Charles Pidgeon
PhD (DPhil) candidate at University of Oxford, English Faculty.
Researching internet nonfiction books, cultural histories of information overwhelm, and the different metaphors we use for human versus machine cognition.
- Reposted by Charles PidgeonDid you know that the PR agency for #COP30 also works for fossil fuel companies like Shell? We made a meditation app to help them sleep at night. Try it for yourself here oilwell.app
- Reposted by Charles Pidgeon"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
- Reposted by Charles Pidgeonre: LLM answers at the top of search results — it's so funny that they put a little imp who lies to you at the gate to All Human Knowledge. Does Google think it's protecting the city of Thebes??
- Reposted by Charles PidgeonWill continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
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- Reposted by Charles Pidgeon“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." -- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
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- Reposted by Charles PidgeonThey’re doing this because it’s so successful
- Meta is cutting around 600 roles in AI unit, Axios reports reut.rs/4opgmAI
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- Reposted by Charles PidgeonGovernment’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
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- This is a good review, particularly for this reminder at the end:
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- Reposted by Charles PidgeonMeta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
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