Liam Hogan
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant.
Researching Slavery - Memory - Power.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganIt's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
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- Reposted by Liam Hoganvery fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
- Reposted by Liam HoganAbsolutely damning from @aaronschaffer.com, @willoremus.com, & @nitasha.bsky.social. To get more data, Anthropic: * "destructively scanned" millions of books * downloaded the shadow library LibGen * hailed another shadow library's arrival as "just in time!!!" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by Liam HoganWe have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
- Reposted by Liam HoganHello? Cassandra here. Remember all those times we AI-resistant educators were warning about this exact thing?
- Reposted by Liam HoganAmazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Liam HoganWe set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
- The tech industry #enshittification continues at pace. I recently reported another outright scam that was appearing above legitimate results (as a sponsored ad) but Google replied to say that it did not breach their policies. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...
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- Reposted by Liam HoganUnd thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills
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- Reposted by Liam HoganIf you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.
- Reposted by Liam Hoganthis crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganPretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.
- Reposted by Liam HoganIn Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
- Reposted by Liam HoganIf it's not regime change, and it's certainly not "law enforcement," let's just call it a nuclear-armed oil heist.
- Reposted by Liam HoganYou couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
- Reposted by Liam HoganAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganThey're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
- Gentle reminder that the European Union was established because the first four decades of our 20th century were mostly internecine war and genocide.
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- Reposted by Liam Hogan“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
- I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Reposted by Liam HoganRebuttal to John Collison's highly contested Irish Times “sermon to the nation", by lawyer @andrewlrjackson.bsky.social. A fact-check pushing back on the tech-optimist, deregulation-first vision - defending environmental law, democratic oversight & evidence-based planning elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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- Reposted by Liam HoganIt’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
- Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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- Reposted by Liam HoganWell, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
- Reposted by Liam Hoganevery company in 2025
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- The private ownership claim to Lough Neagh (Loch nEathach) originates with Sir Arthur Chichester, English commander during the Nine Years’ War and one of the architects of the Plantation of Ulster. There was even an attempt by colonists to rename the lake ‘Lough Chichester’.
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- It’s difficult to underestimate the extra burden that this is placing on our public libraries. For example, on a daily basis library workers are now filling the in-person/human service gap that billion euro banking institutions have abdicated from to maximise their profit margins.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganYet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
- I’m very late to this but I tried to watch House of Guinness and found it almost impossible to finish the first episode. A Temple Bar fever dream as period drama.
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- Reposted by Liam Hogan“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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- Reposted by Liam HoganNEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
- Reposted by Liam HoganMore on the failures/erasures that ai chatbots introduce into library search tools aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...
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- Reposted by Liam HoganI cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?
- Reposted by Liam HoganFinally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
