To end, here's some various resources — always feel free to tell me if I left something out in the allies section especially. olivia.science/ai

Critical AI

Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts are making anti AI arguments so we could promote worse arguments overall — remember: 1/

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 8mo ago

Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. See section 5 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 6/

Going to do a thread, using some of my own (incl. older) work, to clear up some of these relevant concepts. Hope it helps builds conceptual hygiene and immunity to hyped claims about “AI” capabilities. 1/🧵

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d ago

In my work, as in theoretical computer science, we distinguish between (exact) algorithms, heuristics (no guarantees), and approximation algorithm (approx. guarantees) Clear distinctions is relevant in many contexts, for instance this one in cognitive science link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Under the list of Treesitter parsers (after running :checkhealth), Neovim is showing ".DS_Store" as one of the installed languages lmao

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

12. Here's the key insight though: as labor-augmenting technologies LLMs make researchers more productive and therefore they *raise the opportunity cost of researcher time*. As a result researchers will have incentives to invest less time in polishing a current project before moving on to a new one.

Today is Send a Friend a Webmention day — here's my note about that: reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2026/0...

Send a Friend a Webmention Day 2026

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🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

This is very well done, I think: leidendeclaration.ai A few choice quotes, that should be of interest well beyond mathematics: >>

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

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Lilypond question: Lilypond is much nicer to engrave in than Dorico/MuseScore, but the latter two are much nicer for composing (e.g., when I need to quickly insert/re-order things), at least with my current Lilypond knowledge. (1/2)

That quote links to articles on AlphaFold (and variants) and GNoME, neither of which are large language models. AlphaFold shares some concepts with LLMs (attention and transformers); GNoME not so much. (2/7)

While this article in Science is getting dragged for leaving ChatGPT trackers in links, there's a subtler issue. The author states "[T]he ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields." (1/7)

Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3w ago

Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

want to find a place to support? check out the obligatory @laminda.bsky.social starter pack, one or more of these might be local to you: go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

I don't do Wordle very often, but I was pleased to get today's in three: ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

> There are numerous actions in nearly every match that could warrant a VAR intervention. It’s up to the human to decide. VAR in other words has not removed bias, but rather moved it around the field, and maybe obscured it from direct view a little. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/what-var-t...

What VAR tells us about AI

FIFA's semi-automated refereeing system promises neutrality but brims with bias. It's widely despised yet embraced by elites. It is, in other words, a lot like AI.

bloodinthemachine.com

What comes after the AI bubble? We dive deep on policy options with Matthew Scherer on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “When the Bubble Bursts”. (w/ @emilymbender.bsky.social)

It's also available here. Please share and spread this report. Trans folks in the UK can't for fear of lawsuits by gender critical groups. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...

Composers! What are some of your favorite modulations from pieces from the last 100 years (classical or classical adjacent genres)? Links please!

Say hello to Wavetangle! An experimental sound design language designed to support weirdness like recursion, fractals, and infinities wavetangle.fyris.me

Wavetangle

Experimental Sound Design Language

wavetangle.fyris.me

You'll never guess, but I saw Rob Brown at the doctor's office today! It wasn't the one from Autechre, but still, he had a name tag and everything

I appreciated this ASI page about the reasons AI-generated book indexes aren't adequate, and I hope it helps stave off the era of my career where people email me like "I had Claude make the index, can you just give it a quick proofread?" and then I scream.

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No Web Without Women

An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.

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the web edition of New Session Issue 4 is now live! featuring work from: @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @mhn-hello.bsky.social @moribund.club ...and more! read it here: web.issue4.anewsession.com

Today is the official release of PHRAGMANTS by TONAL TUCK（＾∀＾●）ﾉｼ Check out Bandcamp to enjoy it.//// 🍉🥝🍩☕ Limited ed. CD Only - 15 uts Digt.ed. St/Hd 96/24. evel.bandcamp.com/album/phragm...

"AI" is going to make medical care more efficient., they say. How's that going? Just about as you'd predict... www.seattletimes.com/business/med...

> In January, she posted the name of Jonathan Ross, citing news reports. Ross is the ICE agent who shot protester Renee Good in Minnesota. […] > > “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted,” the post says. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

syracuse.com

Worth noting that a significant number of the replies to this post are coming from trans and nonbinary musicians. They don't need faux-woke generative AI apologia, they need you to buy their albums, go to their shows, and hire them for paid commissions.

WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA@medievaliste.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello. Are you a human musician? Are you a composer? Are you in a band? Solo performer for hire? Librettist? Producer? Something else? If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome.