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Philosophy & politics. #Technology, #Edtech, #Linux, & #highereducation policy.♥️📚🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇸
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The martyr Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History.
Thesis VIII:
Thesis VIII:
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The martyr Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History.
Thesis VIII:
Thesis VIII:
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In "Rethinking Error," historian Johan Fredrikzon goes to the very heart of a large language model's incapacity to "know": a problem the industry likes to call hallucinations, but which Fredrikzon calls "epistemological indifference."
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In "Rethinking Error," historian Johan Fredrikzon goes to the very heart of a large language model's incapacity to "know": a problem the industry likes to call hallucinations, but which Fredrikzon calls "epistemological indifference."
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
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In 1943, Kenneth Craik published an influential monograph about external reality - presaging what we now call an "AI World Model"
Fascinating reading -
archive.org/details/natu...
Fascinating reading -
archive.org/details/natu...
The nature of explanation : Craik, Kenneth James Williams : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
viii, 123 p. ; 19 cm
archive.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In 1943, Kenneth Craik published an influential monograph about external reality - presaging what we now call an "AI World Model"
Fascinating reading -
archive.org/details/natu...
Fascinating reading -
archive.org/details/natu...
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Totally -- my big ol' list of Fresh AI Hell links, which is just the things we've come across and made note of (often thanks to you) has >2000 entries, and 75 from just Nov 2025 (so far).
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Totally -- my big ol' list of Fresh AI Hell links, which is just the things we've come across and made note of (often thanks to you) has >2000 entries, and 75 from just Nov 2025 (so far).
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November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I can’t get enough of this energy!
This is the level of immediacy we need from everyone.
This is the level of immediacy we need from everyone.
June 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I can’t get enough of this energy!
This is the level of immediacy we need from everyone.
This is the level of immediacy we need from everyone.
“It is a weak sovereign, that has weak subjects; and a weak people, whose sovereign wanteth power to rule them at his will.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 30
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“It is a weak sovereign, that has weak subjects; and a weak people, whose sovereign wanteth power to rule them at his will.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ch. 30
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This book has been making the rounds of academic social media. Haven’t read it. Have you? What do you think of it? #RPVBooks #NewReadingMaterial
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This book has been making the rounds of academic social media. Haven’t read it. Have you? What do you think of it? #RPVBooks #NewReadingMaterial
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Even worse -- it's a pyramid scheme. Once you get these certifications, you can aspire to "Join a community of Education Champions." Seems like in-house promotion is an essential part of AI EdTech paradigm. Also seems like a cult.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Even worse -- it's a pyramid scheme. Once you get these certifications, you can aspire to "Join a community of Education Champions." Seems like in-house promotion is an essential part of AI EdTech paradigm. Also seems like a cult.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
It’s not the cucks around Trump. It’s all the capons doing his bidding. He wants to castrate America.
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It’s not the cucks around Trump. It’s all the capons doing his bidding. He wants to castrate America.
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I was on Tophat talking about AI. I believe faculty should be leading conversations about AI on campuses and students and administration should likewise be involved. We should all be considering the purpose of education and how our values shape our views of this technology tophat.com/teaching-res...
Top Hat Podcast | Higher Listenings | Top Hat
Dive into the Top Hat higher education podcast, where thought leaders, authors, and educators shape the future of higher learning. Tune in now!
tophat.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I was on Tophat talking about AI. I believe faculty should be leading conversations about AI on campuses and students and administration should likewise be involved. We should all be considering the purpose of education and how our values shape our views of this technology tophat.com/teaching-res...
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Another reason: I don't think we really know what we're doing when it comes to teaching automation-assisted document production. See this piece from Justin Reich. www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
Opinion | Stop Pretending You Know How to Teach AI
Colleges are racing to make students ‘fluent.’ One problem: No one knows what that means.
www.chronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Another reason: I don't think we really know what we're doing when it comes to teaching automation-assisted document production. See this piece from Justin Reich. www.chronicle.com/article/stop...
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· #AcademicSky · from UWN @uniworldnews.bsky.social
“Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we cannot have high-quality learning, teaching and research. Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we also cannot have a fully functional democracy.” —Sjur Bergan
“Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we cannot have high-quality learning, teaching and research. Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we also cannot have a fully functional democracy.” —Sjur Bergan
Magna Charta signatories top 1,000 amid growing threats
A Swedish university became the 1,000th signatory to the Magna Charta Universitatum on 13 November at a global convening of university leaders in Lond...
www.universityworldnews.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
· #AcademicSky · from UWN @uniworldnews.bsky.social
“Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we cannot have high-quality learning, teaching and research. Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we also cannot have a fully functional democracy.” —Sjur Bergan
“Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we cannot have high-quality learning, teaching and research. Without academic freedom and institutional autonomy, we also cannot have a fully functional democracy.” —Sjur Bergan
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
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When self-professed defenders of workers’ rights turn to chatbots for “research”, we’ve got a problem.
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social & I investigate some recent disappointments in labor research w/ Sophie Song:
Mon, Nov 17, noon PT,
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social & I investigate some recent disappointments in labor research w/ Sophie Song:
Mon, Nov 17, noon PT,
dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).
twitch.tv
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
When self-professed defenders of workers’ rights turn to chatbots for “research”, we’ve got a problem.
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social & I investigate some recent disappointments in labor research w/ Sophie Song:
Mon, Nov 17, noon PT,
Join us for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 live stream, in which @alexhanna.bsky.social & I investigate some recent disappointments in labor research w/ Sophie Song:
Mon, Nov 17, noon PT,
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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i'm interested in basic research that:
1. shines light on how existing platforms, models, & the industry at large operates
2.uncovers intentionally obscured info/data
3. is adversary to industry but informative to public. verifiable & independent body of knowledge to equip people to demand better
1. shines light on how existing platforms, models, & the industry at large operates
2.uncovers intentionally obscured info/data
3. is adversary to industry but informative to public. verifiable & independent body of knowledge to equip people to demand better
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
i'm interested in basic research that:
1. shines light on how existing platforms, models, & the industry at large operates
2.uncovers intentionally obscured info/data
3. is adversary to industry but informative to public. verifiable & independent body of knowledge to equip people to demand better
1. shines light on how existing platforms, models, & the industry at large operates
2.uncovers intentionally obscured info/data
3. is adversary to industry but informative to public. verifiable & independent body of knowledge to equip people to demand better
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performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
Thinking of a conservative position at the heart of the hermeneutic tradition, a parallel critique of techno-science’s frame is pretty clear: The dominance of technological thinking flattens meaning into data & erases the human as a moral interlocutor. It puts all human dialogue at risk. 😳
In "Endangered Judgment," political theorist Luke Fernandez critiques the dominance of instrumental reason.
Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum's (and
Hannah Arendt's) distinction between calculation and judgment, he warns machine logic replacement undermines
human responsibility.
Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum's (and
Hannah Arendt's) distinction between calculation and judgment, he warns machine logic replacement undermines
human responsibility.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Thinking of a conservative position at the heart of the hermeneutic tradition, a parallel critique of techno-science’s frame is pretty clear: The dominance of technological thinking flattens meaning into data & erases the human as a moral interlocutor. It puts all human dialogue at risk. 😳
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While we’re at it maybe also treat inheritances as taxable income spread over, say, 10 years.
As many have pointed out absurd that we tax income earned through labour more heavily than other forms of income and acquired wealth.
As many have pointed out absurd that we tax income earned through labour more heavily than other forms of income and acquired wealth.
Laws are bent for the rich.
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% – 45% plus national insurance contributions (NIC).
Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%, no NIC .
Dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%, no NIC.
All income must be taxed at the same rate.
Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20% – 45% plus national insurance contributions (NIC).
Capital gains taxed at 18% to 32%, no NIC .
Dividends taxed at 8.75% to 39.35%, no NIC.
All income must be taxed at the same rate.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
While we’re at it maybe also treat inheritances as taxable income spread over, say, 10 years.
As many have pointed out absurd that we tax income earned through labour more heavily than other forms of income and acquired wealth.
As many have pointed out absurd that we tax income earned through labour more heavily than other forms of income and acquired wealth.
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Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.
November 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Just got this email. I do assume that this is how they got into someone at penn gse's email (not confirmed, this is just my hypothesis). Makes me wonder what the plans are at other institutions.
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apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
EU set to water down landmark AI Act after pressure from big tech
European Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book amid concerns over implications for EU competitiveness
www.irishtimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
apparently the unprecedented wealth and inflcuence big tech is amassing at the cost of the most marginalised is not enough. big tech ceos are not that different from drug cartels
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...