Gregory A. Wilson
@gregoryawilson.com
Speculative fiction author, college professor, musician, podcaster, game master, TwitchTV host.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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How can you tell that Brandon is now in Philly?
[nearby, a Black man is shivering his fingertips off]
Your intuition may tell you the answer.
[nearby, a Black man is shivering his fingertips off]
Your intuition may tell you the answer.
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How can you tell that Brandon is now in Philly?
[nearby, a Black man is shivering his fingertips off]
Your intuition may tell you the answer.
[nearby, a Black man is shivering his fingertips off]
Your intuition may tell you the answer.
Look, THE GODDAMNED BARD WANTS THIS OKAY
the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;
therefore deny it not.
therefore deny it not.
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Look, THE GODDAMNED BARD WANTS THIS OKAY
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Look, I don't do Lego, I can't really afford Lego, I have absolutely no space in my home for Lego sets, but I created an account to support this because if this gets made, I am 100% getting this the minute it's available.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Look, I don't do Lego, I can't really afford Lego, I have absolutely no space in my home for Lego sets, but I created an account to support this because if this gets made, I am 100% getting this the minute it's available.
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ai defenders are so disingenuous — no serious researcher ever wants streamlined interpretive data & the internet (as fallible as it is) was 100% fine for casual searchers. ai introduces nothing but contentious thievery disguised as commercialized innovation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ai defenders are so disingenuous — no serious researcher ever wants streamlined interpretive data & the internet (as fallible as it is) was 100% fine for casual searchers. ai introduces nothing but contentious thievery disguised as commercialized innovation.
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So....after much deliberation and encouragement from loved ones, I've put together a GoFundMe after facing several financial burdens and medical debts...
Any help or sharing would really go a long way...
Thank you so much.
gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
Any help or sharing would really go a long way...
Thank you so much.
gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
Donate to Disabled Vet & Family Need Help After Job Loss, organized by Prakash Upadhyayula
My name is Prakash (aka KP), and I am a disabled veteran doing my b… Prakash Upadhyayula needs your support for Disabled Vet & Family Need Help After Job Loss
gofund.me
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So....after much deliberation and encouragement from loved ones, I've put together a GoFundMe after facing several financial burdens and medical debts...
Any help or sharing would really go a long way...
Thank you so much.
gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
Any help or sharing would really go a long way...
Thank you so much.
gofund.me/5bfe73dd9
Make it so.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Make it so.
This is, of course, assuming Roll20 is working in fifteen minutes?
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is, of course, assuming Roll20 is working in fifteen minutes?
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November 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Genovefa has arrived at an island cut off from the world by its insane guardian. Can she save the island--and herself? Find out at 12 p.m. ET, as we continue the final adventure of @handiworkgames.bsky.social Beowulf-Age of Heroes: Ear of Stone, with @taritoons.bsky.social! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
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Also, some of those new voices are not young. It just means they’re newly or recently published. Let’s keep ageism out of our reading.
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Also, some of those new voices are not young. It just means they’re newly or recently published. Let’s keep ageism out of our reading.
So much peril! :p
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November 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So much peril! :p
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Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Well-written and informative. To sum-AI does not belong in educational spaces.
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sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![3.2 We do not have to ‘embrace the future’ & we can turn back the tide
It must be the sheer magnitude of [artificial neural networks’] incompetence that makes
them so popular.
Jerry A. Fodor (2000, p. 47)
Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection
of self-determination free from industry forces (Hajer and Oomen 2025; Stengers 2018; van Rossum
2025). Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying
and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They
embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments,
or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges,
and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” (Reynoldson et al. 2025, n.p., also Benjamin 2016; Campolo and Crawford 2020; CDH Team and Ruddick 2025; Garcia et al. 2022; Kelly et al. 2025; Lysen
and Wyatt 2024; Sano-Franchini et al. 2024; Stengers 2018). Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting
that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour
workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from
fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously
turns back. People can undo things; and we will (cf. Albanese 2025; Boztas 2025; Kohnstamm Instituut 2025; van Laarhoven and van Vugt 2025). Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill
our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreic4ypelru3ajlx3k5afms62uouf7khpvvfkpgsqwn3sknifwlf2xe@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
sad way to be an academic if you think a world you might want (not the past; a better present) is impossible: it's basically an abdication of the duty of the academic, which inter alia is about creation of new knowledge to — yes, why not? — help us progress to a better world
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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"AI is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting pseudoscience; obfuscating the human-in-the-loop; and tricking and scamming us because we do not recognise that it merely reflects our own collective intelligence back at us in distorted and damaging forms." doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"AI is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting pseudoscience; obfuscating the human-in-the-loop; and tricking and scamming us because we do not recognise that it merely reflects our own collective intelligence back at us in distorted and damaging forms." doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
They've explored the Centurion, but the ship's secrets await. What will @rhiannonheld.bsky.social, @toiya.bsky.social, @tbonejenkins.bsky.social, & @middayclay.bsky.social find on the lower decks? Find out at 7:35 p.m. ET in Day 40 of Expedition from the Mysterious Peaks! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
Yes, and also: accommodations help provide what's needed for the student to interact with the course material, not give better grades to people who don't deserve them. Wonder if Josh Barro ever missed a class due to illness or family emergency, and whether he got an accommodation when that happened.
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 7:06 PM
Yes, and also: accommodations help provide what's needed for the student to interact with the course material, not give better grades to people who don't deserve them. Wonder if Josh Barro ever missed a class due to illness or family emergency, and whether he got an accommodation when that happened.
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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So it would appear I’m headed to PAX Unplugged to promote GRAYSHADE! If you’re gonna be there, feel free to say hi if you see me!
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated! ko-fi.com/therisingtit...
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated! ko-fi.com/therisingtit...
Support Brandon O'Brien
Support Brandon O'Brien
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November 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
So it would appear I’m headed to PAX Unplugged to promote GRAYSHADE! If you’re gonna be there, feel free to say hi if you see me!
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated! ko-fi.com/therisingtit...
But also: as this trip is kinda scuffed, I can use some help handling incidentals as I travel! Any assistance is appreciated! ko-fi.com/therisingtit...
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I dunno, but maybe we just SHOULDN'T USE tools that just parrot whatever 50,000 racists say and pass it off as fact.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
“Earlier this year, a NewsGuard study revealed that 10 major #AI #chatbots, including #ChatGPT-4, #MicrosoftCopilot, #Gemini, and #Meta
AI, reproduced falsehoods from #Pravda networksources roughly one-third of the time & sometimes cited its articles directly” policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/stat...
AI, reproduced falsehoods from #Pravda networksources roughly one-third of the time & sometimes cited its articles directly” policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/stat...
Countering the threat of AI manipulation by authoritarian states
Authoritarian regimes are using AI to pollute information. Canada must lead efforts to protect truth, trust and democratic integrity.
policyoptions.irpp.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I dunno, but maybe we just SHOULDN'T USE tools that just parrot whatever 50,000 racists say and pass it off as fact.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
Maybe we should just let the industry die.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Actual leadership.
Huh! Go figure.
The chancellor of my college system announced today that one of the professors at my campus was uncomplimentary of Charlie Kirk following his death, which resulted in the chancellor getting 800+ phone calls and e-mails demanding the faculty member's dismissal.
The Chancellor: "No."
The chancellor of my college system announced today that one of the professors at my campus was uncomplimentary of Charlie Kirk following his death, which resulted in the chancellor getting 800+ phone calls and e-mails demanding the faculty member's dismissal.
The Chancellor: "No."
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Actual leadership.
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TOMORROW! @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social hosts @thescreambean.bsky.social and Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and we have been promised things will get WEIRD!!
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
TOMORROW! @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social hosts @thescreambean.bsky.social and Can*Con Vice Admiral @brandoncrilly.bsky.social and we have been promised things will get WEIRD!!
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“How soon?” asked Toad.
“Quite soon,” said Frog.
“Quite soon,” said Frog.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
“How soon?” asked Toad.
“Quite soon,” said Frog.
“Quite soon,” said Frog.