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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15d

Speaking Truth to Power seems so 1960s. Now is the age of Speaking Sense to Nonsense. It isn’t any more effective, sadly.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 16d

Also tiktok, so relevant both sides of the Atlantic.

Arthur Clune @clune.org · 16d

It’s because of the links coming out between the Tony Blair Institute (which is very embedded in our government due to New Labour ministers and advisors coming back) and Oracle

Article is free to read with a free account

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Inside the Tony Blair Institute

Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

www.newstatesman.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19d

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19d

I spoke with analyst Gil Luria at D.A. Davidson, asking if the capital existed to build OpenAI's promised 17GW of data centers.

He said "of course there isn't enough capital for all of this," but "enough capital to do this for a at least a little while longer."

www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 25d

“When we engage with the public, we notice people think that AI, as a field or a technology, appeared on the scene in the last 3 years. And they experience confusion … when they discover the field and the technologies have existed for decades (…)”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · 25d

Freedom of the press is a counterpower. As Kant and French revolutionaries knew, to claim the freedom of the press is to claim the power of the people, opposed to that of the State and able to monitor it, judge it and, ultimately, overturn it.
@marioricciardi.bsky.social
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"The sole palladium of the people's rights". Freedom of the pen as a counterpower in Kant and his contemporaries

For Kant's contemporaries, his claim that the “freedom of the pen” is “the only palladium of the people's rights” - represented a clear political stance that favoured the thesis of the people's sovere...

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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · 26d

AI systems can have politics: they shape forms of life, accord or deny opportunities, power, freedoms and rights.
Predictive optimisation systems, for instance, deny your status as self-determining individual by pretending that your future is written and readable
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Do AI systems have politics? Predictive optimisation as a move away from the rule of law, liberalism and democracy

In predictive optimisation systems, machine learning is used to predict future outcomes of interest about individuals, and these predictions are used to make decisions about them. Despite being based ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 15

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

come vi dico spesso,i #criminaliDiGuerra occidentali, da #Bush a #Netanyahu godono di impunità assoluta (mentre quelli non-occidentali finiscono alla #CortePenaleInternazionale)perché sono protetti a tanti livelli,non solo quello penale,ma anche mediatico

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Soldati Idf nelle Marche per smaltire lo stress (sorvegliati dalla Digos) - Il Fatto Quotidiano

Leggi su Il Fatto Quotidiano l'articolo in edicola "Soldati Idf nelle Marche per smaltire lo stress (sorvegliati dalla Digos)" pubblicato il 7 Settembre 2025 a firma di Stefania Maurizi e Ferruccio Sa...

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

quando, per un'intera settimana, i media dominanti italiani non scrivono una riga su #SoldatiIDF in #decompressionePsicologica in Italia da atrocità di #Gaza,sotto copertura di turisti,protetti dalla #DIGOS, vuol dire che li proteggono a livello mediatico

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Soldati Idf nelle Marche per smaltire lo stress (sorvegliati dalla Digos) - Il Fatto Quotidiano

Leggi su Il Fatto Quotidiano l'articolo in edicola "Soldati Idf nelle Marche per smaltire lo stress (sorvegliati dalla Digos)" pubblicato il 7 Settembre 2025 a firma di Stefania Maurizi e Ferruccio Sa...

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

voi parlate con me, protetti dall'anonimato. Certo,meno di americani, inglesi, e perfino cittadini africani. Gli italiani hanno forte cultura dell'omertà. Ma le cose stanno cambiando.
Ne sapete qualcosa? Parlatene con me in modo sicuro qui:

stefaniamaurizi.it/it-contactme...

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

scusate se ve lo segnalo a scoppio ritardato,ma ero risucchiata

Se l'avete perso come me, NON lo perdete ora: #RiccardoIacona e il suo team di #PresaDiretta hanno mandato in onda il discorso di Julian #Assange nell'ottobre scorso a #Strasburgo:

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PresaDiretta 2025/26 - Julian Assange, libero ma colpevole di giornalismo - 07/09/2025 - Video - RaiPlay

Dopo 14 anni di reclusione - tra domiciliari, ambasciata dell'Ecuador a Londra e carcere di massima sicurezza in Gran Bretagna - il 24 giugno del 2024 Julian Assange viene liberato. PresaDiretta ricos...

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

a week ago we revealed that over the last year, #IDFSoldiers have come to Italy for #PsychologicalDecompression, disguised as tourists and protected by the Italian police's unit,#DIGOS.
No top Italian media has reported on this in the last week
[English]

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IDF soldiers have been touring the Marche region to relieve their psychological stress (protected by the Italian Digos police unit)

By Stefania Maurizi and Ferruccio Sansa “He wasn't a guy like all the others, carefree like us as we sunbathed under our beach umbrellas. I realized that wh...

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Stefania Maurizi @smaurizi.bsky.social · Sep 14

do you have any restricted info on #IDFSoldiers touring #Italy (and more in general #InternationalCriminalCourt state parties) disguised as tourists and protected by the #police?

Please consider to share it safely HERE:

stefaniamaurizi.it/it-contactme...
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IDF soldiers have been touring the Marche region to relieve their psychological stress (protected by the Italian Digos police unit)

By Stefania Maurizi and Ferruccio Sansa “He wasn't a guy like all the others, carefree like us as we sunbathed under our beach umbrellas. I realized that wh...

www.ilfattoquotidiano.it

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 12

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · Sep 11

New blog post: 70 years of AI hype. Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

blog.stephenturner.us/p/70-years-o...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 10

“If we just swallow it uncritically, we’re no better than those universities signing up for shiny tools without asking hard questions. The real job is to figure out—does this actually help outcomes? Or is it just vendor hype with an AI sticker on it?”

businessof.tech/2025/09/09/a...

Academics Warn Against Uncritical AI Adoption, Citing Risks to Critical Thinking – Business of Tech

I also wanted to highlight a piece in Blood in the Machine . Cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers have issued a strong call for academia

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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · Sep 7

Preprint, Private governments and AI (in Italian)
On what conceptually links the genocidal project on the Gaza Riviera and so-called AI

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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · Sep 7

LLM is software running on computers. Writing about 'humility', 'reasoning', 'honesty about uncertainty' and 'hallucinations' is an unacceptable anthropomorphisation and can only be intended to deceive users.
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science

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Daniela Tafani @danielatafani.bsky.social · Sep 7

"When we suggest AI is doing exactly what a person does, [...] It's like saying that good conversations are never possible, and that mechanistic reinterpretation and remixing of words is all there could ever be"

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Sep 7

Continuing to think about “Human Literacy,” in this post I ask what conversations between people do that conversations with machines do not, and the vanishing art of imagining worlds with other people.