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Aleksi Pirinen
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pirinenaleksi.bsky.social
Naurattaahan se kun oppilaat yrittivät keksiä, miten lahjoisivat minut ettei tulisi läksyä: ensin yksi ehdotti että pitäisi tarjota megistä, mutta sitten toinen korjasi että "ei opelle mitään megistä vaan KAHVIA!" 😭
August 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

t.co/JXeTALBPds
Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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freya.bsky.social
opt out here: www.facebook.com/help/contact...

www.theverge.com/news/648128/...
Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data
Now’s your chance to train Meta AI some more (or opt out).
www.theverge.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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archive.org
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
These numbers are complete lies but the underlying argument — that Democrats are paying illegal immigrants to come here and become voters — is 100% Great Replacement Theory.

He’s spouting the exact same racist conspiracy that inspired mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 10
Musk: "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending -- that's the big one to eliminate. That's the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That's also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters."
March 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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byconniechang.bsky.social
White cis people need to wake up. Transphobic legislation is part of a broader attempt to control women’s bodies, presentation, and gender expression. Everyone is negatively impacted by transphobia—especially queer, trans, and/or gender non-conforming Black people and Black women.
March 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
dudes talking up generative ai like "finally a tool for a mediocre man like me to get credit i dont deserve"
March 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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jksteinberger.bsky.social
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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thomasfuchs.at
trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything
Googling for “bees in my computer”. Google AI Overview: “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the l mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.”
February 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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sarapeltola.bsky.social
Thank you everyone who have already signed the petition! Still waiting for the rectors of Finnish universities to take a public stand for the freedom of science.
A screen capture of an article in Hufvudstadsbladet, written by Nathalie Koskinen. The original text is in Swedish, the translation in English of the headline and ingress: "700 scientists resist American pressure The US is making demands on the University of Helsinki: terms such as climate change and equality should be censored. Now hundreds of scientists are raging against Trump's pressure, and see the risk of ominous snowball effect. "Censoring individual words is just the beginning", says initiator Tapani Hopkins."
February 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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deckofcarterhist.bsky.social
Me, history professor: "Students please don't use AI. It doesn't work, you will fail, and it destroys the environment."

Some professional scientists: "Oh the thinking box will read for me!"
bookspotlight.bsky.social Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Feb 20
*stares in historian*
Post on Threads showing AI misinterpreted a paper and now there are scientific papers with incorrect citations
February 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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juhopylvanainen.bsky.social
Vaalikoneissa toistuu vuodesta toiseen väittämä ”Suomessa on liian helppo elää sosiaaliturvan varassa”

Ehkä jatkossa pitäisi olla ”Suomessa on liian helppo vältellä veroja”, sillä kansantalouden kannalta tämä on aito ongelma.

yle.fi/a/74-20144985
Osinkoverokikkailu räjähti käsiin – laskimme, kuinka paljon Suomi voi menettää veroeuroja
Verohallinto selvitti Ylen pyynnöstä, kuinka paljon osakkeenvaihtoon liittyviä ennakkoratkaisuja tehtiin viime vuonna. Verottaja ja kansalaisjärjestö Finnwatch pitävät tilannetta kestämättömänä.
yle.fi
February 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
pirinenaleksi.bsky.social
Pari kertaa saanut harmistua levyjä hyllytellessä, kun on sattunut huomaamaan levyn kannen olevan tekoälyllä tehty (tai siis, ainakin 97% varmasti) - luulis nyt edes taiteilijoiden tukevan toisia taiteilijoita mut ei kai sitte : )
February 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
pirinenaleksi.bsky.social
Pitäis kyllä keksiä jotain produktiivista mihin kanavoida aina kaikki ahdistus ja hermostuminen (due to world events) mutta sanonpa että voi saatana ja vielä lisäksi että helevetin kuustoista
February 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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mustapipa.bsky.social
What we call AI is really an algorithmic method for making people more stupid.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Feb 9
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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snickettes.bsky.social
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
snickettes.bsky.social Nickel :weary: @snickettes.bsky.social · Feb 5
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.

It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...
advait.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
pirinenaleksi.bsky.social
Unirytmi palautumassa normaaliksi (koputan puuta) ja viimein oli energiaa kerrata japanin kurssilla opittuja kanji-merkkejä! Vielä kun keksis mistä hommata helppoa lukemista, kun ei aina jaksa lukea noita NHK:n helppoja uutisia
February 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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topiuusis.bsky.social
"johtui DEI:stä" tarkoittaa muuten sitten auki kirjoitettuna sitä että "en tiiä muuta kuin että tämän aiheutti joku vähemmistöön kuuluva ihminen". Carte blanche vihata KAIKKIA paitsi omaa mielikuvaa übermenschistä. Uppoaa näemmä vielä mediaankin täydestä kuin "maahanmuuttokriittisyys" aikoinaan..
a man in a chef 's uniform is making a funny face and says `` can you wake up . ''
ALT: a man in a chef 's uniform is making a funny face and says `` can you wake up . ''
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January 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
pirinenaleksi.bsky.social
Moni asia ärsyttää, vihastuttaa ja surettaa mutta sentään pipon virkkaaminen onnistui ihan ookoo!
Vihreä virkattu pipo. A green crocheted beanie.
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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laurenginsberg.bsky.social
This is also what annoys me about companies selling off articles and books to train AI. I can’t get access to that as a scholar without major fees paid by me or my library system. Why does AI get it?
rcolesworthy.bsky.social Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · Jan 28
Most scholars I know--affiliated or not--just want access to resources behind paywalls--subscription journals, databases, books. No one I know is going "gee I wish I had AI tools to mine those resources for pithy, questionable syntheses." They can't even GET TO the resources. THAT is what they want.
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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lauraliukko.bsky.social
Tässä hieno materiaalivinkki sekä vakaan että varmasti myös alkuopetuksen puolelle, ottakaa talteen opekollegat. 🏳️‍🌈

Parhaat keskustelut sukupuolen moninaisuudesta olen itsekin käynyt ehdottomasti eskariopeaikoihini lasten kanssa. Moninaisuuden keskellä kasvaa tasapainoisimmat uudet ihmiset.
riikkae.bsky.social Riikka E @riikkae.bsky.social · Jan 29
Uusi opas on saatavilla: Sateenkaari varhaiskasvatuksessa!
Täältä käyttöön: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l8qd4...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM