Séamas Kelly
@seamas6.bsky.social
Ways of being human in a technosocial age...
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Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.
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Dozens killed by Israeli fire near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run ministry says
The UN human rights chief said Israel's
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June 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.
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We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid | Sandra L Babock, Susan M Akram, Thomas Becker and James Cavallaro
We conclude that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, including mass killing, arbitrary detention and torture, meets the legal threshold for the term
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May 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
Those of us who are willing to see what is under our noses know very well that what is happening now in Gaza is an ongoing project of ethnic cleansing
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March 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
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‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went
The remote west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...
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February 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
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“It’s easy to buy into the idea that A.I. will take away jobs.”
Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
December 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
“It’s easy to buy into the idea that A.I. will take away jobs.”
Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
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Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.
February 26, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.
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This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏
December 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM
This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏
Another important reflection on our techno-human becoming from @lmsacasas.bsky.social
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
The Enclosure of the Human Psyche
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13
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November 28, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Another important reflection on our techno-human becoming from @lmsacasas.bsky.social
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
Neil Postman — 5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
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November 26, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Neil Postman — 5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
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1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 AM
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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BlueSky growing in popularity with people who now hate Twitter but still hate productivity
November 17, 2024 at 9:55 PM
BlueSky growing in popularity with people who now hate Twitter but still hate productivity