@onute-onair.bsky.social
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“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.”
“And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”
“And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”
How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills
Electricity bills are climbing nationwide, rising faster than inflation in many places. The explosive growth of AI and the massive data centers behind it are driving demand and straining the grid. To ...
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September 6, 2025 at 12:58 AM
“So, the rise of these industrial-scale computing facilities that are needed for A.I. and other Internet applications is certainly one of the factors driving up prices.”
“And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”
“And I think there’s a chance that A.I. is going to drive our bills even higher in the future.”
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If the current 'AI' hype seems ideologically motivated to you, it's because there's a whole bundle of ideologies operating in the background. Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile Torres @xriskology.bsky.social call it the 'TESCREAL bundle'. You can read their fundamental paper here:
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
| First Monday
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October 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
If the current 'AI' hype seems ideologically motivated to you, it's because there's a whole bundle of ideologies operating in the background. Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile Torres @xriskology.bsky.social call it the 'TESCREAL bundle'. You can read their fundamental paper here:
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Dear all,
Would you have reading suggestions for good critical literature on AI & translation, esp for accessing as yet untranslated scientific literature and authors?
Poke @claireplacial.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social @roselab.bsky.social @maudgrasmenil.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Would you have reading suggestions for good critical literature on AI & translation, esp for accessing as yet untranslated scientific literature and authors?
Poke @claireplacial.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social @roselab.bsky.social @maudgrasmenil.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app
October 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Dear all,
Would you have reading suggestions for good critical literature on AI & translation, esp for accessing as yet untranslated scientific literature and authors?
Poke @claireplacial.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social @roselab.bsky.social @maudgrasmenil.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app
Would you have reading suggestions for good critical literature on AI & translation, esp for accessing as yet untranslated scientific literature and authors?
Poke @claireplacial.bsky.social @libripotens.bsky.social @roselab.bsky.social @maudgrasmenil.bsky.social @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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In a new interview, Lionel Richie discusses the lessons he learned from talking to artists like Tina Turner and Marvin Gaye. “Don’t say much. Just listen. And they’ll teach you the whole navigation of this crazy world we’re living in,” he said.
How Lionel Richie Mastered the Love Song
The artist discusses touring with Tina Turner, what he learned from Marvin Gaye, and the “most important note” to hit—in music and in life.
www.newyorker.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In a new interview, Lionel Richie discusses the lessons he learned from talking to artists like Tina Turner and Marvin Gaye. “Don’t say much. Just listen. And they’ll teach you the whole navigation of this crazy world we’re living in,” he said.
"There are not many copyright-free monographs associated with arcane leftist sects that predicted where western societies would end up at 50+ years' distance, but this one did exactly that . . . "
THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE // PARIS 1967
THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE // PARIS 1967
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"On Chinese social media, some teachers have complained that AI adoption is performative, adds to their workload, and that some systems are intrusive.
The pushback has not stopped schools from embracing new AI products."
The pushback has not stopped schools from embracing new AI products."
"People are buying things randomly because it’s AI" restofworld.org/2025/ai-chin...
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
www.theatlantic.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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“My point is that translating your language through AI is a lost opportunity to cultivate the sweetness within you. With your own words, connecting to the words of others, we can use stories for what they are for, which is to link ourselves with the stories of the people around us.”
Excellent.
Excellent.
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
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August 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“My point is that translating your language through AI is a lost opportunity to cultivate the sweetness within you. With your own words, connecting to the words of others, we can use stories for what they are for, which is to link ourselves with the stories of the people around us.”
Excellent.
Excellent.
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"What unfolds here is not the integration of AI into education, but the integration of education into AI: the reconfiguration of the university as infrastructure for technocapitalism."
Today, Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld examines recent "partnerships" between universities and big tech. Who do such deals serve?
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/when-ed...
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/when-ed...
When Education Serves the Machine: The Technocapitalist Capture of Universities — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"What unfolds here is not the integration of AI into education, but the integration of education into AI: the reconfiguration of the university as infrastructure for technocapitalism."
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“The depictions in the media and from clinicians suggest that people are mainly experiencing delusions, and for that reason, clinicians prefer ‘AI-mediated delusions’ rather than the snappier but less accurate ‘AI psychosis’ to describe the phenomenon.”
As reports of ‘AI psychosis’ spread, clinicians scramble to understand how chatbots can spark delusions
Psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health providers are scrambling to understand the emerging phenomenon of "AI psychosis."
www.statnews.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“The depictions in the media and from clinicians suggest that people are mainly experiencing delusions, and for that reason, clinicians prefer ‘AI-mediated delusions’ rather than the snappier but less accurate ‘AI psychosis’ to describe the phenomenon.”
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"ChatGPT helped her build a black box that made it harder for those around her to appreciate the severity of her distress. Because she had no history of mental illness, the presentable Sophie was plausible to her family, doctors and therapists." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"ChatGPT helped her build a black box that made it harder for those around her to appreciate the severity of her distress. Because she had no history of mental illness, the presentable Sophie was plausible to her family, doctors and therapists." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...
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What Abeba says! A report by academics from Memorial University, Newfoundland, on, amongst other things, the ethical use of #AI in education, contained fake references and seems likely to have been created using #LLMs ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
September 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What Abeba says! A report by academics from Memorial University, Newfoundland, on, amongst other things, the ethical use of #AI in education, contained fake references and seems likely to have been created using #LLMs ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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*pretends to be surprised*
Wired has just published an in-depth piece on Alpha Schools ... giving us a deep-dive on the realities of AI-driven schools sold on the promise of students plugged into personalised learning systems and doing ('crushing') a full day's schoolwork in only 2 hours: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
*pretends to be surprised*
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NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
NEW: "The company’s estimates therefore suggest that every seven days, around 560,000 people may be exchanging messages with ChatGPT that indicate they are experiencing mania or psychosis." @lmatsakis.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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Mental imagery is associated with a bewildering variety of human traits and capacities: a propensity to hold grudges; a vulnerability to trauma; emotional awareness; ways of making art; memory of one’s life. What happens if you can’t see it? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HgpLlB
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Mental imagery is associated with a bewildering variety of human traits and capacities: a propensity to hold grudges; a vulnerability to trauma; emotional awareness; ways of making art; memory of one’s life. What happens if you can’t see it? https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/HgpLlB
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They steal our data. Their whole thing is consume all the data and spit it back mosaic plagiarism stylie while pretending it's "generated" something "new"
Adobe, canva, zoom… all these products are expensive per month.
So why is gen ai mostly free? Added to your work or education software as a nice little bonus?
Because we are developing the product for them, creating resources and process flows they will then sell to bosses to replace/pay us less
So why is gen ai mostly free? Added to your work or education software as a nice little bonus?
Because we are developing the product for them, creating resources and process flows they will then sell to bosses to replace/pay us less
October 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
They steal our data. Their whole thing is consume all the data and spit it back mosaic plagiarism stylie while pretending it's "generated" something "new"
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"Education should remain the space where we confront the architectures of our tools: the labor they obscure, the inequities they reproduce, the futures they foreclose. Instead, it risks becoming the laboratory of the very systems it should critique," writes Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld.
When Education Serves the Machine: The Technocapitalist Capture of Universities — Civics of Technology
Civics of Technology Announcements Next Tech Talk: Please join us for our next Tech Talk where we meet to discuss whatever critical tech issues are on people’s minds. It’s a great way to connect, l...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Education should remain the space where we confront the architectures of our tools: the labor they obscure, the inequities they reproduce, the futures they foreclose. Instead, it risks becoming the laboratory of the very systems it should critique," writes Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld.
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this is a warm and hopeful piece i wish would become a reality but I fear it undermines a few factors:
1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model
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1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model
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I wrote a piece for @bakerinstitute.bsky.social about how decentralized social media is the future, leading to a sector that is more global and with smaller players.
I probably should have run all this by someone like @mmasnick.bsky.social first, but hopefully I didn't botch things too badly!
I probably should have run all this by someone like @mmasnick.bsky.social first, but hopefully I didn't botch things too badly!
Is US Big Tech’s Dominance of Social Media Waning? | Baker Institute
Is the age of American Big Tech social dominance ending? In a new commentary for the Center for the U.S. and Mexico, Simon Lester describes how the future of social media could be smaller and more glo...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
this is a warm and hopeful piece i wish would become a reality but I fear it undermines a few factors:
1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model
1/
1)the power and influence the industry has to sabotage anything that gets the way of its business model
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Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.
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"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"As the youth will tell us, we have lived through the centuries of 'fucking around,' and we are now entering the era of 'finding out.'" - @shannonvallor.bsky.social
Just finished @shannonvallor.bsky.social’s book, The AI Mirror. Deeply appreciative of the thought and care that went into this book. Left reflecting upon one of many challenges posed: how might we “reclaim technology as a human-wielded instrument of care, responsibility, and service”?
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
"As the youth will tell us, we have lived through the centuries of 'fucking around,' and we are now entering the era of 'finding out.'" - @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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"We're basically outsourcing empathy and outsourcing relationships to these machines without considering the consequences…”
I tested an AI-powered pet designed to 'ease stress and bring comfort' to Gen Z—it went exactly how a psychologist predicted
My week with Moflin, Casio's first AI-powered companion robot.
www.cnbc.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"We're basically outsourcing empathy and outsourcing relationships to these machines without considering the consequences…”
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Yep. All they have left to sell is surveillance.
All I see is more ways for tech companies to surveil and control
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yep. All they have left to sell is surveillance.
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“…the NPC [National Privacy Commission] found that TFH [Tools for Humanity] is offering monetary incentive in exchange for consent to collect iris biometrics, which constitutes ‘undue influence.’”
(TFH is Altman’s eye scanning company)
(TFH is Altman’s eye scanning company)
Philippines privacy authority orders halt to World biometrics processing | Biometric Update
The National Privacy Commission of the Philippines has ordered Tools for Humanity to halt all data processing operations in the country.
www.biometricupdate.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“…the NPC [National Privacy Commission] found that TFH [Tools for Humanity] is offering monetary incentive in exchange for consent to collect iris biometrics, which constitutes ‘undue influence.’”
(TFH is Altman’s eye scanning company)
(TFH is Altman’s eye scanning company)
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“Broadening access to the humanities…—an effort that gives, for example, a room of public school kids the chance to experience the thrill of something entirely new—is needed now in ways that are difficult to overstate. There’s an essential kind of freedom at stake.” 💙😭🤟
Had a lot of fun writing this review of @tomcomitta.bsky.social’s strange, moving, and hilarious book. Gets us to think, as I argue here, about the value of an aesthetic education—something we all should aim for as we teach our kids.
mid-theory.com/2025/12/04/u...
mid-theory.com/2025/12/04/u...
Unwanted Reading: A Review of Tom Comitta’s ‘People’s Choice Literature’
The Sunday before I taught Beloved last spring, I sat on my couch wondering how I was going to convince a room full of second semester seniors that, before they left high school that June, they sho…
mid-theory.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Broadening access to the humanities…—an effort that gives, for example, a room of public school kids the chance to experience the thrill of something entirely new—is needed now in ways that are difficult to overstate. There’s an essential kind of freedom at stake.” 💙😭🤟