Sebastian Waack
@sebastianwaack.bsky.social
I co-founded and run @edkimo.bsky.social to help teachers and students make learning a two-way conversation.
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Okay this is a come-from-behind contender for the funniest shit I heard in 2025
Have you seen "prompt engineers" or "AI artists" jealously guard or hide their prompts or accuse others of stealing their 'work' (prompts)? Incredible shit
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Okay this is a come-from-behind contender for the funniest shit I heard in 2025
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"The educational technology industry would benefit enormously from a kind of humility that is currently in short supply: the recognition that certain constraints are not problems to be solved but parameters to be respected."
December 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"The educational technology industry would benefit enormously from a kind of humility that is currently in short supply: the recognition that certain constraints are not problems to be solved but parameters to be respected."
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An anecdote re: AI
give it a watch and chime in
give it a watch and chime in
December 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
An anecdote re: AI
give it a watch and chime in
give it a watch and chime in
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Das ist ja mal ein Interview „auf die Zwölf“. Max Schrems räumt auf mit dem deutschen Datenschutzmythos und erklärt unterhaltsam wie man die #DSGVO reformieren müsste. netzpolitik.org/2025/dsgvo-r...
DSGVO-Reform: „Beim Datenschutz ist Deutschland inzwischen dem Silicon Valley näher als dem Rest der EU“
Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung kann reformiert werden, sagt Max Schrems - aber ganz anders, als die EU es gerade plant. Im Interview erklärt der prominente Datenschützer, warum er keine Hoffnung mehr ...
netzpolitik.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Das ist ja mal ein Interview „auf die Zwölf“. Max Schrems räumt auf mit dem deutschen Datenschutzmythos und erklärt unterhaltsam wie man die #DSGVO reformieren müsste. netzpolitik.org/2025/dsgvo-r...
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Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
AGI: All Get Imbecile. At scale.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
AGI: All Get Imbecile. At scale.
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This thread up and down.
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This thread up and down.
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
Also, I've been beating this drum about the danger to the information ecosystem for six and half years now. A few links below:
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December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Today in the AI empire:
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Today in the AI empire:
What could possibly go wrong?
Feels like a Simpsons bit, but alas it’s real life.
‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants
A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
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"Man kann nicht alle drei Jahre neu anfangen"
Der SWK-Kovorsitzende Olaf Köller über verbrannte Fördergelder, nicht umgesetzte Empfehlungen zur digitalen Bildung – und die Verantwortung der Länder in der Bildungspolitik.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...
Der SWK-Kovorsitzende Olaf Köller über verbrannte Fördergelder, nicht umgesetzte Empfehlungen zur digitalen Bildung – und die Verantwortung der Länder in der Bildungspolitik.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Man kann nicht alle drei Jahre neu anfangen"
Der SWK-Kovorsitzende Olaf Köller über verbrannte Fördergelder, nicht umgesetzte Empfehlungen zur digitalen Bildung – und die Verantwortung der Länder in der Bildungspolitik.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...
Der SWK-Kovorsitzende Olaf Köller über verbrannte Fördergelder, nicht umgesetzte Empfehlungen zur digitalen Bildung – und die Verantwortung der Länder in der Bildungspolitik.
Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/12...
Good read about the arms race of AI in education: "Universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating. It’s surveillance capitalism meets institutional malpractice."
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Good read about the arms race of AI in education: "Universities partner with AI companies; students use AI to cheat; schools panic about cheating and then partner with more AI companies to detect the cheating. It’s surveillance capitalism meets institutional malpractice."
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As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.
Amazon Quietly Rolls Back Its AI Anime Dubs After Massive Backlash
As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.
gizmodo.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
As quickly as they arrived, many of Prime Video's controversial generated dubs have been removed from the streamer.
AI vs AI to prove you are human. 🤔Trying to spin my head around the surreal bot-vs-bot feedback loops that will result from this approach.
December 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
AI vs AI to prove you are human. 🤔Trying to spin my head around the surreal bot-vs-bot feedback loops that will result from this approach.
About AI textbooks: “when they hit the classroom, the books turned out to be full of embarrassing errors, demanding much more time and energy from students and teachers alike."
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
About AI textbooks: “when they hit the classroom, the books turned out to be full of embarrassing errors, demanding much more time and energy from students and teachers alike."
LLM-vergiftete Online-Umfragen: „Wir können nicht mehr darauf vertrauen, dass Umfrageantworten von echten Menschen stammen”, sagt Sean Westwood, Dartmouth Professor.
Bericht: t3n.de/news/wie-ki-...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bericht: t3n.de/news/wie-ki-...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
LLM-vergiftete Online-Umfragen: „Wir können nicht mehr darauf vertrauen, dass Umfrageantworten von echten Menschen stammen”, sagt Sean Westwood, Dartmouth Professor.
Bericht: t3n.de/news/wie-ki-...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Bericht: t3n.de/news/wie-ki-...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Hinweis: Wegen Fehlern bei Cloudflare ist unsere Seite heute wiederholt nicht erreichbar.
Ein weiteres hervorragendes Argument, ein Print-Abo zu holen, sobald unsere Seite wieder erreichbar ist: www.der-postillon.com/p/postillon-...
Ein weiteres hervorragendes Argument, ein Print-Abo zu holen, sobald unsere Seite wieder erreichbar ist: www.der-postillon.com/p/postillon-...
www.der-postillon.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hinweis: Wegen Fehlern bei Cloudflare ist unsere Seite heute wiederholt nicht erreichbar.
Ein weiteres hervorragendes Argument, ein Print-Abo zu holen, sobald unsere Seite wieder erreichbar ist: www.der-postillon.com/p/postillon-...
Ein weiteres hervorragendes Argument, ein Print-Abo zu holen, sobald unsere Seite wieder erreichbar ist: www.der-postillon.com/p/postillon-...
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Oh look this is relevant again
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
there’s a major AWS outage going on right now that’s taken down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, Perplexity, Roblox, and lots more of the internet. US-EAST-1 is down and impacting a lot of services that rely on AWS www.theverge.com/news/802486/...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Oh look this is relevant again
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Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
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How every history and science textbook should start
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
How every history and science textbook should start