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ketanjoshi.co
We'll probably never know but I am putting a 100% probability both reviewers used a chatbot to generate some slop to review the slop
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 2d
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.

You don’t get to demand civility.
jwuphysics.bsky.social John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 3d
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 5d
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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olivia.science
We end on an appeal to our fellow psychologists:

"To sit idly by while deskilling and displacing of [our]selves is normalised [...] serves [solely] the technology sector, which avoids criticism and self-reflection and prefers pseudoscience and misinformation."

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8 Do not Embrace AI In this paper, we unpacked why we think psychologists need to be on high alert — not just to avoid another replication crisis, but to avoid the total collapse of our science. What we signpost in Table 1 may have been novel to readers until this point, but the deeper problems are absolutely known. Also, as Crystal Steltenpohl et al. (2023, pp. 9–10) state: “Intentions alone are not enough to move science forward. Creating responsible, considered processes for rigorously transparent open science requires involving interested parties from a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, research areas, and training paradigms.” Indeed, because many such warnings go unheeded — such as the need for a cultivation of shared values and especially the principles of impartiality of researchers and academic freedom from corporate influence — we find ourselves in polycrises that affect our universities, political systems, planet, and ultimately all humanity. “When historians of science look back on the 2010s in social and personality psychology, the decade will likely stand out as a period of exceptional doubt and self-scrutiny in the field.” (Schiavone & Vazire, 2023, p. 710) Why did we ever stop? Should we ever stop? Importantly, Hazel Rose Markus (2005, p. 180, emphasis added) explains that: “Social psychology is often defined as the study of how people respond to and are influenced by other people” Algorithms, chatbots, LLMs, machines, models, inanimate objects are not people — they are the products of people (Guest, 2024, 2025). And to paraphrase Rae Carlson (1984): What’s social about chatbots? Where’s the person in an LLM? We must sure up our subfields from the slow but certain corrosive power wielded by the harmful nonsense that is modern displacement AI. To sit idly by while deskilling and displacing of our students, participants, and selves is normalised — or worse still to profit from it — serves not science but the technology sector, which avoids criticism and self-reflection and prefers pseudoscience and misinformation.
October 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Oh sure, I tell the kids the same thing every day but this guy is some kind of saint for saying it
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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notalegalrecord.net
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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danmcquillan.bsky.social
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education Tuesday 25th November 2025 8am - 9:30am PST | 11am -12:30pm EST | 4pm - 5:30pm GMT | 5pm - 6:30pm CET Virtual on Zoom – REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/4qE27dB Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while big tech’s energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises. What can we do? How do we resist? Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability. Join this interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Inputs from multiple scholar-activists include: Christoph Becker (University of Toronto, Canada), Mary Finley-Brook (University of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland), Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland), and Paul Lachapelle (Montana State University, USA). This event will be recorded and is co-sponsored by: Climate Justice Universities Union and Climate Campus Network
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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bough.cloud
hey so even if you do sweep Dems into power again all those people who are openly calling for your murder will still exist so what is your plan because last time Dems were in office they didn’t do anything about it and now we’re here and my god we can’t keep doing this why do you refuse the lesson
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Stop the slop.
A tweet from “Mara @wydmara” says: “Can we have this button fuckng everywhere.” Below is a tweet from “lumi @dainlou” saying: “can we have this button on Pinterest plz,” with an image of a toggle switch labeled “Exclude AI,” switched to the “on” position.
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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nathankhensley.bsky.social
By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge
rocher.lc Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 14d
📸 New research just out revealing disturbing problems with AI image captioning. AI models can now analyse both texts and images, and are trained on vast collections of human-created content spanning centuries. Some claims these models could soon help human historians interpret and explain the past.
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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wes.readonlymemo.com
Read a few of those leaked emails between illiterate billionaires and the first paragraph of the NYT glazing Nuzzi and you will be inoculated against impostor syndrome for the next 10 years. Do you have a halfway functioning brain? Congratulations you are a golden god
November 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Raphael Bostic at #appam2025 on his journey to becoming President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve - notes that he almost quit grad school multiple times, because “it is hard”: up to that point you are absorbing information as a student - in grad school you are a producer of information.
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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breadbae.blacksky.app
Imagine at the federal level.
And imagine if it was done on capital gains tax too
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
"It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 members of the United States Senate over $1,000,000 a piece and we are robbing people of their food assistance and healthcare to pay for it. How is this even on the floor!?"

Rep. AOC
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"My dissertation, Both Sides Now, applies a bilateral, hylomorphic analysis to the phenomenon that is described by the signifier 'clouds.'"
Joni Mitchell Applies for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position
Dear Search Committee: I am applying for the position of Assistant Professor in Philosophy. I am an advanced doctoral candidate in Philosophy (wit...
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
the Dems keep operating like this cynical shit has no effect. It’s why their core voters don’t fucking show up. When they say “we fight for you” nobody believes them, because they constantly pull shit like this and say “what else are you gonna vote for.” But then people STAY HOME.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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roricomics.bsky.social
As someone who has managed to not cross a picket line even when it was nearly all the grocery stores in the metro area on strike, really don't wanna hear anyone talking about how they just HAVE to cross the Starbucks picket line. This is like the easiest solidarity ever.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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theregister.com
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise Google's Gemini Deep Research tool can now reach deep into Gmail, Drive, and Chat to obtain data that might be useful for answering research questions.…
dlvr.it
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
Did the New York Times ruin journalism?
Interesting Times with Ross Douthat: Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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anildash.com
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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paulconstant.com
In plain English, this means “get ready for a huge pay cut, peons.”
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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utranmyhre.bsky.social
Great opportunity for MN and WI artists - apps are open for the 2026 Everwood Farmstead Retreat.

I had a chance to spend a week there this past August and had a lovely time.

www.everwoodfarmsteadfoundation.org/the-artist-r...
a photo of a sunny summer day, with a wrought iron sign reading "EVERWOOD FARMSTEAD" in the foreground, with a grassy lawn and a large red barn in the background
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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warren.senate.gov
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM