Kākāpō in Camouflage

Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

get weirder 🫵

celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? universeal. a starbor(harbor) seal. ✎: gouache and colored pencil on paper

'nüüm na waalt - it belongs to us all. sticker design this month on my patreon 🌕 inspired by the artemis ii mission, and pictures of mineral moons that circulated at the time (partially due to a misunderstanding that they were un- or lightly-manipulated photos from the mission itself).

ありのまま

In _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.

Reify This

The authors contend that contemporary efforts to render AI systems interpretable rest on a mistake: reification, the process of treating abstractions and statistical artifacts as if they were concrete...

theideasletter.org

[ are you happy here? ] #pixelart #pixquare

'Hoping' Brown pencils on ivory cartridge paper, 150 × 105 mm. #Junicorn

Extremely important point.

Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not only is writing thinking but you don’t really know what you think until you start writing.

Cats on the Rocks 🪨🍸

fairies✨

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

Fall trees. Ink and watercolour. Just messing around and drawing happy little trees.

anthropic researchers say that claude actually does have a model girlfriend it’s just that she works a lot so you probably won’t get to meet her for awhile but she is real and also she can see more colors than shrimp can

Thrilled to see Dan @makeitdoathing.com has finally opened the glitchwear.store store for his one-of-a-kind, computationally generated, buyer-customized knitwear. I'm delighted to confirm that these are gorgeous and comfortable garments, too.

Come on

The Adoration of the Wieners (Carnitas, Denied), iPhone and unexpectedly good lighting, 2026

The Snow Queen, by Edmund Dulac, 1911.

Don't look at the reflection 🍂

A Murder

I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.

The Acid Horizon podcast episode we recorded yesterday is already online. open.spotify.com/episode/5wI3...

And in red!

this is the best website invented www.youraislopbores.me

you used it and it worked??? let me update my priors

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 6mo ago

this guy's smart and he found it useful, what does that mean for the rest of us? well it's still blood soaked machinery you rent from fascists so it's not affecting my analysis really

If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.

This is an essential read.

Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

You might not agree, but there’s a growing consensus, even among reluctant users, that LLMs *feel different.* I don’t think it undermines critique to ask about the stakes of those feelings — and of this new goal of “agential AI.” 🧵

It's not the same thing, but I could not help but think of @grimalkina.bsky.social's Why I Cannot Be Technical: www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot...

Why I Cannot Be Technical

With some regularity, kind-hearted Technical people tell me that I Can Be Technical, Too. This usually happens when I’m asking us to define what we’re calling technical in a software environment. I un...

fightforthehuman.com

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"The correspondence reveals a system, @dannagal.bsky.social said, that determines who “gets to be a ‘smart person’ — not because of their brain, but because of the money that they have been given.”" Preach!