Esther Mondragón

Esther Mondragón

@e-mondragon.bsky.social

Hic sunt dracones I represent myself, no one else. She/They Computational and associative learning. Biologically-inspired AI. https://cit-ai.net/people.html#Mondragon https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/esther-mondragon

914 Followers 548 Following 9,897 Posts Joined Jun 2023
4 hours ago

It sounds like a direct translation from the Spanish "sin cuartel", which indeed means to take no prisoners.

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15 hours ago

Poor emasculated little men

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16 hours ago

Is hating women not a tired, overdone trope yet?

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16 hours ago

😩

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17 hours ago
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

WTF, America!
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

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17 hours ago

Honestly so tired of the nonsense.

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2 days ago

If you are curious about the paper, please go to the source and read it. Don't let any bloody AI system do your work and be your mind.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.13194

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1 day ago

Where did my 'u' go?

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1 day ago
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shrek from the animated film shrek is smiling and looking at the camera ALT: shrek from the animated film shrek is smiling and looking at the camera
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1 day ago

Why I don't use AI (Episode 19).

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1 day ago

But since you appear to be a bot, you are blocked

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1 day ago

I bet that none did it.

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1 day ago

h-oh!
Disclosure of personal data is a serious breach of privacy law, right?
"High-level information about the private work of students and staff using ChatGPT Edu at several universities can be viewed by thousands of colleagues across their institutions ..."
www.fastcompany.com/91507219/cha...

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1 day ago

Dear universities that adopted ChatGPT … uh, this is a problem.

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I run a university - we're so much more than 'degree factories', here's what we do Access to higher education, made possible through student loans, is the difference between opportunity and exclusion

A university Vice Chancellor able and willing to articulate a significant part of what universities do and who/what they are for. If we want to address the university crisis, we need much more like this. 1/2

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2 days ago

If you are curious about the paper, please go to the source and read it. Don't let any bloody AI system do your work and be your mind.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.13194

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Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

company does something despicable & makes loads of money out of it

through some investigation the practice comes to light

massive public outrage

company apologises & pulls some features down

company alters features/does another despicable shit
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rinse & repeat

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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2 days ago

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

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2 days ago

It’s the result of massive bot activity, downloading data at a scale which our infrastructure has found challenging. We have been finding this across all our metadata resources in recent months.

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2 days ago

Universities will only come back to their senses when the system collapses.

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2 days ago

In the process of transforming academia into a business model, academics have been reduced to pawns in a highly hierarchical system in which upper management comprises people with no knowledge of the academic endeavour, who set the rules and conditions of quality.
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3 days ago

😆😭

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3 days ago

Without anaesthesia, I assume. It also causes autism, you know.

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3 weeks ago
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Critical AI On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

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If you cannot attend, but am looking for online resources, please check out @olivia.science ’s amazing Critical AI Literacy website: olivia.science/ai/

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3 weeks ago

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The Summer School is a 5-day course, designed to foster critical AI literacies and to empower participants to develop ways of resisting or reclaiming AI in their own practices and social context.

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1 week ago

Oh, and a related talk too from last week, kindly recorded by @bcbl.bsky.social, in which I analyze ANNs when used as scientific instruments of study and when functioning as emergent arbiters of the zeitgeist in the cognitive, computational, and neural sciences.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHg...

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3 days ago

and pay for it, right?

Loosing twice 😑

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3 days ago

💜

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The trouble with combining AI and psychology Combining psychology with AI can distort how we understand knowledge itself: how we ask questions, build theories, and decide what counts as an explanation

here for instance artificialthought.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

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