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Kevin C. Moore

@kevncmoore.bsky.social
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Advanced Lecturer and Notation in Science Communication Coordinator @ Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Writing about science and rhetoric, propaganda studies, Ralph Ellison. Opinions my own.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Anyway. 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.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Polk Gulch sunset, 8/27.
Orange and purple sunset in San Francisco.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Geometries of the clinic (@ Stanford Dept of Medicine).
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Same re: favorite Twain.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
TFW you remove an entire hemisphere from a hard-boiled egg.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Was documenting an especially stupid AI ad when I accidentally photographed a city hawk!
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
SF from Marin today.
City under fog with verdant hills in foreground.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I beat this drum for ten years. It won’t take. People don’t want to know this and so they don’t know it.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Prospero’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).
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💯
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Deeply resent my new neighbor’s delivery today (decorative books sold by volume).
Box from scam company selling books without regard for content.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
(Also: the answer to this question is YES.)
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Someone 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…
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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.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“What looked / Like a tangle was in fact its substance.”
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Spoke to me today.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
lol. 😂
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Go figure.
science.org
AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
“Cargo cult formed around a roulette wheel” = 🎯
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Every time.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Long boy surveying his blockdom. 🐈‍⬛
Tall cat looking out over San Francisco block.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Civility Providers” 🙃
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Alice 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
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thank you—for your kind words and for resharing!
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
💯
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Also, 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.net
The Vesuvian Fallacy - Contrasts
It matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Their sponsors.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Would love to read this.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Or it's a Vesuvian fallacy. contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
contrastsmag.net
The Vesuvian Fallacy - Contrasts
It matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Would/will admittedly find it pretty rad to see The Conversation IN Union Square.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
contrastsmag.net/article/the-...
contrastsmag.net
The Vesuvian Fallacy - Contrasts
It matters little whether or not the unraveled text of the Herculaneum scroll is legitimate: we cannot know.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Reminds me of the Vesuvius Challenge nonsense from a few years ago. Which many people (surprisingly) took seriously. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealed
Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
At the gate.
Golden Gate.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fairly committed to spending the next eight weeks here (summer at last…).
Book + sunny SF rooftop.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I 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$).
Stupid, craven AI company ad.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Best caturday post ever 😂.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I remember checking this out from my elementary school library.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The precision of that comma.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A 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
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The most disturbing thing about this, for me, was how earnestly and unselfconsciously they seemed to consider this a legitimate pathway to career advancement.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Currently 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.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Last teaching day of 38th grade but who’s counting.
44 year old professional student
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sphinxing today, but still my favorite creature.
Perfect cat sphinxing.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Said Caltrain.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Electric Caltrain named Nancy Pelosi being pulled by a diesel locomotive = everything’s a metaphor now.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Fully concur!
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Just here to offer my perspective.
View from Loma Alta, Marin County, with San Francisco in distance.SF in distance.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“What if this is a past life as well?” 😭
m.youtube.com
Past Lives (2023) Goodbye scene - "what if this is a past life as well?!"
YouTube video by Paulo Clips
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Past Lives.
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Kevin C. Moore @kevncmoore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Don’t get me started.
Campus flier reading “What’s the most niche thing you’re kind of an expert on.”
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