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ralfeek.bsky.social
#humor #vtip
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 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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ecoinventos.bsky.social
Investigadores de Nueva Zelanda y Japón descubren la estructura de un virus milenario «cazador de bacterias» que podría ser la clave para destruir superbacterias.

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Investigadores de Nueva Zelanda y Japón descubren la estructura de un virus milenario "cazador de bacterias" que podría ser la clave para destruir superbacterias
Los bacteriófagos son virus que infectan bacterias, no a humanos ni animales. Se consideran una alternativa prometedora frente a la creciente resistencia antimicrobiana. Actúan con gran precisión: cad...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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garthbiggs.bsky.social
Why does anyone with half a brain and the ability to read know that will happen but people in government and the farming industry apparently don't?

www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...
Tesco's warning to New Zealand farmers
If New Zealand farmers want to continue exporting to the lucrative UK market, they will have to commit to a better climate future, says UK supermarket Tesco.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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sohrabkamali.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Zack Polanski exposes the Labour Party and who is really destroying our country. Thank You Zack! #GreenParty
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security.

Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.

Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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buellerl.bsky.social
My brother put on his Appalachian Business Shirt (a flannel) and now he’s strutting around like a full-time lumberjack. Sir, you can’t even find your own tail. Please stop trying to unionize the squirrels. #TuesdayMotivation #dogsofbsky #dogsofbluesky #dogs
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
Here I am on Start The Week talking about the information crisis and how we can TRY to make things better with laws, technology and new social norms

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November 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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happyfunnysillydog.bsky.social
it just feels like.
But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think? Ursula K. Le Guin
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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gardenopus.bsky.social
🌱🔥More from the #FlowersBiggerThanYourHead Department - AA (10" or larger) ID (Informal Decorative) Dahlia 'OMG' (Swan Island Dahlias, 2018). First year trialing this one and will definitely grow it again - immense flowers are nearly a foot across even when lazily grown. 😎 Asteraceae
September 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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norightturnnz.bsky.social
The Greens are pledging to revoke any permits this corrupt regime issues. Will Labour? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Government reopens oil and gas exploration nationwide, Greens decry 'climate fire'
Industry leaders hailed the move as vital for energy security, but the Green Party condemned it as a sign the coalition cares little for the climate crisis.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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tonywriteshere.bsky.social
When a primetime host jokes about bombing the U.N., it isn’t comedy - it’s a rehearsal for violence. Jesse Watters crossed a line that should never be normalized. Laughter today can become policy tomorrow. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/17H1...
September 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
tillygeorge.bsky.social
No, do NOT crystallise please sugar syrup, for the love of god, decades of caramel making wtaf!
August 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
tillygeorge.bsky.social
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Oh thank you thank you gracias - balm for the seared soul. I love this so much give me more. Fuck all the assholes and rise in love.
The Knocks - Brazilian Soul (feat. Sofi Tukker) [Acoustic Bossa Version]
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August 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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graendoll.bsky.social Graendoll @graendoll.bsky.social · Aug 26
People keep blaming the rise of fascism on the books women are reading but you know what I think the real cause is?

Giving stupid people's opinions the same merit and consideration as the experts.
August 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
tillygeorge.bsky.social
‘Truth coming out of her well’ Jean-Léon Gérôme 1896
I will never accept that we live in a ‘post truth era’. No.
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM