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New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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olivia.science
We can't really say this enough...

> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: 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 collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
federico.bsky.social
arturo mi ha rotto il cervello

da un anno, un algoritmo allenato sui miei testi scrive (spesso) al posto mio

nel frattempo, sono diventato definitivamente stupido

ho scritto un testo a riguardo, insieme ad arturo
Arturo mi ha rotto il cervello
Da un anno, un algoritmo allenato sui miei testi scrive (spesso) al posto mio. Sono diventato definitivamente stupido?
stellakamikaze.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
federico.bsky.social
tutto il mio tempo mi sembra sprecato, come posso restituirgli del senso?

per l'ultimo numero di VIVO Journal ho fatto una chiacchiera con @silviolorusso.bsky.social per capire come costruire degli archivi davvero utili
Come si costruiscono degli archivi (davvero) utili
Tutto il mio tempo mi sembra sprecato, come posso restituirgli del senso? Una conversazione con Silvio Lorusso.
stellakamikaze.org
October 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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yoshimired.bsky.social
KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."
September 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.
September 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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danabra.mov
ok enough arguing with people i'll go back to arguing with computer
September 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
federico.bsky.social
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In Focus: DJ Mehdi 8th August 2025
The bombastic energy of France's 2000s electro and electronic explosion left an indelible mark on music that is still felt today, perhaps even more so at the moment, due to a certain cultural nostalgi...
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August 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
federico.bsky.social
Un consiglio agli amici su Substack, non siateci - usate Ghost www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/s...
Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now
Back in April 2023, when Substack CEO Chris Best refused to answer basic questions about whether his platform would allow racist content, I noted that his evasiveness was essentially hanging out a …
www.techdirt.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
A reminder for these times.
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
federico.bsky.social
Ogni volta che prendo la metropolitana mi sento di essere in big city life di mattafix e percepisco la tristezza planetaria dei miei simili
February 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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samuel.fm
your outie always uses semantic html
Ms Casey from Severence
February 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
federico.bsky.social
Bluesky funziona bene: i contenuti che mi presenta il suo algoritmo mi fanno venire voglia di somministrarmi un coma farmacologico a lungo termine
February 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
Wow: "our screening analysis demonstrates that driven by the growing demand for AI, the U.S. data centers could contribute to, among others, approximately 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths in 2030, exceeding 1/3 of asthma deaths in the U.S. each year."

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288
arxiv.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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sequencermag.bsky.social
For their 1976 bicentennial issue, National Geographic invited "five noted thinkers" to predict the future. The answers ranged from optimism to pleas for transformational change.

Here's an excerpt from Edmund Bacon, city planner (AND FATHER OF KEVIN BACON)
January 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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cnn.com
Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after using explosives to break into a museum in the Netherlands.
Thieves blow up museum door and steal ancient artifacts, including 2,500-year-old gold helmet | CNN
The 5th-century BC Helmet of Cotofenesti was among the valuable items taken during an overnight heist at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.
www.cnn.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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grafton9.net
Manifesti Palestinesi
dal Fondo Marco Pezzi - Archivio Storico Marco Pezzi ASMP
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/asn...
December 6, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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rowan.games
Transitions #gamedev #pixelart
January 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'In the most detailed suggestions of how the UK government’s plans for a vast central archive of public data might be achieved, some of the country’s top data experts have expressed grave concerns that the project would mean the construction of a massive standalone data platform'. 1/3
Goldacre warns Labour against ‘monolithic’ national data library
Scientists urge UK to adopt network approach for landmark project bringing public data together
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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mjcrockett.bsky.social
Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical

The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨

tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk
January 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”

“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”
Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being
"Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"
bookriot.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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strange.website
A classic Internetgeist cartoon of a dog wearing a very fine hat, sitting before a table in a room that is completely engulfed in flames. In the first panel he is wordless, reflecting on the stark reality of his situation. In the second frame, his speech bubble has been edited to read "i should build my own rss reader".
January 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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philipdisalvo.bsky.social
What stage of capitalism is this again?
January 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
federico.bsky.social
per protestare contro il ban di tiktok, un 19enne ha dato fuoco all'ufficio del deputato grothman a fond du lac, wisconsin

l'azione è avvenuta di notte, il responsabile è stato arrestato poche ore dopo
January 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM