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The comedy output from Berlín @besttrolleuw.bsky.social · 3d

Ya estábamos convencidos, no hace falta que den más argumentos.

RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 3d

Eurovisión: el canciller alemán apoya la retirada de Alemania si Israel es expulsado dozz.es/1bzc_1

Eurovisión: el canciller alemán apoya la retirada de Alemania si Israel es expulsado

dozz.es

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Tabernita @tabernita.satan.social · 4d

Voy a dejar esto aquí, que estás mujeres venían detrás de nosotros y estaban todas tristes porque habían hecho la pancarta y no se iba a ver

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El Salto @elsaltodiario.com · 6d

Más de 4.000 personas se concentran en Vigo en apoyo a la Flotilla Global Sumud. En un lugar donde no abundan las concentraciones, este es un claro mensaje de apoyo al pueblo palestino. Informa ‬ @javierhrguez.bsky.social

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 6d

Loktar Ogar

Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 10d

Literal, eh. Hay días que me dan ganas de votar al PCTR o similar cuando se ponen muy cansinos con el mal menor

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Feb 27

a cool wolf: "every time you repost this wolf a transphobe gets punched."

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ClapForMarta 💭 @clapformarta.bsky.social · 11d

Una cosa que podemos hacer además de enredarnos en la dialéctica del genocidio, es comprar un kit de emergencias para Médicos sin fronteras. Que son 18€ y es mucho más útil. Si no puedes aportar, comparte.

www.msf.es/colabora/don...

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 16d

Con esa maravillosa tabla de dietas por país en la que aún sale Yugoslavia

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 16d

Efectivamente, lo que hace falta es más pasta para que no estemos en la mierda saltando de contrato en contrato cada año y más personal para la investigación y docencia para que la sobrecarga no impida hacer ambas cosas mal.
Pero ningún gobierno en este país se toma en serio lo de poner más pasta

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18d

Me in December 2024 referencing my work from earlier in 2024

www.wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-m...

Throughout these pieces I have repeatedly made the point that — separate to any lack of a core value proposition, training data drought, or unsustainable economics — generative AI is a dead end due to the limitations of probabilistic models that hallucinate, where they authoritatively state things that aren't true. The hallucination problem is one that is nowhere closer to being solved — and, at least with the current technology — may never go away, and it makes it a non-starter for a great many business tasks, where you need a high level of reliability.

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 18d

Adelanto que no comparto al 100% la postura crítica ante la IA en la academia que están defendiendo @olivia.science y @irisvanrooij.bsky.social pero creo que es muy necesario leerla y además está (para mí) sobradamente argumentada. Si trabajas en la academia, lee el artículo

(sorry for the Spanish)

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

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

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L the Girl in Black @girlinblack.bsky.social · 19d

Se hace saber que en Hirbawi acaban de hacer restock, pero las kufiyas están volando:

* Hirbawi es la única fábrica de kufiyas que queda en Palestina, y está situada en Hebrón, Cisjordania.

Shop Latest Restock | Hirbawi Kufiya

Shop the latest Hibawi kufiyas and other items to be restocked. We restock every month, so if you miss out this time, there will be more opportunities.

www.kufiya.org

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 20d

This is more than distressing. Unless there is full accountability, I do not see how the EAA can continue in its present form.

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 20d

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine with the extraordinary story of how the President of the European Association of Archaeologists is accused of helping orchestrate a campaign to overturn its Gaza vote.

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

thepipeline.info

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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · 20d

This piece of news about the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social mess of the last weeks is very very very serious.

If you did not sign the campaign we are moving to try change things at the EAA yet, maybe this helps to decide… here is the link: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

The news ⬇️

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

thepipeline.info

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 22d

En la raya está, sí

Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 22d

Está hasta la punta de Italia en la D. Claramente la más variada

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Fernando Blanco 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @fernandoblancopsy.com · 22d

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.

Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️

Please share! 🔃

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#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob

Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation

As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23d

It is over for the genocide deniers.

Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide.

Those who supported Israel's onslaught:

You backed a genocide.

You will never scrub the shame away.

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Magda Bandera @magdabandera.bsky.social · 23d

Los están exterminando.

Hablar de La Vuelta o de Eurovisión está bien. Pero no desviemos la atención: están perpetrando un genocidio con total impunidad.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23d

Israel-Gaza war: Israel’s defence minister says ‘Gaza is burning’ amid escalation in bombardment - latest updates

Israel Katz appears to have declared a new phase in the Israel Defense Forces’ offensive in the wake of visit by Marco Rubio * See all our Israel-Gaza war coverage As just reported, Marco Rubio warned Hamas today that it only has days to accept a ceasefire deal amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza City. “Our number one choice is that this ends through a negotiated settlement where Hamas says, ‘We’re going to demilitarise, we’re no longer going to pose a threat,’” the US secretary of state told reporters as he flew out of Israel to go to Qatar. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Diario Público @publico.es · 23d

Francesca Albanese advierte de que la cifra real de muertos en Gaza podría estar en torno a los 680.000

Francesca Albanese advierte de que Israel quiere dejar la Ciudad de Gaza inhabitable

La relatora de la ONU ha dicho en Ginebra que los académicos y científicos afirman que es la verdadera cifra de muertos en Gaza podría estar en 680.000 palestinos....

www.publico.es

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 24d

Bueno, nos ha quedado una Vuelta muy bonita. Toda mi gratitud a todos aquellos que han protestado y se lo han puesto difícil de la primera etapa a la última

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 25d

Un iluminado decía que Vigo era fundación vikingo y que venía del nórdico Wig (bahía)

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Lord Yorch il Dottore @amasamune54.bsky.social · 25d

Ah, esos zumbados. Como los que creen que el castellano viene del íbero y no del latín. Filólogos imaginativos

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illo @daine.bsky.social · 27d

¿Qué meme escribiríais ustedes en la bala con la que apiolar a un nazi? Yo me decanto fuerte por "patrisio sé fuerte".

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27d

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

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