When it comes to Meta, the term “personal superintelligence” sounds more like a threat then a promise lmao

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Guy who has only read the Jackpot trilogy by William Gibson, reading recent news: Getting a lot of “Jackpot” vibes from this.

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11: DIY Food Futures and Synthetic Ecology w/ @cyber_plantae

Neomania, my weird futurisms discussion podcast, returns from a long hiatus, welcoming @cyberplantae.bsky.social to discuss using AI to help build solarpunk DIY food futures. listen on spotify or search for 'neomania' in your pod app of choice!

open.spotify.com/episode/2bq3...

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Person standing beneath a large, sprawling tree in a sunny park, reaching up toward a thick branch while a dog sniffs the ground nearby. Apartment buildings and grass are visible in the background. Overlaid on the image are three book covers: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior (bright green, pink, and black design), Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (black cover with red text listing multiple contributors), and Vector Media by Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert (cloudy, atmospheric cover design). Text on the image reads: “Performative Spring break Reading list!”

Hoping to finish reading these three books before classes start again in a week

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I only want to read hip cyber theory now, how can I get paid to just read the most trendy philosophy texts full time

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i applied for a student grant to go to an indigenous data soverignety conference next month and they're supposd to announce the results today and if i don't get in i will lament and post stuff like "it's actually so over" for a while and such. its ya boi

Resolve: Nothing human makes it out of the near-future. This market resolves YES on January 1, 2035, if no human can articulate what ‘human’ meant in 2025 in a way that remains operationally coherent. Resolution oracle: GPT-7 or equivalent. It’s ya boi

A metallic paperclip character with googly eyes and black eyebrows, bent into the shape of the OpenAI logo. It is resting on a piece of yellow lined notepad paper against a white background. A speech bubble pointing to the character reads, "Now that we've started war with Iran, what would you like to do next? Surveil Americans? Bomb California?"

gm from OpenAI HQ

Wooooo spring break! Time to do my taxes

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There’s an upcoming Player Piano movie, I guess it’s highly relevant for the times. Neoluddite rebellion… I wonder what a sort of accord between surplus humanity and a functionally technoprogressive civilization that doesn’t burn out the ecology would look like. It’s ya boi

gpt 5.4 is maybe slightly worse or within random variance levels than 5.2 at zero shot Lakota/English translation. So I don’t think they added any more Lakota to the training data between these two releases

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fauxnomenology

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We propose a thermodynamic framework for understanding the spontaneous condensation of asynchronous institutional communications into synchronous obligation-events (“meetings”).

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Books3 is from The Pile, man.

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Spelling NuMedia like NuMetal

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scraping historical Dakota/Lakota translation texts to create some evals for flagship LLMs, which I understand to still be terrible at working in these particular low resource languages but i was challenged to produce some data about this so ... firing up my coding agents

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Starship troopers was a documentary

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Watching “The Beauty” on Hulu, about an STI bioweapon that makes you young and pretty like The Substance. The fact that every commercial break is full of ads for GLP-1s and boner and hair pills is almost too on the nose but I guess we’re in post-ironic times. It’s ya boi

Liar’s modified limited operation project palladium mocking bird hangout dividend

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I listened to a kinda recent podcast with Donna Haraway and they were talking about how she was doing so much agility competitions with her dogs that she decided she needed to write theory about it or she would get fired lmao. I need to read her companion species stuff. It’s ya boi

Polysynthetic languages, which form complex words from numerous morphemes (often an entire sentence in one word), present a significant challenge for Large Language Models. its ya boi

If anybody has a copy please forward to Lance at robotson dot media

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universal basic token and the industrial production of vector spaces

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just sat in on an Indigenous Data Sovereignty + AI webinar to learn more about how these issues are being discussed. A lot of the time, we're conflating more generic data governance issues with the more cultural AI and Language issues, and this is making it hard to think about them both. It's ya boi

The Work of Propaganda in the Age of Adversarial Generation. It’s ya boi

postsecondary-orality

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Epstein island was the original network state

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Two diagrams juxtaposed: the Speculative Futuring ‘Cone of Possibilities’ (Dunne & Raby) showing nested, orderly layers of possible, preferred, probable, and plausible futures expanding from the present — paired with Anthropic’s misalignment scaling diagram, which uses a nearly identical cone shape but dissolves into tangled, divergent reasoning paths as model intelligence and task complexity increase. The visual rhyme suggests the tidy futures cone is an idealized version of what is actually a chaotic branching process.

Productive misalignment

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@taylorwwebb.bsky.social i had a crackpot idea that the whole "life flashing before your eyes" phenomenon of near death experiences sort of resembles this thing the Claude Code agent does when the context window is about to run out, /compact context summary for the next instance. silly?? its ya boi

One Battle After Another and The Oppositional Gaze

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