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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In an LLM world, this kind of pure, uncut human slop hits me harder than the goddamn Brandenburg Concertos. It's just so beautiful

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

New article up! AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts—even those who consider themselves reasonable, grounded members of both camps—can easily deter engagement through overstatement or overzealous claims. medium.com/@acornapocal... #ai #writingadvice #contentwriting #persuasino #rhetoric

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Arguing Past Each Other

AI Haters, AI Enjoyers, and the Humility of Truth

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This is the kind of thing that BlueSky is for

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

DYK a language dies every ~14 days & more than half of the world's 7,000 languages could vanish by 2100. The Eyak language went extinct #OTD in 2008 when Chief Marie Smith Jones of Alaska's Eyak tribe & the last fluent speaker of Eyak died at the age of 89. #indigenous #language #linguistics (1/2)

An intimate indoor portrait of an elderly Indigenous Alaskan woman, Chief Marie Smith Jones, in her late 80s, seated and reclining slightly in a comfortable red upholstered armchair or recliner. She has short gray hair and wears large, round, gold-framed eyeglasses with thick lenses that reflect light. Her expression is thoughtful and somber, with a slight downward gaze and lips closed in quiet reflection or contemplation. She is dressed in a bright red long-sleeved top or shirt, evoking warmth and cultural pride. Directly behind her head, mounted high on the wood-paneled or warmly toned wall, hangs a striking traditional fur mask or ceremonial headdress resembling a bearded human-like face (possibly representing an ancestral or spiritual figure from Eyak or broader Alaskan Indigenous traditions). The mask has thick, shaggy brown fur framing a carved wooden face with prominent dark eyes, eyebrows, and a subtle smiling mouth, creating a powerful cultural backdrop that contrasts with her serene presence. The lighting is soft and natural, casting gentle shadows that highlight the textures of the fur mask, the red fabric of her clothing, and the rich tones of the room—possibly her Alaska home. The overall mood is one of quiet dignity, resilience, and profound cultural significance, capturing a moment that honors her role as the final guardian of the Eyak language and heritage before its passing with her in 2008.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

TWIN CITIES FOLKS WHO WANT TO HELP AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START: I put together a big list of resources. Do you want to deliver groceries? do people's laundry? work in community defense? I want to help you get connected! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/19/h...

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How to Help: Twin Cities Residents

This is a post for people in Minnesota. I’m going to do a separate post for the non-Minnesotans when I’m done with this one. (If you’re in a hurry you can go to Stand With Minneso…

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Complexity Cat 🐱 @amahury.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We've extended the deadline for #NERCCS2026 ! Don’t miss it! ✅More affordable registration fee compared to other conferences ✅World-class researchers as keynote speakers ✅Conference proceedings published in a diamond open access journal 👉Submit here: shorturl.at/52o0q

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

This is why LLM-generated fake citations are a problem. AI as it currently exists just can't be used for knowledge work. The infrastructure we have doesn't safeguard against the problems it creates.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Like a lot of folks, I'm culturally Christian but not practicing. To me, that means embracing the message of love, acceptance, and universal human worthiness that we associate with Christ. Wise words from our malört pontifex. Merry Christmas 🎄❤️

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Attention Writers! Hot new tip. Next holiday season, ask for the gift of nunchuck

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I understand that allocating grant money is complicated. Equity, access, prioritization, practical questions and fundamental research. I get that it's a hard, collective problem. But holy cow, we are NOT crushing it.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The damage from this is tremendous. Citation chains are fragile and flawed, but they're the connective tissue of our epistemic system. Every fake citation is a broken thread in a network that only functions when it's widely, richly connected. We have an 8th intractable problem with AI.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My own little guy came from Where the Love Is! I was in Guilford, CT at the time. I'd recommend them strongly to anyone nearby — they rely heavily on volunteers and, at least in Kiwi's case, rescued a litter of stray puppies from a ranch that couldn't keep 'em. Where's your pet from?

A quizzical dog leans over the back of a wide green armchair, his nose black and his chest badged white his floppy ears are framed by the bright blue sky out a bay window.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Destiny, back in 2014. No one had ever made a shooter that felt so good to play. A miracle of game design. And the vibes were immaculate. These days? Goat Simulator. What could compare to laughing with your spouse?

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

God that's so cool. Imagine a government just doing stuff that fixes problems. I know they haven't taken action yet, but they're moving very fast and they absolutely crushed it last time this happened.

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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A bear in the wild, smiling and posing coyly

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

@cjep.bsky.social paper on gender equity in cognitive science @nserc-resnet.bsky.social funding, highlighting progress in past 6 years. Led by @mcgillscience.bsky.social psych trainee Michelle Yang; co-authored w/ @pennypexman.bsky.social. A @wicscanada.bsky.social effort. doi.org/10.1037/cep0...

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hey, I just wrote about this! Nadis, like Begus and co, relies on Chomsky to define "metalinguistic abilities” — so this paper actually has nothing to do with human language in the same way that phrenology has little to do with psychology. medium.com/@acornapocal...

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To Understand LLMs, Forget Chomsky

Can Grok grok talk?

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Geertz's "thick description" adds necessary depth to observational research. I love that "thick" empathy also seeks the concrete, grounding empathy in specific shared experiences. Great example of how phenomenology, like materialist analysis, can anchor abstractions in the realities of human life.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Chomsky was so wrong about language in the 1960s he's still derailing research to this very day. New blog post: To Understand LLMs, Forget Chomsky medium.com/@acornapocal... #linguistics #llm #generativeai

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To Understand LLMs, Forget Chomsky

Can Grok grok talk?

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Even if one extends unwarranted charitability, "biological male/female" demonstrates poor linguistic awareness and a weak grasp of concepts tied to gender, sex, and gender-affirming care. "AMAB/AFAB" or "trans man/woman" are clearer, more informative, more accurate, and kinder to boot.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Dog invention #219: Ignition breathalyzer activated by dog breath.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

There are so many stories of animals finding only destruction in our built spaces. I love when, occasionally, an animal stumbles in and goes "oh hell yeah, this rules, it's my time to shine" I feel like raccoons are the champs of this. Maybe also rats.

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

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Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Doubly important since the most effective anti-trans bigotry aims to muddy the conversation past any shared consensus.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

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I Love Raphtalia🔞 @iloveraphtalia.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Brilliant, unimpeachably great idea. I'm most excited about the new knights. Those horses are just so totally disgusting, I can't wait to paint them wild chartreuse and ugly oozing purple. I wish I could give every single sculptor on this team a hug.

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

In our upcoming Technomoral Conversation we will discuss how AI has transformed science for better or worse, what it means for AI to be seen as a scientist & whether AI can truly fulfill its promise for science. 🗓️ Tues 4 Nov 18.00-19.30 GMT 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt

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Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures

During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...

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Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

MONUMENTS, an exhibit featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments paired with work by contemporary Black artists, opens in Los Angeles next week. This is Karon Davis' Descendants (2025), showing her son, Moses, holding a squirming replica Confederate general www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Lane Greene @lanegreene.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

How did I only just learn that "walrus" was in Old English written the other way around—horshwæl—because it means "horse-whale"?

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Last chance to submit your video to the CogSci Mind Challenge! ONLY 2️⃣ DAYS LEFT!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere. (As far as I can tell, anyway.) If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Forgot to add 🐦🐦

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Yes. And to write or speak well is, usually, to deliver both nuance and clarity. Which is why it's so hard

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My theory of Wicked is that Glinda is just as powerful a witch as Elphaba—it's just that her magic is exclusively social. The dance scene portrays her casting Mass Suggestion or a nice version of Otto's. Ditto the scenes of arrival at Shiz, Popular, etc.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I didn't know that collecting comics actually whips Well, reading comics really whips, and collecting them is fun and is how you support artists. Best of all, collect and share instead of collecting for value. Buy the books you think totally rule and lend them generously

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Trying to comprehend a draft journal article about "metaqualia." Anyone have any tips for metaapprehension

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly: when you’re addicted to watching kind German ghost rodents plan an elaborate scheme to steal gaming cubes made from carby food, call that a: nice geist mice rice dice heist vice this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/09/2025

How many times, in how many contexts, from how many internal and external researchers, or from how many CEO's are people going to have to receive this message before they believe it: "Hallucinations" are an inherent part of the large language model architecture. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Can researchers stop AI making up citations?

OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.

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Nick Land Acknowledgement 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Embrace Frank Frazetta Thought

Frank Frazetta sitting outside in an orange armchair, shirtless and shoeless, shredded as fuck, holding a paint palette and displaying a sick ass painting of a barbarian, goblin, and a scantily clad woman. His wife, Eleanor, rides a Honda ATC90, the most sickass form of transportation invented, in the background. She is wearing a bikini, brandishing a spear, and has a stiletto dagger at her hip. She's hot as hell.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Americans' Views on Immigration's Effect on the U.S.
On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?
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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A thoughtful piece, but I think badly off the mark: LLMs just kind of suck at search. Why acquire this skillset rather than actual research skills with existing tech that's (a) faster, (b) more reliable, (c) involves learning as you go, and (d) isn't opaque?

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This is what academic writing can be btw Yeah it's dense and abstract (heh), but the author conveys something complex and nuanced basically just through excellent word choice. I do think the body of the article could use a lot more concreteness (e.g.s, mechanism-talk), but the writing is lovely.

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