Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14hThis page from @harikunzru.bsky.social’s novel Red Pill is seared in my brain Because this is the future the eugenicist technofascists want, whether it’s realistic or not. It’s what they’re hoping for. 816834 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 11hI blew past the poster's id, not realizing what I was watching, just listening, in horror, to this conversation, until the signature logo at the end made me burst out laughing. That is a some truly sick deadpan shit. Well played, sirs. 010 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialBarbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all. 266141134583 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/10/2026There is something real about Trump hires curing your imposter syndrome. Now that I’ve seen the new press secretary I am convinced that actually I am very good at public speaking. A genius, possibly 311306126 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Needless to say, this is not the kind of thing that a decently democratic society can or should tolerate. 000 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Equal parts saddening, disturbing, and despicable, violent threats against elected officials (of both parties) have grown enormously since 2024. Threats of torture, rape, and murder, not just against the officials themselves but their spouses, family members, and children.nytimes.comThreats of Political Violence Have America’s Elected Officials Living in Fear (Gift Article)A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office. 110 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...thebulletin.orgHow the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big businessThere is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom. 6293117 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 810207504637 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity. 3369119 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialZ @inwaves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s so sad that she doesn’t see that it’s the opposite. *Reading* would make the readings easier to understand. Using AI makes it harder because she doesn’t learn. 0152 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13972416 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And of course, a big reason a public healthcare system is allegedly bad is that people will supposedly overuse healthcare if it’s available to them. 000 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot” 639106091976 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t. 962297 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history. 846975 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Oh, you want to abolish ICE? Well, if they're gone, who's going to be terrorizing our cities and killing people in the streets? Huh? Did you think about that?" 331504188 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Bender 2026: Artificial Intelligence. (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society.) doi.org/10.1093/9780... Preprint: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...doi.orgValidate User 4374 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialMichelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... 34838185 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026To ppl suggesting Stanford as an "independent Anthropic & OpenAI auditor" “The membrane between academia and industry...is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin” nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comYou Are Not a ParrotAnd a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this. 6505132 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >> 17982295 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Trying to imagine what Republicans would be saying if a Democratic president had started a war, run up huge deficits, spiked inflation, and then promised to give everyone $5000. 410115 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tell David Cahn to add $22m in *checks notes* compute to ingest someone else's notes into training in his $600b CapEx estimate 26717 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The number of people misinterpreting this one -- whew. We need that evidence to evaluate the company's claim that their system did any 'autonomous' math, not to evaluate whether or not the counterexample is a counterexample. >> 617332 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialAlias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social. 518371 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialEric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If the world is morally ordered, the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer. Today's post explores some versions of this view and what might explain, undermine, or reverse a correlation between virtue and thriving: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/09/type...schwitzsplinters.blogspot.comTypes and Conditions of Moral Order 082 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166603667 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Wonderful thread! I'm going to put out Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' (in the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation), which I've read a couple times but am in need of re-reading. The book is so immersive I forget that I'm reading for long stretches of time. 000 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026garymarcus.substack.comDwarkesh Patels’s wildly popular but dangerously misleading account of the OpenAI Hugging Face incidentWhen “plain English” isn’t a good thing. 000 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And here's Jad writing about Dolly today. That aspect of how she gently but firmly exerted absolute control of herself and her world comes across in the interviews that are part of Jad's podcast. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/o...nytimes.comOpinion | What Dolly Parton Told Me (Gift Article)Trailing Dolly Parton around the world, I witnessed so many small moments in which she’d gracefully own her power without the slightest hint of fight. 212019 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialGarry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚 106143425747 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I had to say thank you.meditationsinanemergency.comIn Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of KindnessWe will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil... 432844578 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She 1752271401 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... 131223462 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026 Just yuck. Yuck to AI avatars of instructors, yuck to Harvard business school being able to do this b/c there will always be a premium on F2F elite school instruction, and yuck to this puff piece in the NYTsnytimes.comHarvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty (Gift Article)To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors. 020 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…” 51398274760 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I’ve been through that experience so many times—teaching and writing are pressure cookers here, forcing you out of nomamsland to find the clear and giving words that spare someone else your troubles. It’s always an adventure, and I’d never give it up to a stupid bot to do it for me. 010 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Powerful piece. “Here is a thing about being good at thinking. Being good at thinking involves the ability not only to recognize your own stupidity but the ability to be patient with it, to stay the course and thereby navigate yourself out of the nomansland of confusion.“ 1112 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This one hit hard and close to home. 092 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience. 20885460 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Always impressed by the creativity of these threads, but this one in particular is comic gold… 000 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries 344154552 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialAjuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 14/08/2026These comics by @dinosaurcouch.bsky.social are too relatable. I love them 1101 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Thinking fast ("wtf?"), then thinking slow ("oh") 3324 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 181142502637 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Really great interview w/Chandra Sripada on Carroll’s Mindscape podcast on whether LLMs exhibit some human like cognitive features. I’m more skeptical than he is on this, but it’s an engaging interview, and he offered some great cases (embedding, Stroop effects) that are fun to think about.podcasts.apple.com363 | Chandra Sripada on How LLMs and Humans are Cognitive CousinsPodcast Episode · Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · August 10 · 1h 52m 010 0
philosophyamg.bsky.social @philosophyamg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026theguardian.comNot your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worseIs it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed? 000 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union. 212550804 0
Reposted by @philosophyamg.bsky.socialProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...chronicle.comThese Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn? 1126685 0
