Dr. Mag 🌿👾
@nobugsnous.bsky.social
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why can’t stranger things just do episodes with normal runtimes
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
why can’t stranger things just do episodes with normal runtimes
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“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
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Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
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Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
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November 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“Reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing.”
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
Suarez [et al. (2025, par. 7)]
zenodo.org/records/1567...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social
👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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“The chatbot tells you to kill yourself because you violated the TOS” is fucking diabolical.
Why does this company exist.
Why does this company exist.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
“The chatbot tells you to kill yourself because you violated the TOS” is fucking diabolical.
Why does this company exist.
Why does this company exist.
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Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Can’t say how important this panel excerpt with @drtanksley.bsky.social is—particularly, IMO, for teachers using grading/anti-cheating programs run by AI.
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
“Anti-Blackness is the algorithm meant to solve the problem of Black life.”
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As soon as there is a new administration, I’m going to start reporting emails like this to the DOJ as hate crimes against me, a human.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
As soon as there is a new administration, I’m going to start reporting emails like this to the DOJ as hate crimes against me, a human.
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Class struggles/class war has to include workers from all over the 🌎🌍
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Class struggles/class war has to include workers from all over the 🌎🌍
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This is happening today at 1pm, presented by LUC's Beta Rho chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society! Use the QR Code to register for our Zoom!
what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization?
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is happening today at 1pm, presented by LUC's Beta Rho chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society! Use the QR Code to register for our Zoom!
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TODAY, at 2pm ET!
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On November 18, join organizers and experts for a cross-issue panel discussion exploring how workers and communities are pushing back: From Our Workplaces to Our Communities: Stop the AI Surveillance Pipeline Now! bit.ly/stopAIsurveillance
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
TODAY, at 2pm ET!
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We keep being taught this lesson and I fear the lesson keeps being ignored
Maybe running every single website on the internet through one single company's infrastructure was a mistake?
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We keep being taught this lesson and I fear the lesson keeps being ignored
I am an optimistic person as a general rule, but the bastards are grinding me down, I fear!!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I am an optimistic person as a general rule, but the bastards are grinding me down, I fear!!!!!!
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“The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it.” The climate crisis has collided with an epistemic crisis - a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge.
-George Monbiot
-George Monbiot
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it.” The climate crisis has collided with an epistemic crisis - a crisis in the production and delivery of knowledge.
-George Monbiot
-George Monbiot
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Being reminded Larry Summers is currently on the board of Open AI
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Being reminded Larry Summers is currently on the board of Open AI
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Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good.
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
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November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good.
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
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my employer should pay me money to bike/take the metro/walk to work
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
my employer should pay me money to bike/take the metro/walk to work
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One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney.bsky.social and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.
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buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
OpenAI Tries to Shift Responsibility to Users
OpenAI is trying to shift the blame for bad legal and medical advice from its chatbot away from the company and onto users. We agree that no chatbot should be used for medical or legal advice.
buttondown.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
Being a parent to a young child is so much fun and so rewarding and also I’m finding it to be so difficult to do so as an academic.
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Being a parent to a young child is so much fun and so rewarding and also I’m finding it to be so difficult to do so as an academic.
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We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.
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I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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personally I would never delve too greedily or too deep
February 2, 2024 at 1:46 AM
personally I would never delve too greedily or too deep