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Thessa Jensen
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Fandom, fanfiction, ethics, social media, artificial intelligence... associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 26d
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org

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Christine Loriol @christineloriol.bsky.social · 26d
„…dass wir mit der Gewissheit aufwachsen, jederzeit vergewaltigbar zu sein…“

@woz.ch über das neue Buch von @manongarcia.bsky.social
„Mit Männern leben“ - das auch Männer lesen sollten.

www.woz.ch/2542/mit-mae...
«Mit Männern leben»: Auf dem Trümmerfeld männlicher Sexualität
In einem neuen Buch reflektiert die Philosophin Manon Garcia anhand des Prozesses um die vielfach vergewaltigte Gisèle Pelicot die Normalisierung der Gewalt gegen Frauen.
www.woz.ch

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Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social · 26d
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...
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 28d
Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
www.theguardian.com

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Jennifer S. Henke @jenniferhenke.bsky.social · 29d
ENDSPURT!! Knapp 800 Unterschriften in nur wenigen Tagen - helft uns dabei,die 1k zu knacken! Unterzeichnet unseren Brief an die Bildungsministerkonferenz (15.10.) & verbreitet den Link: c.org/PSwFM4FJFx

Gegen das Prekariat der PDs & für 1 besseres #WissSystem!! #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Oct 10
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...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · Oct 5
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 · Oct 4
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.bsky.social · Sep 17
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.
Academia.edu | Privacy
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
www.academia.edu

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Sep 17
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.bsky.social · Sep 17
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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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
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.
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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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Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 22
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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Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 22
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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Gales of November ReMar-mbered @histoftech.bsky.social · Aug 22
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 · Aug 18
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...
Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com
docs.google.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com

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Joe McVeigh @eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social · Aug 8
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.
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...
docs.google.com

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raeuberhose / Karolin Schwarz @karolinschwarz.de · Aug 7
Das hier sollte heute jeder lesen.

www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
So erklärt Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihren Kandidatur-Verzicht
SPD-Kandidatin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf hat ihre Kandidatur als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zurückgezogen. Ihre Erklärung dokumentiert LTO im Wortlaut.
www.lto.de

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H.P. @hannelore14089.bsky.social · Aug 6
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 · Jul 30
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
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...
sonjadrimmer.com

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · Jul 22
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...
re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus
YouTube video by re:publica
www.youtube.com

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Philip Forness @philipforness.bsky.social · Jul 2
I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jul 21
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
Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Julie Jargon By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET Share Resize 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 · Jul 19
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...
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · Jul 16
The Norwegian film #Ibelin has been nominated for an #Emmy #Award.

Through the film, over 2 million dollars has been raised for #research into the disease #Duchenne #muscular #dystrophy, that Mats Steen died of:

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Susanne Mohr @susannemohr7.bsky.social · Jul 10
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).
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
www.jobbnorge.no

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Jul 8
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.