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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-26 22:40:10

This essay (ht @… ) offers a lot to chew on: some gems, some flubs, some quibblable provocations, some big insights. This sentence in particular stood out to me (context for it in the screenshot):
“Whether we’re reading or conversing, we want something to be meant, not just said.”
slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chat

When the FCC approved Skydance's takeover last night,
I emailed Scheiring for his take because he described, in an essay for Politico Mag last fall, how the authoritarian Hungarian president Orbšn
"consolidated media control through centralized propaganda, market pressure and loyal billionaires."
 
Consider some of this week's media stories:
Trump is saying he has a secret side deal with incoming Paramount owner David Ellison.
Not conte…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-07-24 21:35:18

Ink & Switch, on “malleable software”.
inkandswitch.com/essay/malleab
This is software that can be manipulated by a user. The software itself, not just the document.
I’m reminded of Houyhnhnm Computing (

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-06-26 16:38:57

I actually really like neoclassical #architecture, but I enjoyed this interesting essay by Jeffery Tyler Syck in favor of diversity of style.
lawliberty.org/the-promise-of-

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-07-25 19:21:37

Sorry for posting so many YouTube videos but this is great and geeky: a video essay about "Akira elevators", those platforms that travel horizontally and vertically at the same time. I remember the Half-Life example and the original from Akira. They are an awesome design but a bit like mechas they are futuristic tools that feel incredibly dangerous to build as a means to transport humans.

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-26 08:25:40

Leveraging AI Graders for Missing Score Imputation to Achieve Accurate Ability Estimation in Constructed-Response Tests
Masaki Uto, Yuma Ito
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20119

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-16 10:54:42

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-06-21 13:33:57

The death of the student essay - and the future of cognition forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of "Next year, my courses will be assessed with in-person exams";

@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
2025-06-23 17:05:38

Another essential thread from @… ...
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11473331
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-ar
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/bil
1/

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-23 08:00:12

Quantifying Holistic Review: A Multi-Modal Approach to College Admissions Prediction
Jun-Wei Zeng, Jerry Shen
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15862

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-06-16 10:59:21

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

@chpietsch@fedifreu.de
2025-06-16 19:02:46

Wissenschaftler:innen haben herausgefunden: Wer ChatGPT oder andere Bullshit-Generatoren nutzt, verblödet innerhalb kurzer Zeit.
#LLM

@akosma@mastodon.online
2025-06-23 06:44:25

"This isn’t to say that AI is uniformly bad—it’s clearly not—but that we must not fall into the trap of mistaking the outputs of writing (…) from the value of the cognitive process of writing (…).
It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent even as they never become intelligent."

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-21 22:41:15

Not a feel good take on the state of movies, TV and streamers. An interesting read: #film

@arXiv_mathHO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-25 08:18:00

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematical Experiments: What Makes Mathematics Work
Asvin G
arxiv.org/abs/2506.19787

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-05-22 14:01:44

I visited Russel Wright's fabulous Manitoga and wrote an essay about it. Read it and visit this spectacular building and landscape near New York City. Links below.

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2025-06-18 08:05:39

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-07-09 07:35:27

For nearly a year, a motley crew scoured New Orleans for a shaggy white mutt named Scrim.
✅ How to Save a Dog | The New Yorker
newyorker.com/news/the-weekend
(Archive

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-07-19 03:15:03

Well, I've stayed up until 04:00 writing an essay on terrorism and genocide, and why I expect to be arrested this afternoon.
So now I can't chicken out.
I'd better get some sleep.
#GazaGenocide
#PalestineAction

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-07-13 21:05:36

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are in on the Joke (Hanif Abdurraqib/New Yorker)
newyorker.com/news/essay/zohra
memeorandum.com/250713/p47#a25

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-07-20 10:46:38
Content warning: Sara Ahmed, "When collectivity is confused with compliance"

Another tip top essay with illuminating stories.
"Complaints can be treated as causing disruption not only to the person who acted abusively but to everyone who accepted the abuse as a condition of access."
#complaint #abuse #education

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2025-06-20 21:06:22

btw.... Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-06-30 04:59:22

Why are Dutch kids the world’s happiest? A teenager weighs in.
cnn.com/2025/06/29/health/dutc

@bryanculbertson@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 18:41:10

"LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."
Brain scans confirmed significantly fewer neural connections for LLM users
Stop using LLMs if you value your brain
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation
of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI
Assistant for Essay Writing Task
@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-22 09:38:30

Noise Quantification and Control in Circuits via Strong Data-Processing Inequalities
Chenyang Sun
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15108

@jredlund@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-07 22:21:07

Is AI the end of the English Paper?
Recently I read an article in the New Yorker entitled, “What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?” by Hua Hsu, who teaches at Bard College. The demise of the college essay, especially in its five-paragraph format, has been predicted or even advocated for years. However, this time around, the threat is not just to the essay, but to all First Year Writing courses, and perhaps all courses that assign reading and writing.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 00:30:16

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/

@Defiance@sfba.social
2025-07-07 01:15:44
Content warning: Politics: There is hope.

I see a lot of cynicism and dooming online. I get the sentiment, but think too many people are giving up too quickly.
But as this essay discusses, we retain a meaningful array of formal power. And it’s not the types of power that most people talk about online. The key is to leverage the kinds of power and influence we have. The ones that work (i.e. not acts of violence). Coordinated.
This essay is a roadmap to long-term victory. Long term. 👇

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-09 20:15:59

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/me…

@arXiv_csLO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-11 07:44:03

Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
Liesbeth De Mol, Yuri V. Matiyasevich, Eugenio G. Omodeo, Alberto Policriti, Wilfried Sieg, Elaine J. Weyuker
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08588

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-18 15:27:29

Democracies should stop focusing on efficiency: Lack thereof and friction are important parts of what defines a healthy democracy. Efficiency will always sacrifice participation, representation and meaningful political discourse. The focus on it is a path into authoritarianism. In the essay ...

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2025-07-16 05:18:37

"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."
From: @…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 21:35:46

Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
mastodon.energy/@jonshell/1148

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-06-20 06:01:06

Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 20. Juni 1962 wurde ein Thor-Missile der US-Starfish-Testserie nach einer Minute Flug abgebrochen. Ohne nukleare Explosion fielen kontaminierte Teile auf Johnson Island, wo Personal lebte und arbeitete.

Die hier gezeigte PGM-17 Thor-Rakete weist große Ähnlichkeit mit der Thor-Rakete auf, die bei allen Atomtests der Typen Bluegill, Starfish und Kingfish im Rahmen der Operation Fishbowl zum Abschuss des Atomsprengkopfs verwendet wurde.
Quelle: United States Air Force Museum - http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Dictionary/THOR/DI163.htm
Lizenz: Public domain
@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social
2025-06-15 18:49:08

Debatte um Wehrpflicht: Wehret der Pflicht. Essay von Pascal Beucker.
taz.de/Debatte-um-Wehrpflicht/

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-07-20 01:01:19

Another essay about to drop. It’s going to be long, maybe 9,000 words? And those words are diamond sharp today.

@arXiv_qbioMN_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-22 10:04:14

This arxiv.org/abs/2411.11867 has been replaced.
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@FerdiZ@mastodon.cloud
2025-07-14 09:16:17

"The greatest manga artist you've never heard of"
:youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=kCus8vFbwG
A video-essay fom Matttt of Comic & Manga History, on Japanese manga artist Jiro Taniguchi

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-14 09:56:02

Enhancing Essay Cohesion Assessment: A Novel Item Response Theory Approach
Bruno Alexandre Rosa, Hil\'ario Oliveira, Luiz Rodrigues, Eduardo Araujo Oliveira, Rafael Ferreira Mello
arxiv.org/abs/2507.08487

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2025-05-30 01:00:06

the year is 2025 there are TWO (2) types of videos on YouTube: adults obsessing over kids movies (8 hour long video essay) & political analysis (30 second infotainment)

@Europablog@mastodon.social
2025-05-12 09:29:37

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump – ein trotziges Kind“. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
#Trump

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 13:56:17

Reminder: CRINT Essay Prize in Early Jewish and Christian Studies networks.h-net.org/group/annou

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-06-04 10:07:22

Keep this link handy for the next time you hear about someone relying on ChatGPT amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p - read it to the end!

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
#Poetry #Philosophy

@keen456@infosec.exchange
2025-07-09 15:15:25

@… In case you haven't seen this yet- seems like your thing
mastodon.online/@mwichary/1148

The scary thing about MAGA isn’t that it’s obviously evil—it’s that it’s appealing to people who think they’re good.
It offers them a way to feel righteous about their resentments, patriotic about their prejudices, and principled about their selfishness.
techdirt.com/2025/07/08/who-go

@hacksilon@infosec.exchange
2025-05-03 20:27:13

Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11444013

@matematico314@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-01 17:51:32

#LB Esse texto sobre LLMs do @… é bem grande, mas excelente. Vale a leitura, apesar do tamanho.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-10 09:13:29

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-09 07:31:22

Recommender systems, stigmergy, and the tyranny of popularity
Zackary Okun Dunivin, Paul E. Smaldino
arxiv.org/abs/2506.06162

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-06-11 18:40:06

I found this a nice and interesting video essay about the Dark Forest hypothesis in sci-fi literature:
youtube.com/watch?v=X0SvgT9Lc2
I usually don't dare clicking on new recommended channels on Youtube because I don't know if that's some crap…

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-06-15 18:49:08

Sunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.
varnelis.net/works_and_project

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 22:17:57

And yes, really, truly, all of that truly is what the term means when researchers and engineers use it.
A confession: this whole thread has simply been a thinly veiled attempt to drum up attention for Brown’s essay, which I hope you will now read and ponder. “‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a technology:”
aworkinglibrary.com/writing/to
/end

@arXiv_qbioMN_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-20 12:27:50

This arxiv.org/abs/2411.11867 has been replaced.
initial toot: mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 06:06:05

Reminder: CRINT Essay Prize in Early Jewish and Christian Studies
ift.tt/3bh8jNx
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@Europablog@mastodon.social
2025-06-02 13:42:24

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-

@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social
2025-06-02 14:01:28

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-04 10:05:36

"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @…:
"But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-07-13 12:33:17

A sophisticated LLM that can output Nick Land essay. loremgibson.com/

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 22:17:57

And yes, really, truly, all of that truly is what the term means when researchers and engineers use it.
A confession: this whole thread has simply been a thinly veiled attempt to drum up attention for Brown’s essay, which I hope you will now read and ponder. “‘Artificial intelligence’ is not a technology:”
aworkinglibrary.com/writing/to
/end

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-02 13:01:54

Für "Doing Digital Utopia" habe ich einen kurzen Essay dazu geschrieben, wie man "Maintenance" als konstruktive Perspektive jenseits von halbseidenen Innovationserzählungen nutzen kann.
"Und genau hier kommen wir zum Begriff der Wartung zurück. Diese ist nämlich keineswegs nur ein lästiger Kostenfaktor, ein verlorener Kampf, sondern aktive Care-Arbeit (nicht nur) an unserer Gegenwart und die Basis, wenn nicht gar ein Motor für echten Fortschritt. Ein Modus die …

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-17 16:05:24

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026
ift.tt/VPGyBqZ
updated: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 9:22amfull name / name of organization: Science Fiction…
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@juer@juergenklute@digitalcourage.social
2025-06-02 13:40:25

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.
europa.blog/de/die-welt-kehrt-

@kazys@mastodon.social
2025-05-07 12:54:26

I wrote a brief essay on hepaticas and rue anemones and their roles in cultural ecology.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 06:10:55

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men
ift.tt/8peZ1aY
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@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 06:05:49

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2026
ift.tt/QNH3klc
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@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 06:06:04

Katherine Mansfield Society Essay Prize 2025: Katherine Mansfield's Men
ift.tt/0UoClGs
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@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-03 23:33:11

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Samuel Barber, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Cristian Măcelaru:
🎵 Essay for Orchestra no 1, Op 12
#SamuelBarber #SwedishRadioSymphonyOrchestra #CristianMăcelaru
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@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-06 06:10:36

Adaptation and Terry Pratchett--Essay Collection
ift.tt/sMeqOPG
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@relcfp@mastodon.social
2025-06-05 06:05:39

Adaptation and Terry Pratchett--Essay Collection
ift.tt/ujKkOEp
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