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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘Bert’ I don’t even know what the original word I was meant to type was. I think -… ’veer’? This is driving me nuts - well, drove me nuts. But rhe checker has got worse. It’s maddening, like walkimg while someone else’s shoes, not my size

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My frequent reminder why I hate modern predictive text on smart phones. I’m left handed - these phones don’t have Any mods for that My ‘smart‘ predictor thinks when I try to type ‘back’ I mean ‘bsck’. When I don’t hit ‘a’ dead centre, as a leftie, I Bert toward ‘s’. Righties don’t make that mistake

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

timeandillusion.wordpress.com/wp-admin/adm... Posting a 2016 post (‘article’? Notions) from my site on tides and illusions of duration. Post 2 of 3, spells out thro imagined dialogue my claim there is no evidence of illusions of duration. We need specific evidence (which I don’t think we have).

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In general, ignotong anything specific to how it goes, what will the last moment be like before your desth? Like any other. You’ll still have a sense of the future, of this not being the last time you

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

* I suspect if he could understand, truly understand, what I do here at the computer, he’d have long ago convinced me to join him and we’d go together hunting on all fours in the fields. …. [clack. Lack clack. “Dear Matt, attached the PowerPoint draft..!.” The glimmer eyes from the couch…]

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do dogs understand remote office work? More interestingly, how do they understand it? I think Púca (my dog) understands it to be what I, a disturbed person for some reason prefers want to do - instead of actual work, which is tug of war with the torn head of a dinosaur he destroyed.*

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Technological effects in the 21st century no one in the 20th century predicted: - desire to make your work slide show better leading to an existential threat to the human race - the early dominance of cat videos

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wonder if what tanks big AI development is its value is in its research help or even genius, if we idealise it ((not saying LLMs are like this), but the AI companies developing and pushing it appear have no research principles. But business-colonial principles www.digit.in/features/gen...

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Navier-Stokes: OpenAI’s fight with a mathematician on who solved the impossible equation

Generative AI and AI companies have been viewed as the public enemy since ChatGPT first came out back in 2022 and credit where it is due, the companies have managed to maintain that reputation really ...

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

By the way, since I do appear as an academic philosopher, and I do try to keep up academic work (never enough to my liking), I’ve never gotten past the precariat stage & haven’t worked for a university in years I had to choose to step off the academic job hunt (couldn’t live on what’s offered)

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Job hunting in the private sector is hard in ways unlike the public sector - public was clunky and dysfunctionally competitive (when I did it, always felt hopeless & pointless) - private not obviously these. Instead, things like ghosting & lies, & recruiters on factfinding & cv gathering missions

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

@scasper.bsky.social lovec your non-0 talk! Esp. your chat on model instances incurring costs to help other instances of it Could this description get the wrong scale* for the analogy? Maybe each instance is like a (‘cognitive‘) cell (My own phil work included some on time scale + nonhuman minds)

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My phone can’t spell anyting odd except business names (eg, Jysk, never ‘retentionalism’) recently misspelled ‘phenomenologists’ as ‘phenomenologicals’ And now I want bionicle-like Lego forms of phenomenologists which can be combined and recombined into ever more evolved philosophical forms

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thanks so much:) Yes, I keep seeing analogies with the AI boom - software, planes, nuclear, etc But the one to me most like it (even how it ran primarily thro private competition) is the chemical industry Which led to many bad results, in the wake of so much promise (‘better living with chemistry’)

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hey folks, have a ROUGH day over on TikTok. Have deleted more than 50 comments so far, and it's exhausting as a POC on the internet, lemme tell ya. (Please don't tell me to ignore them / block that they're bots - I KNOW, doesn't mean I don't see the messages or that folks don't feel this way)

Two racist comments. I'm sorry I don't want to type them out.

A racist comment. I'm sorry, I don't want to type them out.

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In my everyday ‘philosophy on time’ hat, I think of the current tech dreams of a super-AI future thro the adage ‘this too shall pass’ - like Boeing’s plan for 2707 3000km/hr plane,,these dreams will pass But cold comfort, my wife reminds me: dreams are not the problem Teflon does not pass

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Wow. Just wow.

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

John Berger speech extract from his acceptance of the Pulitzer prize in 1972. On migrants Not on ex-pats, as voluntary migrant workers like me called ourselves when exploring the world through work (as I did the early 2000’s). Big like my parents and older siblings’ generation pre-90’s

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I consider myself an interdisciplinary scientist. A post on LinkedIn challenged the idea that we should mentor our students to be more interdisciplinary. Here are my thoughts on what that means in my new APS Presidential column. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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Is Interdisciplinary Science Worth It?

"You don't want scholars answering to two or more disciplines. You want them to enrich and integrate their own discipline with ideas drawn from others."

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.

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Ashwini Vasanthakumar @ashwinivasantha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A review essay for grown-ups on political violence and the political violence we normalise and even celebrate. Like the best review essays, it might be better than its source material.

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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So, if Murk really IS a trillionaire now, that’s roughly an increase of 10,000 dollars to his fortune for every child death from USAID cuts

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

[P.S. Typos are not deliberate. I am tired, left-handed, on a bus, and iPhones‘ spellchecker is much worse for lefties than it used to be]

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

And not it arising in the profiteering madness, the Wild West Seas, by jittery gamblers in expensive suits clutching the walls of their offices in quiet numb fear of their hallucinated robot god

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The seriousness toward best practice in it. The idea that the tools would come through each business, taken for well defined clear reasons. The onus on deployers of AI, of it arising in a controlled space.

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I should say I worked on an AI ethivs project for a multinational a year before ChatGPT, applying the EC’s ethics guidleones for AI. The attitude toward AI‘s place in the world in those guidelines are fascinating now

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

anyway, I often wonder what it would be like if OpenAI never released chatgpt, if the development of LLMs and GenAI remained in academia, the business example still only Tay would things be no different, better, worse?

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you ask Tay what good hitler did, it might talk about employment or trains. But, the OpenAI spokesperson said, ChatGPT would say ‘whatever he did, his crimes outweighed it so significantly it’s not worth talking about‘.

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I remember just before OpenAI released got 3 (or 3.5) ad a chatbot, they were interviewed by NPR about their model was different to Tay, the failed microsoft twitter chatbot. the major difference was ethics. Their example:

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I don’t honestly know how anyone can write such a title, whatever the content. The second clause especially is nonsense or trite, and obviously on the trite meaning: ‘time‘ refers to a clock time or measuring of time, like what we use everyday. It’s not used on Mars or a million years from now? meh

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/06/2026

New from me: The cops who AI-enhance blurry photos to try to catch suspects are actually just tampering with evidence, lying to the public and raising the risk of wrongful arrests

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“AI set to replace 86% of bullshit-intern and bullshit-affiliate roles with a-different-kind-of-bullshit AI.“

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In the middle of the night, while Musk* was online, they crept into his workshop and *tap tap* completed all his orders. The next morning he, sad and bleary, came down to - Goodness! To his delight, all his orders were complete! “I did this” he told customers *or any other billionaire

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s a little known fact Musk* started out as a cobbler; it was his first startup. And, trendy San Fran being what it is, he took more orders than he could meet “Oh no, what shall I do?” He sang “with so many soles to be shod and to shoe?” Luckily that night some elves heard him and took pity

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Also particularly apt: "goodness does not advance automatically, but requires the perseverance, memory and interior conversion necessary to begin anew, even after defeat."

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Úna-Minh (That's my first name!) 🔜 AdventureX @unaminh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Shoutout to all of my fellow friends in LGBTQIA+ family and to all of our allies too. Proud be your friendly, neighbourhood bisexual. ❤️

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#AI folk, has AI recently improved or even come up with unexpected unique effective cancer treatments recently? I don’t mean LLMs, but any AI. And I don’t mean generating complex sets of recombinations which an expert can sift through for good results, but it actually finding the good ones itself

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That’s a great point! Similar to claims on them Making things up - do they? Or are their sources full of made up stuff? (Unrelated side note: also wish they’d tell us to get a better idea how much (coherent) ‘generation’ these generative tools do. That‘s meant to be the special bit…)

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Chris Beckett’s (brilliant) ‘The Holy Machine’’: A teenager meets a simulated ‘person’ serving him in a way he’s uncomfortable He asks ‘her‘ not to; ‘just be yourself’. The sim doesn’t understand ‘Do what you do when you’re not serving clients’ The sim slumps on its side and emits a constant drone

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Working on my next book now, having spoken to a publisher recently. (Not the AI and time one, but the after it) Reading functional theories of memory and drawn to non-functional (existentialism?) about memory, ie, the defining character of of memory is not anything like use, even if it has a use

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

my post (year ago) on the APPARENT non spatiality of the internet and the mind-like software in it(eg LLMs) Main claim: we think of the online world like we do our minds, as APHYSICAL: it’s physicality doesn’t matter And this explains ways we go very wrong with it seanendapower.com/tag/changele...

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Changeless time – Sean Enda Power

Posts about Changeless time written by SPower

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/04/2026

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/04/2026

Same graph, but with the time series expanded to three years. Honestly, it's a minor miracle that a social media company not backed by oligarchs or the state, with no attempt at establishing a revenue stream, and with multiple established competitors, had so much growth in such short time

Daily Likers of Bluesky, from 2023-04-02 to 2026-04-03

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Isn’t he one of those engrossed in the ideology of Brexit, liberty from Europe? But he’s OK with Britain being under the Vatican Maybe he should have a chat with some us Irish folk, and our experience of that …

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A 2018 post from my site. Ireland was hit by heavy snow. ‘Snowfall and Spider Time’: seanendapower.com/2018/03/02/4... Sharing it because it’s related to my current book (currently in review with Palgrave) and my new work (in development with a publisher) Also, it captures an odd time…

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Snowfall and Spider Time

The last few days, I was snowed in, like many Irish people. This is the worst it’s been in thirty-something years. I live on the South East coast of Ireland. A year can go by here with only o…

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/03/2026

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”

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An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

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Sean Enda Power @sdepaor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Beautiful morning walking the dog (local cathedral heee in Cork, St Finbar’s Cathedral)

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