@daslook.bsky.social
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Girl, I am losing my mind
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Girl, I am losing my mind
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Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'
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I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...
June 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...
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Edtech and AI in education are big issues, but it often seems like few know where to turn for critical expertise. Well, here are 200 researchers who gathered for our European Critical Edtech Studies conference this week...
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Edtech and AI in education are big issues, but it often seems like few know where to turn for critical expertise. Well, here are 200 researchers who gathered for our European Critical Edtech Studies conference this week...
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You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
June 1, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You wanna see something really scary? open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...
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NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
June 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out.
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible.
Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We now have a programme for KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURES in and beyond the neoliberal university.
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
This an open workshop and all are welcome. Please register to receive the circulated pre-reading.
Full programme and registration link is available here: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Clara E. Mattei (@utulsa.bsky.social, @che-utulsa.bsky.social) about her book 'The Capital Order' (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Clara E. Mattei (@utulsa.bsky.social, @che-utulsa.bsky.social) about her book 'The Capital Order' (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
April 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to Clara E. Mattei (@utulsa.bsky.social, @che-utulsa.bsky.social) about her book 'The Capital Order' (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
This time I talk to Clara E. Mattei (@utulsa.bsky.social, @che-utulsa.bsky.social) about her book 'The Capital Order' (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the relation between austerity, fascism and authoritarian liberalism.
www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...
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TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
April 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
TOP AI IN EDUCATION FAILS ... so far:
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Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.
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Zware twijfel over de rechtmatigheid van de beoogde bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs: en dat wist de minister zelf ook, maar hij negeerde interne stukken van zijn eigen ministerie...
www.ad.nl/politiek/int... ...>
www.ad.nl/politiek/int... ...>
Interne documenten onthullen: rechter kan mogelijk streep zetten door onderwijsbezuinigingen
Het kabinetsplan om een half miljard euro te bezuinigen op universiteiten en hogescholen wankelt. Ambtenaren van het ministerie van Onderwijs denken dat de rechter hier een streep door kan zetten, sta...
www.ad.nl
March 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Zware twijfel over de rechtmatigheid van de beoogde bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs: en dat wist de minister zelf ook, maar hij negeerde interne stukken van zijn eigen ministerie...
www.ad.nl/politiek/int... ...>
www.ad.nl/politiek/int... ...>
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
i've written a blog post about why I think we should reject generative AI in the university: languagemechanics.neocities.org/no-gen-ai
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“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
February 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”
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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place
advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org/files/lee_20...
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
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unidentified man on loudspeaker announced national assembly voted to block martial law. everyone cheered and then the loudspeaker played the worst music imaginable. just the most based korean energy.
December 3, 2024 at 4:07 PM
unidentified man on loudspeaker announced national assembly voted to block martial law. everyone cheered and then the loudspeaker played the worst music imaginable. just the most based korean energy.
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'Raadsleden aangevallen door agressieve rechtsextremisten' had natuurlijk de kop moeten zijn www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
Vuurwerk gegooid naar raadsleden bij vergadering over azc
Agressie: Het asielzoekerscentrum in de gemeente Montferland moet ruimte bieden aan circa 250 mensen. Een groep bewoners protesteert al tijden tegen de plannen.
www.nrc.nl
December 3, 2024 at 7:20 AM
'Raadsleden aangevallen door agressieve rechtsextremisten' had natuurlijk de kop moeten zijn www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...
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OpenAI's forays into education lately are not motivated by interest in education, but by opportunistic market making now it's realized students are its main users and it could get into schools too. OpenAI is not a friend to public education. It's a private predator on public education funds. 1/3
November 22, 2024 at 9:25 PM
OpenAI's forays into education lately are not motivated by interest in education, but by opportunistic market making now it's realized students are its main users and it could get into schools too. OpenAI is not a friend to public education. It's a private predator on public education funds. 1/3
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one of the world leading research institutes that prides itself in responsible & public benefiting AI: we want you to write a blog post
me: sure, I can write about my expertise; holding those that are developing/deploying harmful AI accountable
them: let's not be overly critical of powerful actors
me: sure, I can write about my expertise; holding those that are developing/deploying harmful AI accountable
them: let's not be overly critical of powerful actors
November 20, 2024 at 3:06 AM
one of the world leading research institutes that prides itself in responsible & public benefiting AI: we want you to write a blog post
me: sure, I can write about my expertise; holding those that are developing/deploying harmful AI accountable
them: let's not be overly critical of powerful actors
me: sure, I can write about my expertise; holding those that are developing/deploying harmful AI accountable
them: let's not be overly critical of powerful actors
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"Remember that nobody has yet worked out how to make an actual profit from AI. So what if — God forbid — number stops going up?
There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon...Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon...Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
November 20, 2024 at 9:00 AM
"Remember that nobody has yet worked out how to make an actual profit from AI. So what if — God forbid — number stops going up?
There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon...Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon...Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’