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胡子哥

@notsaved.bsky.social
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technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating" paranom.asia

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Paolo berti @betrayal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Finally had the chance to write about the geoguessing phenomenon and people like @georainbolt.bsky.social who directly challenge, to the point of paroxysm, machines' ability to recognize places
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 3h
MEGADUNGEON with @betrayal.bsky.social and @mikerugnetta.com mentioned here: www.rascal.news/yearning-to-...
rascal.news
Yearning to explore the megadungeon internet
Freedom from platforms might rest at the center of a labyrinth.
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mareinna.bsky.social @mareinna.bsky.social · 20h
I wrote a spell. It's about dread.
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 17h
bring back the diagrams
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 17h
Cute Accelerationism is the most important philosophical text of the early 2020s imho, even just for footnote n. 111
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 20h
new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna.bsky.social on academic writing itself as a gothic practice www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
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Academic Meaning-Making as Gothic Practice: A Spell | Gothic Studies
The author uses the Gothic as both method and metaphor to examine academic meaning-making as an affective, haunted practice. Invoking the forces that interrupt, distort, and haunt thought as it become...
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Im so fucking hyped been waiting for years for this youtu.be/XgHTfwMq6tw?...
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An Infamous Traffic Trailer
YouTube video by Buried Giant Studios
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
new ALGOpod episode with Ezequiel Soriano, featuring Milhouse memes, vaporwave, low-content publishing, and infrastructural vernaculars open.spotify.com/episode/2pmE...
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ALGOpod #11: Ezequiel Soriano
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we must acknowledge the existence of theoryslop
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
if the internet is a series of tubes...
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💚
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#viscousmedia
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
doing the "slop is an infrastructural vernacular, actually" bit
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this week in Umeå genfutures.net
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Generated/-ive Futures — DIGSUM Symposium 2026
Generated/-ive Futures: a DIGSUM symposium on generative technologies and the futures they shape. 6-7 October 2026, P5 Conference Center, Umea University, Sweden.
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
hype
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"AI-created Monopoly board game that is designed for Gen Z and Gen Alpha players."
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that's the beginning of the end
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
brainrot is officially over
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
real bergen moment
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
glad u did it's worth it
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thanks! at least it has a cool name in norwegian
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
turns out pain can stop time, or at least make you perceive at such a high sample rate that it seems like it's moving really slowly
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I got shingles any tips
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
fam
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ALGOFOLK represent
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 23/09/2026
it does not need to be a video call
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
imagine this: you don't have to read&grade mountains of AI text; you can literally check if students have learned to think; students will get to talk to talk to someone. All in one go. Ten minutes and it's over
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
oral assessment would fix so many problems its unreal
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
orality is the new writing
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we gotta go back to oral exams for everything
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
last photo is working papers
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
im back in siegen
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
big anthropology news
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we moved on from this. Please stop
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am honestly so done with "AI art" that is just like "I generated a bunch of images and you should look at them because they say something about what AI can do"
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
im in stockholm who in town
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
important developments
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
favorite algorithm pages.cs.wisc.edu/~okushi/
pages.cs.wisc.edu
Miracle Sort
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
learn more about China's vulgar internet here! www.routledge.com/Internet-Vul...
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Internet Vulgarities in China: Cultures, Governance and Politics
Internet Vulgarities in China is the first comprehensive study to critically examine the cultures, governance and politics of internet vulgarities in Chinese society. Comprising twelve chapters, the a...
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
new guest post on AI山海经, The Deer Pipe Gooner God, and how Chinese no-fap culture inflected Italian Brainrot, by @dinobot.bsky.social algofolk.substack.com/p/deer-pipes...
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Deer Pipes of Mountains and Seas
On the Chinese reception and reinvention of Italian Brainrot.
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
the anthropic safety report is crazy
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
most people who use AI to write are not writers and it shows so much it's painful
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think what LLMs are doing to writing is actually great because they lowered the bar of average, functional writing so much that now you can actually raise the bar for communicatively intentional writing and just use that to evaluate an assignment or a report
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
any small uni could run better services for its staff it wouldn't be even close
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
good luck to the tens of thousands of MSCA applicants who spent months and months finetuning an unwieldy, constraining application form to compete for a pot of 400 million € – only 1,600 of them will get a shot at a 2-year postdoc
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
my toxic trait is that when production editors ask me for a 300dpi version of an image that is too low-resolution for publication I just upscale the same image to 300dpi and send it back
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if you listen to one podcast today, make it Episode 10 of ALGOpod, with Idil Galip, to hear about algomaxxing and its role in spirals of post-memetic amplification #algorithmicfolklore open.spotify.com/episode/2BOQ...
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ALGOpod #10: Idil Galip
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