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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 07/10/2026

Would be nice if we could. (Those f*ckers disabled license servers for older versions, so I lost all access to my legal but old copy when I had to switch to a new PC rather suddenly. May their company crash and burn.)

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 03/10/2026

It'll all make sense once you've tried the whole offering. 😜

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 23/09/2026

Well, the German car industry lobby is corrupt, manipulative, buying politicians, and preventing a lot of progress that would make communities safer and more able to adapt to climate change. Sounds a lot like Big Tech. 😬

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 22/09/2026

LOL. Given the shitty rates they're being paid, phoning it in is exactly the right thing to do.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 22/09/2026

Just want to point out that many of those workers don't use "AI" because that's where their knowledge comes from but because they're being exploited and are extremely underpaid. Why bother putting in real work when you know the billionaire techbros don't care about you either?

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 22/09/2026

Researchers from Stanford claim humans actually have two brains – which is cool because the same university can now ruin two brains for the price of one with all the GenAI shit they're forcing upon students and the academic community. 🙄

med.stanford.edu

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 17/09/2026

The 2036 Paralympics field will be quite crowded, I guess.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/09/2026

But all my translator colleagues who use "AI" to translate confidential documents keep telling me the data are safe as long as I'm paying for a subscription. Are you telling me, they are wrong...? 😱😱😱 /s

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/09/2026

Also worth remembering that Jacob Cockson & co. didn't even say "in 10 years" but within the next 4 years ("by the end of the decade"). So, considering the "improvements" of ChatGPT etc. over the past 4 years.... suuuuuure. 🙄

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/09/2026

Was about to post the same. The "AI"-generated Trending section has been a shitshow all year. Full of errors, trends from days ago, and often leading to posts that have nothing to do with the trend.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 11/09/2026

It's always so weird and telling when these dudes claim they're credible because they "lost" a paycheck. Like they haven't already filled their pockets and will continue to fail upwards... 🙄

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 09/09/2026

Come on, don't fall for this. It was a PR move, plain and simple. Because before this stunt, they had already willingly entered into partnerships with technofascists like Thiel/Palantir & co., so all the ethics blabla they spouted was hot air. Their actual actions spoke a different language.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 09/09/2026

If you claim the above is false, then your statement must be considered false as well because it's equally imprecise and misleading. Predicting the weather/climate based on hard facts is very different from predicting human behavior (the weather doesn't have emotions, mood changes, etc.).

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 07/09/2026

"React"? These systems just react to prompts, stimuli, triggers, input, etc. but they cannot act on their own.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 31/08/2026

FFS, that's not new either. Companies and orgs have been doing this for a looong time. The longer CNN snippet also says that Donald Trump is president. So you're saying this fact is pleasing to Bluesky users and antagonizing to X users? Come on, do you still know how to think for yourself?!

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 31/08/2026

No, it really doesn't. We've known for ages that, e.g., Fox News tells viewers a very different story than, e.g., NBC. But different snippets online with shorter/longer wording due to character limits, platform characteristics, SEO, etc.? That's a nothingburger.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 30/08/2026

How exactly is this mere fact supposed to "please" me? (Asking as a Bluesky user who also understands that platforms have different character limits and content is different all the time for SEO reasons etc.)

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 22/08/2026

Cockroaches are important for the ecosystem and we'd get in trouble if there suddenly weren't any. ICE cowards? The world will be better off once this pest has been extinguished.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 20/08/2026

I'm guessing you're already aware of this collection with more resources, but just in case: monettdiaz.com/books-critic... Maybe Prof. Monett's list has some items still missing in yours.

monettdiaz.com

Books Critical AI

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 19/08/2026

Random dude with a bunch of performative keywords in his bio and a lack of reading skills thinks this is only about "girls" and "ladies" defending themselves. Congrats, you're part of the problem.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 19/08/2026

Oh pleaaase, grow a pair. There's already a long line of people waiting to donate to the GoFundMe to cover legal costs and then some of those future heroes.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 17/08/2026

May I suggest using screenshots or similar next time instead of giving those dirtbags even more clicks? That's just what they want.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/08/2026

Oh my, I feel both for you and the editors. Writing and unwriting 50k words is no mean feat. 😱🥴

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/08/2026

The GenAI & bots shitshow on Bluesky is in full swing. This is what Bluesky is currently showing as of August 13, 8:20 a.m. CET, when the polls have just opened. #Clacton #Farage

Screenshot of the Bluesky interface with a focus on the trending topics. The top topic is "Farage wins Clacton seat" (but polls have just opened and no results have been declared). When you click on this trend, the BlueSky interface's top heading starts with "Count Binface also stood" (the past tense is not a typo made by me).

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 01/08/2026

What's stopping people from using this button in ways the button creator didn't intend? 😏

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 18/07/2026

Wait until you hear about GEO... 🙃

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 19/06/2026

Yes. Unless I missed something and we now live in a world where humans can grow a third hand on their heads.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 12/06/2026

Is today "let's spread Amazon's propaganda" day?

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 11/06/2026

The worst excuse I've heard so far is, "I'm ok with the harms Twitter/X causes b/c that's where the official accounts related to a sport I follow live." This came from a Polish woman who regularly posts about dangers of "AI", surveillance, etc. and seems to have enough common sense to know better. 😫

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 10/06/2026

"...die Integrität des Opfers..."? Wie kann man etwas angreifen oder erschüttern, das gar nicht existiert? Was für ne Lachnummer unser Kanzleramt ist! *fremdschäm*

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 10/06/2026

And they call it a "collection of photographs"... urrg. (Also interesting that they apparently had no problem finding a real photo for the boys scene... 🙄)

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 09/06/2026

To some extent, yes, there's a need for stronger punishment. BUT: Where does it all start? With the fraudulent "AI" companies and all their false advertising, false promises of accuracy, false claims about the quality of data, etc. Sue **those** bastards into oblivion first before punishing others!

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 30/05/2026

The chat is totally messed up now. What kind of vibe-coding clown came up with this BS? The content is off-centered, massive amount of whitespace is blocking the screen for no reason, and the left menu is reduced to icons and cannot be expanded, which is also inconsistent with the feed view. #fail

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 26/05/2026

Definitely some (or a lot of) propaganda involved. A post I still have saved as a reminder (just add "disabled people" to the list of marginalized communities): bsky.app/profile/aaro...

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 24/05/2026

The only fact here is that you're spouting nonsense and ignoring the context in which people made their remarks about the uselessness of "AI" (specifically, currently hyped-up LLM shit). You're just a tool for the fraudulent "AI" companies.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 24/05/2026

You're not making much sense. One moment you're talking about "non-LLM" and well-established stuff but then you're back to "we're just 3 years in", now you're suddenly talking about in-house vs. public, which also has nothing to do with established machine learning stuff. Put your thoughts in order.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 24/05/2026

The stuff you're talking about has been in the works for much longer than "like 3 years", and the person you responded to referred to "these days' AI", i.e., the LLM shit currently getting hyped up as "AI" with the intent to muddle the terminology & make dissent impossible. Pls think yourself.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/05/2026

There's a whole list (compiled by Prof. D. Monett) here: monettdiaz.com/books-critic... If you check out titles & blurbs, you can probably determine whether something might be too technical for you but I think quite of few of these should be ok for non-specialists (e.g. Bender/Hanna's "The AI Con").

monettdiaz.com

Books Critical AI

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/05/2026

Running 1 experiment with just 1 short text (nowhere near novel-length), only 4 translators, and 1 language pair and several caveats in the discussion does hardly mean "many empirical studies confirm my claim." I'm gonna mute you now b/c you're clearly just googling links and haven't read the texts.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/05/2026

Again, you're just showing you don't really know this industry. We're not talking about standardized texts where all you do is confirm some machine output. We're talking about creative works.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 14/05/2026

Tell me you don't know how translation works without telling me... and so on.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/05/2026

Exactly! Plus, there are already some early studies examining how the "priming effect" makes it harder for creative translators to find the best wording because the machine-generated stuff is clogging their brains. 😫 (For reference: slator.com/post-editing...)

slator.com

Post-Editing Machine Translation Limits Creativity in Literary Translation — Research

EU-funded study assesses how effective machine translation is in literary translation; focuses on creativity of literary text, reader experience.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 13/05/2026

It's the same in my industry (translation/localization). Amazon/Audible is about to start a project where they machine-translate books (ewww!) and then expect humans to fix the crap and ensure "literary quality" at a speed of 2500 words per hour (normal would be ca. 1500 at best). #boycottAudible

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 11/05/2026

All the people saying her image clearly had no influence clearly don't know how insidiuous marketing can be and how there's a whole industry trying to figure out how to subliminally influence buyers.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 11/05/2026

It's meant the other way round. You may be able to avoid doing it (and kudos to you!) but when you actually want to read human-written stuff, you now have to wade through endless slop to find it.

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 06/05/2026

Sweetie, recalibrate your bot settings. You're not responding to what I actually said. Have a nice (digital) life!

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 06/05/2026

My point was about you (unintentionally) doing the "AI" companies' bidding by phrasing it like this and making it sound like the only two options are "let's bomb shit based on bad data and (human) decisions" or "let's bomb shit based on bad data and (bot) decisions." Let's shift the narrative!

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Simone Linke @simonelinke.com · 06/05/2026

The actual alternative is not bombing shit at all to distract from the Epstein files.

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