"But this is a perverted idea of progress. What good is a proof of the Riemann conjecture if there is no one who understands it? And not just a single person: you need a whole community of people to understand it and then gradually think about what it might lead to.

Julian Togelius@togelius.bsky.social · 11h ago

New blog post: A.I.: Anti-Intellectualism togelius.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-a...

Oh nice, my neighbors did a Halloween @semble.so theme ;)

Interesting new open @semble.so collection by @rafmbatista.bsky.social 👀 Add your fave AI predictions here 👇

AI Predictions, Big and Small (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble

A compilation of ideas and writing where there is some prediction of the future so that we can look back one day and compare.

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we don’t need to explain atproto. we need to move the Overton Window to get people asking why it’s considered normal that a company can unilaterally control (and destroy) part of our identity and we just… let them

DC folks: Come to Politics & Prose tonight (Wharf location)! I'll be in conversation with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine about their excellent new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. politics-prose.com/tan-redwine-...

JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine — Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry - with Dave Karpf — at the Wharf

JS Tan is getting his PhD at MIT and formerly worked in tech. His work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Foreign Policy, The Baffler, and The Guardian, among other outlets.

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I'll be at Berkeley today, giving a talk at noon for the Cultural Analytics Series in the the School of Information! I'll be speaking about storytelling, AI, pretraining data, and user-chatbot behavior.

It's really fun watching someone go on a sensemaking tear on @semble.so - collecting, connecting and synthesizing perspectives on a complex issue. Looking forward to a future where sensemakers livestream on @stream.place

"Owen Yingling, a senior studying philosophy at the University of Chicago, told me that he and his peers fear that A.I. will prevent them from growing into full-fledged human beings" This piece is actually really encouraging imo Go team human ✊ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The hit rate for finding interesting articles and academic papers on @semble.so is, I gotta say, remarkably high. In the ballpark of "Related Articles" on Google Scholar. You just pop in the url or doi to 'create a card' then scroll through the Similar Cards.

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie · 3d ago

At the @aial.ie, we collectively reflected and deliberated on the merits of the use of generative AI in research. Our collective statement and Lab Policy can be read here: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... zenodo.org/records/2322...

Not to draw too tight of an analogy here, but I can't help but think of attitudes towards slavery prior to the Civil War- significant numbers in the North were proslavery/apathetic, only a fraction were abolitionists. Wouldn't be surprised if the same was true re "digital serfdom" and abolitionism

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3d ago

I don’t think 90% of people want to control the algorithm

Gently, this misses the point IMO - algorithmic choice does not mean everybody builds their own algorithms, it means an open market of competition for a (likely very small) number of people to design the right set of choices for people to choose from.

Colin@colin-fraser.net · 3d ago

I don’t think 90% of people want to control the algorithm

Shout it from the rooftops! Demanding another person’s attention for work you didn’t do or think about is antisocial behavior. We need a new social contract in which this kind of gamesmanship is understood to be a cancer on whatever work culture it attempts to consume.

Tyson Barrett@healthandstats.bsky.social · 4d ago

Outside of the obvious open source problems with vibe coding, there is soooo much truth in the “now I have to read/review all of this stuff with my brain power when you used almost none at all” across all layers of work now. Feel this in my bones 😭

👀 "Rather than viewing citizen science merely as crowdsourced data collection or computational tools as autonomous infrastructure, we advocate for human-machine systems in which citizen scientists, including distributed publics, participate as monitors, interpreters...and co-producers of knowledge."

🆕 📝 New paper officially out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! In 2023, Change.org built an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We offer causal evidence that access to the AI tool changed petition text (word count, language)... but may have actually hurt outcomes (signatures, comments).

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

AT Proto is imo the best fit right now for collective information systems. on @semble.so you can search through people's collections and notes and discover the curators behind the links. discovery is really neat.

Tired: AI for math Wired: wicked and super wicked problems

🗳 midterms.graze.social is @graze.social's most ambitious project to date. And as of today, it's live. Let's take a look at what the next 27 days will look like 🧵

Election Night 2026

Vetted coverage of the 2026 midterms, by state.

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Awesome stuff! This is the future

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 4d ago

Introducing Discussions - a new way to have conversations on Blacksky 🗣️ Now you can create a dynamic poll right from the post composer in the app to ask questions, get feedback, or to build community around any and every topic you find interesting.

I'm hiring for our interpretable world modeling effort at Percepta! The core question: how can we make an agent build a simulator, understand a company, and then design a policy, all from unstructured data? Come work with me and our amazing team. jobs.ashbyhq.com/percepta/909...

Research Scientist – World Modeling

WHO WE ARE Percepta’s mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier techno...

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at a time where social media platforms encourage more performative and one-sided sharing than ever, we're excited to be launching features for more generative, participatory, and fun conversations. looking forward to everyone's feedback and to seeing what Discussions come 💬💜

Blacksky Algorithms@blackskyweb.xyz · 4d ago

Introducing Discussions - a new way to have conversations on Blacksky 🗣️ Now you can create a dynamic poll right from the post composer in the app to ask questions, get feedback, or to build community around any and every topic you find interesting.

👇 we need a different digital timeline folks. its not a drill. bad stuff happens to societies that don't pay attention.

Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · last wk.

Friends: take a moment to sign european.social. There's strength in numbers and we can bring some game. This can become more than a letter.

Feeling this too, thanks for articulating it @sebastianwatzl.bsky.social Collective human attention matters more than ever in the age of powerful AI

Sebastian Watzl@sebastianwatzl.bsky.social · 4d ago

One (!) thing the recent AI math applications show, I think, is that we actually value good attention (a collective good) more than knowledge (or truth). Knowledge as such can be stale. Attention is lively - future and action oriented.

Rivetting talk by @robin.berjon.com introducing the ATmosphere to a room full of people fed up with the state of the web at #disinfo2026 "A private foundation should not be the one providing public infrastructure, it's time for the absentee states to step up"

Recap of yesterday's CIDS assembly at TUD @tudresden.bsky.social Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social had a proper booth for the Synosys poster. I brought an A3 print, and people found that funny. That's a resource allocation problem. The real value was the conversations, so here they are 🧵

Torsten Goerke (verified 🤜 🤛) 🎛️🎹🔊🎚️🎧📟🔌🐸@tgoerke.bsky.social · 6d ago

What if researchers owned their accounts, their data and their networks? We think they should, and we are building it. @atproto.science Tomorrow we will show it at the CIDS assembly at TU Dresden, with Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social @tudresden.bsky.social 14:15–15:00. Come ask us anything

TIL Etuaptmumk (from the Mi'kmaq of NE Canada) ‘learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing, and to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.’

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 4d ago

"Our societies are undeniably a constraint upon our freedom, as Locke and Hobbes were getting at. What they missed: it is simultaneously a condition of it. Society is not the antithesis of our freedom but the ground in which freedom can take root and grow."

"Our societies are undeniably a constraint upon our freedom, as Locke and Hobbes were getting at. What they missed: it is simultaneously a condition of it. Society is not the antithesis of our freedom but the ground in which freedom can take root and grow."

Weaving freedom

On joy and heavy responsibility

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"My expectation is that the AI bubble will be one of the biggest and most extreme we have ever seen."

Phil Free@philfree.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Dalio fallacy - explaining bond markets ericlonergan915540.substack.com/p/the-dalio-...

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