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Come do a creepy PhD with me! Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) available, focused on exploring how making workplace technologies intentionally creepy could help create more ethical workplace technologies. Deadline: February, Friday the 13th
Important read about how to detect when writing is AI generated and why it all sounds the same
For some reason, this year my writing soundtrack is primarily bardcore, mostly Stantough and Hildegard von Blingin'. The only drawback is that now I must be careful to avoid the olde English in my papers 😅
After writing about people going into delusional spirals with ChatGPT and having what look like mental breakdowns, I wanted to understand exactly how it happens.
A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion.
We analyzed the transcript & shared it with experts. Now you can see the interactions & how delusional spirals happen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=url-share
There is currently a EU Citizens' Initiative to ban "conversion therapy" of queer people. It is still missing some signatures, it really takes less than a minute to complete and has a real impact on people, so if you are an EU citizen please do sign it:
Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared
The new Linkin Park album is a perfect paper editing soundtrack
🎶 Cut it down, cut it down, down, cut it, cut it down 🎶
Jason Howlin
Claudia Zahn
Kashmir Hill
Carl Schwan 
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉