Gen Eickers

@geneickers.bsky.social

Critical/Feminist Philosophy of Mind & Emotion, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology @ Uni Osnabrück - Working on Scripts, Social Norms, Interaction, Emotion, Gender & Transness, Social Media (They/He) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Tag 2 nach der Wahl. Berlin ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Dahlem liegt das dumpfe Schluchzen der Eigentümer. Im Westen stauen sich SUVs mit hastig verladenem kulturellem Kapital. Erste Augenzeugen berichten von bezahlbarem Wohnraum. Wie konnte man es nur so weit kommen lassen? Ein Lagebericht.

Someone asked me if AI can be used for screening and I said this: I would not use AI as it helped get us into this mess. And it's because it's awful & nihilistic & we should resist using it anyway. It just digs a deeper grave for us. We should have a different approach. Human. Not AI-fuelled.

Nun bin ich alt und so fest im Sattel, wie man es im deutschen Wissenschaftssystem nur sein kann, aber wenn solche Aktionen von Men In Academia gegen junior scholars in meinem Umfeld gehen, dann raste.ich.aus und ich hoffe, das ist diesen Leuten klar.

Priorität haben Interviews mit Nazis (selbst wenn man eine Ministerpräsidentin im Studio hat), AfD-Lügen bleiben unwidersprochen, für die „Polarisierung“ in MV sind „beide Seiten“ verantwortlich. Der Umgang der ÖR mit einer Partei, die die Demokratie zerstören will, ist wieder schwer auszuhalten.

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Die HU Berlin besitzt nun ein umfassendes Archiv zur Geschichte von HIV und Aids. Kern der Sammlung sind Zeitzeug*innen-Interviews zum individuellen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Umgang mit HIV/AIDS. 🗄️🗄️🗄️ Es gibt zu viele negative News, deswegen poste ich jeden Tag eine #guteNewsdesTages.

It would be so wonderful to be on the program/give the keynote address at your conference/evaluate your program/give a talk to your department but I am not travelling to the United States while Donald Trump is President. I am so sorry about this. (Repeat on an almost weekly basis. Sob.)

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been


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Did you know that even prompting an LLM to edit your grammar might alter the semantic meaning of your text and remove your human voice? If you're in Bergen on Friday September 4 you can hear Isadora White and Marwa Abdulhai present their recent paper on this. They took human-written short essays, asked LLMs to revise them and found significant changes well beyond just copyediting. This is a large-scale computational study, but the image shared here shows two examples of how this happens.

We'll also have talks by John Gallagher, whose newsletter on AI and writing I read religiously, and by Rashid Mustafin, a PhD student at NHH, and Pedro Jacobetty. And before these public talks the AI STORIES team gets to spend two days in a workshop with these and other brilliant people - I'm so excited! 

Here is the full program: https://lnkd.in/eeGUywhj

Tw: suicide. I can promise you that you live and work with people who might have suicidal ideation. you might not/will never know it, they might not show it to you; because why would they? But they too deserve to be a part of our world, even as they/we have our inner struggles.

A few passages from chapter 4 of my recent book trying to say what standpoint epistemology (and what a standpoint) is - this isn't totally uncontroversial, and some philosophers on this site have a slightly different understanding of it, but this has some claim to be a standard way to understand it:

Yay! Our paper “What is emotional injustice, really? Distinguishing emotional injustice from emotional harms and oppression” was accepted for publication in Inquiry 🥰 This is a follow-up to our 2024 paper “Emotional Injustice”: journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article... #philsky #philosophy

Emotional Injustice

In this article we develop a taxonomy of emotional injustice: what occurs when the treatment of emotions is unjust, or emotions are used to treat people unjustly. After providing an overview of previo...

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Wie so vielen anderen, vor allem in Berlin, ist mir seit Samstagnacht unwahrscheinlich schwer. Ich verbringe zu viele Stunden in meinem Kopf und mit Nachrichten und sozialen Medien, um irgendwie Sinn machen zu können, wie so viele andere. Aber es gibt ihn hier einfach nicht. (1) #csdberlin

Also, no clear rejection of technofascist "tools" in philosophy just for the harm they normalize. For instance, the author says she'll maybe use newer versions of Claude etc. to see if they are "better". How can use of technofascist tools ever be good for philosophy, ever? So I am left puzzled ...

Erst vor wenigen Wochen bin ich nach einem knappen Jahr in Harvard nach Deutschland zurückgekehrt. In den USA habe ich aus gesehen, wie schnell demokratische Normen abgeschafft werden und wie schwer es ist, gegen die Abschaffung solcher Rechte aufzustehen, wenn sie erst einmal weg sind. 3/4

Behörden sollten transparent bleiben ... oder? Falls ihr es noch nicht gehört habt: Die Koalition plant Einschnitte ins Informationsfreiheitsrecht – also die Pflicht, BürgerInnen Auskunft über die Arbeit von Behörden zu geben. Wir von @correctiv.org haben eine Petition gestartet:

Mitmachen: Ich bin für einen transparenten Staat.

Geplante Einschränkungen der Informationsfreiheit gefährden Transparenz und journalistische Kontrolle. Setzen Sie ein Zeichen und unterzeichnen Sie jetzt.

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I personally find the “most of you sat and watched” part of it all the most appalling and disillusioning. These past couple of years of rampant transphobia driven by academic philosophers have had a severe negative impact on my relationship with philosophy.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Byrne is proud of what he did and recognises his part in harming millions of trans people. I think his colleagues at MIT should do something. He has, on his way to ruin the lives of many, debased the whole institution of philosophy, MIT, Philosophical Studies, and most of you sat and watched

From Justice Thomas's concurrence in the SCOTUS transgender athlete case. (link below)
and "man" and "woman," "boy" and "girl," are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne, Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical Studies 3783, 3786-3787 (2020). To use language to obscure reality—to show "indifference regarding the truth"-is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
"as equal[s]." J. Pieper, Abuse of Language-Abuse of Power 17, 21 (1992).
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