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jacob riyeff

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translator, teacher, poet, frequenter of nature preserves, lover of very old poetry, non-tenure-track professor, benedictine oblate. ubi spiritus? ubi fruitio?

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 1d

the digital problems aren't really problems in your day if you don't think about nor rely on the internet much in your day.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 1d

some activities are not improved by "saving time" doing them.

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Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration @benedictinesisters.bsky.social · 4d

New at Monastery Creations: Sister Jane’s handcrafted Bloom & Bough Soap Bundles! These four-soap bundles are elegantly wrapped by hand with carefully chosen embellishments. Choose from two categories: Harvest of Blessings or Rustic Roots. Shop today at monasterycreations.com/collections/...

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 8d

hear, hear!

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 8d

Therefore both ‘general intelligence’ and ‘intelligence’ have already outlived the (limited) scientific usefulness they had, and it’s high time to put them on the relic shelf next to phlogiston. Or behind it. At least phlogiston wasn’t invented by eugenicists.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 9d

Is it wrong for your kid to play with a "racist pile of linear algebra" (h/t @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social ) that's deployed by Big Tech companies whose primary desire is to scale scale scale through evermore exploitation and extraction?

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 9d

6th day before the nones of october.
9th moon. (waxing gibbous)
off to the baraboo hills tomorrow!

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 10d

kalendis octobris!
8th moon.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

is any of this 'openai is not saving the world but just doing usual internet stuff w/ their software' even worth saying? did anyone ever/does anyone now think that's really what they were doing?

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

jugalbandi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKZ...

The Ultimate Jugalbandi ft. Ramana Balachandhran and Anantha R. Krishnan

YouTube video by G5A

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

þæs ofereode; þysses swa mæg.

(—deor)

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

read f.a. hayek's "the atavism of social justice" yesterday.
dear reader, unkind words issued from my mouth.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

mrdangam.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTOI...

YouTube video by Trichy Sankaran - Topic

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jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 11d

pridie kalendas octobris.
waxing gibbous.
+st. honorius, companion and successor of st. augustine of canterbury.

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 12d

best half-line from today's #oldenglish reading: "gyllende gryre" (with shrieking horror).

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 13d

i had a quiet, mostly solitary day friday for the first time in a looooong time. completely agree.

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 15d

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!!

Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link):

beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards
Of BlueSky

Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

November 8, 2025
Featuring:
Todd Dillard
Brian Spears
Matthew E. Henry
James McConachie
David J. Bauman
Jonathan Everitt

December 13, 2025
Featuring:
Jared Beloff
Barlow Adams
Dan Murphy
upformsumdirt
Gregory Crosby
J-T Kelly

5:00-6:45 est / 2:00-3:45 pst

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 15d

My new article looks at the impacts of #GenAI on planetary health, calling for going beyond a human-centric focus on digital health to looking at impacts on ecosystems of data centre expansion and e-waste

academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Towards a digital planetary health perspective: generative AI and the digital determinants of health

Abstract. The digital determinants of health have recently attracted attention in the medical and public health literature, but the environmental aspects o

academic.oup.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 16d

reading _the seafarer_ next in the #oldenglish group.
reminded of ezra pound's reading of his #translation. if you've never heard it, it's worth a listen. whew!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylM... #poetry #poem

EZRA POUND reads "The Seafarer"

YouTube video by Poets Speak

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 17d

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 17d

at this point in my life, when i have a big thing to write, it's kind of fun watching to see when i'll finally start.
(dear reader, it is not today.)

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17d

No, you do not need to add these technologies to your repertoire - especially to write IEPs - and rather than invest in and solidify Big Tech's capture of education, may I suggest using that money to support relationships between teachers and students unmediated by OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic?

AFT @aft.org · 18d

AI is here, and it has the potential to change education. But we can't let tech companies call the shots.

We're leading the charge to ensure that AI is used as a tool to support educators & students, not replace them. That means establishing guardrails for safety, privacy + ethics.

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 18d

Greater Sea-spurrey Spergularia media (with Sea Aster Tripolium pannonicum), and Lesser Sea-spurrey Spergularia marina. Hampshire and West Sussex coasts, yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19d

favorite #oldenglish word from today's study of "exodus": blodegesan. (of blood-terror)

jacob riyeff @riyeff.bsky.social · 19d

10th day before the kalends of october.
29th eccl'l moon.
+st. otho, ocso, bishop of the frisians.

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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