Thessa Jensen
thessajensen.bsky.social
Thessa Jensen
@thessajensen.bsky.social
Fandom, fanfiction, ethics, social media, artificial intelligence... associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark.
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oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
www.consumerreports.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Zoe Williams interviews feminist philosopher @manongarcia.bsky.social - the English translation of her book about the Pelicot trial was published last week
‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists
When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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„…dass wir mit der Gewissheit aufwachsen, jederzeit vergewaltigbar zu sein…“

@woz.ch über das neue Buch von @manongarcia.bsky.social
„Mit Männern leben“ - das auch Männer lesen sollten.

www.woz.ch/2542/mit-mae...
«Mit Männern leben»: Auf dem Trümmerfeld männlicher Sexualität
In einem neuen Buch reflektiert die Philosophin Manon Garcia anhand des Prozesses um die vielfach vergewaltigte Gisèle Pelicot die Normalisierung der Gewalt gegen Frauen.
www.woz.ch
October 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Margrethe Vestager talks about the #googleadtech case (pending in the US & EU):

"Had we taken the decision 25 years go that we would not allow conflicts of interest [in digital markets], we would be in a different world. And it's going to get worse with AI."

www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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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September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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ENDSPURT!! Knapp 800 Unterschriften in nur wenigen Tagen - helft uns dabei,die 1k zu knacken! Unterzeichnet unseren Brief an die Bildungsministerkonferenz (15.10.) & verbreitet den Link: c.org/PSwFM4FJFx

Gegen das Prekariat der PDs & für 1 besseres #WissSystem!! #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
October 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
October 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
Academia.edu | Privacy
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
www.academia.edu
September 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Would also like to remove all my papers from the platform, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that without agreeing to the ToS, which again grants them worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness....
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I wrote about her and some of her company’s work in this chapter called “The Baby and the Black Box”: marhicks.com/writing/Hick...
August 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
August 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com
docs.google.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.
AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx
You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...
docs.google.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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NEW ARTICLE! On the dangers of AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Die Forderung, daß Auschwitz nicht noch einmal sei, ist die allererste an Erziehung. Sie geht so sehr jeglicher anderen voran, daß ich weder glaube, sie begründen zu müssen noch zu sollen."
Guten Morgen mit Theodor W. Adorno, gest. 6. August 1969
August 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Mehr als 6000-mal ist mein Vortrag bei der #rp25 @re-publica.com über «Generative KI und digitalen Faschismus» mittlerweile aufgerufen worden – bin überwältigt und freue mich sehr über das grosse Interesse!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...
re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus
YouTube video by re:publica
www.youtube.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Share some more Nordic based researchers! Let's help boots each others profiles. go.bsky.app/V9URRDU
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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We have extended the call for applications to July 30th for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven Project “Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus.” The successful candidate would not necessarily need to move to Frankfurt to take up this position.
I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.
July 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM