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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people.

Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Aug 8

Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”

‘I Feel Like I’m Going Crazy’: ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals

An online trove of archived conversations shows the artificial-intelligence model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse.

10point.cmail19.com

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Aug 4

I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…

www.colincornaby.me

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Aug 4

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

theconversation.com

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Rasmus Birk @rasmusbirk.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"

Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry

Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · Jun 11

If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry

Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · Apr 15

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · May 28

Consider yourself warned

- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Jun 3

I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

amandaguinzburg.substack.com

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · May 23

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

exp-log scale chart showing various animals and forms of human motion with the X-axis being kilograms on an exponential scale and the Y-axis being cost of transport in calories per gram per kilometer on a logarithmic scale

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · May 22

Such an interesting topic. Would have liked to be there. Did preorder the book, though! Have a nice one

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · May 14

Miguel, everything you publish is always super interesting. Kudos from Denmark. Keep up the good work.

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · May 6

There should be a term for what it’s like to listen to long-standing podcasts and then one day getting to the Covid years. Such a weird experience. Somehow depressing and uplifting at the same time.

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · Apr 23

It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

WIRED article screenshot:

Is generative Al introducing new stereotypes to different languages and cultures?

That is part of what we're finding. The idea of blondes being stupid is not something that's found all over the world, but is found in a lot of the languages that we looked at.

When you have all of the data in one shared latent space, then semantic concepts can get transferred across languages. You're risking propagating harmful stereotypes that other people hadn't even thought of.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Apr 20

Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.

YALL, THE TITLE!!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 16

The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I would submit that the demands go much further, epitomizing a defining characteristic of the second Trump administration: the comprehensive repurposing of the “woke” social-justice movement’s most controversial and coercive tools for reactionary ends. And so this performative confrontation with the nation’s apex university has taken the form of a crusade for so-called freedom that is completely destructive of liberty and independence. The administration is not anti-woke; it is woke with right-wing characteristics.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Mar 29

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Mar 29

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · Mar 13

Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity

Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160

tmb.apaopen.org

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · Mar 20

one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol

a screenshot of the Google search overview for Vincent Van Gogh

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Ada Ada Ada @ada-ada-ada.art · Mar 23

Jeg har et debatindlæg i @jyllands-posten.dk i dag om at højrefløjen agerer imod danske værdier og kulturarv, når de forsøger at begrænse transpersoners rettigheder:
jyllands-posten.dk/debat/breve/...

Her kommer lige nogle highlights i en tråd 🧵

Det er udansk at kæmpe imod transpersoners rettigheder

Hvis højrefløjspartierne reelt vil kæmpe for danske værdier og dansk kultur, så skal de kæmpe for flere rettigheder til transpersoner, ikke færre.

jyllands-posten.dk

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 22

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Mar 19

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Mar 18

Nothing prevents you from calling fascists fascists. If the threat is real, then you can either congratulate or ignore the people who figured it out before you did, but it’s time to stop scolding them.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Mar 17

I am not blaming Democrats for Republicans becoming fascists. I am blaming people who overused "fascist" for years for removing the power of that word and gutting it of meaning, and making it useless now that we need it.
Something I warned would happen.

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Jesper Aagaard @aagaard.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thanks, Michal, your paper on some of the same issues was a shining beacon of light.

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Michal Frackowiak, PhD @mfrackowiak.bsky.social · Mar 17

Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...

“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity

Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160

tmb.apaopen.org

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