Ana Brandusescu
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
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Enter generative AI in general and ChatGPT in particular. If your idea of learning is scrolling through content and perhaps shuffling it around a little before submitting it back online for your credential, it must seem like a kind of liquid-metal coursework Terminator. Why *wouldn’t* it appeal?
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Enter generative AI in general and ChatGPT in particular. If your idea of learning is scrolling through content and perhaps shuffling it around a little before submitting it back online for your credential, it must seem like a kind of liquid-metal coursework Terminator. Why *wouldn’t* it appeal?
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I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think back of all of it is credentialism, the idea that the degree and the GPA are the point, the insistence on the shortest path to both for market reasons; at the upper end university is a Student Experience and at the lower end it certifies you for data entry. This corrodes the desire to learn.
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where do i remember seeing #Deloitte before...oh yes #TheTrevorProject and they also flirt with #SalesForce hmm sensitive data nearby would be oh so fun to "de-person-ize" and whatever might a for-profit company do with #CrisisLines conversations?
philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/deloitt...
philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/deloitt...
Deloitte awards $1 million for Trevor Project crisis counseling
Deloitte awards $1 million for Trevor Project crisis counseling. The two-year grant from the Deloitte Health Equity Institute will help fund chat and text services and bolster recruitment, training, a...
philanthropynewsdigest.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
where do i remember seeing #Deloitte before...oh yes #TheTrevorProject and they also flirt with #SalesForce hmm sensitive data nearby would be oh so fun to "de-person-ize" and whatever might a for-profit company do with #CrisisLines conversations?
philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/deloitt...
philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/deloitt...
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I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Alt-text: graphic titled “Native Land Dispossession” shows land inhabited and stewarded by natives and land controlled by settlers overtime, top depicts Palestine/Israel and bottom depicts USA
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Alt-text: graphic titled “Native Land Dispossession” shows land inhabited and stewarded by natives and land controlled by settlers overtime, top depicts Palestine/Israel and bottom depicts USA
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.
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If you're not calling out eugenics in AGI, you're a part of the problem.
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
If you're not calling out eugenics in AGI, you're a part of the problem.
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Not one mention of eugenics.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Not one mention of eugenics.
If anyone presents on military AI at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, I hope they mention the founding donors' financial support of former lone soldiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESEG_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESEG_F...
HESEG Foundation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
If anyone presents on military AI at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, I hope they mention the founding donors' financial support of former lone soldiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESEG_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESEG_F...
"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"A Canadian government-commissioned Deloitte health care report that cost one province nearly $1.6 million contains potentially AI-generated errors, marking the second country this year to allege the consulting firm’s fact-checking shortcomings."
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They also rely entirely on the Cattel-Horn-Carroll theory without engaging in the many criticisms that have been made of the CTC model. CTC and other psychometric instruments like it are historically rooted in eugenics. Everything leads back to eugenics in AGI! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
They also rely entirely on the Cattel-Horn-Carroll theory without engaging in the many criticisms that have been made of the CTC model. CTC and other psychometric instruments like it are historically rooted in eugenics. Everything leads back to eugenics in AGI! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Not one mention of eugenics.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Not one mention of eugenics.
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Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
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Brazil showing us the way!
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Brazil showing us the way!
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
Brazil showing us the way!
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Brazil showing us the way!
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Can only assume that this is because Goran, kind Goran, shares accounts of Palestinian folks in dire need of help and financial support. So incredibly shameful on behalf of the Bluesky moderators. I hope they change their hearts before their callousness and cruelty destroys all that they love.
Bluesky suspended Goran Gligovic, the guy that makes nice art. Jesus fucking Christ Bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Can only assume that this is because Goran, kind Goran, shares accounts of Palestinian folks in dire need of help and financial support. So incredibly shameful on behalf of the Bluesky moderators. I hope they change their hearts before their callousness and cruelty destroys all that they love.
Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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pretty soon chatGPT is gonna have more rights in this country than poor people
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
pretty soon chatGPT is gonna have more rights in this country than poor people
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Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages
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LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children