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Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
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 col...
zenodo.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Today, someone who has been surfing the AI hype wave to boost his career, got upset by our position paper.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
He gave no substantive couinterargument. Just called it “activism”. As if that is an insult.
In a world where techno-fascism hollows out our institutions, I’m a proud scientific activist.
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I'll add that we should tax the rich into oblivion for reasons of social and democratic stability. The revenue is a secondary bonus.
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'll add that we should tax the rich into oblivion for reasons of social and democratic stability. The revenue is a secondary bonus.
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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I do not like that LLMs are turning folks in our coalition into IP zealots.
September 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I do not like that LLMs are turning folks in our coalition into IP zealots.
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Literally any time someone talks about a chatbot romance, this is what I picture.
a woman in a red jacket is talking to a man and says delete the wife
Alt: A scene from the show Star Trek: Voyager. Captain Janeway, wearing her standard uniform of red jacket over gray mock turtleneck, is standing in front of her maybe hologram boyfriend. She has a serious look on her face and she's tinkering with his programming, and says, "Delete the wife."
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Literally any time someone talks about a chatbot romance, this is what I picture.
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I'm writing up a retrospective on the rise of fascism over the last 10 years of the Trump era, and while I want more nuanced takes, there really is no central and more influential villain singularly responsible for the complete collapse we're in than the media. They created Trump. They sustain him.
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'm writing up a retrospective on the rise of fascism over the last 10 years of the Trump era, and while I want more nuanced takes, there really is no central and more influential villain singularly responsible for the complete collapse we're in than the media. They created Trump. They sustain him.
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"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time
September 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time
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I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals
it needs to be stopped, post haste
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it’s cool we can’t say “die” on social media but chatgpt can tell me people how to commit suicide.
August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
it’s cool we can’t say “die” on social media but chatgpt can tell me people how to commit suicide.
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I wrote "You Are Not The Target Audience" after going through fiftieth round of Discourse over disruptive protests in Portland in 2012 to explain why it's a good strategy. humaniterations.net/2012/02/29/y...
Well my thesis has been demonstrated by researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well my thesis has been demonstrated by researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I wrote "You Are Not The Target Audience" after going through fiftieth round of Discourse over disruptive protests in Portland in 2012 to explain why it's a good strategy. humaniterations.net/2012/02/29/y...
Well my thesis has been demonstrated by researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Well my thesis has been demonstrated by researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
August 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hey, I wrote a book.
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
Did The Science Wars Take Place?
Covers the history and philosophy of a fight in the 80s & 90s between some postmodernists and scientists, with an eye to anarchist interests and lasting political influences among the far-right.
Pre-order here: store.c4ss.org/index.php/pr...
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Mark Smits, VVD-fractievoorzitter in de Provinciale Staten van Gelderland, heeft ons gesommeerd om een artikel te verwijderen. Hij dreigt ons via zijn juridische bedrijfje voor de rechter te slepen. Ook eist hij een schadevergoeding van 7.500 euro.
Gelderse VVD-fractievoorzitter Mark Smits bedreigt Doorbraak en mij via zijn eigen incassobureau | Doorbraak.eu
Mark Smits, VVD-fractievoorzitter in de Provinciale Staten van Gelderland, heeft Doorbraak en mij gesommeerd om een artikel te verwijderen waarin hij zijdelings wordt genoemd. Als we daarmee niet akko...
www.doorbraak.eu
July 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Mark Smits, VVD-fractievoorzitter in de Provinciale Staten van Gelderland, heeft ons gesommeerd om een artikel te verwijderen. Hij dreigt ons via zijn juridische bedrijfje voor de rechter te slepen. Ook eist hij een schadevergoeding van 7.500 euro.
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I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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how is this guy more openly evil every time i see him jesus fucking christ
Beyond it not being how people in Gaza act (literally yesterday I had a man in Gaza risk his life to acquire and deliver formula for a woman he did not know there and refused money from me for doing it)- is that it doesn’t excuse anyone from treating with compassion the people asking
July 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
how is this guy more openly evil every time i see him jesus fucking christ
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Literally so much of the response from this Howard dipshit and others is them being like oh yeah no I'm a fucking monster who's absolutely fine with babies getting slaughtered to make myself feel 5% more safe, everyone else must be like this too
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Beyond it not being how people in Gaza act (literally yesterday I had a man in Gaza risk his life to acquire and deliver formula for a woman he did not know there and refused money from me for doing it)- is that it doesn’t excuse anyone from treating with compassion the people asking
July 7, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Literally so much of the response from this Howard dipshit and others is them being like oh yeah no I'm a fucking monster who's absolutely fine with babies getting slaughtered to make myself feel 5% more safe, everyone else must be like this too
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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IT'S NEARLY OVER! ⏱️ Get Galactic & Going Rogue, 2 GMless scifi #TTRPGs in 1 book, ending soon!
- CRIT Awards 🏆 Best GMless Game of the Year 🎲
- Kickstarter "Project We Love" 💚 & funded in 1 hour
- Over 700% funded on Kickstarter with stretch goals yet to go! 🚀
🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
- CRIT Awards 🏆 Best GMless Game of the Year 🎲
- Kickstarter "Project We Love" 💚 & funded in 1 hour
- Over 700% funded on Kickstarter with stretch goals yet to go! 🚀
🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
June 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
IT'S NEARLY OVER! ⏱️ Get Galactic & Going Rogue, 2 GMless scifi #TTRPGs in 1 book, ending soon!
- CRIT Awards 🏆 Best GMless Game of the Year 🎲
- Kickstarter "Project We Love" 💚 & funded in 1 hour
- Over 700% funded on Kickstarter with stretch goals yet to go! 🚀
🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
- CRIT Awards 🏆 Best GMless Game of the Year 🎲
- Kickstarter "Project We Love" 💚 & funded in 1 hour
- Over 700% funded on Kickstarter with stretch goals yet to go! 🚀
🔗: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
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I've fully snapped on AI technology in educational and scholarly spaces. I'm cooking something up because this has reached fever pitch and I'm annoyed to shit.
June 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Friday 😌
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I hate trump for destroying twitter. I wanna be surrounded by a feed that has lots of Iranians in them. Please at least repost this so I can find some decent Iranians here.
June 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I hate trump for destroying twitter. I wanna be surrounded by a feed that has lots of Iranians in them. Please at least repost this so I can find some decent Iranians here.
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Which Dutch person should we talk to about how things are going in the Netherlands? Any guest recommendations?
June 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Which Dutch person should we talk to about how things are going in the Netherlands? Any guest recommendations?
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similar to how "free markets" as used by the right has nothing to do w markets but unlimited capital accumulation, maximal extractivism, and plutocrat supremacy, "free speech" has nothing to do w speech but unrestrained (mis/dis)informational cacophony, targeted harassment, and stochastic terror
January 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
similar to how "free markets" as used by the right has nothing to do w markets but unlimited capital accumulation, maximal extractivism, and plutocrat supremacy, "free speech" has nothing to do w speech but unrestrained (mis/dis)informational cacophony, targeted harassment, and stochastic terror
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george lucas after he names the bad guys the empire because he hates american imperialism:
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
george lucas after he names the bad guys the empire because he hates american imperialism:
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Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does accommodation work? Mainstream party strategies and the success of radical right parties - Volume 11 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally.
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Short version: Nope.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...