Reposted by Kevin C. MooreTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Anyway. Data politics are the cataclysmic danger. AI is mostly just a mid tech attached to a speculative finance scheme. Anything it can make dangerous is already dangerous enough to kill us. 448694
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Geometries of the clinic (@ Stanford Dept of Medicine). 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026TFW you remove an entire hemisphere from a hard-boiled egg. 010
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Was documenting an especially stupid AI ad when I accidentally photographed a city hawk! 020
Reposted by Kevin C. MooreTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I beat this drum for ten years. It won’t take. People don’t want to know this and so they don’t know it. 225146
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Prospero’s Books, because I had never seen or enjoyed anything like it when I saw it at 20. 8 1/2 because it thematizes the representational limitations of the cinema (and Saraghina of course). 010
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Deeply resent my new neighbor’s delivery today (decorative books sold by volume). 220
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Someone should write a novel based on what this question implies about the contradictions and limits of human agency (“should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?”). Might have one handy… 100
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“This is not a case of go do the reading and then you can start making a plan. Reading, listening, and having conversations is the plan…”theamericanvandal.comNeuroplasticity As A PraxisWe Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy 0133
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“What looked / Like a tangle was in fact its substance.” 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Go figure.science.orgAI’s top startups are barely publishing their researchMore than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Cargo cult formed around a roulette wheel” = 🎯 000
Reposted by Kevin C. MooreMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.theguardian.com‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project 12227100
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thank you—for your kind words and for resharing! 020
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Also, one of the original winners of the contest became part of the DOGE initiative. I wrote about it here in ContraSTS mag. contrastsmag.net/article/the-...contrastsmag.netThe Vesuvian Fallacy - ContrastsIt matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know. 121
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Or it's a Vesuvian fallacy. contrastsmag.net/article/the-...contrastsmag.netThe Vesuvian Fallacy - ContrastsIt matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know. 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Would/will admittedly find it pretty rad to see The Conversation IN Union Square. 040
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 13/06/2026contrastsmag.net/article/the-...contrastsmag.netThe Vesuvian Fallacy - ContrastsIt matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know. 021
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Reminds me of the Vesuvius Challenge nonsense from a few years ago. Which many people (surprisingly) took seriously. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comFirst passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealedResearchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers. 160
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Fairly committed to spending the next eight weeks here (summer at last…). 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I take it back. The Monaco ads now on every bus stop in town are even stupider (although I suppose at least honest about their ambition$). 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I remember checking this out from my elementary school library. 030
Reposted by Kevin C. MooreMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A reminder that the statistical majority of the text you encounter now on the Internet is not actually meant for you as a human being reading, even if it happens to resemble legible prose. #Textpocalypse 217555
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The most disturbing thing about this, for me, was how earnestly and unselfconsciously they seemed to consider this a legitimate pathway to career advancement. 000
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Currently on a Caltrain, in San Mateo, CA, listening to two AI bros (one of whom is French) plotting how to publish scam articles in reputable scientific journals as a method of proving their skills. 131
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Last teaching day of 38th grade but who’s counting. 040
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Sphinxing today, but still my favorite creature. 040
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Electric Caltrain named Nancy Pelosi being pulled by a diesel locomotive = everything’s a metaphor now. 140
Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026“What if this is a past life as well?” 😭m.youtube.comPast Lives (2023) Goodbye scene - "what if this is a past life as well?!"YouTube video by Paulo Clips 000