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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For decades, most orgs building software have made the security of their systems a 2nd-or-lower rate priority. Now, the vulnerable surface area of these systems, taken globally, is huge. So far, this has been mitigated by a relative scarcity of "bad actors". "Bad actors" operate via scripts ...
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
No
From the FT: "Demis has been playing the role of AI statesman for some time, and Koray has been running the Google DeepMind research for some time. So this is a formalisation of something that had been happening," said Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Infinity Machine, a biography of Hassabis.
"DeepMind's mission has always been to solve AGI and then use it to solve everything else. The solving AGI piece is pretty much done. So it makes sense that Demis is shifting his energy from the science to the social impact."
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The flood waters went rogue, finding their way through the window I left open.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Here's what I found — and it changes the framing"
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My 4 week class is starting in a few weeks and filling up fast. Join and read Turing, Vinge, Kurzweil, Pseudo-Dionysius, Teilhard de Chardin, Gebru, Torres, Tirosh-Samuelson, Rothblatt, Land, Laboria Cuboniks, Kafer, Chiang, Wynter, Lyotard, Stiegler, Hui and more!
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Image models are not "a" model. Each component was built or integrated to solve a specific problem of computer vision — each engineered to automate a decision, each inscribing its bit of ideology into every generated image. My latest paper unpacks those decisions and what they inscribe.
arxiv.org
The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy
Valuable critique of generative image models within visual culture and the humanities has emphasized the role of datasets in shaping the images they produce. Yet, close studies of the ideological posi...
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Alternative for Germany revives Nazi-era attacks on Bauhaus
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Alternative for Germany revives Nazi-era attacks on Bauhaus
Modernist art institution fears AfD ‘patriotic culture’ push nearly 100 years after closing under Hitler
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Things I’ve learned from claude pt 1: “IMPORTANT DISCOVERY” is an effective opening to a confession of incompetence
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WPRB 103.3 fm @wprb.com · 15/06/2026
Hello, WPRB is now on Bluesky. Please tell your friends (and one enemy).
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Hey that’s me! #wprb
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Please share with friends who might enjoy some good old-fashioned critical engagement with The Singularity! I’ve completely refashioned the syllabus for 2026!
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Please share with friends who might enjoy some good old-fashioned critical engagement with The Singularity! I’ve completely refashioned the syllabus for 2026!
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only
Dougie
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Never seen a picture of him before, I always assumed he wore glasses
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Bowie’s Fantastic Voyage is the song for our time youtu.be/FSCB_0SXFR4
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Fantastic Voyage (2017 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's on! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
thebrooklyninstitute.com
The Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Post-Human Future - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Alan Turing, whose Turing Test set the initial standard for artificial intelligence, mused towards the end of his life on the prospects of a truly superintelligent machine: “it seems probable that onc...
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
New cognitive test dropped: - Dr, or - Lord&Savior
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"it writes itself" Derrida
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I grew up with one of these parked in the back yard. Over time a garage grew up around it.
My brother and I standing in front of the family DUKW
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This Nature opinion piece, like most opinions about “intelligence”, assumes that “intelligence” — whatever it is — presents itself in “levels” that express a natural hierarchy. Why?
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is the wrong distinction. The mafia also acts on principle. T doesn’t understand people whose principle for action isn’t always-be-richer.
Krugman: There was a comment by Adam Serwer, I think just a day or two ago, that Trump doesn't understand people who act on principle, that the Venezuelan regime was just thugs. It was just a mafia. The Iranians are thugs, they're horrible, they're murderers but they actually also believe in something. They're genuine religious fanatics and that actually seems to have completely caught Trump and his people off guard.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This distinction is tricky because it undoes itself at every turn. There is a difference but it’s not the one or the kind you want. Maybe it’s like the difference between coloring and color-by-numbers. Wandering an open trail and a walk in the garden. (Ofc you can still walk forever in a garden)
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The #AI critics are right about this much: #LLMs do not know what they are talking about, cannot understand the meaning of the linguistic tokens they stitch together, and have no access to real world embodied referents. BUT that is not a bug; it's a feature. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Drambuie on the rocks is underrated
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
wtf was that?
reports of shaking in ny
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It’s a trick question, as the post clearly demonstrates that consciousness doesn’t always work
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Huh. blogs.newschool.edu/news/2026/03...
blogs.newschool.edu
The Center for the American Experience Explores the Actions and Ideas that Shape U.S. History - The New School News
What is “the American experience,” and who gets to define it? Whose actions, ideas, and aspirations have shaped American history? Which responsibilities does this nation hold to the broader world […]
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Given the marketing around "AI agents", there is some confusion about what this new offering actually represents. These are not AI models that suddenly have agency. They are not autonomous and are not approaching autonomy. The "agency" is old-fashioned software interpreting LLM outputs ...
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It's interesting, if not surprising given the training data, that image generation models struggle to produce images that aren't representational in some way. There is a strong bias toward 3d space, material texture (e.g., paint, fabric, concrete), landscape, etc.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“Our time is a time in which the mafia and the oligarchies remorselessly chase out the bourgeoisie-a bourgeoisie that, although it is philistine, is still too cultivated in their eyes." Stiegler 2017
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Oh wow look what I found #wprb
WPRB compilation cd “dog so large i cannot see past it”
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Great question posed by @adamtooze.bsky.social in his chartbook this morning.
It seems obvious that Trump is the Baudrillardian President.
No less obvious is the fact that there is a real
geopolitical agenda at work in the effort to decapitate Iran. That geopolitics may be that of Netanyahu, but it is nonetheless real. At least as far as the Middle East is concerned, there is an inveterate revisionist strain in US policy which became apparent with Biden.
But what I am not sure of, is whether the broader framing of Baudrillard's analyss is any longer relevant.
This may be unfair, Baudrillard specialists feel free to weigh in, but his framing seems basically functional. He was explaining how a system cohered.
In 2026 does that presume too much?
Do we live in a world in which the question of popular legitimation for war, or the legality of Trump's actions - the classic questions still posed by war-making in the period between Vietnam and Iraq and implicitly answered by Baudrillard - still matter very much any more?
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
In the year 2000 …
Cdrom Macromedia Freehand
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fuck this
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“People followed wrong AI answers 80% of the time. The effect size for the gap between AI-accurate and AI-faulty trials was massive…Essentially, AI determined the outcomes more than people.” www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...
thealgorithmicbridge.com
A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender
Casual users should pay special attention
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
You have 4 dull crayons, 10 minutes, and no do-overs. Don’t fuck this up, kids.
Mr T dozing peacefully in a hammock, an enormous thought balloon suspended overhead. “what do you think Mr. t is daydreaming about? Draw it here.”
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
grodymaxxing 80's style
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It’s officially dog-deep outside
A dog in a snow trench as deep as he is tall
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RNS @rns.org · 22/02/2026
OPINION: This curious phenomenon of pro-AI doomsaying shares similarities with religious predictions of the end times. religionnews.com/2026/02/20/t...
religionnews.com
The grim satisfaction of AI doomsaying
Like depictions of the horrors of war may ennoble it, dire warnings about the AI future only make the technology seem inevitable.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
End-of-Days Technocrat-absolutism quickly ascending the ranks of worst Protestant sects
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot
Tech giant blames 'user error, not Al error' for incident in December involving its Kiro tool
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Somehow managed to post this twice and then delete the post it was a reply to instead of the duplicate. Maybe the murderous robots have a point.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Might be time to reboot my singularity course. But can I stomach the readings?
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Pretty cool to learn via instagram post that the program you’ve helped build for the past 10 years is getting cancelled
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Scene of a car lot by the Van Wycke during a detour from JFK
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
According to Donovan, songwriter and performer of the hit 1960s song, "Mellow Yellow", the Coca-Cola Company contacted him to discuss directly basing the soda's name on his song, which itself was named after a dildo called the "Mellow Yellow." This makes Mello
Yello the only mass-produced soda whose name is known to derive from a dildo.
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
fun game: map the current debates in AI onto "synergism vs monergism" positions in the history of Christian theology
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Guy policing interpretations really upset someone might police his interpretation
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👖Emancipants👖 @fgshprd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
There’s a lot of ressentiment masquerading as critique of late
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