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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
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Very interested in the #Universe, working for #ALMA, have worked for #SKAO, #ESO, #IAA-CSIC. More active at https://astrodon.social/@juandesant

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olivia.science
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
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
olivia.science
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai

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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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robpike.io
The problem with the Turing test, which I discovered at least for myself with Mark V. Shaney back in the mid-1980s, not to mention Eliza in the 1960s, is that people are just far too gullible to be a reliable judge of intelligence and humanity in language.
nicholdav.bsky.social AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 12d
The dude who wrote End of History tried to vibecode an app but ended up doing a Her(2013) with ChatGPT (AKA "Pygmalion displacement" @olivia.science) while also failing the Turing test (sigh cc @olivia.science again)
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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astraughnomer.bsky.social
WE HAVE A TELESCOPE 🚀 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been fully assembled here in the cleanroom at NASA Goddard 😀🚀 and is on track to launch next fall!
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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jacobsberg.bsky.social
Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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archive.org
Did you know that the Internet Archive offers free public tours every Friday at 1pm? Check out what happened when The Fogline stopped by on a recent Friday ⬇️
www.foglinesf.com/p/the-richmo...
🌁 The Richmond District is Home to 1 Trillion Web Pages
A Friday afternoon tour of the Internet Archive
www.foglinesf.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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cdespinosa.bsky.social
Was moving to Bluesky from Xitter hard? Dreading moving from Bluesky to Mastodon? It’s easier now. Find me at @[email protected] on the other side

bounce.anew.social
Bounce
Bounce lets you migrate from one decentralized social network to another, keep all of your followers, and keep many of the people you follow.
bounce.anew.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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cdespinosa.bsky.social
This Sunday in San Jose: 50th anniversary party of the opening of the first Byte Shop computer store

byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
jdsv.bsky.social
Thunderstruck a la gallega
Thunderstruck a la gallega
Gracias a @[email protected] he descubierto esta maravilla de rondalla gallega, la Rondalla Gran Sol, tocando el Thunderstruck de AC/DC en el programa la revuelta de RTVE. ¡Geniales!
santander-vela.net
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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malmer.com
The tech industry is so awful I can't tell if this is parody.

nurtureos.ai
You're a Bad Parent, but you don't need to be. Powered by AI. You're a bad parent. Let's fix that. Smart parenting for Smart Parents. Our AI parenting tool takes away uncertainty, removing emotional and suboptimal parenting from the picture.
December 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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jdsv.bsky.social
Revelando archivos en el Finder desde el Terminal utilizando AppleScript

Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…

https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
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December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
jdsv.bsky.social
Revelando archivos en el Finder desde el Terminal utilizando AppleScript

Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…

https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
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December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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specnext.com
New important Kickstarter update regarding the payment plan missed payments by backers!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
Update 10: Kickstarter missed payments emails sent! · ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3
This is another very short update following our pre-Crash Live! 2025 update regarding the missed kickstarter installment payments.After we consulted with our accountants, we prepared a special email f...
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“An Ars review confirmed that OpenAI currently has no policy dictating what happens to a user’s data after they die.
Instead, OpenAI’s policy says that all chats—except temporary chats—must be manually deleted or else the AI firm saves them forever.”
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
arstechnica.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
gregsargent.bsky.social
"Amid America’s fall, the news media has largely failed to meet the moment...Trump is covered with deference; with headlines and stories that often take him at face value."

@sulliview.bsky.social is relentlessly staying on this and it's good to see:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...
America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways
The swift slide into authoritarianism should have been a five-alarm fire for the media
margaretsullivan.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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orynski.eu
There are funky trains here in Denmark that go on the street. How cool is that?

Anyway, I rode one of those (not this one) without a valid ticket today. Why? Because they made it impossible to buy.

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December 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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orynski.eu
Someone on Mastodon sent me this brilliant cartoon that sums it up nicely
December 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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jodrellbank.bsky.social
From Wi-Fi to wildfire monitoring, our friends at SKA Observatory recently wrote this fascinating piece on how radio astronomy impacts our day-to-day lives in ways we might not expect.

🔗 Read it here: https://ow.ly/MHGB50Xmwbx

#RadioAstronomy #SKAO #JodrellBank
Let's talk about - Issuu
Checking your emails, navigating to your holiday destination or even tracking spacecraft throughout our Solar System; did you know radio astronomy has had a major impact on various fields – from space exploration and medicine to how we navigate our day-to-day lives?
ow.ly
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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theregister.com
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks
Stray signals are a no-no when you’re trying to tune into the stars Work on the datacenter that serves the Square Kilometre Array’s (SKA’s) site in Western Australia is all but complete, including the installation of two Faraday cages to ensure the equipment inside does not leak radio waves that could harm the operation of the giant radio telescope.…
dlvr.it
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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thenrao.bsky.social
#ALMA Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade (WSU) Updates:

The WSU Fiber Optics System recently passed its Critical Design and Manufacturing Readiness Review, and is planned to proceed with construction in the coming months.

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#Astronomy #RadioAstronomy #WSU
A construction site at ALMA Observatory with a crane digging and workers in hardhats watching. The ground is being broken in preparation for the construction of the new OSF Correlator Room.
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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thenrao.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky! 👋 We are the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO). #RadioAstronomy

Telescopes:
📡 Very Large Array (VLA)
📡 Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
📡 Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)
📡 Green Bank Telescope (GBT)
📡 Next Generation VLA (ngVLA)

🔗: public.nrao.edu
Photograph of the VLA telescope array. The silhouettes of the dishes can be seen against a colorful sunset sky.
January 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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markgbeckett.bsky.social
Commentary of ZX81-Forth (Tree #Forth) disassembly is complete. I may add some more detail in due course but every routine has an explanation to help people understand it - github.com/markgbeckett... #retrogaming
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM