Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich
@cosmickate.bsky.social
Philosopher of technology, critical to everything AI, amateur climber, plant mother, reading horse (bookworm in Danish)
This year Black Friday and the salary day in Denmark coincide like a solar eclipse. Good luck to us all.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This year Black Friday and the salary day in Denmark coincide like a solar eclipse. Good luck to us all.
It turned out my deep Russian sadness and joyless Danish winter were not a good match.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It turned out my deep Russian sadness and joyless Danish winter were not a good match.
My parents thought film making would be too difficult a career for a girl. Becoming a journalist in Russia was completely fine in their view, however.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My parents thought film making would be too difficult a career for a girl. Becoming a journalist in Russia was completely fine in their view, however.
All the services we signed up for and used for decades are now training their “AIs” on our data. I am exhausted.
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
All the services we signed up for and used for decades are now training their “AIs” on our data. I am exhausted.
Trump can’t beat the allegations of being Putin’s pet. Utterly disgusting.
Even the text of the alleged "peace agreement" between Russia and Ukraine being touted by the Trump administration betrays its Kremlin origins. They were in such a such a rush they didn't even have it properly translated.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Trump can’t beat the allegations of being Putin’s pet. Utterly disgusting.
What is this obsession with making service robots humanoid? Is there not enough research showing why this is problematic?
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
wrd.cm
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What is this obsession with making service robots humanoid? Is there not enough research showing why this is problematic?
Reposted by Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich
This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This storyline has been old for decades, yet it seems like every day there's another new installment.
Always found it ironic that it is especially bad at counting)
Well this sucks.
GenAi can't even do math! Which is silly because that's one thing it should get right 100% of the time! It's a fucking computer.
People are gonna get audited over this shit.
GenAi can't even do math! Which is silly because that's one thing it should get right 100% of the time! It's a fucking computer.
People are gonna get audited over this shit.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Always found it ironic that it is especially bad at counting)
Isn’t it great that 2025 rhymes both with Nazi Germany and the Middle Ages?
The problem with relying on pithy observations like “history tends to repeats itself or rhymes” is that history is long and has many stanzas. It’s impossible to know in advance with any certainty whether tomorrow is going to rhyme with 2008, 1929, or the fall of the Roman Empire.
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Isn’t it great that 2025 rhymes both with Nazi Germany and the Middle Ages?
I was waiting for it since 2017, and it’s finally here.
AI-generated evidence is already showing up in court, with parties trying to pass off deepfakes as authentic.
We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
We spoke to 5 judges about the issue, who say it could just be the beginning of how AI will upend courts.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI-generated evidence is showing up in court. Judges say they're not ready.
AI’s growing abilities to create realistic videos, images, documents and audio have judges worried about the trustworthiness of evidence in their courtrooms.
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I was waiting for it since 2017, and it’s finally here.
The keyword here is “sometimes”. As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Giving medical advice, sometimes ChatGPT is right, and sometimes it is quite wrong, but it is hard to tell the difference:
"Rather, Wachter identified something more frightening: ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative."
"Rather, Wachter identified something more frightening: ChatGPT’s dangerous answers don’t sound risky to a non-doctor. The chatbot always sounds confident and authoritative."
Column | We found what you’re asking ChatGPT about health. A doctor scored its answers.
Asking a doctor to review 12 real examples of ChatGPT giving health advice revealed patterns that can help you get more out of the AI chatbot.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The keyword here is “sometimes”. As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I mean, aren’t we allowed to dream?:)
OPINION: According to Yulia Navalnaya, the Russian opposition believe their nation is an inseparable part of European civilization.
For this reason, they see the dark years of Putinism as an aberration, not an historical inevitability.
🔗 politi.co/3K7mbnY
For this reason, they see the dark years of Putinism as an aberration, not an historical inevitability.
🔗 politi.co/3K7mbnY
November 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I mean, aren’t we allowed to dream?:)
Reposted by Ekaterina (Katja) Pashevich
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
I think people intentionally say “immigrants” and not “asylum seekers” when meaning the latter. It gives them a moral excuse to treat them as leeches. If they say “asylum seekers” in this context, they would feel bad about themselves not helping people escaping wars. It’s a moral loophole.
Finally, a quick note on immigration and asylum seekers. While distinct groups, we know public attitudes to immigration are very much driven by their perceptions of asylum seekers - some 70% say they associate the latter with immigrants, higher than workers or students.
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I think people intentionally say “immigrants” and not “asylum seekers” when meaning the latter. It gives them a moral excuse to treat them as leeches. If they say “asylum seekers” in this context, they would feel bad about themselves not helping people escaping wars. It’s a moral loophole.
Cows are still out and about in +2 degrees.
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Cows are still out and about in +2 degrees.
This is why I believe in removing the grading system in schools as a concept. It is because my idea of teaching is to encourage and support curiosity and self-learning. I hate hate hate comparing students with each other by giving them grades. They care too much about grades and forget to learn.
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is why I believe in removing the grading system in schools as a concept. It is because my idea of teaching is to encourage and support curiosity and self-learning. I hate hate hate comparing students with each other by giving them grades. They care too much about grades and forget to learn.
We are betraying children by allowing the use of genAI in schools. The fewer “crutches” they have, the better their minds will develop.
Schools in England have become testing sites for AI. I know it's common to say education is now an experimental lab for AI, but in England it's more methodologically true. 3 examples of escalating seriousness and an explanation coming up 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We are betraying children by allowing the use of genAI in schools. The fewer “crutches” they have, the better their minds will develop.
When I see an AI-generated illustration in a power point presentation, I struggle with listening further and taking the information seriously. Respect yourself and others, don’t do this.
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When I see an AI-generated illustration in a power point presentation, I struggle with listening further and taking the information seriously. Respect yourself and others, don’t do this.
And generally, for some reason it is very hard to abandon platforms because there are always some people still on Fb, Insta, etc. I always try to replace predatory platforms with better alternatives, but end up only increasing the number of platforms I am on.
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And generally, for some reason it is very hard to abandon platforms because there are always some people still on Fb, Insta, etc. I always try to replace predatory platforms with better alternatives, but end up only increasing the number of platforms I am on.
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It’s unfortunate that not all researchers I would like to follow joined BlueSky. Many ended up on LinkedIn, and now I have to suffer the bombardment with superfluous (not to say stupid) takes on AI from business people among the useful updates from friends and colleagues.
What a masterpiece is this album 🔥
ROSALÍA - De Madrugá
Listen to De Madrugá on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What a masterpiece is this album 🔥
This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is quite horrifying to me, especially because I can’t think of a useful application of it for my work without it compromising my research integrity. And in addition, the use of LLMs is so highly unethical for the environment, intellectual property rights, etc.
I am old enough to remember when our teachers warned us about the inaccuracy of information published on Wikipedia and we couldn’t cite it as a source. And now it has become a valuable collaborative knowledge base that is under threat of extinction. Feels like we are moving in the wrong direction.
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I am old enough to remember when our teachers warned us about the inaccuracy of information published on Wikipedia and we couldn’t cite it as a source. And now it has become a valuable collaborative knowledge base that is under threat of extinction. Feels like we are moving in the wrong direction.
Maturing is celebrating major revisions 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Maturing is celebrating major revisions 🥳
Apparently parents are now casually using ChatGPT to diagnose their children’s illnesses instead of calling medical services. As if googling your symptoms was not bad enough.
October 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Apparently parents are now casually using ChatGPT to diagnose their children’s illnesses instead of calling medical services. As if googling your symptoms was not bad enough.