On the (for me) wearing topic of the classification/regulation of #esports as sport, there's a very good and balanced perspective piece from @theurbanshepherd.bsky.social on @theesportsadvocate.bsky.social. Highly recommended reading.
esportsadvocate.net/2026/03/why-...
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The rice queen.
I cannot tell you how much this rising abhorrent misogyny, and the flagrant publicity of it, needs to fuck off and die.
-The photos, do you want them cheesy or sexy?
-Yes.
No hace mala pinta.
I came here to say this. π
You are not a Bloomberg terminal and no one is forced to follow your posts - share whatever your conscience and your judgement consider. π€
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users β 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 industryβs 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. OpenAIβs ChatGPT and Appleβs 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! π€© Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industryβs marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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You know, I'm really glad they solved that whole toxic masculinity crisis before things got properly out of hand
Fet!
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Vine a la lectura debut a IbΓ¨ria del llibre "The Owned Continent" β dissabte 14 de marΓ§ a la llibreria Backstory de Barcelona.
Registra't aquΓ:
Deeply unserious response.
What one does in SimCity when oneβs bored.
Oh and just remember - once youβve decided a minorityβs human rights are up for debate, youβve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.
To everybody who framed all of this as βThe Trans Debate,β well done! Youβve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.
Foolishness! They have not escaped anything - the regime is still there. Meanwhile, several hundred people, including dozens of little girls have been killed. And of course what's next can be worse, as there appears to be zero planning for a day-after.
100% tariff on all things coming from France except for Palme dβOr winners.
I have as much sympathy for the Iranian people as for Ukrainians - none have chosen their horrible situation. Then, have the Iranian people chosen to be bombed? Is that going to improve their situation? How did that work in past similar situations? Again: ghouls.
Lol. Likeβ¦ from whom? Also, a bit late, ainβt?
Such leadership in Europe.
Ghouls.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.
InformaciΓ³n de servicio pΓΊblico para quien quiera mudarse de bluesky.social (majetes hasta ahora, pero basados en πΊπ², con lo que eso implica) a eurosky.tech, un servidor europeo, regido por las leyes de la πͺπΊ:
So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!
πΈπ³ Senegalβs anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown
π±π° No to rainbow tourism in Sri Lanka
π΅π Good news for queer Filipinos
The latest issue of my global LGBTQ+ newsletter is out now, you can read it and subscribe for free here π
Here's another video from a Black woman with Tourette's with a nuanced view that is worth listening to (link goes to Instagram): www.instagram.com/reel/DVGxOg7...
I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.
I learned a lot.
A vena. π
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