Investors punish tech, buy chips

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Simon Usherwood

@simonusherwood.bsky.social

It's "less about AI destroying the capacity to learn than about it destroying the motivation to bother"

Very stimulating piece by @jimdickinson.bsky.social on whether we're focusing on the right things in the education & AI debate

wonkhe.com/blogs/now-th...

February 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM

by Margot C. Finn

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🎓 Margot C. Finn	8%	17	9.9%

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Grindcore: the new misogyny. Discuss, preferably intersectionally.

AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks

In the race for AI, tech firms are asking for their staff to work long hours. But there are risks, experts say.

www.bbc.co.uk

February 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The Wall Street Journal

Picks and Shovels Still Rule the AI Tech Trade

Investors have punished big-spending tech giants and software companies while betting on memory chips.

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by Wojciech Sadurski

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🎓 Wojciech Sadurski	2%	27	3.1%

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by Diane Watt

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Diane Watt

@dianewatt.bsky.social

AI generated! (Only kidding)

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20h

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 21h

VC, founder, dumbass

February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM

by Alison Phipps

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን

@alisonphipps.bsky.social

Worth a read - though tbf many of these arguments are about criticality, a concept that has been central to generative learning since 2000

wonkhe.com/blogs/now-th...

Now the struggle is no longer real, are students becoming stupid?

Jim Dickinson explores the growing evidence that AI isn't just changing what students produce – it's changing what their brains are ready to do, and asks whether HE can redesign itself around a questi...

wonkhe.com

February 9, 2026 at 8:08 AM

Reposted by Tim Bale, Lesley A. Hall, Christopher Smith

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🎓 Lesley A. Hall	2%	20	0.9%
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Jim Dickinson

@jimdickinson.bsky.social

NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores the growing evidence that AI isn't just changing what students produce – it's changing what their brains are ready to do, and asks whether HE can redesign itself around a question it has been avoiding for decades buff.ly/uHtisNU

February 9, 2026 at 6:00 AM

by Kristina McElheran

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Scholar power: 18.0%

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🎓 Kristina McElheran	15%	16	18.0%

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Kristina McElheran

@kmcelheran.bsky.social

This is a great analogy.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 20h

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 21h

VC, founder, dumbass

February 9, 2026 at 5:48 AM

by Richard Baldwin

74%

Scholar power: 74.8%

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Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian

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Scholar power: 31.8%

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🎓 Suresh Venkatasubramanian	48%	44	31.8%

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Daniel Lowd

@lowd.cc

"Machine Learning Researchers and AI Scientists."

Accurate!

February 9, 2026 at 4:54 AM

by Rafael Doménech

31%

Scholar power: 31.7%

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🎓 Rafael Doménech	20%	28	31.7%

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by Gernot Wagner

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Scholar power: 18.7%

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🎓 Gernot Wagner	11%	32	18.7%

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Gernot Wagner

@gwagner.com

Here's the rest I have so far:

FT front page on how AI researchers are hit by flood of ‘slop’¹

Nature on AI expanding scientists’ impact but contracting science’s focus²

"Lobotomised by AI"³

¹ www.ft.com/content/54e2...
² www.nature.com/articles/s41...
³ www.theaustralian.com.au/weekend-aust...

February 9, 2026 at 3:37 AM

by Hilary J. Allen

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🎓 Hilary J. Allen	24%	8	20.4%

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Hilary J. Allen

@profhilaryallen.bsky.social

I noticed this too - I wondered if they're being bombarded by AI scrapers, but I don't know enough to know whether that's a plausible explanation

February 9, 2026 at 3:22 AM

by Brendan Nyhan Reposted by David R. Miller

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🎓 Brendan Nyhan	5%	51	10.7%
🎓 David R. Miller	19%	21	8.7%
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Brendan Nyhan

@brendannyhan.bsky.social

the chaos that agents are about to unleash as they are increasingly used by people with diminishing technical competence is going to be incredible. will be car crashes everywhere. this guy is a VC!

Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 21h

VC, founder, dumbass

@Nick_Davidov
Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops"
Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything.
It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure.
She didn't have Time Machine.
Disc recovery tools can't see anything.
I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days).
I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack.

Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov
VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova

February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM

Reposted by Kevin J. Anchukaitis

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🎓 Kevin J. Anchukaitis	1%	57	0.8%

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Meade Krosby

@meadekrosby.bsky.social

AI ads should come with warnings similar to those for pharmaceuticals, e.g., may cause loss of critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity; may contribute to high energy costs, rising temperatures, and depletion of water resources; you may experience threats to democracy with use of AI…

February 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM

by Robert Black

1%

Scholar power: 1.3%

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Robert Black

@hurricanexyz.bsky.social

These Super Bowl AI ads are an immensely bearish sign for the industry, right? Like, a few years ago it was all NFTs...

I guess we're on year two (at least?) of all the Super Bowl ads being for AI, so maybe that's something?

February 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM

Reposted by Ignacio Quintero

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Angela Collier

@acollierastro.bsky.social

so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now?

is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

February 9, 2026 at 2:43 AM

by Jacob Montgomery

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Jacob Montgomery

@jacobmontgomery.bsky.social

Between the ads for AI and the AI ads I feel like this is some sort of cultural inflection point.

February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM

by Lance Strate

5%

Scholar power: 5.4%

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by David S. Cohen

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🎓 David S. Cohen	4%	16	4.8%

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David S. Cohen

@dsc250.bsky.social

These commercials make me want to use AI even less. Which I didn’t know was possible.

February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM

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