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Ainur Elmgren

@aelmgren.bsky.social

Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages. Suomi/Svenska/English/Deutsch

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Jouni Mikola 🇫🇮🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🌻☮️@jounimikola.bsky.social · 2d ago

Askel askeleelta kohti parempaa maailmaa. #tekoälytönmusiikki #musataivas www.muusikkojenliitto.fi/2026/08/04/s...

Saksalainen tuomioistuin katsoi tekoälymusiikkipalvelun syyllistyneen tekijänoikeusloukkaukseen

Münchenin alueellinen tuomioistuin antoi perjantaina 31. heinäkuuta 2026 ratkaisun saksalaisen tekijänoikeusjärjestö GEMAn ja yhdysvaltalaisen tekoälymusiikkipalvelu Sunon välisessä kiistassa.

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Jussi Jalonen@jojalonen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kokoomuksen projekti 2040 ja avoimessa yliopistossa suoritettavan yliopistotutkinnon mahdollistamisen varsinainen tarkoitus on nyt sitten lausuttu julki. Maksuttomista korkeakoulututkinnoista aiotaan tehdä seuraavina hallituskausina loppu.

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Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 4d ago

This nonsense about the printing press and universities is simply a different form of the "the Church enforced thought control in the Middle Ages" canard and says quite a bit more about what the speaker thinks about modern institutional surveillance and control than about history.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.

Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Statelessness creates a painful contradiction for the affected: a person may belong deeply to a place culturally and historically while lacking the legal right to belong there." globalvoices.org/2026/08/02/i...

Identity beyond citizenship: What remains when the State refuses to recognise you?

Documents can confirm a legal relationship with a state, but they cannot create or erase a person’s existence, history, family, or sense of belonging.

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Kaarina Kilpiö@kilpkaa.eurosky.social · 4d ago

Uljaasti tiivistetty: “Jos järjestelmiä tuodaan ylhäältä päin ilman, että työntekijöiden asiantuntijuutta ymmärretään, tuloksena on tehokkuuden sijaan sotkuja, joita pitää korjata.” yle.fi/a/74-20238112

Professori kritisoi päättäjiä: Tekoälystä kerrotaan tarinaa, joka ei ole totta

Professori Minna Ruckenstein kritisoi teknologia-alaa naisten vähättelystä: ”Me miehet ollaan tässä hoidettu nämä kovat koodi- ja raha-asiat”.

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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 4d ago

No AI-positive institution is deploying responsibly. If they say they are, it means they aren't checking or are silencing the people who are. Read Nik Suresh (hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...) or listen to this interview, then read the lawsuit from the Mayo Clinic's director of research operations 👇

Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis

Today we have an interview! $5-and up patrons and YouTube members got the unedited version of this on Monday. Nik’s advice when your boss loves Claude a little too much: ‘Just let the money r…

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Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 4w ago

This sums up the frantic and coerced deployment of "AI" throughout public and private sectors. Results of even cursory audits are horrifying every time, invariably paired with forced adoption and retaliation for asserting professional norms. Colonialism is a cherry on top.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo ago

Please see this as a general reminder that you're not alone. Many of us reject, refuse, repudiate artificial intelligence and the technology industry: Guest et al. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies and their rhetoric infringe on academia in harmful ways, mirroring past uncritical acceptance of industry logics, such as those of tobacco and petroleum. In this position piece, we tease apart and explain why phrases like 'generative AI' impede scholarly discussion because by design these expressions are used to dazzle and sidestep scrutiny. Furthermore, we contend with the AI industry's logics to enable rejecting frames such as: that we must embrace the future, that this hype cycle is unique, that anthropomorphism and circular reasoning hold water when discussing AI systems, and that students are now all cheating or all need to use AI. To these ends, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the AI industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. For each point we raise, we include pointers to relevant work to further inform and convince our colleagues.
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

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. 1/n

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.
Nic Morton@nicmorton.bsky.social · 4d ago

Encountering bananas during the Crusades The crusaders learned about bananas during their campaigns in the Middle East. Trying to explain them to relatives and correspondents in the west, one writer described them as "long apples", another said that they... (1/2)

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The Emotion Engine@emotion-engine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

Table of Contents Preface List of Maps PART I: THE MYTH OF SPARTA Introduction PART II: THE REALITY OF SPARTA I. Cuckold Kings and Wolves' Work: Behind the Spartan Mirage II. Archaic Sparta at War: Early Losses, Foreign Roots III. The Greco-Persian War: The Thermopylae Speed Bump IV. The Peloponnesian Wars: Floundering at Sea, Surrendering on Land V. Masters of Greece? Sparta Squanders its Hegemony VI. The Boeotian War: What Cannot Bend Must Break VII. The End of Sparta: Irreformable and Irrelevant VIII. Conclusion: The Bronze Lie PART III: TANGLING MYTH AND REALITY IX. The “Moron Label”: The Spartans and the Political Far Right Appendix A. Historiography and Objectivity Appendix B. The Fundamentals of Ancient Battle Glossary Bibliography Index
Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 3w ago

This article is a great example of the extent of mainstreaming of far- and extreme-right ideas Extreme right ideas (Pizzagate, remigration) are called "far-right" while far-right ideas are euphemised as "hard-right" or "populist" It is also a sign of abdication www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Liz Truss assembles host of rightwing speakers for UK’s first CPAC event in London

Keynote speakers included US influencer Jack Posobiec as former PM aims to gain influence among British right

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SocArXiv@socarxiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

"AI slop in the scientific record and generally on the internet is making science less trustworthy ...AI enthusiasts are telling the world that the remedies should all be easy to automate...That’s not the reality for scientific publishing right now or likely in the future." @holdenthorp.bsky.social

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Joschka Meier@josserme.bsky.social · 3w ago

My dissertation isn't finished yet, but If anyone already wants something citable for my paper about Alpine animal welfare (14th-16th century), it's now also on Knowledge Commons (link below, CC BY 4.0) incl. DOI: 10.17613/dcvqh-m2y72 #skystorians #medievalsky #envhist #animalhistory #earlymodern

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Joschka Meier@josserme.bsky.social · 3w ago

There've always been people that cared for animals - including in the Middle Ages! This video is about the various ways people protected & cared for animals, even in the face of challenges like iron-eating 🐂 & spontaneous 🐷explosions #skystorians #medievalsky #envhist #animalhistory #earlymodern

Vanda Wilcox@vandawilcox.bsky.social · last mo.

More #ThanksForTyping, the Marc Bloch edition (If you don't know the book, it's worth checking out www.bloomsbury.com/uk/thanks-fo... )

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Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · last mo.

Demain, Simonne Vidal va entrer au Panthéon aux côtés de son mari Marc Bloch. Elle sera la 7e femme panthéonnisée et la 2e en tant que "femme de". Je comprends les familles ne voulant pas séparer, même symboliquement, les couples, ms quelle tristesse de voir qu'elle reste finalement ds l'ombre 1/11

Tuomas Salonen@tuomasolavi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Artikkeli on hyvä esimerkki moraalisesta oikeuttamisesta Kun havahdutaan siihen että toimitaan moraalisesti väärin, yritetään eri keinoin oikeuttaa omaa toimintaa ja suojella minäkuvaa Tässä vedotaan ensiksi siihen, että koska muuten toimitaan ekologisesti, voidaan tässä vähän joustaa 1/2

HS Puumalassa | Suomi on tuhansien Thermacellien maa: Mitä laitteesta pitäisi ajatella?

Thermacell karkottaa hermomyrkyllä hyönteisiä, kuten hyttysiä. HS lähti kesämökki-idylliin selvittämään, pitääkö sen käytöstä tuntea huonoa omaatuntoa.

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Kaarina Kilpiö@kilpkaa.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

I can attest to this. As a journal editor, I have encountered hallucinated references where women authors in publications familiar to me have suddenly been made co-authors with, or replaced by, male (nonexistent) authors.

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.