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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: 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 collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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welltypedwit.ch
you know, for people that are literally paid to think, programmers are kind of bad at it
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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iggy.rs
We've just updated our Discord community link to discord.gg/apache-iggy - come join us, if you haven't already!

#iggy #apache #asf #oss #github #discord #rust #messaging #streaming
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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'No way to prevent this', says only ecosystem where this regularly happens.
September 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Close call Copilot
August 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Web experience in 2025
June 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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iggy.rs
How efficient can zero-copy (de)serialization be? And what does it actually look like in practice?
Discover our journey implementing one of the biggest recent optimizations in Apache Iggy.

iggy.apache.org/blogs/2025/0...

#iggy #apache #asf #rust #github #oss #messaging #streaming
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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iggy.rs
Help us shape the future of messaging streaming! Just fill out the simple form below and share your streaming use cases with us — we’d love to hear from you!

iggy.rs/feedback

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March 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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iggy.rs
The day has finally come - our core repository has been moved under the Apache organization.
github.com/apache/iggy

#iggy #apache #asf #rust #github #oss #foss
February 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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iggy.rs
Iggy SDK in #rust has just surpassed over 100k downloads! We're constantly improving our code, to provide the best developer experience possible, and a joy to use it when building the distributed applications :)
#iggy #sdk #asf #crates #messaging #streaming
February 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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iggy.rs
Apache Iggy (Incubating) is built for high-performance message streaming with maximum throughput and ultra-low latency.

Explore our transparent, community-driven benchmark platform at benchmarks.iggy.rs and read more in our latest blog post: blog.iggy.rs/posts/transp...

#iggy #rust #asf #streaming
February 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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When oop purists meet haskellers.
dominiktornow.bsky.social Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social · Jan 29
An elegant mental model to reason about abstraction layers:

An abstraction layer is a triple (L₁, M, L₂) where program M imports interface L₁ and exports interface L₂

M acts as a transformation, translating any program P importing L₂ into an equivalent program M(P) on L₁
January 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM