vital relationship between language, power, and persuasion. Learning and teaching are relational and context specific. LLMs foster corrosive ‘facts’ that are shaped by white language supremacy and homogeneity. 1102
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hFifth, LLMs are good for a handful of tech companies that sell the products (often to public institutions), but these same companies take no responsibility for the harms generated by their technologies. 1122
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hThird, LLM applications steal creative and scholarly work, devalues it, and resells it Fourth, LLMs make stuff up and are bullshit machines that produces plausible but often wrong information because it is an automation that is based on probability rather than on information or knowledge. 1113
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hSecond, the resource demand of the LLM server farms results in intense and growing demand for water, energy and has led to poisoning communities with methane. tennesseelookout.com/2025/07/07/a...tennesseelookout.comCommentary: A billionaire, an AI supercomputer, toxic emissions and a Memphis community that did nothing wrong • Tennessee LookoutBillionaire Elon Musk's development of a supercomputer in Memphis is another environmental blow to a marginalized Black community. 1112
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hFirst, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. Workers in East Africa, India, and the Philippines feed algorithms with their "hidden labour" in "digital sweatshops" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...washingtonpost.comBehind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid. 1184
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hThese tools are associated with what I consider bad politics and ethics for a number of reasons (in addition, I am a hater). First, while LLMs promise labour free writing and content to the end users, they rely on exploitative labour practices. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...anthonymoser.github.ioI Am An AI HaterI am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. 1193
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hI am deeply concerned that the course descriptions include "we will use GenAI to refine research problems, and we will experiment with tools that help us discover, filter, and summarize literature" and use AI as a "thinking partner". 1122
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 20hI wrote an extensive email to upper admin about its promotion of an GenAI course for graduate students - I was/am so distressed. The work behind LLMs is hidden but this has real world consequences for our own ethical conduct. Culled from my course outlines here is what I said ... 13012
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAbstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 14h"The particular pathologies of AI, especially scaling and accelerationism, are symptoms of the actual restructuring taking place in relation to energy politics and increasing authoritarianism." danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morb...danmcquillan.orgAI is a morbid symptom of the interregnumThis is the abstract for my Rogers Chair Public Lecture for Western University on 20th March 2026 at 5pm GMT, hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies. URL for the talk t... 0146
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 5hYou cannot detect genAI generated text reliably, so whatever they say these LLMs do, they don't. That's one of the main issues as well. bsky.app/profile/oliv... 0135
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5hI just realised a very funny irony of boosters who push for nuance within the booster class, cannot deal with nuance on other generalisations: they think AI critical academics agree on it all. A mistake more serious than generalising over e/cc and rationalists if you want to understand academics. 2243
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστDwayne Monroe @cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 6hWell... yes but...regulatory capture makes this a Herculean task and perhaps, (sorry to be negative) impossible under current conditions. We don't live in democratic states. Of course, we should, as you say, persevere but also understand the full situation 142
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστjohnpittsburgh.bsky.social @johnpittsburgh.bsky.social · 6hmy favorite part is that he originally came up with 'superior intelligence' then decided superior was too complicated a word and now pretends its super 051
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστEsin migrated to Eurosky @fellowesin.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026Version 6! #TurAnt #TurAntEX #art #digitalart #characterdesign 0136
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστAbstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Olivia Guest has a great short piece on how we've been here before and know what to do (olivia.science/before/). Mél Hogan's interview with Drs. Guest, van Rooij, and Elizondo is inspiring: shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...olivia.scienceWe've been here before!Parallels between AI and tobacco, and other warnings. 1164
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστNabeel Zuberi @nabeelzuberi.bsky.social · 25/10/2025AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education by Olivia Guest, et alprosyn.orgAI Is Hollowing Out Higher EducationOlivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy. 12312
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMarica @mari-chan.bsky.social · 6hI mean apart from cultural issues the NL are so densely populated and there is really not much space left. In other parts of Europe the dynamics are more relaxed due to cities having always some space "outside" 241
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστSteven Watson @nostawnevets.bsky.social · 6hAre there any Dutch Universities where staff and student burnout isn't a massive problem? I left in part because I was sick of watching talented people break, everyone know the problems, and nobody do anything. 221
Reposted by Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 6hA depressing fact tho is the country is still run by graduates of those schools. Make of that what you will on its effects on society. Farage, for example, went to public school before 1989. > From 1975 to 1982 Farage was educated at Dulwich College, a fee-paying private school in south London.en.wikipedia.orgNigel Farage - Wikipedia 251
