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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

@altibel.bsky.social

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Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hi! I'm a book historian working on what I call the reading spaces model for my dissertation. I'm developing it by focusing on 18th New Spain #EarlyModern #BookHistory Here's a fun post on archival research related to signatures. I also work at an #STS centre on #CitizenScience & #ResearchIntegrity

#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela

In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremel...

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1h

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4h

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 4h

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The : should be a "
Stupid small keyboard

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 4h

LMAO - so this "amazing new technology: is gonna be used for ads, porn, surveillance, and giving the illusion of efficiency (so greedy bosses fire half of their employees), while burning the planet? It definitely makes sense that universities are pushing it into every ffing task 🫠 #ResistAI

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 8h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 5h

Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene: "colonial powers will only recognize the collective rights & identities of Indigenous peoples insofar as this recognition does not obstruct the imperatives of state & capital.” Relevant for recognition of Palestine > companies must stop profiting from apartheid.

Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"We’re all for removing colonial symbols and nationalistic myths, so long as structures such as colonialism and racism go along with them. Problem is they are not."

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Uprooting Colonialism: The Limitations of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Fall 2017 (v1.0)  Edits and contributions by Indigenous Action Media Collective & friends  www.indigenousaction.org Downloadable PDFs | Readable | Printable (zine format) [expand title=

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 9h

(Showing you some annoying shit that sucks ass) and would you believe a computer made this all by itself?

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 21h

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Sushipopulisme? Wat is er met havermelk populisme? Is er ook een dubaichocoladepopulisne?

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 22h

LOL "It's obviously a fantastic technology that has amazing possibilities." Do these ppl understand what LLMs and co actually do?

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel economist warns of AI dangers

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Nobel economist warns of AI dangers ｜ AFP

Washington (AFP) - A winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics warned Monday that artificial intelligence offers "amazing possibilities" but should be regulated because of its job-destroying pote...

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

#BookHistory

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Emma Miriam Lone, 1930, from the Epilogue of Lathrop Harper’s 1000 Incunabula catalogue (first American bookseller’s cat totally devoted to 15th century printing, compiled by her)!

sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 1d

Guess the author and decade:
“The object of a good bibliographical description is to give clearly and concisely as possible all the information which can be derived from an examination of the book itself”

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IYKYK @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 1d

The reason colonizers are so afraid of immigrants is because they make the mistake of thinking that because all colonizers are immigrants, all immigrants are also colonizers. They think immigrants come with evil in their hearts, because colonizers come with evil in their hearts.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Metaphor alert 🚨 apnews.com/video/replic...

Replica of Columbus’ Santa Maria sinks off Mexico coast

A replica of Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria sank off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, the company that owns the vessel said Friday.

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 2d

Vreemdelingenhaat ✅
Jodenhaat ✅
Vrouwenhaat ✅
Homohaat ✅
Intimidatie en demonisering van politieke opponenten ✅

Noem het wat het is: een fascistische manifestatie, geen ‘anti-immigratieprotest’.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂 muero

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¿Cómo se dirá Whitexican en Venezolano?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 2d

El gringo periodista se preocupaba x los torturados en Venezuela, le dije lo del CECOT o los campos ICE y nada...
Igual entiendo el hartazgo, y chales q esa es la oposición pero nadie puede decir q esa mujer está por la paz, o sea de dónde. Y yo soy talla 0, no?

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 2d

Uno era un gringo quezque periodista (análisis crítico de discursos e historia no eran su fuerte, ja), y uno Venezolano supongo de diaspora que me echo la culpa x Morena (yo q?), de tratar mal a inmigrantes, q yo que sabía si nunca he estado en Venezuela 🥱🚮

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 2d

"Tomás Straka (,,,) told me that euphoria around the possibility of an outside intervention animates the diaspora much more than it does people inside the country." Ja, tuve q mutear a uno bien azotado q se enojó xq dije q no había intervención feliz en la historia.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 3d

We must always ask who benefits and who is harmed. These companies did not pay their mechanical turks a decent salary, why do ppl think they care about society at all?

Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 3d

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 3d

There's a 1936 novel about them: Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. There was a recent edition by @lurideditions.bsky.social
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Chase of the Wild Goose — Lurid Editions

Chase of the Wild Goose is the forgotten queer novel of the 1930s – a joyful corrective to the misery of The Well of Loneliness, and amiable companion to Woolf’s time-travelling Orlando.

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