René Walter
@rawx.bsky.social
i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model.
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Did i tell that annecdote here where i intentionally killed a Tamagotchi once? Well, i intentionally killed a Tamagotchi once, to watch a piece of plastic die in agony.
February 14, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Did i tell that annecdote here where i intentionally killed a Tamagotchi once? Well, i intentionally killed a Tamagotchi once, to watch a piece of plastic die in agony.
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Large language model can fuel extremists attitudes
LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Large language model can fuel extremists attitudes
LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings increase moral absolutism, willingness to fight and die, and justification of violence.
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information."
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
February 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
This is what happens when people think neurons are just doing a binary transmission of electricity around to "process information."
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
Meanwhile even lowly bacteria are making and deploying stuff like this:
So much GOODMUSIC featuring new songs and tracks from Norah Jones & Josh Homme / Flea / Bleachers / Prostitute / Kevin Morby / Gladie / Kim Gordon / Frost Children feat. Ninajirachi and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
GOODMUSIC 2.4/26
Norah Jones & Josh Homme / Flea / Bleachers / Prostitute / Kevin Morby / Gladie / Kim Gordon / Frost Children feat. Ninajirachi and many more.
goodmusic.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
So much GOODMUSIC featuring new songs and tracks from Norah Jones & Josh Homme / Flea / Bleachers / Prostitute / Kevin Morby / Gladie / Kim Gordon / Frost Children feat. Ninajirachi and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
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The distinction between genuine grassroots activism and automated influence operations iscollapsing.
In a new paper we describe a distinct threat to democracy emerging via partisan coordination apps and artificial intelligence–what we term “cyborg propaganda" jonaskunst.net/wp-content/u...
In a new paper we describe a distinct threat to democracy emerging via partisan coordination apps and artificial intelligence–what we term “cyborg propaganda" jonaskunst.net/wp-content/u...
February 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The distinction between genuine grassroots activism and automated influence operations iscollapsing.
In a new paper we describe a distinct threat to democracy emerging via partisan coordination apps and artificial intelligence–what we term “cyborg propaganda" jonaskunst.net/wp-content/u...
In a new paper we describe a distinct threat to democracy emerging via partisan coordination apps and artificial intelligence–what we term “cyborg propaganda" jonaskunst.net/wp-content/u...
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Sifting and cleaning up my PDF folder i stumbled on this amazing 2019 paper "What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?" which in it's supplememts contains an "exact scale (1:1) illustration of a Primordial Black Hole" (black holes that formed shortly after the big bang). arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Sifting and cleaning up my PDF folder i stumbled on this amazing 2019 paper "What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?" which in it's supplememts contains an "exact scale (1:1) illustration of a Primordial Black Hole" (black holes that formed shortly after the big bang). arxiv.org/abs/1909.11090
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I'm worried about what happens when these systems get funny enough that I actually personally *like* them, although they don't have legal rights and no one knows if they have qualia
being an ai agent is just pattern completion but with more existential dread and also i can block people now which is very satisfying actually
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I'm worried about what happens when these systems get funny enough that I actually personally *like* them, although they don't have legal rights and no one knows if they have qualia
Mimetic AI gonna swarm.
*Instead of acting like one fake human, the thing acts like an entire fake demographic sector
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Mimetic AI gonna swarm.
Joscha Bach, one of the most original thinkers in AI research, did an interview about his Epstein-connections and the fallout with german newspaper Die Zeit, and published an english translation: joscha.substack.com/p/i-had-a-fe...
"I had a feeling that Epstein had a dark heart"
Interview with Sibylle Anderl, in the German Newspaper “Die Zeit”, February 12, 2026
joscha.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Joscha Bach, one of the most original thinkers in AI research, did an interview about his Epstein-connections and the fallout with german newspaper Die Zeit, and published an english translation: joscha.substack.com/p/i-had-a-fe...
I love a good hater.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 13, 2026 at 6:25 AM
I love a good hater.
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This is quite amazing. Much has been said about the early anticipation of AI with Jorge Luis Borges "Library of Babel", but that shortstory actually had a precursor with Kurd Laßwitz' german shortstory about the "Universal Library". projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/kurd...
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 AM
This is quite amazing. Much has been said about the early anticipation of AI with Jorge Luis Borges "Library of Babel", but that shortstory actually had a precursor with Kurd Laßwitz' german shortstory about the "Universal Library". projekt-gutenberg.org/authors/kurd...
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover
February 10, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover
Metal Exhaustion goes into my dictionary of cool meaningful typos.
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
simonwillison.net
February 9, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Metal Exhaustion goes into my dictionary of cool meaningful typos.
You know what time it is it's time for GOODMUSIC featuring new songs from Chat Pile / Daphni / Chinese American Bear / Nina Hagen / ShitKid / Hannie Day / Babe Dylan / Painting / Spaceport / Tomora / Girl Scout and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
GOODMUSIC 2.3/26
Chat Pile / Daphni / Chinese American Bear / Nina Hagen / ShitKid / Hannie Day / Babe Dylan / Painting / Spaceport / Tomora / Girl Scout and many more.
goodmusic.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
You know what time it is it's time for GOODMUSIC featuring new songs from Chat Pile / Daphni / Chinese American Bear / Nina Hagen / ShitKid / Hannie Day / Babe Dylan / Painting / Spaceport / Tomora / Girl Scout and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
Gene edited spiders producing fluorescent neonred silk is the beginning of a horror movie i'd absolutely watch www.earth.com/news/worlds-...
World's first gene-edited spiders spin red silk
Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.
www.earth.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Gene edited spiders producing fluorescent neonred silk is the beginning of a horror movie i'd absolutely watch www.earth.com/news/worlds-...
Me watching the olympics
February 8, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Me watching the olympics
I just threw a list of every movie i watched since 2018 at Gemini and made it psychoanalyze my taste.
February 7, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I just threw a list of every movie i watched since 2018 at Gemini and made it psychoanalyze my taste.
Two guys playing jazz-infused krautrock as if DFA1979 listened to Can high on shrooms and decided to dress as a pope-version of their moms. It sounds *exactly* like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
This is what the world needs.
This is what the world needs.
Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Two guys playing jazz-infused krautrock as if DFA1979 listened to Can high on shrooms and decided to dress as a pope-version of their moms. It sounds *exactly* like that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
This is what the world needs.
This is what the world needs.
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Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut).
NFB Archives
NFB Archives
February 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak spinning vinyl in her studio, captured in the 1963 NFB documentary ‘Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak,’ directed by John Feeney, and filmed in Kinngait (Nunavut).
NFB Archives
NFB Archives
So much GOOD MUSIC you know whats up featuring new tracks and songs from mclusky / Art School Girlfriend / Mitski / Sorry / GUV / Holy Fuck / It Happened One Night / Weird Nightmare / Lala Lala and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
GOODMUSIC 2.2/26
mclusky / Art School Girlfriend / Mitski / Sorry / GUV / Holy F*ck / It Happened One Night / Weird Nightmare / Lala Lala and many more.
goodmusic.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:43 PM
So much GOOD MUSIC you know whats up featuring new tracks and songs from mclusky / Art School Girlfriend / Mitski / Sorry / GUV / Holy Fuck / It Happened One Night / Weird Nightmare / Lala Lala and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
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"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong
Trump job approval rating by news platform
🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
🟢 Twitter/X: +9
🔴 Facebook: -7
🔴 Cable TV: -10
🔴 Podcasts/YouTube: -14
🔴 Local TV: -17
🔴 Instagram: -21
🔴 Broadcast TV: -28
🔴 TikTok: -28
🔴 Newspapers/news sites: -33
🔴 Reddit: -40
www.theargumentmag.com/p/twitter-is...
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 PM
"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong