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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I enjoyed this! You identify the accountability sentence as the important one, and that feels right to me. Lack-of-accountability critique is clearly not capability critique!

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"It is the nature of being compelled to produce text that fundamentally shifts it from the way humans operate in similar domains, and renders them unpredictable and unreliable for high-stakes tasks." Does "them" refer back to humans, to sequences (a plurality earlier in the para), or to 'the model'?

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queenofbithynia.bsky.social @queenofbithynia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

whenever I read an imaginary herman melville book in my sleep I like to follow it up by reading a real herman melville book in my awake without any delay, in order that my ideas about literature should remain as grounded in fact as may be possible. you can call this a superstition if you want

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

As many have written about, robots and AI have been allegories for slave labor in SF starting with R.U.R. Since then, the liberal impulse in SF has been to recognize the humanity and sentience of AI. It strikes me that this discourse is uniquely unfit for describing how so-called "AI" exists today.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

there is that in me which is rogue o imagine my dismay

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can read digitised issues of She (1970-1973), Mukti (1983-1987), and more in the South Asian Heritage collection on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100

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Explore our digital collections through curated selections of material according to themes, type or source of material.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

also ofc, depressingly, in what they are interested in shopping? Though this linking of relational needs to consumer desire actually seems rather theoretically sophisticated: as anthropologists of consumerism say, people buy not in order to be atomic individuals but to perform social relationality.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd always thought it hyperbole when people said of media content that it 'made them want to puke'. I hadn't then encountered BBC Radio 4's When It Hits the Fan. Predatory, fawning, systematic misdirection of human intelligence into complacent celebration of arbitrary privilege. Pure fucking evil.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...

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CALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The OpenAI hack of the Austrialian government is better described as misaligned company activity than misaligned model activity. There's been thinking about these artificial agents and how to constrain them for centuries: Hobbes on the state, law which treats companies as legal persons.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How to cite women on Wikipedia: a patriarchal catechism 1. Cite not women 2. When citing women, mention not their name 3. When mentioning their name, mention it not in main text but only in endnotes 4. When mentioning their name, link it not (Racist, &tc. variants of this catechism also available)

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yay, the theologians are getting into Critical AI Studies! Call for papers for conference on 'Intelligences: Human, Artificial, Planetary – and perhaps Divine' Submission deadline: 5 October 2026

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Call for papers: AI conference – St Augustine's College of Theology

Call for papers for AI conference hosted by St Augustine's College of Theology, 28 January 2027. Submission deadline 5 October 2026.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

gah I meant to type 'Equinox fox'.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Equally night, equally day. Equinox.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thank you very much for taking the trouble to do this! Feel ashamed I've never read it. Only 19 pages in and it's a banger.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's honestly heartwarming to see the press finally realise that Trump needs them (emotionally as an individual, as well as politically) a little more than they need to hear from him.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lest labour claim its share; capitalize the infinite & exciting future as present value...) sorry if this is too marxian ;)

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We do! Culturally compounded for tech, I reckon, by the partiality of what the internet's digitised; by capital's restlessness (move fast and break things: creative destruction, built-in obsolescence); venture capital's ideologies of history (ignore past as sunk cost; make production invisible +

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Agree that's an interesting phenomenon, but I feel it has a different structure to that in the OP.

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Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As many yawne, when they see others yawne; and make water, when they see others doe so: so many are moued to take businesses in hand not by any certaine aduised iudgement, but they imitate what they see in others. #PalladisTamia #FrancisMeres

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not just the terrific readers! Please don't forget the compulsive, promiscuous, haphazard and somewhat inadequate readers. (I like to hope I'm not alone on Bluesky.)

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But I can also imagine an impatient (& proto-fash) tech bro response: I know from LessWrong/Bentham/whatever that all non-consequentalism is narcissistic clinging to prestige, & so if now we have the 'results', abandon hope all ye scientists & humanists both. I want imaginative distance from this!

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was very struck by the clarity and relative consensus (going by Fields signatories) of the maths community: that proofs are now much cheaper only shows we need to pay more attention to community stuff we value, which as it's hitherto been correlated with proofs we didn't separate out very clearly.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

oh, in the hope you'd have an interesting answer! I found the way you framed it striking, and one of the reflexes I have when I see something which seems new is ask 'how new is this?' I feel especial need to do this more wrt tech because some our habits when commenting on tech are so presentist.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

do you have any reading recs on this interesting problem?

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Can you think of precedent for, or other examples of, this kind of conservative revaluation (where we want to say we still value X, but in order to do so after some change we now have to say we value it for different reasons)?

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And now abideth covid, brexit, austerity, these three; but the greatest of these is austerity.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is lovely. Thank you, whoever put in the work to make this happen.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Should cats show more gratitude?

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now looking forward to this book launch for two reasons. First, it's a fabulous book. Second, I just received a reminder email which suggests there might be more elaborate ceremony than I had expected: "Please be there on time as we will have to sing you in."

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Feeling triumphal is always rather consoling. But I wonder if seeing his name in TRiUMPhal is also motivating.

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When will the Prime Minister visit the site and show he stands shoulder to shoulder with the volunteers? I know his spokesman made a statement, but he needs to be there, showing his support and that he backs decent heroes against the far right?

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, I associated it with Ian Jarvie, and with gently anthropologically tinged arguments (after Weber and Popper) about the extent to which one should attribute rationality in attempting explanation of prima facie bizarre social action

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Human irreducibility to tasks recalls Caitlin Rosenthal, Accounting for Slavery. She relates (p.201) Gantt's 'task system' & Taylor's 'task idea' to plantation slavery: as Gantt admitted, the word 'task' was 'disliked by many men'. It's mysterious ML use of 'task' hasn't been more widely criticized.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He deserves a little place in library science also, for his anticipation of what in the C20th became known as faceted classification schemes.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Indeed. I was amusing myself this week trying to count something. Unfortunately the sequence went a(0)=1, a(1)=5, a(2)=1665, and then the bounds I have for a(3) are rubbish - ~1.9×10^13 lower, ~4.6×10^20 upper

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

thanks! Ideologiekritik _for Ideologiekritik's sake_ seems an odd inward turn. Art for art's sake (or, for that matter, G. H. Hardy's maths for maths's sake - thank mortality he never got to see the crypto bros braying for war) seems less paradoxical to me. But maybe that's just familiarity.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What on earth happened to Ideologiekritik? I'm struck that - even among leftist cultural commentators - there is so little recourse to the language of ideology. Is it just that 'we tried talking like that, and the world didn't change in ways we hoped?'

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Acute and funny and wise. RIP Bonnie Greer.

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Belonging to the Emperor; embalmed; tame; ... those that from a long way off look like flies.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A new report out from @unep.org documents our collective failure to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees and makes an urgent call for action to return from overshoot before it's too late. "Overshoot is not an argument for resignation, but rather for urgency to action." www.unep.org/resources/li...

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Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as unavoida...

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Helen Choi on 'knowledge commoning', arguing that academics should defend Wikipedia against gen AI enclosure of the knowledge commons. "The classic commons problem arises from overuse: too many actors drawing on a finite resource pool. [But w]hat diminishes Wikipedia is disuse rather than overuse."

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Towards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI - AI and Ethics

Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in history and one of the most valuable training resources available to the generative AI (genAI) industry; and yet that same industry is systematicall...

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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

looking for it I see I already mailed it to you after a bluesky exchange a year ago (30 Sep 2025) 😭

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