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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We still have 2 metric tons of potting soil left over from our burial performance, sitting in a dumpster at the corner of Schönbrunner Straße and Grohgasse, by WerkzeugH. The dumpster will be taken away tomorrow morning, so you still have a couple of hours to grab some soil for your plants. Do it.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We published the schedule of Arse Elektronika 2026: EXCESS DENIED. Have a look! Join us in Athens, Greece! www.monochrom.at/arse-elektro...

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gettin' there. monochrom's Buried Alive performance at the SLASH Filmfestival in Vienna on October 2.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Soon! Arse Elektronika in Athens, Greece!

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Democrats just ensured that billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison (a right wing oligarch who doesn't really believe in democracy) will be allowed to own the lion's share of whatever's left of U.S. corporate media. karlbode.com/feckless-dem...

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Feckless Dems Fold, Back Off Effort To Kill Paramount Merger

Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.

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Kav "Somebody Who Will Fight Back Against the Fart Left" P 🍉 @kavp.net · 13/09/2026

It's been months now and I'm still thinking about @grenzfurthner.bsky.social's film SOLVENT. It's a bombardment of unpleasant visuals and sound. It's so rough. It feels like the screeches of a tormented nation forced to bear its ragged soul. It's a film we all deserve to be subjected to. #FilmSky

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Horror Fanatic @horrorfan1313.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

An irritating IT guy locks himself away in his makeshift home lab trying to understand & cure his tinnitus but spirals further into madness in - Masking Threshold. Wow, this was a terrifying descent into insanity. #HorrorMovies “The miserable have no medicine but hope.”

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

FUCK THE AMPA IN ORLAMPA A little talk by Johannes Grenzfurthner about art, resistance, and why Florida keeps happening to all of us. Come for the Austrian accent. Stay for the fucked-up face. Saturday, August 29 @ Nook on Robinson, Orlando. Door: 7:30 pm, starts 8:00 pm.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The birthplace of BASIC. 10 PRINT "HELLO."

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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The “Tipsy Robot” bar the Venetian is no Roboexotica (roboexotica.at) and they certainly aren’t passing along the reduced labor costs to customers. This same model of robot makes coffee in a glass box as Cafe X in SFO but at least it moves a bit to attract people. // @grenzfurthner.bsky.social

Two motionless robots in an empty robot bar awaiting customers.

Advertisement/menu for the “Tipsy Robot” bar at the Venetian where shots are at least $7 and espresso martinis are $17.99

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Identical computational output does not by itself prove identical physical or phenomenal properties. But I think we’ve reached the point where our disagreement is mostly about what follows from that distinction. (2/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I think we mostly agree on the conclusion: there’s currently no good reason to call LLMs conscious. My only objection is to treating hardware as an implementation detail *in an argument about consciousness*. (1/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Calling the hardware an “implementation detail” already assumes that the substrate is irrelevant to consciousness.. which is precisely one of the things under dispute. Biological naturalism and biological computationalism are positions in that dispute, not evidence that settles it. (2/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I think we’re talking past each other. I’m not claiming that brains literally “run software.” My point is narrower: neither a model file nor an algorithm in the abstract could be conscious. The candidate, if there is one, would be the physically instantiated, temporally unfolding system. (1/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So the possible candidate for consciousness wouldn’t be the paper itself, but the whole causally organised system. And whether brains can meaningfully be described as “running software” seems to me like part of the dispute rather than a premise we can simply assume. (2/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I see what you mean, but I’m not sure the paper-stack example quite settles it. Software may be abstract, but any actual execution; (whether on silicon or through humans moving symbols around) is still a physical process. (1/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A digital computer is absolutely a machine; computation is implemented through physical state changes. So the brain-as-machine part is arguable, but the computer-not-a-machine part is just wordplay resting on a bad definition. (2/2)

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That only works if you define “physical action” so narrowly that changing voltages, moving electrical charge, switching transistors, altering memory states, emitting light, moving air through speakers, and producing heat somehow don’t count as physical processes. (1/2)

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