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davidho.bsky.social
What's the best use of rocks as a climate solution?

Is it grinding them up and spreading them on fields, or is it throwing them at billionaires? Let's go to this meeting and decide.
royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Oct 30
Are you an earth or environmental scientist with an interest in climate change mitigation? Join our upcoming scientific meeting looking at enhanced weathering as leading researchers discuss the scientific and societal challenges ahead:
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October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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rafamorata.bsky.social
Docentes "modernos" que disimulan mal lo paletos que pueden llegar a ser cuando se enfrentan a otros sistemas educativos: son los mismos que manosean cualquier cosa infame que huela a homeopatía educativa. Si confeccionas bien una ficha, el aprendizaje puede ser muy motivante y con saldo positivo.
October 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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socio-steve.bsky.social
Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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olivia.science
Cannot believe we're doing IQ is sensible yet again but of course we are; 🧵 by me for non experts to get to grips with what's up here
September 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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gsjphd.bsky.social
I think a generation of students heard "don't cite Wikipedia as a source" and internalized "Wikipedia is unreliable" rather than "encyclopedias are secondary sources, go cite the actual primary source".
September 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
Klein's suggestion reinforces the false perception that feminism is to blame for society's problems. And, in that sense, he's actually making Democrats' job harder. By making it seem like "men's rights" activists are right.
samd.bsky.social Sam @samd.bsky.social · Sep 20
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
Taking political positions that'll make it more likely to win Senate seats in Kansas and Ohio and Missouri. Trying to open your coalition to people you didn't want it open to before. Running pro-life Democrats. Constitutional Amendment 3 November 5, 2024 Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative Choice Yes X No Results Votes 1,538,659 1,443,022 % 51.60% 48.40% Issue 1 November 7, 2023 Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1] Results Choice Votes % & Yes 2,227,384 56.78% No 1,695,480 43.22% Total votes 3,922,864 100.00% 2022 Kansas abortion referendum KANSAS August 2, 2022 Should there be no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion, including, but not limited to, in circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or when necessary to save the life of the mother? Results Choice Votes % • Yes 385,014 40.84% X No 557,837 59.16% Total votes 942,851 100.00% Registered voters turnout 1,929,972 48.85%
September 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Communism nazism Everyone It really shouldn't be taking this long
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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sotsogm.bsky.social
I'd say it's even more profound than that: the appeal of AI to a certain mindset is that a real human expert will acknowledge uncertainty and the limits of knowledge, and people *hate* that; AI *looks* authoritative and will invent an answer to please the user.
swilua.bsky.social 🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · Sep 16
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
💫 Just out! A tour de force by my colleague @olivia.science, new paper 📝:

What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🧮 ⏰ 🧠

Keywords: AI; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; ANN; technology; cognition; human-centred AI

Link to the paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/e9nHGkMK 1/n
Abstract: While it seems sensible that human-centred artificial intelligence (AI) means centring “human behaviour and experience,” it cannot be any other way. AI, I argue, is usefully seen as a relationship between technology and humans where it appears that artifacts can perform, to a greater or lesser extent, human cognitive labour. This is evinced using examples that juxtapose technology with cognition, inter alia: abacus versus mental arithmetic; alarm clock versus knocker- upper; camera versus vision; and sweatshop versus tailor. Using novel definitions and analyses, sociotechnical relationships can be analysed into varying types of: displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. Ultimately, all AI implicates human cognition; no mat- ter what. Obfuscation of cognition in the AI context — from clocks to artificial neural networks — results in distortion, in slowing critical engagement, pervert- ing cognitive science, and indeed in limiting our ability to truly centre humans and humanity in the engineering of AI systems. To even begin to de-fetishise AI, we must look the human-in-the-loop in the eyes. Keywords: artificial intelligence; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; artificial neural network; technology; cognition; human-centred AI
July 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
"I did not draw my principles from my prejudices but from the nature of things"

- So says Montesquieu and may I just say I absolutely aspire to the confidence of an early modern philosopher's preface. Just straight up being like "Btw I only said true things" Like, oh, word? Dope. Let's go!
September 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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vivek1287.bsky.social
Supercalifragilisticblueskyisatrocious
September 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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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ali-alkhatib.com
imagine a world where this proposal got rejected...
lionel hutz looking worried as he imagines a world without lawyers; the sun is shining, a rainbow stretches over the horizon, and people are holding hands and dancing together.
September 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/
Washington Post article: "For $65K a year, you can send your kid up an AI-driven private school. There are no teachers, and students study just two hours per day." Ad for Elephant Learning, claiming kids can learn 1 year of math in 3 months Ad for Miacademy Learning, promising "Learning at lightning speed." Ad for Thinkster Learning, promising "confidence rebuilt in weeks" and "3X faster progress than old-school centers."
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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jensorensen.bsky.social
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
WEB'S END IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE WEBSITES. YOU VISITED THEM AND IT WAS FUN. Computer screen: Jill's Homepage LINKS AND STUMBLEUPON HELPED YOU FIND NEW ONES. Computer screen: Cheese Art GOOGLE ACTUALLY WORKED AND SENT YOU TO SITES BUILT WITH CARE BY REAL PEOPLE. Computer screen: Lovable Expert THEN CAME SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ITS ALGORITHMS DETERMINED WHAT YOU CLICKED. Computer screen: Facebook THEN AGGREGATOR SITES TOOK OFF. Computer screen: CRAP FROM AROUND THE WEB THEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TRIED TO KEEP US FROM EVER LEAVING… AND WE DIDN'T. Woman on phone: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL THEN AI BEGAN GENERATING SUMMARIES SO YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO A SITE ANYMORE. Computer screen: MONOPOSEARCH Summary SOON... THE AI CHATBOT BECOMES THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REAL PUBLICATIONS DISAPPEAR. Woman speaking to phone: CHATBOT, WHAT IS A WEBSITE? UNTIL ONE DAY, PEOPLE WALK AWAY AND BUILD SOMETHING NEW. Woman has left devices on the ground and is walking into sunset © 2025 Jen Sorensen
August 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
op-b.bsky.social
Buena idea: expertos usando/evaluando sistemas expertos
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Aug 28
A randomized trial of for eye care by ophthalmologists with A.I. vs ophthalmologists without A.I. demonstrated much higher accuracy in diagnosis (92 vs 74%) and many other improved outcomes @NatureMedicine
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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kmcdono.bsky.social
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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rafaelcondemelguiz.bsky.social
Hacktivistas reciclan aparatos obsoletos en Argentina: «Lo viejo funciona»
Una consola de juegos hecha con un ventilador o una terminal de pago devenida cámara de fotos son algunos inventos de los ‘cybercirujas’, un colectivo de hacktivistas argentinos.
www.naiz.eus/es/gaiak/not...
Hacktivistas reciclan aparatos obsoletos en Argentina: «Lo viejo funciona»
«Experimentamos con tecnología, tratando de reciclarla, refuncionalizar elementos que otras personas tirarían», dice Este...
www.naiz.eus
August 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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jessicacalarco.com
People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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volts.wtf
One thing you learn very well if you spend any time studying social or cognitive science is that *people are terrible at assessing their own cognitive and emotional states and even worse at predicting them*. People don't know what they think, or why they think it. They don't know themselves.
August 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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eldiario.es
"De los milmillonarios tecnócratas que respaldan a Trump, el más temible, quizá, es Peter Thiel. Critica los valores de la Ilustración y en un texto reconoció directamente que ha dejado de creer que la democracia y la libertad sean compatibles"

www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/p... ✍️ Por Delia Rodríguez
August 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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capitanswing.bsky.social
«El bordado y la vestimenta tradicionales de Palestina constituían un intrincado código de señales sociales, donde cada aldea marcaba sus diferencias con una serie de puntadas y motivos distintivos, con la construcción de una prenda o el diseño de las mangas, con el tipo de hilo utilizado o las
August 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM