Robin Z
@firepile.bsky.social
Professor, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, 4e Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Retired Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad records fanatic. Wanna see me nerd out about music stuff? @musicephemera.bsky.social
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Robin Z
@firepile.bsky.social
· Jan 9
Rocket just wants to have a talk about your attitude. She isn't mad, she's just disappointed.
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The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
November 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
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New life goals
Someone's gonna say that toilet pic is AI slop and how dare you sir, the Terminator Skoilet is very real and no I do not actually have one but by god I would if I had $2185 to flush down the most badass toilet ever skullpot.com/en-int/colle...
Skullpot Toilet Special Edition T-800
The limited edition Skullpot toilet T-800 in shiny silver is a real highlight. With red glowing LED eyes (power connection required) and an individual serial number, it is a collector's item for enthu...
skullpot.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
New life goals
Yeah so her antlers arrive in a few days
I'm overloaded with work as usual so someone needs to talk me down from buying my dog a sweater with moose antlers
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Yeah so her antlers arrive in a few days
I'm overloaded with work as usual so someone needs to talk me down from buying my dog a sweater with moose antlers
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I'm overloaded with work as usual so someone needs to talk me down from buying my dog a sweater with moose antlers
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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the nyt frames this so it's the teenager who damages Gaetz, rather than the other way around.
that's a disgusting way to present this story.
that's a disgusting way to present this story.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
the nyt frames this so it's the teenager who damages Gaetz, rather than the other way around.
that's a disgusting way to present this story.
that's a disgusting way to present this story.
Rocket is just lying around grinning like she's planning some new heist
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Rocket is just lying around grinning like she's planning some new heist
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Our resources page has been updated with @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI book (he researched Gen AI as an instrument for fascism before a lot of us knew!) and @olivia.science's Critical AI website full of her academic research on the harms.
stopgenai.com/related-link...
stopgenai.com/related-link...
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Our resources page has been updated with @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI book (he researched Gen AI as an instrument for fascism before a lot of us knew!) and @olivia.science's Critical AI website full of her academic research on the harms.
stopgenai.com/related-link...
stopgenai.com/related-link...
Pray for me, my Cyborgs class discusses Haraway tomorrow
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pray for me, my Cyborgs class discusses Haraway tomorrow
I ruined this poor guy's day by running interference for his would-be lunch. Red-tailed hawk's gotta eat, but not 2 feet away from me!
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I ruined this poor guy's day by running interference for his would-be lunch. Red-tailed hawk's gotta eat, but not 2 feet away from me!
Absolute Asimo flashbacks
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Absolute Asimo flashbacks
Some very normal stuff here
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Some very normal stuff here
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The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
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"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
2 days ago it was 60° and now Chicago is due for 18" of snow tonight, everything is fine
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
2 days ago it was 60° and now Chicago is due for 18" of snow tonight, everything is fine
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
Vocally reassuring the dog she's such a good girl and has never done anything wrong but I am freezing and she has all the blankets and can't I just have a tiny corner
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vocally reassuring the dog she's such a good girl and has never done anything wrong but I am freezing and she has all the blankets and can't I just have a tiny corner
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
Every day I think AI hype can't get any more fucked up but here's a job ad to teach GenAI at a whole ass environmental university jobs.chronicle.com/job/37913139...
Subject Matter Expert in Artificial Intelligence - New Gloucester, Maine, United States job with Unity Environmental University | 37913139
About Unity:
At Unity Environmental University we are on a mission to make
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November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Every day I think AI hype can't get any more fucked up but here's a job ad to teach GenAI at a whole ass environmental university jobs.chronicle.com/job/37913139...