Jeanine Thweatt
@jjthweatt.bsky.social
Advisor & part-time professor of philosophy/religion; theologian-at-large, recovering PK, birth doula (CD DONA), cyborg/goddess downward-spiral dancing in the “free state of Florida.” Author of Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman.
Pinned
Diagnosis: the more willing one is to assume “AI” can replace human interaction/relation/creation, the more interpersonally stunted & dysfunctional one is, generally speaking
Only one more step to complete the syllogism here
Five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet were barred from entering the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them “radical activists” who undercut free speech.
They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.
The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.
nyti.ms
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Only one more step to complete the syllogism here
See, when tech is being used by folks for purposes other than e pollination of the vulnerable for personal profit, it can really be great, can’t it
The banned 60 Minutes episode about the CECOT torture prison used by the Trump admin is now exploding across the internet. Be sure to watch so you can see the excellent reporting done by Sharyn Alfonsi & her team at 60 Minutes:
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
See, when tech is being used by folks for purposes other than e pollination of the vulnerable for personal profit, it can really be great, can’t it
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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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NB: I *think* @wolvendamien.bsky.social is the one I heard first refer to them as Bullshit Engines way back. This video/talk is from 2023 and is essentially a wonderful primer on the massive issues with LLMs-as-Bullshitters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...
On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI. Dr. Williams.
YouTube video by Sonoma State Philosophy
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NB: I *think* @wolvendamien.bsky.social is the one I heard first refer to them as Bullshit Engines way back. This video/talk is from 2023 and is essentially a wonderful primer on the massive issues with LLMs-as-Bullshitters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DpM...
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Caveat scholar
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Caveat scholar
If you’re in education this is a must-read, both the essay and the comment thread here, esp the “quibble”
Really enjoyed this fantastic piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and @cnygren.bsky.social
Here are few favorite pull quotes of mine + one little quibble at the end:
Here are few favorite pull quotes of mine + one little quibble at the end:
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
December 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
If you’re in education this is a must-read, both the essay and the comment thread here, esp the “quibble”
numbers are hard and percentages are especially hard aren't they
December 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
numbers are hard and percentages are especially hard aren't they
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Thanks to its desperate pushers, GenAI is quickly becoming an invasive growth. It’s digital knotweed, designed to fill every organic space, choking out the native forms of life. Once you’ve let it in your garden, good luck getting it out.
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Thanks to its desperate pushers, GenAI is quickly becoming an invasive growth. It’s digital knotweed, designed to fill every organic space, choking out the native forms of life. Once you’ve let it in your garden, good luck getting it out.
this is part of why I'm not assigning a research paper for a 300-level philosophy course this spring. I'm honestly not sure it's possible for undergrad students to practice research skills right now & I can't do another semester like this one.
Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
this is part of why I'm not assigning a research paper for a 300-level philosophy course this spring. I'm honestly not sure it's possible for undergrad students to practice research skills right now & I can't do another semester like this one.
Two: Christy by Catherine Marshall and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by RAH.
Yah, that explains a LOT
Yah, that explains a LOT
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
Someone thought "Jane Eyre is a wholesome classic about a young woman, I bet 11-year-old Bethany would like it."
Someone thought "Jane Eyre is a wholesome classic about a young woman, I bet 11-year-old Bethany would like it."
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Two: Christy by Catherine Marshall and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by RAH.
Yah, that explains a LOT
Yah, that explains a LOT
No.
The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest. n.pr/4rUXc8z
Is The Washington Post's new AI podcast a hallmark of the future?
The Post calls the podcast an "AI-powered tool" that turns its articles into an audio news digest.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
No.
Left early at 9:00, still going strong, 3+ hours
December 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Left early at 9:00, still going strong, 3+ hours
So I could be at the swankiest party our campus hosts all year but I’m in Year 10000 of this high school concert and have yet to catch even a glimpse of my own kid
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
So I could be at the swankiest party our campus hosts all year but I’m in Year 10000 of this high school concert and have yet to catch even a glimpse of my own kid
My people! Do not do this y’all!
TENNESSEAN: “Elon Musk's Boring Co. makes formal Music City Loop approval request… NASHVILLE At-large Council member Delishia Porterfield indicated that she would file a resolution to oppose the project…” www.tennessean.com/story/money/...
December 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
My people! Do not do this y’all!
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Happy birthday to Judy! Back in 2005, the first work I taught in the philosophy of technology was hers. A lovely person too.
OTD in 1950, Judy Wajcman was born. A pioneering sociologist and feminist theorist, Wajcman reshaped the philosophy and sociology of technology by showing how technological systems are deeply entwined with gender, power, and social organization.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Happy birthday to Judy! Back in 2005, the first work I taught in the philosophy of technology was hers. A lovely person too.
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When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.
Give my last final exam tomorrow and have already pivoted to updating my Women in Philosophy syllabus for spring. SO EXCITED TO BE TEACHING THIS AGAIN!
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Give my last final exam tomorrow and have already pivoted to updating my Women in Philosophy syllabus for spring. SO EXCITED TO BE TEACHING THIS AGAIN!
Kitty takes possession of the not yet finished afghan
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Kitty takes possession of the not yet finished afghan
The idea that the replicator is actually mechanical Turk chefs is the most depressing thought I’ve had today, and it’s bedtime, so it’s today’s depressing winner
Have you SEEN how often O'Brien has to fix those things?
Did the food replicator on the Enterprise really work or was it secretly a bunch of ensigns inside the bulkhead doing their best with a teapot and a little range?
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The idea that the replicator is actually mechanical Turk chefs is the most depressing thought I’ve had today, and it’s bedtime, so it’s today’s depressing winner
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This was such a lovely and refreshing conversation. Ecstatic to see how The AI Con is serving as an organizing tool in conversations around labor, education, health care, and social services.
with @emilymbender.bsky.social
with @emilymbender.bsky.social
"We can and must resist narratives of inevitability through collective labor action and strategic refusal." (The AI Con, p.164)
So thankful to have an opportunity to be in conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social this evening with @ali-alkhatib.com's book club!
So thankful to have an opportunity to be in conversation with @alexhanna.bsky.social this evening with @ali-alkhatib.com's book club!
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
This was such a lovely and refreshing conversation. Ecstatic to see how The AI Con is serving as an organizing tool in conversations around labor, education, health care, and social services.
with @emilymbender.bsky.social
with @emilymbender.bsky.social
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this really isn’t an exaggeration
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
this really isn’t an exaggeration
Yeah. There it goes, kids. We used to do this thing called “research” but no one can really do that anymore so we all just live in a fog of unknowing that enables the blatant manipulation of beliefs and perceptions by our fascist overlords
so it begins
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yeah. There it goes, kids. We used to do this thing called “research” but no one can really do that anymore so we all just live in a fog of unknowing that enables the blatant manipulation of beliefs and perceptions by our fascist overlords
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Y'all, tmrw is a BIG DAY for civil rights and tech. @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov, & @repsummerlee.bsky.social are introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: the new gold standard AI bill endorsed by 85+ civil society orgs. Pull up a chair.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Y'all, tmrw is a BIG DAY for civil rights and tech. @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov, & @repsummerlee.bsky.social are introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: the new gold standard AI bill endorsed by 85+ civil society orgs. Pull up a chair.
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Okay, I’m done.
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Okay, I’m done.
Welp. Aced that quiz. I continue to think that this isn’t that hard if one is paying proper attention, but “paying proper attention” is the hard thing
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Welp. Aced that quiz. I continue to think that this isn’t that hard if one is paying proper attention, but “paying proper attention” is the hard thing