Publicado el número 14 de Refracción con artículos, reseñas y un monográfico sobre ecolingüística: revistarefraccion.com/numeros#cato... @diegofuckingforte.bsky.social @abruzos.bsky.social
Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
Winning at all levels, growth rate, foreign policy, immigration policy, energy policy, list is long
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w agoa truly masterful performance by Spain. actually what peak performance looks like
this piece by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about what his students have said about AI, why they're using it, and what they think about it. "Nobody used the term “arms race,” but that’s what they described: enormous pressure to use AI or fall behind those who are." /2
Opinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.
Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.
chronicle.com
I am very grateful to my friends in St Louis on the Air, producer Emily Woodbury and host Elaine Cha for the kindness of inviting me for a farewell interview, where I spoke about the importance of the humanities and the interdisciplinary programs in universities Link: www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
Let this World Cup be a reminder that we do not live in an age of science, technology, economics, and merit, but in an age of scientism, economism, technophilia, and proceduralism. The objective of these pursuits is not truth, but the ability to make outcomes desired by those in power appear true.
La regularización de migrantes en España no sólo es lógica, porque la economía depende de su trabajo, sino que además es justa y consecuente con un programa político de izquierda, puesto que los migrantes adinerados han tenido y siguen teniendo opciones para acceder fácilmente a la residencia.
The fantastic murals in the Pilsen neoghbohood of Chicago.
1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony
matteringpress.org
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
11. Addendum: here are the words characteristic of LLMs. Notice anything? It reads like an email from our upper administration.
This image from Anthropic goes out to the two guys on here who called me dumb for talking about stochastic flocks
This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)
배뢰아@baessi.bsky.social · 2mo ago일본사 전공한 독일 역사학자가 한국사의 노예제에 관한 책을 냈는데 한국어와 중국어를 못 해서 AI로 번역시켜서 자료를 읽었다고 써 놓음. 😡 무려 De Gruyter Brill 출판사에서… 📖 Zöllner, Reinhard. Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea, De Gruyter, 2025. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...
The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics
Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research
huggingface.co
¿Cómo se lee --y practica-- la política española desde Estados Unidos? Hablo en @lamarea.com con @vrupu.bsky.social. "Lo que se consiguió en España se ha visto con mucha más admiración desde fuera que desde dentro". @lenguaycirculo.bsky.social @cbamadrid.es www.lamarea.com/2026/06/01/v...
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo: “En política conviene no moralizar demasiado” | lamarea.com
Vicente Rubio-Pueyo, autor de 'Un país entre dos tiempos', ha combinado su trabajo académico con un continuo compromiso político.
lamarea.com
This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...
June 2: Senate Faculty Conversation on Education White Papers
senate.ucla.edu
Something I hope people will consider is that the reason there are so many enraging anti-education pieces coming out right now is that there's a full-court press from PR departments in tech & asset management. Nothing about the last year went according to script for their investments.
"The short term goal of education, in my opinion, is to fight deskilling. The long term goal: to ensure the persistence of these skills to allow students to arrive to the world in which AI will be normalized without being so cognitively incapacitated that they cannot have a meaningful life."
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo ago"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...
"My students taught me that they are terrified of the deskilling they are experiencing in real time & the relief they feel in an analogical space as the rest of the world forces them into technology." Read this careful reflection by @isanchezprado.bsky.social on his notebook assignment leisurely...
A Year of Teaching Analogically
What a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating
ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com
We can solve grade inflation by make As & Bs proportional to the gold & silver specie in each department’s vault. Or… We can recognize that grade inflation is economizing bullshit in service of anti-education culture wars & not a real problem.
Interesting framing from two members of Harvard faculty conflating their intramural angst about the challenge of ranking and sorting the spectacularly excellent with the entirety of education. Hubris much?
Fútbol a sol, sombra y paraísos fiscales @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/futbol/futbo...
Fútbol a sol, sombra y paraísos fiscales
El deporte que alguna vez ayudó a narrar destinos nacionales hoy circula entre fondos soberanos, plataformas de apuestas, paraísos fiscales y branding geopolítico.
elsaltodiario.com
In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...
How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
hyperallergic.com
Hallie Rubenhold@hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brillante aquí @nuriaalabao.bsky.social: "Hablar de prioridad nacional, pero vivir a costa de los migrantes" ctxt.es/es/20260501/...
Hablar de prioridad nacional, pero vivir a costa de los migrantes
La clase media española se sostiene en parte gracias al trabajo, las cotizaciones y las rentas de alquiler que extrae a la población extranjera
ctxt.es
The Canvas breakdown this week has once more shown how dependent universities are on "Big Edtech" firms. Lots to unpack on edtech platforms, data, and infrastructures from this case alone so this international multi-authored piece may help explain a few things... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns
Higher education is already profoundly digitalised. Students, academics, and university administrators routinely use digital technologies, many of which rely on data, including artificial intellige...
tandfonline.com
Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3mo agoKind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Este libro de Wacquant es un pequeño hito editorial. Se trata de un análisis de la forma de dominacion racial de los antiguos esclavos negros tras su emancipación formal en EEUU: el régimen llamado Jim Crow. Se trata de uno de esos pocos ejemplos donde sociología e historia funcionan como una 👇
Comics people, what do we think of the nine-panel grid, aesthetically? Does it still have utility? Or has its time come and gone?
"Young people were protesting Vietnam at Kent State, chock full of first-gen students from the Rust Belt working class. The solution from right-wing leaders was to cut public aid to higher education to raise tuition, making college not a public good but a costly personal obligation."