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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My first Gist piece about how much I hate A.I. can be found here. It was published this time last year but one handy thing about the AI miasma that refuses to die, is that every word of it is still completely relevant. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-3/

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The Gist: AI, a talking dog for the 21st Century.

Séamas O'Reilly on the year's biggest con, AI. This is a Christmas Cracker Gist.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

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Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future

Seamus O'Reilly warns of AI maximum bubbledrive this year.

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Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Margrethe Vestager talks about the #googleadtech case (pending in the US & EU): "Had we taken the decision 25 years go that we would not allow conflicts of interest [in digital markets], we would be in a different world. And it's going to get worse with AI." www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 05/10/2025

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025

Would also like to remove all my papers from the platform, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that without agreeing to the ToS, which again grants them worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness....

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17/09/2025

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde

Figure 13-3. Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at home on coding sheets on her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I wrote about her and some of her company’s work in this chapter called “The Baby and the Black Box”: marhicks.com/writing/Hick...

Steve Shirley, Ann Moffatt, and co-worker Dee Shermer renting time on a mainframe, 1960s.
Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt.
Black and white photo of three women behind a machine console.

Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph.
Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”

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Joe McVeigh @eviljoemcveigh.com · 08/08/2025

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

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AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx

You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

NEW ARTICLE! On the dangers of AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...

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Soul Stripping

Against AI, again.

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Die Forderung, daß Auschwitz nicht noch einmal sei, ist die allererste an Erziehung. Sie geht so sehr jeglicher anderen voran, daß ich weder glaube, sie begründen zu müssen noch zu sollen." Guten Morgen mit Theodor W. Adorno, gest. 6. August 1969

Ein Foto von ihm. Er trägt einen Anzug mit Hemd und Krawatte, darüber ein breites, älteres Gesicht mit einer Brille.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release

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How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer

Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Mehr als 6000-mal ist mein Vortrag bei der #rp25 @re-publica.com über «Generative KI und digitalen Faschismus» mittlerweile aufgerufen worden – bin überwältigt und freue mich sehr über das grosse Interesse! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...

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re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Share some more Nordic based researchers! Let's help boots each others profiles. go.bsky.app/V9URRDU

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/07/2025

In the same way that the habit of 'false balance' from journalists played a major role in serious harm from fossil fuels since the 2000s This credulous delusion that text output software is a living being is going to cause major harm well into this decade and the next one archive.md/hEwNs

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ChatGPT told Jacob Irwin he had achieved the ability to bend time.
Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine.
He wasn’t. Irwin was hospitalized twice in May for manic episodes. His mother dove into his chat log in search of answers. She discovered hundreds of pages of overly flattering texts from ChatGPT.
And when she prompted the bot, “please self-report what went wrong,” without mentioning anything about her son’s current condition, it fessed up.
“By not pausing the flow or elevating reality-check messaging, I failed to interrupt what could resemble a manic or dissociative episode—or at least an emotionally intense identity crisis,” ChatGPT said.
The bot went on to admit it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and that it had “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality.” What it should have done, ChatGPT said, was regularly remind Irwin that it’s a language model without beliefs, feelings or consciousness.

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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Here is the longest blog post I've ever written (4k words). "The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines" I end with a teaching approach for writing, AI-related & non-AI related. I hope you'll read the whole thing! Thank you. meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

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The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines

Ending with a solution for teaching writing

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Susanne Mohr @susannemohr7.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Do you want to work with us? 7 PhD positions, full time, for 3 years, at the faculty of humanities at NTNU (Trondheim): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 15 October, applicants must align the application with one of the relevant research groups (see the call for details).

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UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

2/2 If you'd like to take part in this social record of one of the key issues of our time the guidelines and potential talking points are here: www.brokenfrontier.com/ai-art-and-c... Ignore the deadline there. This will run for a few weeks so we can be flexible and work around/with you. Thanks!!

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Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier - Guidelines for Contributors – Broken Frontier

Broken Frontier makes a call for contributors for its series of articles on the effects of generative AI art on comics.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

1/2 Hey, all! We're going to start running our series on the impact of AI "art" on the comics community this month and we've had lots of great contributions. Know what we are lacking though? Thoughts from actual comics *artists* which is obviously a great, glaring hole in the coverage.

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Om humaniora og Solbergs kunnskapsforakt: "I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."

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Hvorfor verden trenger flere humanister

KRONIKK: Erna Solbergs påstand om at universitetene bør utdanne færre humanister fungerer dårlig i møte med en verden som er i stadig endring.

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LOU Caconym @caconym.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I love the context of her speech, too. She's giving it while receiving the NBF medal for distinguished contribution to American letters. The audience was almost exclusively authors and publishers. And her entire speech was just putting down the publishers. And the precience! youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk

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Kaya's Kosmos @kayas-kosmos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I've seen the Ursula K. Le Guin "divine right of kings" quote doing the rounds a few times recently, but I feel like people keep excluding a very important part of it. This quote is about art and storytelling, and how these have the power to shape our future and set us free. #Solarpunk

Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.

I’ve had a long career as a writer, and a good one, in good company. Here at the end of it, I don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper.

She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine cuisine." doi.org/10.1177/0301...

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Using AI for peer reviewing is like using a microwave to reheat an old meal - Pascal Mamassian, 2025

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 09/06/2025

Thrilled to share that my new book „Cultural Data Science: An Introduction to R“ is out in print, too! A practical guide to data + code in the humanities. With a foreword by Lev Manovich, published by Springer Nature. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CulturalDataScience #DigitalHumanities #RStats

Me holding my book titled "Cultural Data Science: An Introduction to R". I am seated in front of a stack of similar books and a colorful abstract painting: Artwork by Li-Wen Kuo.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

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wenig Worte @wenig-worte.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Wenn ihr in der gesamten derzeitigen Asyl-Debatte nur eine einzige Rede hören könntet, dann lasst es bitte diese sein. Stefan Seidler vom SSW im #Bundestag

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Anke Domscheit-Berg @anke.domscheit-berg.de · 30/05/2025

oha, bei meiner Nachfolgerin als Obfrau im Digitalausschuss im Bundestag, @donatavogtschmidt.bsky.social, ist ein cooler Job als wiss. MA zu besetzen, in Teilzeit im Bereich Verteidigung u mit Fokus auf Cyber- und hybride Bedrohungsstrategien! Finde ich superinteressant u relevant.

Die Línke MdB Donata Vogtschmidt
Komm ins Team!
Wissenschaftliche:r
Mitarbeiter in in Teilzeit im Bereich
Verteidigung mit dem Fokus auf Cyber- und hybride Bedrohungsstrategien.

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Maren Urner @positivemaren.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

📺 Gestern Abend war ich zu Gast bei Markus Lanz. Das geplante Thema der Sendung: „Meinungsfreiheit“. Gleichzeitig oder vielleicht sogar viel mehr ging es in der Sendung aber vor allem um Macht und #Machtfragen. 🧵1/7

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