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Feeding Ever Forward Control theory, politics, and the Kierkegaardian double bind.

New post: history of ideas from control, decision theory, cybernetics, and psychology, with some Stalin-era academic politics in the USSR thrown in for good measure. realizable.substack.com/p/feeding-ev...

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

This is what I was asking about btw www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m tempted to put as many m-dashes as possible in my next paper

I remember the reactions to BERT, "such a huge model and so much CO2 to train it!"

Seems quaint now

This is very cool
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LLMs will transform e-commerce in ways that consumer protection is unprepared for!

Our new preprint finds that conversational AI can strongly steer consumer choices: sponsored product selection nearly tripled relative to traditional placement (N=2012).

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04263

In Our Glorious AI Future, There Will Be No Such Thing as Money (For You) “In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money.”

"In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money."

Wish I had Lean when I was a math undergrad!

You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS! Norm, the formal theoretical linguist, and Claudette, the computational language scientist, have a lovely time discussing whether modern language models can inform important questions in the language ...

Richard @futrell.bsky.social and I have posted our response to the commentaries on our BBS target article "How Linguistics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Language Models." The response is: "You Can't Fight in Here! This is BBS!" arxiv.org/abs/2604.09501

Memory as the Brain's Slime Trail Your brain is a scratchpad for your future selves

My new favorite concept: stigmergy!
It's how ants build complex nests without any central plan. One ant drops a dirt pellet, and that pellet becomes a signal for other ants to drop pellets there too. The environment itself becomes the blueprint cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/memory-as-...

@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an essay I wrote related to my book “Artificial Religion” pghrev.com/the-myths-we... and an excerpt of the book pghrev.com/talk-to-me-p... on publication day 🙂

The red and blue books are not enough

“Imagine a curiosity that aims less to know and more to make connections, build constellations, find links, and follow threads, functioning within a webbed network of relations between knowers, methods of knowing, and knowledges”

😅 I keep forgetting to visit Semble while on bsky

2026/04/28 From Social Networks to Sensemaking Networks Presenter: Ronen Tamari, Cosmik Network What would social media look like if it were designed for sensemaking rather than engagement? We're exploring this question with Semble, a platform where researchers curate shareable collections, create knowledge trails that others can build on, and discover relevant work through their network's collective attention. Built on the AT Protocol, the open social networking protocol behind Bluesky, Semble offers researchers data portability and an open API designed for extension. We'll discuss how Semble enables new kinds of research tooling, from living semantic citation graphs to collaborative review and annotation. We'll also share how ATProto's open data layer creates unique opportunities for studying and designing epistemic infrastructure — from observing how knowledge trails form across a network to experimenting with platform affordances that support collective sensemaking.

What would social media look like if it were designed for sensemaking rather than just engagement?

Excited to be presenting @semble.so & @cosmik.network at @stamina-workgroup.bsky.social on April 28 @ 11am ET! The seminar is open to the public so feel free to join at
www.complexdatalab.com/stamina/

Mundaneum - Wikipedia

Or, going further back, the Mundaneum

Not sure how I never heard of Hypercard!

Also may be of interest
@ronentk.me

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**@ptshaw2** — ICLR paper on Kolmogorov complexity and learning: connecting minimum description length to generalization in neural nets. x.com/ptshaw2/stat...

**@liranringel** — DDTree: speculative decoding with dynamic draft trees. Faster LLM inference without quality loss. 🔗 x.com/liranringel/...

**@wu_taiqiang** — Attention sink paper: x.com/wu_taiqiang/...

Here are four more X posts that Claude found:

**@yuntiandeng** — PAW (Papers as Workflows) thread: showcasing ToolCall-15 benchmark. Evaluates LLMs on realistic multi-step tool use. 🔗 x.com/yuntiandeng/... #MLSky #AI
x.com/yuntiandeng/...

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@kanishkamisra asks: any from-scratch multimodal VLMs ≤8B? (Not mapping between pretrained models — truly trained multi-modally from the start.)
🔗 https://x.com/kanishkamisra/status/2043861583244197890
#MLSky #AI

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

I've been wondering about this too. If anyone knows of any work on this space I'd be curious to hear!

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

How could The Onion ever parody this?

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I don’t like thinking about worst case scenarios… but in a worst case scenario we’re going to wish we had more on paper and well-organized non-digital archives.