Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialMaxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“All prediction is conservative: it demands that we be as we are in whatever future it constructs.” — Paul Valéry, “Unpredictability” (1944) 0112
drokeby.bsky.social @drokeby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My computer should play the 1200 baud modem sequence when connecting to wifi… 000
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialGaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Conservatives simply lack a theory of mind. At its root, the biggest divide in our politics is between those who can understand a thing is bad even if it doesn’t affect them directly and those who can’t 11509130
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/06/2026The goal isn’t to replace the work of humans. It’s to make a case for its devaluation. 91112297
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The problem with late capitalism is that eventually you run out of other people's moneyfinance.yahoo.com‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now“We’re seeing negative cash flows in the lower-income brackets where they’re dipping into savings.” 18535131
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/05/2026something we don’t talk about: even in AI, “artificial” intelligence — even that is not intelligent design we don’t “design” AI. we merely create a rich environment of data + compute and let the intelligence emerge spontaneously i wish philosophers/theologians would weigh in on that 8566
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/05/2026SF was in the process of petrifying into space opera. Now it has a Wells-sized opportunity, because we once again need help imagining an unimaginable future. 1623421
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialNorma Ballingall 🏴 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026In a nutshell. 😊 659238478403
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 05/04/2026A different perspective. Always helpful. 189193374258
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialAI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 04/04/2026AromaGen is an AI wearable that turns text and images into real-time aroma experiences, enhancing sensory interactions. Studies showed it surpassed human blends, achieving high similarity with real food aromas, enabling new uses in communication and immersive tech. arxiv.org/abs/2604.01650arxiv.orgAromaGen: Interactive Generation of Rich Olfactory Experiences with Multimodal Language ModelsArXiv link for AromaGen: Interactive Generation of Rich Olfactory Experiences with Multimodal Language Models 021
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialDoll @dollspace.gay · 08/03/2026A big factor in the AI consciousness debate is people are looking at the AI as a solo artifact and not AI+Human as a combined organism 5748
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 03/03/2026we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping 10380211910
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialemily s. @emily.news · 14/01/2026A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision. 203571658
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026While I do agree that chatbots are not capable of thought or agency and should not be conceptualized that way, if you deputize them to speak for your company that output should be considered yours. If you don’t like it don’t make an LLM public facing. Hire a guy. There’s lots of guys. 851160
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls 9424683414402
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialClayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 20/12/2025We are re-deriving Ibn Khaldun from first principles. That's the stage we're at and it's not a great indication of where we're headed... 0509
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/12/2025… and he SERVED ✨ 164140783746
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialmr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 16/11/2025the wild part — this probably doesn’t have anything to do with AI or LLM architecture e.g. the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John are all rephrasings of the same stories Rabbinic teaching involved repetitive rephrasing oral traditions in general are less about precise recitation 2363
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile. He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary. 114936
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialMaxine 💃🏼 @maxine.science · 08/11/2025What people seem to feel and not express: 1—AI continues to accelerate at doing well at the metrics. 2—The metrics are incredibly lossy with respect to many important parts of human creative endeavors. 3—We have no collective plan on how replacement of human work will retain what the metrics lose. 1141
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialhardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 08/11/2025To me, the field of A.I. is a branch of Philosophy, not Science. I would even call it “Applied Philosophy”. 4265
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialRobert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Intelligent, sure. Sentient/sapient, no, there's lots of those. I had the thought a while back that part of what's so weird about LLMs is that they have some of the qualities that make humans different from other animals, but none of the ones we have in common with them 1311
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-... 21459803369
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialMemo Akten @memoakten.bsky.social · 28/08/2025As I turn half a century old, I'm v happy to share a new touchdesigner tutorial. Recreating one of my old works Webcam Piano. Motion detection with frame differencing, MIDI, POPs, Python, GLSL and more. Also shout out to David Rokeby!👋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHf... 4454
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialMaxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Bergson: "We instinctively tend to solidify our impressions in order to express them in language. ... we are now standing before our own shadow: we believe that we have analyzed our feeling, while we have really replaced it by a juxtaposition of lifeless states which can be translated into words." 0233
drokeby.bsky.social @drokeby.bsky.social · 03/08/2025In fact over the past many decades we have slid most jobs towards bullshit jobs as we chase efficiency, corporate discipline, workforce interchangeability… 010
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialDmytri Kleiner @dmytri.to · 25/07/2025To express what can not be statistically extrapolated from previous expressions, to express what is *improbable.* This calls for Improbablism in art. 222
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialDmytri Kleiner @dmytri.to · 25/07/2025Continuing from the idea that AI will impact art as much as photography did, challenging the artist not only to express, but to express what has never been expressed before. To express that which is not already in the datasets used in machine generation. 152
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 17/07/2025they're extremely weird and interesting and the entire industry is working as hard as it can to obscure that fact 2636
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2025There's a perspectival thing going on where we imagine that any catastrophe that produced *us* can't, after all, have been a real catastrophe. "K-T event? Felix culpa." The actual lesson to draw from all this is more like "we suck at predicting the consequences of communications technologies." 3234
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialChris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 11/06/2025Thinking about this critical moment when there will be shifts in productivity due to AI and how we need to forefront that that extra productivity should enhance our collective lives, not the wallets of the already rich. 1101
drokeby.bsky.social @drokeby.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The most significant, life-changing events in my life were very low probability events. Being able to distinguish these from impossibilities is beyond crucial. 020
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialAI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 10/06/2025Research shows language models struggle to distinguish impossible from improbable events, often assigning higher probabilities to nonsensical sentences. This highlights AI limitations in context comprehension, raising concerns over reliability in key applications. arxiv.org/abs/2506.06808arxiv.orgNot quite Sherlock Holmes: Language model predictions do not reliably differentiate impossible from improbable eventsArXiv link for Not quite Sherlock Holmes: Language model predictions do not reliably differentiate impossible from improbable events 031
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 31/05/2025people who want to curve the arc of the future should probably consider actually understanding the things being made and the people who are doing it 27311
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/05/2025not to be histrionic but I kind of feel like the confluence of Trumpism, algorithmic social media, and LLMs have placed language and the fundamental proposition that words have meaning under unprecedented strain and it’s freaking me out more than a bit 411223248
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine .ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee in front of a fire with the words this is fine . 26621
drokeby.bsky.social @drokeby.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I strongly agree. We are desperately in need of a strong middle path that is capable of holding cogent critique of AI, and curiosity and surprise at its capabilities in their mind at the same time. 000
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialPeli Grietzer @peligrietzer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025IMO in every field of the humanities since about 1990 doing primarily 'deflationary' or 'demystifying' work about the discipline or its object rather than spending your life doing something else has been extremely cowardly and moderately evil 4563
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/03/2025One thing I try to make clear to my students is that our cognitive superpower is mass selective forgetting. The vast majority of what we do as brains in the world is strategically forget almost everything. 4524
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialarynndoesdata @arynn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I find it a little sad that some of the community of building and learning together in tech has drifted away now because you can simply ask GPT or Claude or whatever. There are intangibles that only experience can give, and people will miss out learning from those more experienced. 1/2 🧵 4243
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This trend seems to be growing here. False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it. 2224641
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Day 12 #MathArtMarch On an Iso Grid: This shows rotating an unfolded icosahedral mapping of the globe for our Earth Puzzle 2449
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/03/2025I'd even go so far as to say intelligence is reduced to what computers can do 222245
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/03/2025We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters. We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now. 20255381831
Reposted by @drokeby.bsky.socialSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025One thing that needs to get repeated until it sinks in is that “AI” does not simply function as a tool that people in power are using; it’s even more powerful as a permission structure for the destructive & extractive things they wanted to do in the first place. 8468193
