Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Dan
@dannno0o.bsky.social
🥝 certified doctor thinking critically about how AI systems simulate and imitate language in their architectures, interfaces and how all of this feeds the narrative of recreating human intelligence. he/him. 🇵🇸🌻
It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
Very happy to be an official affiliate of the @leverhulmecal.bsky.social and am looking forward to working together with the many wonderful folks there in the coming years to study the emerging political architectures that machine learning is giving rise to !
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
Huge props to @ainowinstitute.bsky.social for this important and scary piece about AI kill chains. Very important reading and a wonderful example of visual storytelling. ai-killchain.airwars.org
Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
ai-killchain.airwars.org
If you see this …. It’s a sign to take care of your local waterway by picking up trash!!!
Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/
Hello, if anyone is interested, my PhD thesis "Envisaging Simulation and its Limits: Large Language Models from Architecture to Interface to Ideology" is available to read here: eprints.qut.edu.au/266867/ Thanks to everyone who has supported my candidature @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au !
Envisaging Simulation and its Limits: Large Language Models from Architecture to Interface to Ideology
Whelan-Shamy, Dan (2026) Envisaging Simulation and its Limits: Large Language Models from Architecture to Interface to Ideology. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
eprints.qut.edu.au
“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
theguardian.com
Crazy that the only real form of upward mobility in Australia / New Zealand is to perpetuate the wealth extraction that is property investment. And even then you gotta have rich parents or crazy luck to get on the ladder
the video is about the quality of fast food but everything feels like this lately
Absolutely chuffed that my PhD thesis Envisaging simulation and its limits: Large Language Models From Architecture, to Interface, to Ideology has passed examination with no revisions and was nominated by both examiners to receive an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award :D
Just published! LCAL fellow @alexcampolo.bsky.social new paper on the conjoined histories of machine learning and emotion recognition. A must read in context of how machine learning transforms its scientific and cultural objects #machinelearning #images journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...
Labels and Emotions
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.
The desecration of Palestine and its people is an outrage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvvG...
Palestine
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
youtube.com
“If overseas experiences are anything to go by, cutting public sector jobs in favour of #AI models will create more problems than it solves.”NZGovt announced removal of 8,500 #publicsector #jobs replacing many with AI & automation #austerity #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...?
Is the NZ government sleepwalking into its own automation scandal?
Cautionary tales from abroad show that when automation and AI goes wrong, it does so at speed and scale – with huge human and financial costs.
thespinoff.co.nz
Excellent essay by Leif, Tyler, and Ben. Interestingly, reification of “internal states” is one of the pitfalls of the intentional stance of Dennett, something we are seeing a lot of AI interoperability research succumbing to.
Ben Recht@beenwrekt.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
This is an undeniably a correct statement but the more accurate and appropriate way to frame this is that *Deakin workers* saved their own jobs by joining together *as* their NTEU union.
NTEU@nteunion.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe National Tertiary Education Union has saved more than 140 jobs at Deakin University after successfully pressuring management to scrap its damaging plan. Read full media release: nteu.info/deakinwin
NZ (potentially) selling off conservation land is a national disgrace www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept... #nzpol
Maps reveal where conservation land could be sold off after government reforms
The parts of the country where conservation land will become easier to sell off are revealed in new maps produced by a lobby group.
rnz.co.nz
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
theverge.com
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
I don't want to pretend this *isn't* shocking or ghastly but, like, when digital media experts are expressing concern generally about the data a game like Pokemon Go is collecting from day one, this is precisely the kind of end game they are thinking about.
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026@scherawyss.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
Important evidence of how Meta's suppression of Palestinian voices and activism extends to a structural level: 7amleh.org/post/meta-su...
Hamleh - New Research Reveals Systematic Suppression of Palestinian Digital Content Across Meta Platforms
7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media released today new research titled “The Platformicide of Palestine (2021–2025): A Data-Based Analysis of Meta’s Policy Application, Moderat...
7amleh.org
Aotearoa NZ having a normal one. I really hope the coalition government gets voted out this year. They’re morally bankrupt and only in it for their own benefit.
RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 2mo agoMinistry for the Environment officially scrapped in Parliament vote