matthewarcher.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

We wrote an article about the rise of AI slop and the 'enshittification' of the internet for @theconversation.com with the brilliant @yarakyrychenko.bsky.social One of these days, these bots are gonna walk all over you! theconversation.com/what-is-ai-s...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

first person dominates in the anglo novel in the 21st century, a radical change from the previous 300 years of the novel form. for an explanation of this historical mutation and the ideology around it, check out chapter 3! (happy to send a copy to anyone) www.versobooks.com/products/303...

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

they gave a nobel prize to an economist who said vineyards and apple orchards in norway will offset the impacts of this.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

they'll cite this as evidence that the environmental impact of deep sea mining is (now) low.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i can’t stop thinking about habermas doing dyson ads

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This report 'Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon' is 4 years old, yet I don't think I've ever heard this headline finding: "Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

degenerative AI 😻

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies. Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare. It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.

submitted 3 days ago • 345 comments

I believe this is the point. newatlas.com/ai-humanoids...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

'A science of stereotypes: paranoiac-critical forays within the medium of information' @distinktionjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1600...

submitted 170 days ago • 1 comment

PHOTO - On an early spring afternoon in Shuangliu ancient town, Sichuan province, China, five people in their 80s sit together. Photographie : Xiaoling Li / World Food Photography Awards. Source : The Guardian 🔗 urls.fr/RsBSmx #photography #geography

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

nice editorial by @ashtonpittman.bsky.social about a working class danish migrant to rural north mississippi (whose in-laws almost certainly voted for trump), the depravity of (social) media, and why it's important to resist this inclination to nastiness www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

unless you're in the third camp, which seems to be inhabited almost exclusively by anthropologists, where titles are alliterations that don't tell you what the paper is about or make you laugh

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A must listen for everyone in higher ed!! SO so good

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"levels of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) have decreased 55 percent since 2005, while nitrogen dioxide levels have fallen 50 percent. It attributed this to “regulations and public policies,” including steps to limit traffic and ban the most polluting vehicles" #AirPollution #Paris

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s the talk I gave at the Jau de Paume today, about noise and constraint in AI systems — this is the French version shared ahead of time with the audience, I’ll share the English version soon. www.cyberneticforests.com/bruite

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The fearless Professor Ruha Benjamin's brilliant & beautiful Tanner Lecture #2 Dystopia, Utopia, or UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIi...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

so does the president of the united states 👐

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio... Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Tom in @trouw.nl

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Taking back control of your digital life: How to get the most out of tech while freeing yourself from the lunatics in Silicon Valley iandunt.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Interview Pepsi’s CEO next and ask him what he thinks the best drink in the world is

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Very pleased that our online course about how to learn and thrive in an online world (thebullshitmachines.com) is mentioned in @johnthornhill.bsky.social's latest Financial Times piece.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

if i were a judge and a lawyer submitted AI slop to me i would simply disbar that lawyer

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

nothing will save antarctica from climate change except immediate reductions of greenhouse gas emissions

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Generative AI presents a number of immediate threats to learners’ rights, amplifying the known threats from so-called predictive AI" Fantastic piece on AI eroding students' rights to education by @helenbeetham.bsky.social ht @audreywatters.bsky.social helenbeetham.substack.com/p/how-the-ri...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

🔥Open Access: Wind of change: shifting narratives on China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany Johanna Fellbrich, Franziska Sielker, Nicholas Phelps, Peter Dannenberg doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #Megaprojects

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

when in copenhagen

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

isn’t elizabeth holmes in jail for this?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I am only a few pages in and it is as well-written as I remember Davé‘s previous work was. Her argument on indifference resonates with what I have written on “practices of we-formation“ and “bystanding”. She writes against the tendency in anthropology to merge too fast (with field, interlocutors)…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Job - Assistant professor HR, Organization & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, says must know Dutch and English (my department but I'm not on the committee so don't know more): www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3523...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Yeah, but global warming will be great for the UK." Ummmm...Just look at this map of marine heatwaves around the UK and Ireland right now. Sea surface temperatures are up to 4C warmer than usual for this time of year, reaching about 17C off the Irish coast. 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

AI is overal. 70% van de Nijmeegse studenten gebruikt het wekelijks, ontdekten @kenlambeets.bsky.social en ik in een enquete voor @voxweb.bsky.social. Ook wetenschappers zetten AI veel in, bv voor onderzoeksvragen. 'Zorgelijk', aldus expert @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. www.voxweb.nl/bericht/de-g...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

german news is so funny. they showed a story about some guy who has a chatbot lover and then immediately panned to a psychologist with the opening question: why would a normal person do this? (or something along those lines)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstrac...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

[1/3] L'Université Murdoch révèle que les sols agricoles contiennent 23× plus de microplastiques que les océans. Ces particules, issues de films plastiques, engrais ou pluie, contaminent déjà laitues, carottes et blé, s’infiltrant dans la chaîne alimentaire. #geography #microplastics

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

and it’s important to remember every estimate is probably an underestimate bc we literally have no way of knowing how much energy these companies are actually using. #ecocide

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard to overstate setback AI is for the energy transition.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

and this is what he is up to now...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The heavy push by tech companies to frame always on surveillance wearables as the next big consumer item can best be understood as the companies’ explicit and full alignment with fascism. In this essay…

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

RIP Alasdair MacIntyre.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments