Phil Feldman, PhD
@philfeldman.com
For a turbulent and unruly people may be spoken to by a good man, and readily brought back to good ways; but none can speak to a wicked prince, nor any remedy be found against him but by the sword. - Niccolo Machiavelli
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I'm looking forward to the upcoming "Journal of Adversarial Poetry"
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm looking forward to the upcoming "Journal of Adversarial Poetry"
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We’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
We’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
The halcyon days of late SGI
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The halcyon days of late SGI
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Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhD
I am okay with the prospect of being occasionally conned out of some petty cash knowing that in the grand scheme of things most people asking truly need it
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I am okay with the prospect of being occasionally conned out of some petty cash knowing that in the grand scheme of things most people asking truly need it
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Built by Magenta, it maps 300 genres as stars in 3D using UMAP, then blends nearby prompts into realtime audio via Lyria RealTime. Fly, click, anchor—your path becomes a dynamic mashup. Deployed via AI Studio with Cloud Run proxying the Gemini key.
magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-anno...
magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-anno...
Space DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe
Today, we’re excited to launch Space DJ, a web application from Magenta thatturns music exploration into an interactive journey through a constellation ofsou...
magenta.withgoogle.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Built by Magenta, it maps 300 genres as stars in 3D using UMAP, then blends nearby prompts into realtime audio via Lyria RealTime. Fly, click, anchor—your path becomes a dynamic mashup. Deployed via AI Studio with Cloud Run proxying the Gemini key.
magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-anno...
magenta.withgoogle.com/spacedj-anno...
Sent $100 to the Maryland Food Bank this month
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Sent $100 to the Maryland Food Bank this month
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Happy to share a recent publication in the @jdighist.bsky.social exploring how historians are applying generative AI. I argue that LLMs can be considered a new form of historical source, and source criticism can inform our critiques of these techs.
journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
1/8
journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
1/8
Mapping the Latent Past: Assessing Large Language Models as Digital Tools through Source Criticism
This article examines how digital historians can use large language models (LLMs) as research tools while critically assessing their limitations through source criticism of their underlying training d...
journalofdigitalhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happy to share a recent publication in the @jdighist.bsky.social exploring how historians are applying generative AI. I argue that LLMs can be considered a new form of historical source, and source criticism can inform our critiques of these techs.
journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
1/8
journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/J...
1/8
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10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
10 years old and maybe never more relevant than in contemporary software development
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...
Time for some serious cleaning
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Time for some serious cleaning
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New:
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The AI Race to Reboot Feudalism
Let's be honest about why they gamble everything
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New:
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point.
So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story.
1/
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
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If you’re media covering bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story.
And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.
If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story.
And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you’re media covering bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story.
And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.
If you’re a downtown business association discussing bike-lanes, watch this news story.
If you’re anyone hearing the LIE that bike-lanes are bad for business, watch this story.
And please SHARE THIS STORY so others can watch it too.
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No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.
I don’t know about you but I sincerely believe that Zohran Mamdani’s BA Major in Africana Studies enabled him to understand our current conjuncture & its demands of justice. Humanities shape minds & in his case for the better.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
I know white tech bros disagree as they continue to collapse our worlds.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
No opinion about this specific claim, but I do think we need more humanities in our lives and hearts and minds. And more arts. More history, more literature, more painting, more moral philosophy, more poetry. More thinking about and cherishing what makes human life special.
Whither cognitive dissonance?
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Whither cognitive dissonance?
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Most people study what misinformation says.
We decided to study how it looks.
Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.
Here's what it means 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We decided to study how it looks.
Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.
Here's what it means 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Most people study what misinformation says.
We decided to study how it looks.
Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.
Here's what it means 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We decided to study how it looks.
Using novel multi-modal AI methods, we study 17,848 posts by top climate denial accounts - and uncovered a new front in the misinformation war.
Here's what it means 🧵
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
Just donated to my local food bank, because this is a horrible timeline
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just donated to my local food bank, because this is a horrible timeline
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New AI-powered anti-scam tool wins praise from UK fraud minister
New AI-powered anti-scam tool wins praise from UK fraud minister
Starling tool can scan images of items and ads on sites such as Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Vinted and Etsy
A new AI-powered tool that lets online shoppers “be their own detective” and spot the warning signs of scams has won praise from the UK’s fraud minister.
Scam Intelligence lets customers of the digital bank Starling upload images of items and ads on online marketplaces such as Facebook Marketplace, eBay, Vinted and Etsy, which it analyses for signs of fraud before serving up personalised advice “in seconds”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New AI-powered anti-scam tool wins praise from UK fraud minister
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five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Reposted by Phil Feldman, PhD
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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New from 404 Media: the same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials say they have personal data of tens of thousands more government officials, including thousands NSA, more in intel community. They sent me data from a dizzying list of agencies
www.404media.co/hackers-say-...
www.404media.co/hackers-say-...
Hackers Say They Have Personal Data of Thousands of NSA and Other Government Officials
The same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials now say they have the personal data of tens of thousands of officials from the NSA, Air Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and many ...
www.404media.co
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New from 404 Media: the same hackers who doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, and FBI officials say they have personal data of tens of thousands more government officials, including thousands NSA, more in intel community. They sent me data from a dizzying list of agencies
www.404media.co/hackers-say-...
www.404media.co/hackers-say-...
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In honor of our inflatable non-warriors —
A humble suggestion to make “Neon Pegasus” a protest anthem
You’ll see why
youtu.be/EiO9_PJ0h8Q
A humble suggestion to make “Neon Pegasus” a protest anthem
You’ll see why
youtu.be/EiO9_PJ0h8Q
Neon Pegasus - Parry Gripp
YouTube video by ParryGripp
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
In honor of our inflatable non-warriors —
A humble suggestion to make “Neon Pegasus” a protest anthem
You’ll see why
youtu.be/EiO9_PJ0h8Q
A humble suggestion to make “Neon Pegasus” a protest anthem
You’ll see why
youtu.be/EiO9_PJ0h8Q
Next time it will be bigger. Do NOT be on the wrong side of this
It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.
October 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Next time it will be bigger. Do NOT be on the wrong side of this