Reposted by Daniel ShanahanMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12hMe when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster 1237670850
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets 211630
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanMegan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hear me out: sometimes it’s nice to learn about something just because … it’s fun and interesting! College is not supposed to be about optimizing yourself for A Career with no detours. It’s supposed to be an opportunity to learn and grow *as a human being* — much of which happens outside your major. 1298
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanAndrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'm begging ppl to familiarise themselves with TESCREAL. The folks developing AI have a very peculiar view of the world, humans, and knowledge. It is a fascist project. doi.org/10.5210/fm.v...doi.org The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday 25624
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140816477
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour 3257521533
Reposted by Daniel Shanahanweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oh you welcomed your first baby? I've welcomed dozens of babies. Any baby is welcome around me. 161003142
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/09/2026"Take staircases, for example. A person might be walking down a staircase, trip, and wham! Dead. It’s sad, but it happens. And if that can happen to one person, isn’t there a non-zero chance that it could happen to every human being on Earth in the next decade?" buff.ly/gxvK6pVmcsweeneys.netTechnically, There Is a Non-Zero Chance That Anything Might Kill Off Humanity in the Next Decade: A Response from Anthropic’s Claude“Human lives are fragile. A piano might fall on a person’s head. A person might get mistaken for a piñata at a birthday party and get beaten to death. An aut... 47217
Reposted by Daniel Shanahane.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/09/2026this is just ransomware with more emissions 13450126
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Catching up on the big tech news: 31260134
Reposted by Daniel Shanahantunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174243863
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanMicah @rincewind.run · 05/09/2026I honestly think the idea of lie detectors is so cool to people that we will never fully be able to come to terms with them basically being junk science people just want to believe that if you hook someone up to a squiggly line machine they must tell you The Truth 25796132
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/09/2026"Why is it so hard to find peer reviewers?", asks guy who has been publishing 15 papers a year for the last decade. 317430
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanJimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck 13398211831
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A helpful practice is sending people a link that expires in 14 days for something due in four months, because it’s reliable to expect them to download and organize the materials immediately. 1265
Reposted by Daniel Shanahanhoneybakedsam.bsky.social @honeybakedsam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Time once again for one of the canonical soccer Twitter post 211932308
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 391572915
Reposted by Daniel Shanahanghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME 1685944884
Reposted by Daniel Shanahaneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925) 16686140
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August as an academic 82074290
Daniel Shanahan @danielshanahan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026RIP to the voice of a whole era in the Dublin music scene. He will be very missed.independent.ieOscar-winning musician Glen Hansard dies in Dublin motorcycle crashAcademy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin’s Lucan. 020
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media. 348495
Daniel Shanahan @danielshanahan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My hobby is collecting the “Like Duolingo, but for X” ads that marketing people seem to think is good strategy. 130
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanJulia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I asked my Magic 8-Ball if it was conscious, and it said "better not tell you now" of course, I was having none of its prevarication, so I asked again, and it said "ask again later" not to be thwarted, I pressed it harder, I am a brave philosopher "ARE YOU CONSCIOUS?" I screamed 414124
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanChris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable 35183721145
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanYour Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026amc is trying to sell a trojan horse popcorn bucket and man i ain’t fallin for that 231459181
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanDavor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Me dying of thirst because the TV’s not telling me it’s time for a hydration break 019717
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanAmy King @girlinbluemusic.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I am conducting a research study about Disney/musical theatre music and am looking for participants. This ~15-minute survey is completely anonymous and involves listening to musical excerpts and answering questions about what you hear. Learn more and participate here: shanahdt.github.io/evmusicapp/shanahdt.github.ioNoise Lab Experiments 51114
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanThe Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt 4567741794
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80114043392
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/06/2026“Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative.” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006) h/t @olivia.science dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...dl.acm.orgComputational thinking | Communications of the ACMIt represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use. 711140
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanTJ Hatter 🏛 @tjhatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Ireland 1169 A.D. — Present 0245
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs 11790621629
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanAlexander, Rainbow Painter @kalos.bsky.social · 12/06/2026static.klipy.comThe Horrors Persist But So Do I: Pixel Art DriveAlt: The Horrors Persist But So Do I: Pixel Art Drive 0266
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/06/2026My gf has roped a load of churches into getting their members to collect a load of food that can then be distributed to those who need it across Belfast. Many are afraid to leave their houses, even to get food. People have been delivering food to strangers since this started. 14573961548
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanKelly Jakubowski @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We've got a 0.5 Teaching Fellow in Music Psychology role going for this coming academic year. Please spread the word, and feel free to get in touch with me if you want to know more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...durham.taleo.netTeaching Fellow in Music PsychologyClick the link provided to see the complete job description. 048
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanKiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026these are getting weird 218183565656
Reposted by Daniel Shanahanarr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs. 437153864209
Reposted by Daniel ShanahanLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 31/05/2026"Like IQ tests, this research has a dark history." In the 16th essay for our Legacies of Eugenics series, Daniel Shanahan traces the origins of algorithmically-mediated music recommendations: lareviewofbooks.org/article/music-a… 0178
Daniel Shanahan @danielshanahan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I have a piece about the dark history of musical preference research in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.lareviewofbooks.orgThe Measured Listener | Los Angeles Review of BooksFor the Legacies of Eugenics series, Daniel Shanahan shows how algorithmically mediated music recommendations have a dark backstory. 22710
Daniel Shanahan @danielshanahan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026static.klipy.comMan Ages RapidlyALT: Man Ages Rapidly 000
Reposted by Daniel Shanahanmore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 21/05/2024boss makes a dollar, i make a dime. everyone contributes here at the mint 61914275
