Daniel Evans
@danielemersonevans.bsky.social
Printmaker and Media Artist || University lecturer and library worker
Working and researching in the intersection of tech ethics, digital storytelling, and folklore
Passionate about TTRPGs and indie game dev
danielemersonevans.com
Working and researching in the intersection of tech ethics, digital storytelling, and folklore
Passionate about TTRPGs and indie game dev
danielemersonevans.com
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Hi 🦋 people! I'm Daniel. I'm a library Makerspace worker and sessional University lecturer in Art and Design, teaching Media Arts and Printmaking. I make print and digital/VR work drawing on folklore to explore tech ethics and data violence. Also a huge TTRPG and gamedev nerd
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i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
September 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
i don't know what the source of this video is but I love it
Blasting Rotting Christ on the drive to university to clear the back-to-school jitters
September 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Blasting Rotting Christ on the drive to university to clear the back-to-school jitters
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
August 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
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«I often hear that different forms of AI are possible. But if they were possible in this world, we would have them. Right now, the form of AI our world has made is based on data extraction, surveillance, and the concentration of power – because that is what our current system incentivizes.»
"If we use LLMs for decision-making on political scales, we automate bad data science. We are pretending specific questions can be answered based solely on how plausibly the sentence is crafted."
Sharing my full remarks for the 'AI Question' debate last week at Centre Pompidou in Paris. ⬇️
Sharing my full remarks for the 'AI Question' debate last week at Centre Pompidou in Paris. ⬇️
Democracy & the AI Question
Remarks from an online discussion during L’IA en question, questions à l’IA, a two-day conference at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in cont...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
June 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
«I often hear that different forms of AI are possible. But if they were possible in this world, we would have them. Right now, the form of AI our world has made is based on data extraction, surveillance, and the concentration of power – because that is what our current system incentivizes.»
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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He might send the cops to brutalize his students, but it’s okay because he’s gay and proud. ✨ #YasQueen #Pinkwashing
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March 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
He might send the cops to brutalize his students, but it’s okay because he’s gay and proud. ✨ #YasQueen #Pinkwashing
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Obligatory bunny butt to kick things off
November 17, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Obligatory bunny butt to kick things off
Hi 🦋 people! I'm Daniel. I'm a library Makerspace worker and sessional University lecturer in Art and Design, teaching Media Arts and Printmaking. I make print and digital/VR work drawing on folklore to explore tech ethics and data violence. Also a huge TTRPG and gamedev nerd
November 17, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Hi 🦋 people! I'm Daniel. I'm a library Makerspace worker and sessional University lecturer in Art and Design, teaching Media Arts and Printmaking. I make print and digital/VR work drawing on folklore to explore tech ethics and data violence. Also a huge TTRPG and gamedev nerd