Annemarie
@annemarienavar.bsky.social
professional hater of the tech industry. media studies professor, mother to dog and cat with more mental health issues than me, reality tv junkie. she/her.
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I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.
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As much as Netflix pretends to be an entertainment company and a studio they move through the world like a tech company, up to and including devaluing the product they initially sold as a premium service (tv and movies).
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
As much as Netflix pretends to be an entertainment company and a studio they move through the world like a tech company, up to and including devaluing the product they initially sold as a premium service (tv and movies).
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Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Embracing a label of "disabled" made me more confident in asking for accommodations. I can't get through a full work day in person without suffering in pain.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
If you're a chronically ill person, I welcome you to join this identity.
Honestly I might have given the OU essay like a 50% just because I think the kid actually wrote that (offensive, idiotic, not the assignment at all) screed herself and shared her own actual thoughts. My bar is so low these days 😭
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Honestly I might have given the OU essay like a 50% just because I think the kid actually wrote that (offensive, idiotic, not the assignment at all) screed herself and shared her own actual thoughts. My bar is so low these days 😭
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
The actual earnings call quotes say so little about how this actually would work or what it looks like but as an IP protection measure this seems like shooting yourself in the foot and putting D+ into the content moderation business like that sounds terribly ill -conceived
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users
(via THR)
(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The actual earnings call quotes say so little about how this actually would work or what it looks like but as an IP protection measure this seems like shooting yourself in the foot and putting D+ into the content moderation business like that sounds terribly ill -conceived
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Once again, per @jztidecat.bsky.social, we have (sadly, in many cases, not for the first time) learned these last six months that a great many of our colleagues, leaders, & institutions are not actually in the business of .
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Ok so they’ve just drank the kool-aid around AI and only see a university education as a job training program. This actually makes a lot of sense
![And we buttress that with: We believe that
these tools are going to become fundamental, just like the internet is today - every industry, every academic field, every discipline is going to be using these tools. So, we need our students, our community members, to engage with them now. We're not going to wait until we're far behind everybody else ... to give this
access.
And on the workforce side, in terms of student preparation, we already know that employers are expecting students to graduate with [AI] skills. ... We want our students to be prepared for the workforce or graduate school or whatever they're going to do when they leave the CSU.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:szt5gohiatgtykukx627lh7w/bafkreidwnooy2i2xoq4vc3xd2l7pp6ilh3fifmrualqua6yblbywtzajfi@jpeg)
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Once again, per @jztidecat.bsky.social, we have (sadly, in many cases, not for the first time) learned these last six months that a great many of our colleagues, leaders, & institutions are not actually in the business of .
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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The extent to which these companies assume by default that they are unimpeachable and can do this stuff without any fear of meaningful consequences is reaching truly impressive heights.
Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
Many of the bots were requested by users, but a Meta gen AI product lead herself ordered up and shared chatbots impersonating Taylor Swift. Meta has deleted many of the bots and acknowledged that the intimate images Meta's systems produced violated the company's own policies.
August 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The extent to which these companies assume by default that they are unimpeachable and can do this stuff without any fear of meaningful consequences is reaching truly impressive heights.
Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
Here is a Meta product lead just casually creating a sex bot out of the likeness of the most famous singer alive
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like I get that it is reasonable to be initially skeptical that someone is actually evil and insane enough to want to bring back a huge number of wholly preventable infectious diseases in order to cleanse the population of the genetically weak but he’s actually doing it now so it’s time to wake up
August 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
like I get that it is reasonable to be initially skeptical that someone is actually evil and insane enough to want to bring back a huge number of wholly preventable infectious diseases in order to cleanse the population of the genetically weak but he’s actually doing it now so it’s time to wake up
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The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this:
When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
August 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this:
When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
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"[The GOP is] pushing a muscular, retrograde agenda that shamelessly uses capitalism to kill critical thinking. They threaten universities and professors with the message, 'Say and teach what we want, or we’ll take your grants, federal, and state funding.'"
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
In Trump's America, university professors are enemies of the state | Opinion
Universities in Louisville, Kentucky, Indiana and across the nation are under attack by political gangsters, and it's all based on a lie.
www.courier-journal.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"[The GOP is] pushing a muscular, retrograde agenda that shamelessly uses capitalism to kill critical thinking. They threaten universities and professors with the message, 'Say and teach what we want, or we’ll take your grants, federal, and state funding.'"
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
www.courier-journal.com/story/opinio...
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The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.
No. It’s not sentient, you clowns. Stop selling this garbage in “news” articles.
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.
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Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
“The school uses AI to monitor how students are working on their computers, recording screen activity & monitoring keystrokes. If a student isn’t taking time to read lessons, flying through prompts or not paying attention to the computer, a coaching tool will remind them to slow down & refocus.”
A 🧵
A 🧵
For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia
At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
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Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs
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One of the reasons the AI bubble has taken Silicon Valley by storm is that it feeds into this myth that all an engineer bro needs to solve a problem is some surface-level knowledge of it.
These people can ask ChatGPT to give them an error-ridden primer and claim to have done their due diligence 🧵
These people can ask ChatGPT to give them an error-ridden primer and claim to have done their due diligence 🧵
August 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
August 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
LLMs are purely statistical engines that operate on purely formal objects (character strings). We can “train” an LLM to distinguish true from false or fact from opinion or warranted from baseless just as soon as we can figure out how to reduce semantics and epistemology to syntax (which is never)
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My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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I despise these AI bros for so many reasons — but among the top for me is that, bc of their egos + recklessness, and bc of a gullible grifter culture that expands their uptake + influence, we’re all now obligated to care abt their bullshit + minimize its harms. I’d rather be doing anything else.
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I despise these AI bros for so many reasons — but among the top for me is that, bc of their egos + recklessness, and bc of a gullible grifter culture that expands their uptake + influence, we’re all now obligated to care abt their bullshit + minimize its harms. I’d rather be doing anything else.
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Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.
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Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
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Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life
August 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Every Silicon Valley innovation in the consumer space has been "what if this software was my mom" which explains why ChatGPT's primary use is as a therapist, relationship substitute for lonely boys, and "personal operating system" to organize their life