Matthew Isaac Harvey
@acornapocalypse.bsky.social
Writer, tabletop & Warhammer dork, queer person, imminent PhD (enaction, ecological psych, language, interaction). Yes that's actually Nessie
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Warhammer's creative breadth summed up by my two factions:
1. Adepta Sororitas🤘: fascist nuns, conlang space Latin; orbital drop cathedrals; satirically sharp; aesthetically indulgent.
2. Maggotkin💩: uh oh so gross! Ew, goopy. Haha sneeze attack! (Look for my poetry series, "Nurgle's Gurgles.")
1. Adepta Sororitas🤘: fascist nuns, conlang space Latin; orbital drop cathedrals; satirically sharp; aesthetically indulgent.
2. Maggotkin💩: uh oh so gross! Ew, goopy. Haha sneeze attack! (Look for my poetry series, "Nurgle's Gurgles.")
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.
Brilliant, unimpeachably great idea.
I'm most excited about the new knights. Those horses are just so totally disgusting, I can't wait to paint them wild chartreuse and ugly oozing purple.
I wish I could give every single sculptor on this team a hug.
I'm most excited about the new knights. Those horses are just so totally disgusting, I can't wait to paint them wild chartreuse and ugly oozing purple.
I wish I could give every single sculptor on this team a hug.
These lads in particular I want to do sort of a big plague senate where they're these bloated politicians each plying their own brand of pandemic/plague/infection and bickering as they fester in filth.
#warhammercommunity
#warhammercommunity
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Brilliant, unimpeachably great idea.
I'm most excited about the new knights. Those horses are just so totally disgusting, I can't wait to paint them wild chartreuse and ugly oozing purple.
I wish I could give every single sculptor on this team a hug.
I'm most excited about the new knights. Those horses are just so totally disgusting, I can't wait to paint them wild chartreuse and ugly oozing purple.
I wish I could give every single sculptor on this team a hug.
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In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures
During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science.
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online
🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt
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MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week.
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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How did I only just learn that "walrus" was in Old English written the other way around—horshwæl—because it means "horse-whale"?
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
How did I only just learn that "walrus" was in Old English written the other way around—horshwæl—because it means "horse-whale"?
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Last chance to submit your video to the CogSci Mind Challenge!
ONLY 2️⃣ DAYS LEFT!
ONLY 2️⃣ DAYS LEFT!
The CogSci Society invites you to compete in this year's #CogSciMindChallenge
🎬 Your Mission: create a captivating 5-minute video that answers the question:
"How do different minds learn language, if at all?”
Deadline for submission: October 17 📅
cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
🎬 Your Mission: create a captivating 5-minute video that answers the question:
"How do different minds learn language, if at all?”
Deadline for submission: October 17 📅
cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Last chance to submit your video to the CogSci Mind Challenge!
ONLY 2️⃣ DAYS LEFT!
ONLY 2️⃣ DAYS LEFT!
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
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Forgot to add 🐦🐦
Call for papers: "𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚" (deadline: 31 January 2026)
Theme session as part of the @essenglish.bsky.social conference in Santiago de Compostela (31 Aug-4 Sept), co-convened with Anna Piata. Full details & submissions via metasocial.unamur.be
Theme session as part of the @essenglish.bsky.social conference in Santiago de Compostela (31 Aug-4 Sept), co-convened with Anna Piata. Full details & submissions via metasocial.unamur.be
October 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Forgot to add 🐦🐦
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
Yes. And to write or speak well is, usually, to deliver both nuance and clarity. Which is why it's so hard
September 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes. And to write or speak well is, usually, to deliver both nuance and clarity. Which is why it's so hard
My theory of Wicked is that Glinda is just as powerful a witch as Elphaba—it's just that her magic is exclusively social.
The dance scene portrays her casting Mass Suggestion or a nice version of Otto's. Ditto the scenes of arrival at Shiz, Popular, etc.
The dance scene portrays her casting Mass Suggestion or a nice version of Otto's. Ditto the scenes of arrival at Shiz, Popular, etc.
September 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My theory of Wicked is that Glinda is just as powerful a witch as Elphaba—it's just that her magic is exclusively social.
The dance scene portrays her casting Mass Suggestion or a nice version of Otto's. Ditto the scenes of arrival at Shiz, Popular, etc.
The dance scene portrays her casting Mass Suggestion or a nice version of Otto's. Ditto the scenes of arrival at Shiz, Popular, etc.
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Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
I didn't know that collecting comics actually whips
Well, reading comics really whips, and collecting them is fun and is how you support artists. Best of all, collect and share instead of collecting for value. Buy the books you think totally rule and lend them generously
Well, reading comics really whips, and collecting them is fun and is how you support artists. Best of all, collect and share instead of collecting for value. Buy the books you think totally rule and lend them generously
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I didn't know that collecting comics actually whips
Well, reading comics really whips, and collecting them is fun and is how you support artists. Best of all, collect and share instead of collecting for value. Buy the books you think totally rule and lend them generously
Well, reading comics really whips, and collecting them is fun and is how you support artists. Best of all, collect and share instead of collecting for value. Buy the books you think totally rule and lend them generously
Trying to comprehend a draft journal article about "metaqualia." Anyone have any tips for metaapprehension
September 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Trying to comprehend a draft journal article about "metaqualia." Anyone have any tips for metaapprehension
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pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
when you’re addicted to watching kind German ghost rodents plan an elaborate scheme to steal gaming cubes made from carby food, call that a:
nice geist mice rice dice heist vice
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
when you’re addicted to watching kind German ghost rodents plan an elaborate scheme to steal gaming cubes made from carby food, call that a:
nice geist mice rice dice heist vice
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
one of the things that actually speaks so well of humans is that we have to keep putting up “do not feed the animals” signs (for good reasons!) because when we see A Creature we just really want to give it food
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
one of the things that actually speaks so well of humans is that we have to keep putting up “do not feed the animals” signs (for good reasons!) because when we see A Creature we just really want to give it food
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
i don’t know why we have covers when i’ve never seen a single one of them cove
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
i don’t know why we have covers when i’ve never seen a single one of them cove
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
September 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:
when you’re addicted to watching kind German ghost rodents plan an elaborate scheme to steal gaming cubes made from carby food, call that a:
nice geist mice rice dice heist vice
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
when you’re addicted to watching kind German ghost rodents plan an elaborate scheme to steal gaming cubes made from carby food, call that a:
nice geist mice rice dice heist vice
this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly
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How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it:
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Embrace Frank Frazetta Thought
September 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Embrace Frank Frazetta Thought
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Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago
A thoughtful piece, but I think badly off the mark: LLMs just kind of suck at search. Why acquire this skillset rather than actual research skills with existing tech that's (a) faster, (b) more reliable, (c) involves learning as you go, and (d) isn't opaque?
This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...
Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?
Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.
mikecaulfield.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
A thoughtful piece, but I think badly off the mark: LLMs just kind of suck at search. Why acquire this skillset rather than actual research skills with existing tech that's (a) faster, (b) more reliable, (c) involves learning as you go, and (d) isn't opaque?
This is what academic writing can be btw
Yeah it's dense and abstract (heh), but the author conveys something complex and nuanced basically just through excellent word choice.
I do think the body of the article could use a lot more concreteness (e.g.s, mechanism-talk), but the writing is lovely.
Yeah it's dense and abstract (heh), but the author conveys something complex and nuanced basically just through excellent word choice.
I do think the body of the article could use a lot more concreteness (e.g.s, mechanism-talk), but the writing is lovely.
"the more unfulfilled these technofutures go, the more pervasive and entrenched they become"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
September 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is what academic writing can be btw
Yeah it's dense and abstract (heh), but the author conveys something complex and nuanced basically just through excellent word choice.
I do think the body of the article could use a lot more concreteness (e.g.s, mechanism-talk), but the writing is lovely.
Yeah it's dense and abstract (heh), but the author conveys something complex and nuanced basically just through excellent word choice.
I do think the body of the article could use a lot more concreteness (e.g.s, mechanism-talk), but the writing is lovely.
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TIL that in Irish you can use the word 'demon' as a negative quantifier and it's called "demonic negation" (McCloskey 2009), e.g.
Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé.
demon person that hits he
'Not one person does he hit.'
🐦🐦🐦
Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé.
demon person that hits he
'Not one person does he hit.'
🐦🐦🐦
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
TIL that in Irish you can use the word 'demon' as a negative quantifier and it's called "demonic negation" (McCloskey 2009), e.g.
Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé.
demon person that hits he
'Not one person does he hit.'
🐦🐦🐦
Dheamhan duine a bhuaileann sé.
demon person that hits he
'Not one person does he hit.'
🐦🐦🐦
Short-form video is easily the worst media format we've created so far. Too short to say anything, no links to sources, encourages repetition, prioritizing faces over words, demands high impact above all, etc.
Every negative trait of Twitter and cable news, mashed together and dialed to 17.
Every negative trait of Twitter and cable news, mashed together and dialed to 17.
if "grandpa with fox on in the background" made you sad, wait until you meet "grandpa who watches 2000 daily reels of slop algorithmically targeted at his worst impulses and fears"
September 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Short-form video is easily the worst media format we've created so far. Too short to say anything, no links to sources, encourages repetition, prioritizing faces over words, demands high impact above all, etc.
Every negative trait of Twitter and cable news, mashed together and dialed to 17.
Every negative trait of Twitter and cable news, mashed together and dialed to 17.