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latent curator
aspiring gamer
occasional cat-avec
bookshelf owner
spaceship dreamer
future-curious
past-aware
Mermaid Dread
🐱🗻🚀🦊🛰️🌕🦇
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
A night in the lonesome November
“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A night in the lonesome November
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seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
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For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
typosin just sõnause: tehisintellekst
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
typosin just sõnause: tehisintellekst
Kuidagi lohutav teadmine.
Kõik Platoni dialoogid on kokku 1745 lk. Kõik Aristotelese teosed on kokku 2465 lk. Vaibkouditud skriptiga kollane piir Platoni iga 17. lehekülje lõppu ja iga Aristotelese 25. lehekülje lõppu. Kui iga päev kasvõi hambad ristis lugeda 42 lehekülge, saaks 100 päevaga Platon ja Aristoteles läbi loetud.
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Kuidagi lohutav teadmine.
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he’s doing his best to read
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
he’s doing his best to read
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All classic ghost story writers have bios that are like “His father taught at Oxbridge, then founded a society for seances & spiritualist research, then became Archbishop of Canterbury; his mother was a famous political genius & medium.”
That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that
That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that
August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
All classic ghost story writers have bios that are like “His father taught at Oxbridge, then founded a society for seances & spiritualist research, then became Archbishop of Canterbury; his mother was a famous political genius & medium.”
That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that
That specifically is E. F. Benson but they’re all like that
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‘Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from their books, since they ate cheese while they read and dribbled fragments onto the page.’
Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles
The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
‘Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from their books, since they ate cheese while they read and dribbled fragments onto the page.’
Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anthony Grafton on early modern libraries:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃
Bibliothèque · Foucault fiches de lecture
eman-archives.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Well this is quite exciting: Michel Foucault’s personal library has been catalogued and will be searchable online from this September eman-archives.org/Foucault-fic... 🗃
The Keeper of Earth and Time has left.
Bill Dilworth, Caretaker of ‘The New York Earth Room,’ Is Dead at 70
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The Keeper of Earth and Time has left.
The total enshittification of politics.
June 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The total enshittification of politics.
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If we don't equip people to verify information themselves, we leave them at the mercy of those who weaponise doubt. This is the new civic skill set.
Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy
Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy
June 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
If we don't equip people to verify information themselves, we leave them at the mercy of those who weaponise doubt. This is the new civic skill set.
Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy
Critical thinking isn’t an academic ideal anymore. It’s the new infrastructure of democracy
The Te Hiku team see data as the final frontier for colonisation: “They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents and now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.” www.wired.com/story/maori-... #indigenousai #aiethics #aihistory #artsummitkorea
Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech
Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it
www.wired.com
June 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The Te Hiku team see data as the final frontier for colonisation: “They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents and now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.” www.wired.com/story/maori-... #indigenousai #aiethics #aihistory #artsummitkorea
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Never leave home without it.
June 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Never leave home without it.
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Today I learned that Peter Weller - the guy that played Robocop - was so humiliated by Dario Argento's Director of Photography, while talking about art, that he subsequently went and got a PhD in Art History, and now just published a book on Alberti with Cambridge University Press.
April 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today I learned that Peter Weller - the guy that played Robocop - was so humiliated by Dario Argento's Director of Photography, while talking about art, that he subsequently went and got a PhD in Art History, and now just published a book on Alberti with Cambridge University Press.
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I am an Amateur of Velocipedes http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-i-am-an-amateur-of-velocipedes-t11910
March 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I am an Amateur of Velocipedes http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/carrington-i-am-an-amateur-of-velocipedes-t11910
A different kind of AI enthusiasm by @karlschroeder.bsky.social - “… when what we really need is a universal assistant to augment the collective decision-making capacity of diverse groups of people?” (and pay the authors).
AI for a New Democracy
Current Large Language Models are being trained to aid programmers. I propose we train one to aid collective decision-making
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A different kind of AI enthusiasm by @karlschroeder.bsky.social - “… when what we really need is a universal assistant to augment the collective decision-making capacity of diverse groups of people?” (and pay the authors).
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"I wish that we demonized lack of empathy the way we demonize lack of intelligence in society." - @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social in Automatons, Robots and Other Humanoid Creations" #Capricon
February 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"I wish that we demonized lack of empathy the way we demonize lack of intelligence in society." - @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social in Automatons, Robots and Other Humanoid Creations" #Capricon
Happy unitary Now!
#2025 #ursulakleguin
#2025 #ursulakleguin
December 31, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Happy unitary Now!
#2025 #ursulakleguin
#2025 #ursulakleguin