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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
@olivia.science
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Instruments like the Immigration Health Surcharge are also part of such exploitation - like force migrants to not only pay tax, but further extract what can be a disproportionate financial cost given exchange rates to do so.
When people talk about Brexit as about "reducing non-white people in the UK, but leaving the EU increases their percentage" & so "therefore Brexiteers didn't think it through." Not really, sorry to say. Leaving the EU creates immigrants with fewer rights. That's all they wanted: a deeper underclass.
Data centers are repurposing old jet engines from desert boneyards into fossil gas-burning electricity generators to bypass years-long power grid delays. These converted turbines pollute significantly more, emitting higher levels of carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds.
Old, Polluting Jet Engines Are Being Scavenged to Power Data Centers (Gift Article)
nytimes.com
halloweens not over until she says it's over (the costume was expensive)
Αχαχαχαχαχαχαχαψαχα 😂. Τί λέγαμε; www.news247.gr/politiki/mit...
Μητσοτάκης για Μασκ: Δεν μπορείς να αγοράσεις εκλογές όσο πλούσιος και εάν είσαι
Ο πρωθυπουργός αναφέρθηκε στην απόπειρα του Ίλον Μασκ να επηρεάσει τις ενδιάμεσες εκλογές στο Τέξας, με αφορμή συζήτηση για την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη και την ανάγκη κρατικής ρύθμισης της.
news247.gr
If you are someone who is considering buying an always listening wearable, you probably don’t read my posts and likely have me blocked. But, if that’s not the case please read this account. It’s a good breakdown of how these devices are dangerous and potentially destabilizing.
My therapist thinks I should chuck the Amazon Bee Frontier out a window
Filtering conversations and memories through AI is a reality-bending lesson in why intelligence can’t replace wisdom.
theverge.com
"The union of the working classes of the different countries must ultimately make international wars impossible – Karl Marx", Soviet poster , 1985
you set up your altar with the food they liked. Ideally you set up the altar in the cemetry and stayed there the night, but that is no longer possible in most places. Also, Mx is huge, so not in all places they put altars in the cemetery or at home. The Catrina mkt is like w Kahlo: shiny insta crap.
The Catrinas have a long history, but they started as characters for political cartoons not as something for Día de Muertos. I have gone as Catrina to Halloween parties (they are also big in Mx) but 1st & 2nd is for focusing on the deceased, 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cala...
La Calavera Catrina - Wikipedia
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As a Mx, I ffing hate the gringation of Día de Muertos. The parades were an invention of a Bond film (cool, its fiction). But that is not what the day is about. As a cultural historian I know traditions change, but this is being pushed as a tourist attraction, to fulfill gringos image of Mx. FU
Max Nichols@maxnichols.bsky.social · 5d agoHoly shit the Mexico City Dia De Los Muertos parade this year is stunning stuff www.instagram.com/popular/mexi...
Thank you for the love at @afro-tech.bsky.social. Did not expect this line for DEEP UNLEARNING bookmark signing 😯 Stop by the authors corner to see if Kindred Stories has any free books. There might be like 20 left. Either way books preordered from them come with signed plates so preorder yours.
> although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier — Autumn Stanley (1998) www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
Client Challenge
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · yesterdayAnd also penicillin is a great historical one: olivia.science/cryptogyny/#...
"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor (...) AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests."
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
project-syndicate.org
> Despite all the (allegedly, my lawyer told me to say) interference from America and Big Tech Lula won the elections in Brazil. . That's something to make you happy! www.felienne.nl/2026-44/
AI in week 44
AI in het onderwijs, een AI-Felienne en boekupdates!
felienne.nl
One thing the past 24 hours has emphasized for me - with Google's attempt to extort schools and the rejection of (techno)fascism - is that now is the time to embrace a critical tech education that helps youth and teachers analyze AI as a political project while also pursuing decomputing in schools.
if you're looking for a good overview for kids of issues around ai, this episode is really solid imo doesn't get lost in the weeds, explains the real ai pitch ("you don't have to think anymore!") but also hits environmental harms, accuracy problems, even how it's a bubble
How do AI companies make money?
Bridget and Ryan visit a data center to find out.
marketplace.org
🚨Check out our manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science on @jocnforum.bsky.social! Coming out of fruitful discussions over the past few years with my colleague @theresecollins.bsky.social. It would be great to hear your thoughts. Post your comments on the forum! @upcite.bsky.social
JoCNForum@jocnforum.bsky.social · 2d ago"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
> Most of AI research does not share the objective of cognitive science –understanding the mind– and often replaces a mechanistic understanding of internal states with output.
😅 oh, thanks, too kind! Also I really like this from the OP: > while psychology and theoretical neuroscience traditionally lie at the core of cognitive science, they are endangered by the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) research.
@olivia.science and I wrote also about that here (open access link): archive.ph/kFxXl mu.social/profile/iris...
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20h ago"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor (...) AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests."
Great initiative! > In the current era of open science, big data and […] artificial intelligence, the time is ripe to renew our commitment to the development of cognitive theories and to the pursuit of a cohesive, unified cognitive science — @lauradugue.bsky.social & @theresecollins.bsky.social
JoCNForum@jocnforum.bsky.social · 2d ago"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
"A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science" - new @jocnforum.bsky.social post by @lauradugue.bsky.social and @theresecollins.bsky.social. Advocating for theory-driven cognitive science, referencing work by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Giosuè Baggio and others. doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
A manifesto for a theory-driven cognitive science
doi.org
so gorgeous > LUDDITE TEMPLE is a project that utilizes sculpture and photography to create illustrative assets for a risograph zine and manifesto that accompanies a brass pin for The Knights Of the Luddite Temple. All visuals and text is human made. www.behance.net/gallery/2557...
BOGLUDDITE@brucemackay.bsky.social · 2mo agoLuddite Temple manifesto in a readable format.
I’m not an expert but I still don’t understand how we can discuss all this without actually talking about what the concrete criteria are which Pangram uses to designate texts as “AI” or not.
Harare Review of Books@hararereview.com · 2w agoI don't think this helps 🙃 www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...
So if, as Folarin seems to insinuate, we are again at another rupture in which what is literature is negotiated, it’s maybe not that surprising that it’s done by scandalising Black writers and their practices