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Issy ⭐️
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Baker, translator, Star Trek appreciator | 28 | she/her
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feolski.bsky.social
"Why learn anything, when the planet-destroying plagiarism machine can just do stuff for you? Get to cheating, y'all."

Absolute nihilism.
dansheehan.bsky.social Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · Apr 22
Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death
April 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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okwonga.bsky.social
Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
issye.bsky.social
lmaoooooo
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Mar 31
BREAKING: A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling EU funds aje.io/n1h9ru
March 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
unpopular stance: ACAB includes Scully but not Mulder, because there's absolutely no way Fox Mulder understands what the law really is or that his job is to enforce it. he has less capacity for moral cognition than a K9 unit.
March 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
issye.bsky.social
This is how it starts! 😶
March 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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dbonansinga.bsky.social
Out today and open access 🔓

In this article, we evidence the radicalisation of the U.K. Conservatives by showing how they incorporated all the elements of populist radical right narratives in their justification of the Rwanda Policy!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Stop the boats”: populist contagion and migration policymaking in the UK
This paper argues that the Rwanda Policy was the continuation of a populist contagion process that is leading to a longer-lasting radicalization of the UK Conservatives. It examines leading Conserv...
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February 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Do citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic?

In a new @bjpols.bsky.social paper w/ @bertous.bsky.social & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social we answer this question using a double-list experiment across 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇳🇱

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Spoiler: Yes. 🧵
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Do Citizens Stereotype Muslims as an Illiberal Bogeyman? Evidence from a Double-List Experiment - Volume 55
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February 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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ftriangulo.bsky.social
Enorme éxito en todo el mundo de la manifestación convocada por el activismo LGBTIQ+ argentino contra el fascismo internacional y los discursos de odio, encabezados por Javier Milei en Davos, que llamo Pederastas al colectivo LGBTIQ+

Gracias, Argentina

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La marcha del orgullo antifascista y antirracista reúne a miles de personas contra Milei en Buenos Aires
Los colectivos LGTBIQ+ y feministas logran el apoyo de organizaciones sociales, políticas y sindicales
elpais.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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elpais.com
Desconocimiento y apología del franquismo en Tik Tok: el cóctel que empuja a jóvenes al revisionismo histórico. Historiadores alertan de la necesidad y complicación de competir contra las redes sociales y la popularidad de ‘youtubers’ de extrema derecha
Desconocimiento y apología del franquismo en Tik Tok: el cóctel que empuja a jóvenes al revisionismo histórico
Historiadores alertan de la necesidad y complicación de competir contra las redes sociales y la popularidad de ‘youtubers’ de extrema derecha
elpais.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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kyuutz.bsky.social
La manera en la que me están haciendo reír los comentarios sobre Johanne Sacreblu, jaaaaaaajajajajajaksjahdhakshdhdjsjf.

Somos unos pendejos y nos amo cuando nos unimos para este tipo de estupideces.
January 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
issye.bsky.social
I've been spending too much time researching... how tf did I catch this from THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
January 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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nocontroller.bsky.social
Piano roll of “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from Twin Peaks. The visual representation of two mountain peaks in the music was a “cosmic” coincidence which shocked both Lynch and Badalamenti when they discovered it
Caption describes image
January 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social
Kyle MacLachlan's statement on the passing of David Lynch:
January 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
issye.bsky.social
Genuinely, actually, truly heartbroken about David Lynch. He got what it was all about
January 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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maggieserota.bsky.social
Strap Neil Gaiman to a rocket and fire him into the sun.
January 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
issye.bsky.social
2025 off to a flying start! Do Bolsonaro next!
January 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
issye.bsky.social
Desperately need the Dowlais Male Choir to do a Donna Summer cover and call it 'Cyfarthfa Park'. Can't stop changing the lyrics when I sing along.
January 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Seems important that in Fahrenheit 451, books were still “available” in single-paragraph summaries—“read Hamlet in five minutes!”—but the books themselves had been banned for being too difficult. Tech boosters see a warning and think it’s an instruction manual.
tweet that reads: "Personally, I read a bunch of classics in high register in college. I guess it was fun. I recently ChatGPT'd Aristotle into readable English, finished it around 5x as fast as a translation, and felt I got the main gist of things. idk does the pain incurred actually teach much?"
January 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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erikhane.bsky.social
“Mhm. And how will you uplift marginalized communities?” I ask an engagement bot, killing off the last members of an endangered species of mynah bird in the Amazon. The bot’s answer lacks intersectionality—I tell it so. A root system that had been alive since the Cretaceous period shrivels and dies
January 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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asslatam.bsky.social
After Trump threatened to annex parts of LatAm, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced her decision to rescind the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago.

Now that much of the American West is part of Mexico, Sheinbaum plans to deport what she considers to be illegal aliens in Mexican territory.
December 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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abbeyosborn.bsky.social
this is something I think about a lot- when I have talked about learning Spanish, it was celebrated and even seen as an accomplishment, but for my English learners, the fact that they don't speak English is something they are harassed or denigrated for
nelsonlflores.bsky.social Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Dec 19
For me the more relevant linguistic distinction is not between monolingual and multilingual people but rather between those whose linguistic border crossing is marked as a first step to policing them and those whose linguistic border crossing remains unmarked or even celebrated as innovative.
December 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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elpais.com
“Hay grandes modelos de lenguaje entrenados con información de Internet. Y todos sabemos, que si eres mujer, negro u homosexual, ese lugar será muy tóxico para ti”, reflexiona este experto sobre los sesgos que afectan a los sistemas de IA
El efecto de los sesgos LGBTIQ+ en la IA: “Nos vemos obligados a evitar la palabra ‘queer’ en los mensajes”
Los prejuicios humanos en la tecnología se introducen en los procesos de recopilación y de etiquetado de datos en la inteligencia artificial, lo que puede llevar a situaciones de discriminación e…
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December 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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lisazanottiphd.bsky.social
📢 New OA publication alert! 🚨

How do far-right parties in Latin America compare to their Western European counterparts?
@aborges75.bsky.social and I, in @polstudies.bsky.social, analyze the far right in a region where immigration is not a central issue. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 17, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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ics-ulisboa.bsky.social
O investigador do ICS-ULisboa José Pedro Zúquete e o doutorando do ICS-ULisboa David Pimenta assinam um texto no Expresso sobre o líder do Chega.

Para ler na íntegra: tinyurl.com/bdetctpr
#populism
Os três dês do Chega: Deus, Demografia, Democracia
<p>Os investigadores do ICS estudaram o populismo do Chega e com base no seu trabalho escreveram este texto para o Expresso</p>
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December 17, 2024 at 12:07 PM