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Naomi Wynter-Vincent

@naomiwv.bsky.social

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Bionian Lutonian. Assistant Professor in Innovation and English at Northeastern University London. Erstwhile / now occasional Advanced Rolfing Practitioner and Rolf Movement Practitioner. Berghain 2008.

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 16h

Chapeau!

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 5d

Yudkowsky/Soares v Luton death match

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 9d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 8d

and I hasten to add that these are the same students unwittingly handing over their best, most precious shot at education and the chance for a deep immersion in thinking to faulty machines that cannot (and should not!) think for them.

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 8d

Just watched @garymarcus.bsky.social give a blistering talk online for 75th Anniversary of the Turing Test event today. I so so wish I could get my students (and HE management) to watch this. AI realism is desperately needed. I have students saying they like AI because it can ‘think’ NO NO NO NO NO

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MegaManchego @megamanchego.bsky.social · 9d

Almost as big a tragedy as this garbage “innovation” is the fact that this construction of “vibe (x)-ing” is just going to get used more.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 16d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 18d

every. single. university. making their headlong embrace of AI their USP is not going to work out the way they think it is; look what happened to the University of Reading

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 18d

I believe this is what is meant by 💯 no notes

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 18d

scrabbling below the water line; also, scrabbling above the water line. It’s scrabbling all the way down; there is no projection of ease

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 23d

My husband just referred to “Joanie Ive,” totally unaware that it’s pronounced “Johnny,” and I got to go on this rant, which is my favorite rant, and I had been in such a foul mood but it turned my whole day around, thank you Jim, I love you

Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · May 27

Jony Ive, minimalist, choosing the spelling of his name bc it streamlines orthographic inefficiencies, and then being pissed off forever at everyone pronouncing it wrong because he refuses to realize that one of the functions of letters is to inform the pronunciation of other letters is just 😘

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 24d

Kind regards,

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 24d

the shitpost we need in difficult times

Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 24d

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 24d

Anyway, I assume you don’t just set them an essay on the Thing? As opposed to a critical reflection on a previously produced AI essay on the Thing? Or indeed an in-person interpretive dance responding to the AI-produced critical reflection on the AI-produced essay on the Thing? 💃

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 24d

I actually had a new student ask for the *reading list* this semester and I honestly assumed they were joking and had to row back my face of incredulity. Reading at university: you love to see it!

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 24d

“What have I done to deserve THIS?” wailed @ncdominie.bsky.social

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27d

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML @mlpoole.bsky.social · 27d

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · 29d

One Night in Bangkok is insanely catchy and also one of the most nationally offensive and ridiculous pop songs of all time

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · Sep 10

reader, he does not live

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · Sep 10

me, pluckily moving from the humanities into teaching in the business department

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They were not expecting this 😢 #ItsASin #Shorts

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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · Sep 9

going back to teaching like

Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · Sep 6

This this and more this

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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Naomi Wynter-Vincent @naomiwv.bsky.social · Sep 4

sick of winging it, need wings