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Tim Kindberg
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Writer and digital creative champignon.net
Interella - a new future fairy tale

Once upon a future time – and a time of techno-tyranny it will be – a girl called Interella will ask her father, “What is school?”

timkindberg.substack.com/p/interella

#fairytale #futurefairytale
Interella
And the search for knowledge
timkindberg.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Please join me for a talk and discussion about Nature Vs AI. Is Nature better than AI at distinguishing what's true from what's false?

In person at the Pervasive Media Studio (@pmstudiouk.bsky.social) or online. Friday 20th June at 1pm UK time
www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...
Lunchtime Talk: Nature vs AI | Pervasive Media Studio
In this Lunchtime Talk, PM Studio Resident Tim Kindberg will examine AI critically in the light of nature as both a point of comparison and a context in which AI is embedded.
www.watershed.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The baby room - an AI thought experiment. In which I critique not only LLMs but the epistemology of digital systems more generally. Your critiques of my critique are welcome medium.com/@timkindberg...
The baby room — An AI thought experiment
Note to readers: this is a purely intellectual exercise to help us compare humans to large language models like ChatGPT. It involves…
medium.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Have to agree...
this website is like the suburbs. it's pleasant, but dull

the other website is like the big city with a terrible mayor. a lot happens there, even things you may not like
December 18, 2024 at 7:44 AM
1.5C -> 2C global heating causes >> proportionate harm. See thread for source.
From 1.5C to 2C of global warming is an increase by 33.3 percent. Many people assume that the negative impacts of this would also increase by only 33.3 percent. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The increase is non-linear.
This is one of the biggest missing pieces in public climate literacy.
December 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
A biochemical manifesto:

Intelligence is analogue
Consciousness is analogue
Knowledge is biochemical or a priori
The truth is offline
Epistemology is human
December 6, 2024 at 12:10 PM
I listened to Chappell Roan so you didn't have to. By contrast, there's so much good music coming out of Africa nowadays - especially but not exclusively Nigeria and South Africa
December 6, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Reposted by Tim Kindberg
Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
'Two-thirds of American men aged 18-23 agree with the statement “no one really knows me”.' - And many turn to podcasts instead of human company. Ones that turn them towards Trump
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t underestimate the Rogansphere. His mammoth ecosystem is Fox News for young people | Sam Wolfson
Podcasts like Joe Rogan’s and Theo Von’s aren’t on the fringes. Their blend of off-the-cuff, Trump-leaning commentary blurs traditional lines between left and right – and offers listeners companionshi...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Just got "internal server error" off this app. Has Musk had a word with his mate Putin to bring it down?
November 20, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Be magic. Don't be tragic.
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Oh. We should all enjoy the relative lack of techbro billionaire crypto AI EA bollocks for the short time it's going to last...
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
November 18, 2024 at 5:04 PM
If like Rebecca Solnit you think technology corporations have sapped our mental energy like vampires now, wait until you see 2087 - Vampires of Avonmouth vampiresofavonmouth.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 PM
@bsky.app do you realise that one can't update a profile banner image with a .heic stored on an android phone (i.e. one previously taken and stored on the phone)?
November 18, 2024 at 4:53 PM
“Ministers need to push back against any use of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice, prison and welfare systems that could lead to people being discriminated against, unfairly targeted and other miscarriages of justice." By Palantir, in particular
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’
Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Or is it a bug on Android that links don't open in the app? This app is pretty buggy. I can't even change the background on my profile - just ignores the image I tick
November 14, 2024 at 3:45 PM
How do I use a starter pack from within the app? I can find them only on the web - and they don't link to the app
November 14, 2024 at 3:42 PM