“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...
mitpress.mit.edu
Codeberg updates ToU to disallow LLM training and many LLM-generated projects, and wrote a thorough explanation: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... Regardless of the merits of AI code generation, AI trainers have got to get their scraper bots under control and stop slamming sma…
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News blog.codeberg.org
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Eugene Vinitsky
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social
The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?
What it means that the AI research community can't quit twitter - rl-blogging rl-blogging.leaflet.pub
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I'll now drop one of mine, not to be vain but because it's the place where I've most explicitly pulled several of these threads together into my own (and co-authors') synthesis. Chapter 4 is the lynchpin. Clearest place to start for “how does Michael think about research?” arx…
Fairness in Information Access Systems arxiv.org
For a much newer one, capturing a line of thinking that I've been living in a lot for the last few years, and working on a paper about — measurement and AI eval, by @hannawallach.bsky.social et al. proceedings.mlr.press/v267/wallach...
Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge proceedings.mlr.press
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What if you asked about algorithmic fairness and people wanted to talk about something else? @fujirobledo.bsky.social tells that story in "Co-Designing Organizational Justice Indicators for Algorithmic Systems" appearing in FAccT 2026. (preview: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12643) #recs…
Co-Designing Organizational Justice Indicators for Algorithmic Systems arxiv.org
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@jannaphia.bsky.social
Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
AI Detection Survey aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co
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I want to make this into a blog post (series) someday, but I'll start w/ a thread teaser… short list of papers foundational to my research thinking. First up is Green & Viljoen's Algorithmic Realism - we must study algorithms in practice and in situ, not just in theory. dl.acm…
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jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-...
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers jackmaguire.org
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Looking forward to continuing the conversation on Friday at the Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) Workshop. Please join us! jedi.inertial.science/sigir2026/ cc: @jedi-workshop.bsky.social
JEDI workshop @ SIGIR 2026 jedi.inertial.science
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@altrecsys.bsky.social
Deadline extension! We are extending the AltRecSys deadline for #RecSys2026 to **July 31**. Submit your strangest ideas! altrecsys.github.io/recsys26/
AltRecSys at RecSys 2026 altrecsys.github.io
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