Federico Nejrotti

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Someone has just restored "Daicon 3" from a rare 8mm copy.
It's the best version to date.
>> archive.org/details/zgfp...

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

„The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism.“

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.

We can't really say this enough...

> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.

www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Arturo mi ha rotto il cervello Da un anno, un algoritmo allenato sui miei testi scrive (spesso) al posto mio. Sono diventato definitivamente stupido?

arturo mi ha rotto il cervello

da un anno, un algoritmo allenato sui miei testi scrive (spesso) al posto mio

nel frattempo, sono diventato definitivamente stupido

ho scritto un testo a riguardo, insieme ad arturo

Come si costruiscono degli archivi (davvero) utili Tutto il mio tempo mi sembra sprecato, come posso restituirgli del senso? Una conversazione con Silvio Lorusso.

tutto il mio tempo mi sembra sprecato, come posso restituirgli del senso?

per l'ultimo numero di VIVO Journal ho fatto una chiacchiera con @silviolorusso.bsky.social per capire come costruire degli archivi davvero utili

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

ok enough arguing with people i'll go back to arguing with computer

In Focus: DJ Mehdi 8th August 2025 The bombastic energy of France's 2000s electro and electronic explosion left an indelible mark on music that is still felt today, perhaps even more so at the moment, due to a certain cultural nostalgi...

www.nts.live/shows/in-foc...

Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now Back in April 2023, when Substack CEO Chris Best refused to answer basic questions about whether his platform would allow racist content, I noted that his evasiveness was essentially hanging out a …

Un consiglio agli amici su Substack, non siateci - usate Ghost www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/s...

A reminder for these times.

Ogni volta che prendo la metropolitana mi sento di essere in big city life di mattafix e percepisco la tristezza planetaria dei miei simili

Ms Casey from Severence

your outie always uses semantic html

Give Immich a try!

Bluesky funziona bene: i contenuti che mi presenta il suo algoritmo mi fanno venire voglia di somministrarmi un coma farmacologico a lungo termine

Wow: "our screening analysis demonstrates that driven by the growing demand for AI, the U.S. data centers could contribute to, among others, approximately 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths in 2030, exceeding 1/3 of asthma deaths in the U.S. each year."

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288

For their 1976 bicentennial issue, National Geographic invited "five noted thinkers" to predict the future. The answers ranged from optimism to pleas for transformational change.

Here's an excerpt from Edmund Bacon, city planner (AND FATHER OF KEVIN BACON)

Thieves blow up museum door and steal ancient artifacts, including 2,500-year-old gold helmet | CNN The 5th-century BC Helmet of Cotofenesti was among the valuable items taken during an overnight heist at Drents Museum in the Netherlands.

Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after using explosives to break into a museum in the Netherlands.

Manifesti Palestinesi
dal Fondo Marco Pezzi - Archivio Storico Marco Pezzi ASMP
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/asn...

Transitions #gamedev #pixelart

Goldacre warns Labour against ‘monolithic’ national data library Scientists urge UK to adopt network approach for landmark project bringing public data together

'In the most detailed suggestions of how the UK government’s plans for a vast central archive of public data might be achieved, some of the country’s top data experts have expressed grave concerns that the project would mean the construction of a massive standalone data platform'. 1/3

Quite the indictment of AI products: they are more appealing to people who don't understand how they work and see them as magical

The paper concludes: "businesses may benefit from targeting those with lower AI literacy" and "maintaining an aura of magic around AI" ✨

tinyurl.com/ynefd8zk

Innovative Study by UPenn and NYPL Finds That Public Libraries Positively Impact Community Health and Well-Being "Our research found that patrons experience refuge, joy, connection, purpose, and expansion through their library use"

This is really interesting. Groundbreaking study on the value of libraries and “third places.”

“A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users.”

A classic Internetgeist cartoon of a dog wearing a very fine hat, sitting before a table in a room that is completely engulfed in flames. In the first panel he is wordless, reflecting on the stark reality of his situation. In the second frame, his speech bubble has been edited to read "i should build my own rss reader".