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Alex Campolo

@alexcampolo.bsky.social
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Enriched macaroni product. Broad interests in media, science, technology, social theory. Currently working on history of machine learning. SAFC scholar.google.com/citations?user=n…

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You read the FT to monitor the movements of global capital. I read it for the gardening advice. We are not the same. www.ft.com/content/2e30...
ft.com
Brown patches on the lawn? Give it a green glow-up
Not all grasses have fully recovered after the summer drought — follow this four-part plan to rectify that
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A model: "I did not know him well, but even our slender bond left me with the impression of a man whose intellect was matched by an astonishing modesty." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
nybooks.com
Message in a Bottle | Peter E. Gordon
Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice reporting. I have to say that what strikes me most is the extreme dilettantism. It's like undergraduate dorm-room stuff, except with NDAs and thirtysomething billionaires... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"dark and funny as Dr Strangelove may be, our situation is even more delirious. We have the old framings of autocracy vs democracy, dark rumours of the antichrist. But this time, the central actors are not scientists but businessmen with huge conflicts of interest" www.ft.com/content/7b83...
ft.com
No, AI is not similar to the Manhattan Project
What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Respect. Looking forward to more action like this: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
blog.arxiv.org
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I speak not of the men, but (in the Abstract) of the Seat of Power." -Hobbes
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fascinating and of course sad chart. It really seems like the closing of a twentieth century idea of “mass” culture? Perhaps a return to a more traditionally minoritarian kind of culture - albeit one that will be constituted and reproduced in very different ways…
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1940, Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin died while attempting to flee occupying Nazi forces. Benjamin was one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century, and his Marxist commitments run right through his dazzling intellectual legacy.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Compare the governance of the Premier League to that of FIFA. Day and night.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is some review: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
nytimes.com
A Haunting Masterwork From a Writer Who Is Reinventing Fantasy
“The Rouse,” by China Miéville, is a decade-spanning epic about a secret military unit trying to channel supernatural forces.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty compelling explanation of recent bond market moves? “What has changed is that central banks, starting in 2022…central banks announced that they would either stop expanding their balance sheet or start shrinking their balance sheet.” thetwocents.substack.com/p/global-bon...
thetwocents.substack.com
Global bond markets. Marked to Market. Part I.
Government debt is being marked to market. We're now relying on price-sensitive investors to absorb sovereign bond issuance going forward.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lynn White DESTROYS historians of Frankish institutions: "The historian of Frankish institutions too often recalls to the wearied mind Eliza on the ice"
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Impressed with everything I read from Maher and Aquanno. jacobin.com/2026/09/infl...
jacobin.com
Treasury Market Volatility Is Capital Disciplining the State
As concerns over inflation have mounted, borrowing costs for the US state have risen sharply. The bond market volatility is capital cracking down on the state’s debt-fueled spending spree, and workers...
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"a lot of mathematics is training people to benchmaxx. We have already created a battery of tests, carefully tuned with the best psychometrics to find mathematical genius. Training computers to maximize those benchmarks ends up solving the benchmarks." www.argmin.net/p/applied-pu...
argmin.net
Applied Pure Mathematics
Some thoughts about mathematics as a cultural and social technology.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The essays in this "The New World Disorder" series are extraordinary: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | They Had No Connection to Costa Rica. America Sent Them There Anyway.
The Trump administration’s policy of deporting migrants to third countries is undermining a bedrock notion of international law for the past 75 years.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gaffer. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We come away with nothing. Cannot expect anything if you gift teams goals. So pleased for Brobbey who has worked very hard the whole season. Xhaka maybe a bit below his very high standards. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cherki and Semenyo - wow.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don’t like this change. We have caused them enough problems just with Brobbey and need legs to run after their ball. Hope I’m wrong. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Haven’t got the bounces of the ball today to say the least. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And breathe. City ‘s quality is scary at times but absolutely everything to play No moral victories in the prem - this would be close. #SAFC
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Alex @mornflake.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
BROBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a move, what a pass, what a response from Sunderland! #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What a fucking peach of a goal that is. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Could tell on tv that Roefs was going to get beaten at his near post. 🤦‍♂️ #SAFC. Shame but we can absolutely turn this around.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Calling it now. Methalie is the absolute business #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MFW Harry Lime turns up
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spurs 😂
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ENZO LE FEE 😎
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"One man told of hacking into the phone of a 12-year-old girl to learn when her father arrived home, and then ordering a bombing in which she was killed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Why Israel Fears This Searing New Documentary
It’s hard to tell whether Israelis are enraged by “NAZA” because they think it’s full of lies, or because they know or fear it’s true.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The sociologist at the helm of VTsIOM, the main state-run pollster, is so important in Mr. Putin’s system that on social media his wife shows off a collection of 24 Hermès bags, worth a total of $630,000" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
nytimes.com
Why Autocrats Care What People Think
Russia is staging an election that matters to almost no one — except President Vladimir V. Putin and his inner circle.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New Raymond Geuss 💣 "Most importantly, we seem to be incapable of producing political figures who have even a tenuous ability to look reality in the face or a basic competence in dealing with the world." [totally agree with this thesis of a reality breakdown] www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ca...
theideasletter.org
The Carapace Cracks
Geuss argues that the crisis of Western societies is more fundamental than political dysfunction or economic decline: the ideological architecture of Western civilization is coming apart along fault l...
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Where does the idea that scientists and engineers have the right to irreversibly transform the planet come from, and how did it become hegemonic today?" love Blumenberg, although not sure this quite address the central arguments of Die Legitimität der Neuzeit www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-se...
theideasletter.org
The Second Creation and the Destruction of Worlds
Marres returns to the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg to uncovers the origins of tech elites’ ambition to remake the world. Blumenberg traced that ambition back through modern experimental science ...
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Totalement d’accord. Antigone is peak. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
podcasts.apple.com
Pourquoi Antigone est-elle indépassable
Podcast Episode · Avec philosophie · 7 September · 4min
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
First little chill in the air can only mean its Rochard and Linda Thompson season. Now zoning: music.apple.com/gb/album/i-w...
music.apple.com
I Want to See the Bright Lights by Richard & Linda Thompson on Apple Music
Album · 1974 · 15 Songs
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Names, for the great empiricist, are imposed on things through power. Accordingly, no thinker has insisted more than he on the political importance of naming." substack.com/@rileysociol...
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Dylan Riley (@rileysociology)
Hobbes’ actuality is striking. One of the key features of the second Trump administration is its maniacal obsession with renaming. The examples are numerous and flamboyant: Gulf of America, Lake Ameri...
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What are we doing here medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...
medium.com
Asking Authors About Their Own Papers
By Nihar B. Shah
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🍿🍿 mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/
mimo.xiaomi.com
mimo-v2.6 RL
Training metrics of the mimo-v2.6-pro and mimo-v2.6-flash reinforcement-learning runs, live from the trainer's logs.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ENZO LE FEEEEEEEEEEE #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ve played some really good stuff but as in the league desperately need to be more clinical. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Absolutely horrible way to lose a match. But what a performance, what commitment from them all. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nordi why go for the backheel man #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let’s get a goal or two now #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Brutal haha #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Three big chances for them I reckon but we are looking focused. All to play for. #SAFC
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wow - the critique here is in terms of benchmarking mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172441...
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Now zoning fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/four-l...
fakeestates.bandcamp.com
Four Louies Live, by Bill Orcutt
2 track album
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“it was of the essence of the genocide which they had survived that communal memory was erased.” www.equator.org/articles/dus...
equator.org
Dusklands • EQUATOR
Growing up in the shadow of genocide
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Our way of life did not end so much as it was interrupted,” he writes, “and if there is such a thing as an American ethos, it has not been significantly altered...most of us continue to be shaped by much more banal events.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/m...
nytimes.com
Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Were the terrorist attacks that day the end of an idyllic era? The beginning of our current dystopia? Or just a middle chapter?
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Another BANGER huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/...
huggingface.co
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great note: "US fiscal challenges make unorthodox macro policy increasingly likely....There will be a US preference for imposing financing costs on foreign investors...an international form of financial repression." static1.squarespace.com/static/5acad...
static1.squarespace.com
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