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4e enthusiast navigating altered perceptual state and processual turns. finding refuge in nature, sound and theory.

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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 4h
jingoistic warmongering clad in the hubris of tech
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 21h
@theguardian.com @australia.theguardian.com
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 21h
@albomp.bsky.social talk of rogue AI is infantile in frankly mischievous—it reinforces the commercially lucrative propositions that models are systems from nowhere #auspol #openAI #medicare
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The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Venice for “Dysphoria Mundi: Making and Breaking World Models.” Excellent lineup of talks coming up. www.unive.it/web/en/18653...
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Dysphoria Mundi: Home
Dysphoria Mundi - Home
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
decision on the sly and surreptitious cognitions
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Adrian Kind @philpsy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
My book „How Does the Psychiatrist Know?“ is now Open Access! Have a look at the first booklenght philosophical investigation in psychiatric diagnostic practice. philpapers.org/rec/KINHDT-3 #philsky #psysky
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Adrian Kind, How does the Psychiatrist Know? - PhilPapers
How do clinical psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions? Little attention has been directed to this question by philosophers of psychiatry. Adrian Kind presents a systematic, in-depth phi...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
without occupational fluency in the #DSM it seems that adults with life long undiagnosed #imperfectcognitions featuring delusion, hyper-meaning, privileged insight, serial conspiratorial thinking become adept at staying under the diagnostic radar, #psysky #philsky
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
intersecting sound worlds of my favorite gentlemen @room40.bsky.social and @corbelstonepress.bsky.social
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NOON, by Richard Skelton & Lawrence English
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/09/2026
If you’re like me, immunologically, you have probably suffered a fever for one (Moderna) up to the (Pfizer) days after getting a Covid vaccine. Yesterday I tried Novavax instead, and had absolutely zero side effects (at the same time as my flu shot no less). It’s well worth a try if you haven’t.
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
varieties of noise or modes of propaganda
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Studies originating from paper mills are being cited in clinical guidelines, policy docs, & patents, according to a new @digital-science.com study. My latest for @retractionwatch.com: retractionwatch.com/2026/09/17/p... @maclomaclee.bsky.social, @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, @mcintold.bsky.social
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Paper mill studies get cited by clinical guidelines, policy docs and more, analysis finds
Bank Phrom/Unsplash Studies produced by a suspected paper mill are frequently cited in patents, clinical guidelines and policy documents, according to a new analysis.  The work, posted on arXi…
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tried to help showcase information about a few of the cultural treasures of Iran better by uploading some of my 20-year-old photos to Wikimedia, CC-ZERO, and adding some info commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ti... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mo..., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Re...
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Consequences of the flood of AI manuscripts: "An early-career researcher at an unbranded institution loses the one mechanism that ever let them be read on merit — anonymous review of the work itself, however badly it functioned in practice.
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
rhetorical shadow puppets
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taylor deupree @taylordeupree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the new Støvfigur cassette is available for pre-order in the EU. cassettes should be arriving in Belgium shortly. save on shipping, order from Objects & Sounds as opposed to 12k’s bandcamp. objectsandsounds.com/product/stov...
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Støvfigur - Objects & Sounds
A formation created when fine airborne particles accumulate along the nodal regions of standing waves or resonant fields.
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Philosophy and the Mind Sciences @phimisci.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#PhiMiSci recently published a new article in the special issue on Philosophy and Chemosenses: "What is interoception? A case study on smell and metabolism" by S. Livi. It exposes conceptual limitations in dominant accounts of interoception, the registration of bodily needs like hunger and thirst.
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What is interoception? A case study on smell and metabolism | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
…recent history of modern thought, however, knots and knotting have been largely sidelined
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
another straight talking assessment of industry hyperbole by @eryk.bsky.social …’a radical intentionalist stance dominates any interpretation of model behavior’ #ai #philtech #philsky
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To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’
In industry rhetoric, a radical intentionalist stance dominates any interpretation of model behavior, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Marshall Abrams @marshall0i.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Collins and Thorne's "Large language models and scientific discourse: Where’s the intelligence?" is worthwhile. Standards re good vs. fringe science may arise in verbal discussion at labs, conferences-not in training data. So LLMs don't know the difference. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci
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Large language models and scientific discourse: Where’s the intelligence? - Synthese
We explore the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by comparing the way they gather data with the way humans build knowledge. Here we examine how scientific knowledge is made and compare it w...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Who Put the I in AI? Provenance and the Admissibility of Machine Self-Report is now up as a preprint on SSRN: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #philosophy #consci #cogsci #consciousness #science #ai #llm @xphilosopher.bsky.social
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Maria Ressa (Nobel Peace Prize 2021) breaks down the collapse of democracy into three steps: “First, an administration wages narrative warfare by using governance as a content engine, deliberately fueling conflict to break down a fact-based reality; #polsky #auspol
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The Gen Z Revolt Sweeping South Asia | NOEMA
Youth are challenging the kind of autocracy, corruption and predatory economics now coming to America.
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ISiS Radboud @isis-radboud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🎂 Check out this special Issue of *Technophany*, edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens, marking the centenary of Jean-François Lyotard’s birth: technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/issue/view/l... #philsky #philtech #Lyotard
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Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and Technology Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Lyotard and the 21st Century
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
new book by #massumi #philsky #value
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Beyond Compare: The Color of Value
Beyond Compare: The Color of Value, ""(I) To live, (II) to live well, (III) to live better
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The parallels between Australian domestic economy (real estate, agribusiness and mining) and geostrategic utility to the US summed up here: “Australia, as an ally, represents to the US an immensely useful piece of geography”. #auspol
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As China rises, Australia is increasingly enmeshed in the US war machine. Is the alliance still worth the risk?
Australia is being exploited by an ally that could draw it, however unwillingly, into war with China, experts warn
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
…’social cohesion featured heavily in their reports…this versatile and expansive term is not neutral. It is a consensus imposed from above’. ‘It shifts responsibility for unity onto those already marginalised. It equates dissent with division and dresses up exclusion as harmony.’ #racism #auspol
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Government’s anti-racism response exposes a glaring double standard
Australia’s response to discrimination reveals stark inequalities in how antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism are addressed.
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the humanist veneer is thin, affective lava just beneath the skin
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 09/09/2026
New blog post! Does binning the heartbeat into systole and diastole make physiological sense? I review what cardiac afferents encode and trace a path towards continuous, generative models of heart-brain interaction. www.the-ecg.org/2026/09/09/c...
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What does a heartbeat do to the brain?
Comparing systole and diastole has become the default way to study how the heart shapes perception. On what that binary discards -- baroreceptor co...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Concrete does lovely things to techno::::)—-(:::: @alexandrebazin.bsky.social
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Innervision, by Alexandre Bazin
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
the structural lens aka #harmoniousdiscourse on substack writes rigorous essays on tech, geopolitics ++. they have been particularly insightful around the machinations of the computarchy—palantir and co. the tone is cool and dispassionate. rage will not sustain revolution.
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Taxes, Pitchforks, and Guns
The third door nobody wanted to open
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Room40 // Lawrence English @room40.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
a double hit for alexandre, via @richardchartier.bsky.social
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Géologie du Timbre, by ALEXANDRE BAZIN
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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ok, finally we got a convincing example of a philosophical zombie. youtu.be/pTL9BtN6IKs
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You Can See Everything - Official Teaser (2026) Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Jewish Council supports the decision of the 12 countries who have put trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements and urges the Australian government to do the same and then go further, imposing country-level sanctions. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/jewi...
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Jewish Council welcomes UK, Canada, France and others banning settlement trade, urges Australia to not be left behind
MEDIA RELEASE 09 September 2026 The Jewish Council of Australia welcomes moves by twelve countries including the UK, Canada, and […]
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Since "AGI" is in the news, a few items from the archive. 1/ @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social, June 3, 2025:
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The Myth of AGI
Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender write that claims of "Artificial General Intelligence" are a cover for abandoning the current social contract.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A great thread rounding up some of the "AGI" critiques that are worth reading now that OpenAI is, predictably, declaring it's here. (Includes a few of my own, so you know where I stand!).
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taylor deupree @taylordeupree.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"A touching, cohesive work that stands as a compelling addition to the Buenos Aires-based musician’s discography.” Federico Durand “La Manzana Mágica” www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...
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Chronique disque - Federico Durand : La Manzana Mágica
Entre deux albums sur 12k, Federico Durand se montre assez actif (projets collaboratifs, publications sur d'autres labels) avant de revenir vers (…)
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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Interesting hypothesis of firelight in the campfire as the modulator of the humans speech in the frequency space. Coevolution of biotic-cultural traits with the (local) fabricated environment. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... 🧪⚒️ #EvoBio #Archeology #PhilSci
 Firelight flicker rate quantified through high-speed video capture The fireside niche is a dynamic light environment and social space.
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
They are the embodiment of everything that is broken in dysregulated neoliberalism: feral capital flows, insane financial speculation, rampant planetary extraction and the evisceration of regulators...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Reject the #IHRA definition of antisemitism #auspol
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Don’t let Israel define antisemitism
Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The seduction of language and attribution of agentic/emergent properties is rampant in accounts of the #huggingface hack: www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@eryk.bsky.social this would appear to be in the register you find troubling: www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
not shocked that he is not shocked…eschatological tech-enabled end times and the anti-Christ walks amongst us #maga #jdvance #evangelism
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JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’
Vice-president says on evangelical podcast he would feel ‘not shocked if the antichrist was walking among us’
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pro-Israel groups are pressuring governments & institutions to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which would prohibit legitimate criticism of Israel. We can’t let widespread adoption of this definition cement further censorship. Sign our petition: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/08/dont...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
am I alone in having had the adolescent insight that solutionism cannot be grounded—always a trail of problems and unintended consequences. it tracks capital, wealth and resource distributions and will always be patchy and endlessly iterative, trapped in primitive accumulation #solutionism
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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Regulation in ecological systems: an organisational approach Ítalo Nascimento de Carvalho, Clarissa Machado Pinto Leite, Jeferson Gabriel da Encarnação Coutinho, Charbel N. El-Hani link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Regulation in ecological systems: an organizational approach - Synthese
The term “regulation” is often used in biology to refer to the means by which a system keeps or returns to a certain state after perturbation. Feedback mechanisms and the propagation of the perturbati...
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nice twist. Framed this way the Turing test looks not dissimilar to humans variable sensitivity/susceptibility to a myriad of sensory and perceptual stimuli and & illusions.
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Israels pursuit of security and expansion collapses all other justice into collateral damage
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enactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@eryk.bsky.social cutting through the hyperbole and agentive whisperings… #philsky #AI
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Models Don't Go Rogue
Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...
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