Maria Jankowska
@guac4mole.bsky.social
(she/they)
feminist philosopher in the making // uni freiburg
trigger warning: i post a lot of cat pictures
feminist philosopher in the making // uni freiburg
trigger warning: i post a lot of cat pictures
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I think you people have bigger problems than this
🚨 NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled that oat milk can no longer be called milk
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I think you people have bigger problems than this
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This piece by Rebecca Solnit is one of the most deeply moving explorations of what tech takes from us, how it transforms us, how it demands we become more like it and less human, that I've read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 10:21 AM
This piece by Rebecca Solnit is one of the most deeply moving explorations of what tech takes from us, how it transforms us, how it demands we become more like it and less human, that I've read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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So, socialism. ;)
“we should replace ‘greed is good’ maxims in the capitalist framework with a community-oriented, cooperation-promoting mindset, appreciating that we are all better off when we work together is the critical insight needed for building a prosocial and equality-focused environment for the future”
In an essay for @aeon.co, I argue that humans evolved not to cooperate or to compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the flexibility to cheat when we’re likely to get away with it.
Cooperation is therefore something we need to promote, not to presume.
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aeon.co/essays/we-co...
Cooperation is therefore something we need to promote, not to presume.
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aeon.co/essays/we-co...
February 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM
So, socialism. ;)
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Josina Manu Maltzman hears echoes of the other occupation.
Letter From Minnesota: Echoes of the Other Occupation
The point of an occupation is you don’t choose when it happens. They descend upon you at their convenience. On day fifty-four I watch an almost-live stream of someone getting shot dead by federal a…
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Josina Manu Maltzman hears echoes of the other occupation.
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Of course, as anyone with even passing knowledge of Trumpism could tell you, there were plenty of so-called "libertarians" and lib foundations/institutes that fueled Trump's rise with their active, willing, visceral, public support. Curiously missing from this piece. Hint: it's the racism.
February 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Of course, as anyone with even passing knowledge of Trumpism could tell you, there were plenty of so-called "libertarians" and lib foundations/institutes that fueled Trump's rise with their active, willing, visceral, public support. Curiously missing from this piece. Hint: it's the racism.
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
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I know we’re all having to focus on everything all the time, and it’s impossible and overwhelming, but this from Iran is worth some of your attention, if you can spare it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous
I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I know we’re all having to focus on everything all the time, and it’s impossible and overwhelming, but this from Iran is worth some of your attention, if you can spare it. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Wissenschaft droht sich abhängig zu machen von KI — & sollte dringend gegensteuern: Das haben @maximilianiras.bsky.social & ich vor ziemlich genau 2 Jahren in der FAZ geschrieben. Seitdem sehen wir das Gegenteil: Academia buckelt vorm KI-Hype. Epistemische oder ethische Bedenken: Nebensache. Bitter!
KI-Modelle an Hochschulen: Ausgang aus der digitalen Unmündigkeit
Der Einsatz von KI-Werkzeugen gefährdet die Autonomie der europäischen Hochschulen. Die Politik muss dringend gegensteuern. Ein Gastbeitrag.
www.faz.net
January 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Wissenschaft droht sich abhängig zu machen von KI — & sollte dringend gegensteuern: Das haben @maximilianiras.bsky.social & ich vor ziemlich genau 2 Jahren in der FAZ geschrieben. Seitdem sehen wir das Gegenteil: Academia buckelt vorm KI-Hype. Epistemische oder ethische Bedenken: Nebensache. Bitter!
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
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If there are people studying our era in the future, they will be amazed that all that is unfolding was entirely predictable
Every post on my wall is like:
- how fascism is being enabled
- how it could easily be countered
- how the people in power do the opposite while pretending to care
Every post on my wall is like:
- how fascism is being enabled
- how it could easily be countered
- how the people in power do the opposite while pretending to care
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If there are people studying our era in the future, they will be amazed that all that is unfolding was entirely predictable
Every post on my wall is like:
- how fascism is being enabled
- how it could easily be countered
- how the people in power do the opposite while pretending to care
Every post on my wall is like:
- how fascism is being enabled
- how it could easily be countered
- how the people in power do the opposite while pretending to care
im sitting on a train in front of a guy who's reading foucault's history of sexuality I (looking like foucault himself). should i spoil it for him, or would that be too evil?
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
im sitting on a train in front of a guy who's reading foucault's history of sexuality I (looking like foucault himself). should i spoil it for him, or would that be too evil?
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since you all seem to like cat pics, here's one with Mr. Fat Fuck✨️
December 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
since you all seem to like cat pics, here's one with Mr. Fat Fuck✨️
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It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
www.nature.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It’s good to see papers start to address LLMs as structural plagiarism — provenance, more hidden than the original words or training data. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
what a great episode of @futurehistories.bsky.social! Found it while working on a prezi on "resisting AI's command and the fascism in us all" and it's been a really fruitful framework✨️
open.spotify.com/episode/7Lwt...
open.spotify.com/episode/7Lwt...
S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic Governmentality
open.spotify.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
what a great episode of @futurehistories.bsky.social! Found it while working on a prezi on "resisting AI's command and the fascism in us all" and it's been a really fruitful framework✨️
open.spotify.com/episode/7Lwt...
open.spotify.com/episode/7Lwt...
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"Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence."
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence."
core philosophy moment: writing abstracts at 3am
Schleswig doesn't seem to approve
Schleswig doesn't seem to approve
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
core philosophy moment: writing abstracts at 3am
Schleswig doesn't seem to approve
Schleswig doesn't seem to approve
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Save the date: I am very excited to be part of this roundtable with some amazing colleagues — on February 16 at HU Berlin, Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social and yours truly will discuss our perspectives on the «Critique of AI», moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld
Critique of AI - KTB
with Matteo Pasquinelli (Ca’ Foscari University Venice), Anna-Verena Nosthoff (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg), Roland Meyer (University of Zurich), Rainer Mulhoff (University of Osnabrück...
criticaltheoryinberlin.de
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Save the date: I am very excited to be part of this roundtable with some amazing colleagues — on February 16 at HU Berlin, Matteo Pasquinelli, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social and yours truly will discuss our perspectives on the «Critique of AI», moderated by Jacob Blumenfeld
I'm beyond grateful that the book from @manongarcia.bsky.social finally landed in my hands. I devoured it overnight and, honestly, it brought me an unexpected sense of peace, as it resonated with my own lived experience. I'm very much looking forward to discussing it at our colloquium in January!
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I'm beyond grateful that the book from @manongarcia.bsky.social finally landed in my hands. I devoured it overnight and, honestly, it brought me an unexpected sense of peace, as it resonated with my own lived experience. I'm very much looking forward to discussing it at our colloquium in January!
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Really smart piece on how to think about democracy amidst the failure of shared knowledge.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Really smart piece on how to think about democracy amidst the failure of shared knowledge.
therapist: scary Schleswig-Holstein doesn't exist, he can't hurt you
scary Schleswig-Holstein:
scary Schleswig-Holstein:
November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
therapist: scary Schleswig-Holstein doesn't exist, he can't hurt you
scary Schleswig-Holstein:
scary Schleswig-Holstein:
this!!
What if the real greatest impact of AI is not that it replaces work but that it psychologically disassembles humans?
In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around .07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and .15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
this!!
