Jeff Sparrow

jeffsparrow1.bsky.social

22 October 2026 20:14

I have a long piece at @theconversation.com about AI and the university theconversation.com/friday-essay...

gil, a finite mode

gilmorejon.bsky.social

09 October 2026 21:41

OpenAI's flood release of 700+ papers on Tuesday must be understood as a hostile attempt to destroy the discipline of mathematics proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/1...

Dr. Aaron Thierry

thierryaaron.bsky.social

20 September 2026 12:08

"At a total process efficiency of around 8%, we would need more than doubled all electricity generation in a year,to pull 1yrs worth of CO2 out of the atmosphere. Direct air capture is not efficient enough, nor will it ever be efficient enough that we can just keep emitting CO2 like we have been"

Asheesh Kapur Siddique

asheeshks.org

02 September 2026 11:41

Tech companies don’t understand scholarship. ‘Quickness’ and ‘efficiency‘ are not always the right values. Sometimes you don’t want to “answer your research queries faster” and when you do, existing search technology is more than adequate to help you do scholar.googleblog.com/2026/08/quic...

Dr Liz Allen

drdemography.com

25 August 2026 00:02

Statement on ANU apology for ‘indefensible treatment’