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Pieter T. L. Beck

@ptrbck.bsky.social

Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University. Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/

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Sleepy Bean@beanother.bsky.social · 4d ago

Learning how to refuse and reject AI effectively is part of critical AI literacy. We also need to help learners articulate the incredible knowledge and skills they gain when they don't use AI tools.

Sleepy Bean@beanother.bsky.social · 4d ago

Students need help learning how to: - resist the temptation to use it anyway, - avoid using it inadvertently, - disable it from their devices, - articulate their refusal to use it when challenged by hype merchants, - stay vigilant against tech companies trying to sneak AI past them.

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only in the Journal of Controversial ideas can a symposium that was full of talks quantitatively refuting race science claims and a paper about how race science fails basic standards of evolutionary biology be framed primarily as moral judgements and censorship.

In March 2024, the American Association of Biological Anthropologists held a symposium titled “Undermining the production of race science.” The symposium’s stated goal was to “form the basis for a comprehensive and in-depth guide that will aid scholars of human evolution in writing effective reviews to make it more difficult for race science to get into the literature and to improve our own scholarship when it comes to issues at the intersection of race and biology” (Roseman, 2024a). Kevin Bird, one of the symposium’s participants, argued in a paper published in American Psychologist that race research is socially harmful because of “its use by racial extremists, sometimes directly assisted by psychologists, to influence social policies regarding immigration, social welfare, criminal justice, and diversity and to preserve the racialized structure of society” (Bird et al., 2024). Another goal of the AABA symposium was “Developing concrete changes to mainstream evolutionary theory and method that make it more difficult for race scientists to use mainstream scholarship in their work” (Roseman, 2024b). Several of the symposium’s presentations made specific proposals about how evolutionary biology should be modified to prevent race research from making use of its findings, described as “reforming our own sciences so that we no longer give it support” (Roseman, 2024a) or “how we can shift methodological norms towards ones that do not as easily play into the premise of race science” (Athreya et al., 2024). The rejection of otherwise mainstream ideas in biology, due entirely to their potential to support race research, is an example of what Shuichi Tezuka (2021) describes as a “domino effect” that tends to occur when a hypothesis is rejected on religious or political grounds. Or as Tezuka (2022) put it: moral judgments about science cannot remain confined to a single idea for long.ournal of Controversial Ideas (ISSN: 2694-5991) Open Access Journal Search... Rss Feed: Controversial_Ideas , 6(1), 1; doi:10.63466/jci06010001 Article The Equality Paradox Shuichi Tezuka (pseudonym) Author email: S.Tezuka@protonmail.com How to Cite: Tezuka, S. The Equality Paradox. Controversial Ideas 2026, 6(1), 1; doi:10.63466/jci06010001. Received: 16 November 2025 / Accepted: 17 March 2026 / Published: 10 May 2026
Cailin O’Connor@cailinmeister.bsky.social · last mo.

Philosophers! Craig Callender and I are circulating an open letter calling for better COI disclosure in our journals. If tech companies fund and employ philosophers working on AI, we need to know and to be thinking about the impacts 1 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 5mo ago

The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

theintercept.com

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

IMO, this is one reason (of many) why milquetoast AI literacy lessons are such a failure: they don't engage students with questions like, "Should 'robot dogs' be deployed to protect the sprawling infrastructure of AI?"

Aldo Houterman@aldohouterman.bsky.social · last mo.

“Building a wind turbine in your garden, recharging your batteries by pedalling, composting your organic waste or practising permaculture is as much about behaviour as it is about techniques, and requires skills, instruments and a constant effort to ‘repair’ the world and its living things.”

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · last mo.

"When we had finished a successful analysis [...] he would say to me, “Now you must dance with me just as Thénard and I always danced together when we had discovered something new.” And then we would dance" Justus Liebig on his collaboration with Gay-Lussac

Alan Richardson@alanrichardson.bsky.social · last mo.

Fucking hell, would someone please listen to STS scholarships on things like tacit knowledge before we destroy everything by underestimating by factoring of thousands what engineers know???

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · last mo.

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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Éireann@eireannmor.bsky.social · last mo.

write things down cook food post flyers learn to use a copier learn to use a film camera learn to lay out a bulletin make zines and share them collect seeds and share them teach people what you know another world is possible! make it together, by hand

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

every single account that keeps sharing outright lies because they have a pathological addiction to notifications is an ally to the grossest fascists and a direct threat to the project of progressivism These people love AI slop, they love lies, they love all of it. ketanjoshi.co/2026/06/21/h...

How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop

A viral fabricated Bezos quote reveals how big tech is engineering widespread reality collapse. We need to stop them.

ketanjoshi.co

RescueJen@rescuejen.bsky.social · last mo.

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · last mo.

Only connaisseurs of the race (pseudo)science literature will be able to appreciate why this is funny: when I went to buy a sandwich in the uni cafeteria I saw this sign which said "Back in 5 minutes"

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