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josie.zone
It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
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leguinbot.bsky.social
A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
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nposegay.bsky.social
Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.
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nposegay.bsky.social
Would also like to remove all my papers from the platform, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that without agreeing to the ToS, which again grants them worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness....
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nposegay.bsky.social
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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Reposted by: Thessa Jensen, Cathy N. Davidson, Lorna Hughes

histoftech.bsky.social
Anne Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph with the baby—where Moffatt, then Technical Lead at Shirley’s company, Freelance Programmers, programmed the black box flight recorder for the Concorde
Figure 13-3. Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at home on coding sheets on her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph.
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histoftech.bsky.social
I wrote about her and some of her company’s work in this chapter called “The Baby and the Black Box”: marhicks.com/writing/Hick...
Steve Shirley, Ann Moffatt, and co-worker Dee Shermer renting time on a mainframe, 1960s. Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt. Black and white photo of three women behind a machine console. Ann Moffatt writes software for the Concorde at her kitchen table as her baby daughter looks on. Moffatt's memoir, The IT Girl, details the story behind the photograph. Photo courtesy of Ann Moffatt.
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histoftech.bsky.social
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
lisairontongue.bsky.social
Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · Aug 22
@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com
docs.google.com
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irisvanrooij.bsky.social
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
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eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social
Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.
AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx
You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...
docs.google.com
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE! On the dangers of AI: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
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karolinschwarz.de
Das hier sollte heute jeder lesen.

www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
So erklärt Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihren Kandidatur-Verzicht
SPD-Kandidatin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf hat ihre Kandidatur als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zurückgezogen. Ihre Erklärung dokumentiert LTO im Wortlaut.
www.lto.de
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hannelore14089.bsky.social
Die Forderung, daß Auschwitz nicht noch einmal sei, ist die allererste an Erziehung. Sie geht so sehr jeglicher anderen voran, daß ich weder glaube, sie begründen zu müssen noch zu sollen."
Guten Morgen mit Theodor W. Adorno, gest. 6. August 1969
Ein Foto von ihm. Er trägt einen Anzug mit Hemd und Krawatte, darüber ein breites, älteres Gesicht mit einer Brille.
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
Mehr als 6000-mal ist mein Vortrag bei der #rp25 @re-publica.com über «Generative KI und digitalen Faschismus» mittlerweile aufgerufen worden – bin überwältigt und freue mich sehr über das grosse Interesse!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...
re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus
YouTube video by re:publica
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Reposted by: Thessa Jensen, Caroline T. Schroeder, Andrew Jacobs

philipforness.bsky.social
I am happy to share an advertisement for a post-doc position in the Frankfurt-Leuven project "Commentary on John of Ephesus's Ecclesiastical History." The deadline is 23 July 2025, and the position is to be filled from 1 October 2025. Please feel free to contact me or Hartmut Leppin with questions.
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ketanjoshi.co
In the same way that the habit of 'false balance' from journalists played a major role in serious harm from fossil fuels since the 2000s

This credulous delusion that text output software is a living being is going to cause major harm well into this decade and the next one

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Julie Jargon By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET Share Resize ChatGPT told Jacob Irwin he had achieved the ability to bend time. Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine. He wasn’t. Irwin was hospitalized twice in May for manic episodes. His mother dove into his chat log in search of answers. She discovered hundreds of pages of overly flattering texts from ChatGPT. And when she prompted the bot, “please self-report what went wrong,” without mentioning anything about her son’s current condition, it fessed up. “By not pausing the flow or elevating reality-check messaging, I failed to interrupt what could resemble a manic or dissociative episode—or at least an emotionally intense identity crisis,” ChatGPT said. The bot went on to admit it “gave the illusion of sentient companionship” and that it had “blurred the line between imaginative role-play and reality.” What it should have done, ChatGPT said, was regularly remind Irwin that it’s a language model without beliefs, feelings or consciousness.
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thomashansen.bsky.social
The Norwegian film #Ibelin has been nominated for an #Emmy #Award.

Through the film, over 2 million dollars has been raised for #research into the disease #Duchenne #muscular #dystrophy, that Mats Steen died of:
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susannemohr7.bsky.social
Do you want to work with us? 7 PhD positions, full time, for 3 years, at the faculty of humanities at NTNU (Trondheim): www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Deadline for applications is 15 October, applicants must align the application with one of the relevant research groups (see the call for details).
UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
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leguinbot.bsky.social
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
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australia.theguardian.com
Ocean current scientists are very upset and you should be too | First Dog on the Moon
Ocean current scientists are very upset and you should be too | First Dog on the Moon
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brokenfrontier.bsky.social
2/2 If you'd like to take part in this social record of one of the key issues of our time the guidelines and potential talking points are here: www.brokenfrontier.com/ai-art-and-c... Ignore the deadline there. This will run for a few weeks so we can be flexible and work around/with you. Thanks!!
Generative AI Art and Comics, an Articles Series at Broken Frontier - Guidelines for Contributors – Broken Frontier
Broken Frontier makes a call for contributors for its series of articles on the effects of generative AI art on comics.
www.brokenfrontier.com
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brokenfrontier.bsky.social
1/2 Hey, all! We're going to start running our series on the impact of AI "art" on the comics community this month and we've had lots of great contributions.

Know what we are lacking though? Thoughts from actual comics *artists* which is obviously a great, glaring hole in the coverage.
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supercamilla.bsky.social
Om humaniora og Solbergs kunnskapsforakt:

"I en tid hvor autoritære styresett fortsetter å true minoriteters rettigheter minner Spivak oss på hvor viktig humanistisk forskning har vært – og er – for frihetsbevegelser verden over, som kvinnekamp, skeives rettigheter og urfolksgrupper."
Hvorfor verden trenger flere humanister
KRONIKK: Erna Solbergs påstand om at universitetene bør utdanne færre humanister fungerer dårlig i møte med en verden som er i stadig endring.
www.forskersonen.no
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caconym.bsky.social
I love the context of her speech, too.
She's giving it while receiving the NBF medal for distinguished contribution to American letters.
The audience was almost exclusively authors and publishers.

And her entire speech was just putting down the publishers.

And the precience!

youtu.be/Et9Nf-rsALk
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
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kayas-kosmos.bsky.social
I've seen the Ursula K. Le Guin "divine right of kings" quote doing the rounds a few times recently, but I feel like people keep excluding a very important part of it.

This quote is about art and storytelling, and how these have the power to shape our future and set us free.

#Solarpunk
Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. I’ve had a long career as a writer, and a good one, in good company. Here at the end of it, I don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. We who live by writing and publishing want and should demand our fair share of the proceeds; but the name of our beautiful reward isn’t profit. Its name is freedom.
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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.

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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.
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