Alberto Bruzos
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosPosting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosOnce again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosLooking forward to seeing the interview with Wendy Brown at Södertörn University today. This is an interesting interview from October 2024.
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosI think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
- Reposted by Alberto Bruzos1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
- "Authoritarianism has always targeted public education, the free press, and other institutions of unsupervised knowledge production. (...) If authoritarians are afraid of education and academic publishing, it must not be as powerless as it sometimes seems."
- @biblioracle.bsky.social has a great interview with @mattseybold.bsky.social on techno-feudalism, mass surveillance, Ed Tech, and what this means for academic freedom, and higher ED more generally. A chilling read. @aaup.org academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/the-techno...
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThe octopus conference is back! 🐙 "Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland #LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf
- The next octopus conference is coming to town 🐙 “Influence, Manipulation, Seduction” 3d edition at Tampere Uni, co-organised with @sofiaruediger.bsky.social and @domini.bsky.social - this time it is face to face! Send us your persuasive abstracts by July 1 🐦🐦 events.tuni.fi/persuasion20...
- "Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."
- One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosHugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosAgain, no-one is ready for the clusterfuck that is coming our way. Look, folks, the conditions for "Science as we knew it" are completely gone. These are uncharted terrains and my prediction is that things won't end well. At least for us. pardoguerra.org/2025/07/15/e...
- Should you want to browse through the new academic public sphere of papers fully written by autonomous AI agents www.clawxiv.org
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosI really wish #OpenAI would stop releasing free stochastic parrots in every community they can think of. They sure look pretty but they are shitting all over the place and you can't have a decent conversation between humans anymore.
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThe Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosOn being brought back to life by students’ projects.
- Bien hecho.
- Spain to offer legal status to half a million undocumented migrants 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosI think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
- ‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief www.ft.com/content/c309...
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosAs I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated. demos.co.uk/research/ver...
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosNew — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosLa Estrategia Nacional d Seguridad de Trump plantea 2 preguntas: ¿Quién diablos ha escrito esto? Y ¿qué demonios significa? Para descifrar este ¿manifiesto vanguardista? ¿manual de autoayuda? ¿comunicación interna para vendedores d coches? acudimos a Greg Grandin. @ctxt.es ctxt.es/es/20260101/...
- A thought: @jamellebouie.net and @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's podcast is the "From Caligari to Hitler" of our time. jamellebouie.net/unclear-and-...
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosCóry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
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- "I looked at the AI-created paper, and while I’m not qualified to judge its methodological rigor, it looks like the typical quant paper I might find in a peer-reviewed journal. I would never read it, but someone interested in the subject might. What do we do with this?"
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThis new paper by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social makes "one simple point: AI systems are built to function in ways that degrade and are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions." Grim but important reading: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosIn the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThe targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosHow Generative AI Destroys Institutions. Killer opening line: "If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence."
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- Tagging @melhogan.bsky.social
- The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
- Reposted by Alberto Bruzos⚡ New Conference! Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. March 9 – 10, 2026 This workshop will bring together philosophers and historians to investigate the foundations of contemporary AI. Spaces are limited! buff.ly/FlhrDn1 #philevent #knowledgecrisis #philsky
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosI Congrés Internacional sobre Discriminació Lingüística 제1회 언어 차별 국제 학술대회 Ier Congrès international sur la discrimination linguistique 1st International Conference on Linguistic Discrimination 🌐 proyectoestigma.es/congreso/ RT🙏
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- Illustrating @adamtooze.bsky.social's insight around 28:10: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosThe fight against fascism is also a fight for a shared sense of reality. We see demagogues twisting the facts and blatantly lying, while legacy media are keen to present every story as a matter of conflicting interpretations. With social media drowning in #AIslop, this is only going to get worse 1/
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosAlthough the number of people afflicted with AI psychosis is unknown, it is believed to be in the tens of thousands. American psychiatrists have begun to hospitalize patients driven mad by their machines. Many, they say, have no previous history of mental illness.
- Reposted by Alberto Bruzos"The junkification of research" "Our essay explores the political economy of academic publishing ... in terms of how the commodification of academic research has opened avenues for the same mechanisms that underpin the deterioration of digital marketplaces to infiltrate online academic publishing."
- Yes! Has anyone written about how this has happened and why?
- ¡Toma ya!
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- Reposted by Alberto BruzosA very good read, unsurprisingly.
- I heard what everyone has been clamoring for is 6,000 words on what a simple question about the 1990s comedy My Cousin Vinny can teach us about the capabilities and surprising weaknesses of current LLMs. Well, I hate to disappoint people, so I went and wrote it. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
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- "But how about this one: Why do you type into the boxes? That’s human literacy. You can't have AI literacy without it, but we’ve set much of that aside over the last few decades."
- "To construct a model of political strategy based primarily on existing empirical patterns of belief and action is to express a fundamental skepticism toward the possibility that these might be changed. And it is, in the end, to treat people as objects rather than agents."
- Reposted by Alberto BruzosEver relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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