Luke Stark
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own
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We hit 25% of our goal in three days—a successful first week by any measure. But that does mean we still need your help on the other 75%. Please spread the word gofund.me/e23ff82a5
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We hit 25% of our goal in three days—a successful first week by any measure. But that does mean we still need your help on the other 75%. Please spread the word gofund.me/e23ff82a5
Right, it's a real thing! In those cases, though, is it about identity or is it about entrenched material interests being threatened (AKA, existing homeowners?) That kind of opposition doesn't strike me as lefty (though maybe that's No True Scotsman-ing)
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Right, it's a real thing! In those cases, though, is it about identity or is it about entrenched material interests being threatened (AKA, existing homeowners?) That kind of opposition doesn't strike me as lefty (though maybe that's No True Scotsman-ing)
Also, parenthetically, love your work! Leif and I have an academic acquaintance, and if either of you are ever in the Toronto area, please let me know!
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Also, parenthetically, love your work! Leif and I have an academic acquaintance, and if either of you are ever in the Toronto area, please let me know!
I just kinda think the piece overstates the lefty-ness of major non-profits AND as usual, tars all discussions of positionality with their most extreme/obnoxious/Online examples. Most people doing the work are doing the work, not posting!
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I just kinda think the piece overstates the lefty-ness of major non-profits AND as usual, tars all discussions of positionality with their most extreme/obnoxious/Online examples. Most people doing the work are doing the work, not posting!
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Used to be that big news organizations would fight each other to get big scoops on an admin as scandal-plagued as this one. With Bezos taking over at WaPo and other similar situations elsewhere, that’s much less of a concern than staying in the admin’s good graces — and the rest of us suffer.
In another era, the political media would be shoveling dirt onto Trump's political grave as a hopeless lame duck and shifting their focus to the 2028 Presidential race. But in this era they'll keep rooting for the Reichstag Fire or other event to keep pretending he's popular
November 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Kind of a horrific future we’ve stumbled into where you read a headline about people leaving Twitter for Reddit and immediately think “oh thank goodness”
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Kind of a horrific future we’ve stumbled into where you read a headline about people leaving Twitter for Reddit and immediately think “oh thank goodness”
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'The degree of increased division – known as “affective polarisation” – achieved in one week by the changes the academics made to X users’ feeds was as great as would have on average taken three years between 1978 and 2020.' 2/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Platform-independent experiments on social media
Changing algorithms with artificial intelligence tools can influence partisan animosity
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'The degree of increased division – known as “affective polarisation” – achieved in one week by the changes the academics made to X users’ feeds was as great as would have on average taken three years between 1978 and 2020.' 2/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.