Prof. Dr Beth Singler
@bvlsingler.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler
Pinned
I will never stop banging this drum! 🥁 There 🥁 is 🥁 no 🥁 AI 🥁 in 🥁 the 🥁 predictive 🥁 policing 🥁 in 🥁 Minority 🥁 Report!
Its three psychics in a paddling pool!!
Its three psychics in a paddling pool!!
I really love that I edited it and we're now at 7845... pretty sure the limit is 7k... I hope!
December 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I really love that I edited it and we're now at 7845... pretty sure the limit is 7k... I hope!
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My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com
6245 and the editing needs to begin!
December 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
6245 and the editing needs to begin!
Didn't quite make it to a nice round figure like 240 (its at 237), but not a bad year :D
December 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Didn't quite make it to a nice round figure like 240 (its at 237), but not a bad year :D
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“We’ve re-invented the oracle, except THIS time, you can buy ad space in her esoteric prophecies.”
what are we doing here guys
what are we doing here guys
“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:38 AM
“We’ve re-invented the oracle, except THIS time, you can buy ad space in her esoteric prophecies.”
what are we doing here guys
what are we doing here guys
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
December 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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I am assuming OpenAI's Board is cross between a hostage situation and people high on advice/ counsel from their own product.
this dude is incapable of shutting the fuck up
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space | Fortune
While Bill Gates has said the 2-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too busy planet-hopping.
fortune.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I am assuming OpenAI's Board is cross between a hostage situation and people high on advice/ counsel from their own product.
4475 annnndddd I'm exhausted.
December 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
4475 annnndddd I'm exhausted.
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Supporting evidence for the @donmoyn.bsky.social argument that social media and its consequences are a big part of the story share.google/Kg8KihAhUWKl...
December 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Supporting evidence for the @donmoyn.bsky.social argument that social media and its consequences are a big part of the story share.google/Kg8KihAhUWKl...
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as the new year is coming around the corner,
I am still available for work! The job hunt has lasted longer than ever before but I have hopes for 2026.
Need beautiful vistas? Need detailed foliage? Need a world artist who knows her photogrammetry?
I am the Environment Artist for your team!
I am still available for work! The job hunt has lasted longer than ever before but I have hopes for 2026.
Need beautiful vistas? Need detailed foliage? Need a world artist who knows her photogrammetry?
I am the Environment Artist for your team!
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
as the new year is coming around the corner,
I am still available for work! The job hunt has lasted longer than ever before but I have hopes for 2026.
Need beautiful vistas? Need detailed foliage? Need a world artist who knows her photogrammetry?
I am the Environment Artist for your team!
I am still available for work! The job hunt has lasted longer than ever before but I have hopes for 2026.
Need beautiful vistas? Need detailed foliage? Need a world artist who knows her photogrammetry?
I am the Environment Artist for your team!
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
3333 words :D
December 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
3333 words :D
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 21727899:
You need to care about what you write. Don't justify hack writing by telling yourself: "But the readers will love it." They won't. Readers can forgive bad writing, but never cynical writing.
You need to care about what you write. Don't justify hack writing by telling yourself: "But the readers will love it." They won't. Readers can forgive bad writing, but never cynical writing.
December 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 21727899:
You need to care about what you write. Don't justify hack writing by telling yourself: "But the readers will love it." They won't. Readers can forgive bad writing, but never cynical writing.
You need to care about what you write. Don't justify hack writing by telling yourself: "But the readers will love it." They won't. Readers can forgive bad writing, but never cynical writing.
A witch rescuing witches from witch hunters. Nice.
Soooo I’m an interdimensional warlock-ninja.
Or a consulting detective, if we’re counting short stories.
Or a consulting detective, if we’re counting short stories.
December 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A witch rescuing witches from witch hunters. Nice.
Time to get back to it...
December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Time to get back to it...
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
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If Farage gets to inject his own version of Yarvinism into Britain…Katie bar the door.
Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT)
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
December 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
If Farage gets to inject his own version of Yarvinism into Britain…Katie bar the door.
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Have to say this is a really good neologism for a Cybertruck.
The Deplorean.
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Have to say this is a really good neologism for a Cybertruck.
Weird advent calendar
December 30, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Weird advent calendar
I was told early on that "the strength and weakness of my writing is its accessibility", so maybe the converse too sometimes in other fields...
A repetitive thing we hear a lot as women in cognitive sciences — which comes up especially when we talk to each other about our reviews, how peers talk to us, etc. — is our writing is not accessible, does this generalise to other fields? Weaponised "you're unclear" is so pathetic IMHO of course
December 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I was told early on that "the strength and weakness of my writing is its accessibility", so maybe the converse too sometimes in other fields...
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I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
December 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light.
You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever
You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever
Could AI relationships actually be good for us?
Could AI relationships actually be good for us?
From companionship to psychotherapy, technology could meet unmet needs – but it needs to be handled responsibly
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reminder that The Guardian has a financial partnership with openAI so they have a vested interest in trying to paint this shit in a positive light.
You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever
You can't trust a single thing they say about it whatsoever
2238 and a break now to do some German exercises, yay!
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
2238 and a break now to do some German exercises, yay!