Ainur Elmgren
@aelmgren.bsky.social
Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages.
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I took a photo of this beautiful boi last year 🧡 incredible, isn’t it!
Are there thousands of us snapping pics of animals in art and museums? Must be a big appreciation club 🤩 here is my less than refined, but cute anyway, little pup I found in V&A, London (I think 🤔)
Are there thousands of us snapping pics of animals in art and museums? Must be a big appreciation club 🤩 here is my less than refined, but cute anyway, little pup I found in V&A, London (I think 🤔)
November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I took a photo of this beautiful boi last year 🧡 incredible, isn’t it!
Are there thousands of us snapping pics of animals in art and museums? Must be a big appreciation club 🤩 here is my less than refined, but cute anyway, little pup I found in V&A, London (I think 🤔)
Are there thousands of us snapping pics of animals in art and museums? Must be a big appreciation club 🤩 here is my less than refined, but cute anyway, little pup I found in V&A, London (I think 🤔)
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Back in my day, we got cool cursors with our malware. Now we get passive aggressive robots that lie to you...
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Back in my day, we got cool cursors with our malware. Now we get passive aggressive robots that lie to you...
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Relevant paper: the more people understand AI, the less they want to use it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The authors' conclusion: don't explain your AI tech too much to your customers.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The authors' conclusion: don't explain your AI tech too much to your customers.
Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity - Stephanie M. Tully, Chiara Longoni, Gil Appel, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms society, understanding factors that influence AI receptivity is increasingly important. The current research investig...
journals.sagepub.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Relevant paper: the more people understand AI, the less they want to use it.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The authors' conclusion: don't explain your AI tech too much to your customers.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The authors' conclusion: don't explain your AI tech too much to your customers.
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Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts.
July 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts.