Émilie Oléron Evans
@bringyourownsun.bsky.social
Excessive educator at Queen Mary University of London | Historiography of Art: women art historians, art history in/and translation Free Palestine 🍉
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
If you feel you have to jump on the AI train to not become irrelevant, don't fall for this narrative. It's a scam. You ARE relevant. You know your craft, you know what good work looks like. Trust your expertise. Resistance against AI hype can be that simple. Not easy (!!) but simple nonetheless. ❤️🧵
AI bros = flat earthers in my book. Except I may have more patience for people who think the Earth is flat and are not bent on DESTROYING it to create a spreadsheet or "draft" a "paper".
Émilie Oléron Evans@bringyourownsun.bsky.social · 4d agoSign that taking a break over the summer pays off: I almost reacted to some "are we ready for machine written history?" nonsense. Instead, I guffawed at the idea of "Well structured historical datasets" and moved on with a life well lived and time well spent without AI.
Sign that taking a break over the summer pays off: I almost reacted to some "are we ready for machine written history?" nonsense. Instead, I guffawed at the idea of "Well structured historical datasets" and moved on with a life well lived and time well spent without AI.
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
Dr Katie Twomey@k2mey.eurosky.social · last wk.Arguing that LLMs are anything more than a load of numbers going into a complicated mathematical function and spitting some more numbers out. Yes they simulate. But they simulate *language*. They do not simulate the cognitive processes underlying communication.
Britain’s tiny gaggle of hooting mad elite cranks, who all know each other and relentlessly repeat each other’s idiotic bullshit, are of course not “victims of social contagion”.
“Judge me by my actions” you say. Very well. The EHRC has converted statutory interpretation into prescriptive exclusion, declaring trans inclusion “very likely” unlawful although the Court ordered no blanket exclusion and expressly disclaimed policymaking. That is regulatory overreach.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 2w agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
Kathleen Stock and the rest call this sort of thing collateral damage and have said, clearly, they're ok with it happening.
Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · last yr.Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
I know Raz and he is a really good scholar (and person). I'm glad he is getting a settlement because this whole situation was shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring
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Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
Evidence of the great benefits of AI: it used to take a huge amount of time and effort to make yourself look this stupid; now AI allows you to humiliate yourself almost instantly.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3w agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
This Rod Liddle? Credit for image and alt text: @snig.bsky.social
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2w agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?
Anxiety
Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.
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"Ethical use that forecloses rejection isn't really normal ethical reasoning at all" Another one I wish I could frame and/or print on a t-shirt The only "ethical" position re: commercial text/image extruders trained on stolen data IS rejection
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2mo agoAmazing ethics washing here, pure lying since ethical use that forecloses rejection isn't really normal ethical reasoning at all
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Princess Bride: Do You Always Begin Conversations This Way?
ALT: Princess Bride: Do You Always Begin Conversations This Way?
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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts@elliemackinroberts.net · 3w agoFilm you've watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli
The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit
Shiro Sirius@shirosiri.us · 3w agoI don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 3w agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
PSA: If you use AI to write your I’m-interested-in-your-graduate-program email, do not proceed, do not apply, do literally anything else in the world but contact me ever again.
*because Israel keeps bombing it and also they said they want to occupy the rubble and eventually annex it
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3w agoUNESCO places ancient Lebanese city of Tyre on heritage danger list share.google/9d5b7btV0aj2...
You know all of these "responsible" "A.i." education/literacy initiatives are bogus because they never include an option to JUST SAY NO. To OPT OUT. To REJECT "A.i." They're all ultimately designed to PUSH IT/SELL IT/FORCE IT on people.
Fun Fact: Carbon isotope dating can’t be done on anything after 1950 because of the amount of radioactive carbon isotopes created by nuclear weapon use & testing.
Jo Michell@jomichell.bsky.social · 4w agoIncreasingly think that 2022/23ish is going become an important ‘year zero’ — the cutoff for publication after which no text can be guaranteed clean of AI.
New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026
Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...
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Procédure bâillon contre Élisabeth Bouchaud, autrice de "La découvreuse oubliée" sur Marthe Gautier, poursuivie en diffamation par la Fondation Jérôme Lejeune. @academiesciences.bsky.social #ESR 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/soutie...
![Communiqué de l'Académie des sciences sur Linkedin :
"[Soutien à Élisabeth Bouchaud]
Ayant appris que les héritiers de Jérôme Lejeune poursuivent en justice pour diffamation Élisabeth Bouchaud, directrice du théâtre de la Reine Blanche et autrice de la pièce La découvreuse oubliée, le Bureau de l’Académie des sciences souhaite lui apporter son soutien.
La pièce d’Élisabeth Bouchaud s’intègre dans une série théâtrale visant à réhabiliter les femmes scientifiques oubliées. Elle met en scène l’histoire de la pédiatre Marthe Gautier, victime du syndrome de l’invisibilisation des femmes dans la recherche, au profit des hommes, appelé « Effet Matilda ». Durant les années 1956-58, Marthe Gautier isole et découvre le chromosome supplémentaire de la trisomie 21. Jérôme Lejeune propose son aide pour photographier les échantillons, puis présente seul les résultats lors d’une conférence au Canada. En 1959, l’article scientifique officiel est publié avec Jérôme Lejeune en premier auteur. Durant 50 ans, la paternité de la découverte lui est quasi exclusivement attribuée."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z6pcjuxbdgpie7yff7dc7dmb/bafkreidlcfpkwsd2thkabnbl7aa6s44fqp4qnz3cyhl3zsnzzqewvzmnna)
If you can sit in a meeting and cry about what you're being told to do to a child, you can also refuse to do it.
Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · last mo.Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2
