Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Chaplin's "Modern Times," understanding in 1936 that workplace surveillance would not look kindly upon private bathroom breaks. What it underplayed was how vulnerable bosses would feel if they were exposed to worker perception via a big screen. 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Nevins Library, Methuen MA One of many North Shore library gems. 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Come on, join me in avoiding writing. #philsky 182
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Prompt engineering, via Philip K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth" (1964). 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026But, on rarer occasions at Fortune's whim, you will face "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?" 020
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The theological arachnics she would have unleashed on the name, message, and prophesying of Anthropic appearing at a joint press conference about a papal encyclical... My Adam Curtis doc would note she passed away in 2010, the year of the first ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge... 000
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Lovely book in some ways but the d'Aulaires really drew the Greek pantheon like this 150
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 27/12/2025"Hi Carol. Our feelings for you poets haven't changed, the republic just needs a little space." #philsky 052
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Tag yourself in the AI slop how-to, I'm the scissors. 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Joaquin Phoenix could do young and old William James, portray credible nitrous oxide hits and spirit readings, and nail "Damn the absolute!" in a #PhilosophyBiopics 172
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 23/09/2024From Andrew Marantz’s “Anti-Social,” asking a question to Emerson Spartz. 000
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 23/09/2024The Target “men’s soap” aisle is always good for a laugh and a complete AmStud/social theory midterm prompt printed on a label. 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 01/09/2024The people whose lives I consider diminished are those who've read Vance and not any May Sarton. 131
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 14/08/2024From “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” to “Hey cars… 0233
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 27/02/2024Finally this photo of mine from 2020 has its caption. 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 02/02/2024Speaking to HRI seminar tomorrow and I have some classical slides ready for a change of pace (e.g. Medea as Euripides' mechane-lifted protagonist vs. Ava lifted up in the film Ex Machina; here, an Iliad scene echoed by the Cruise robotaxi dragging a woman 20 feet down the street) 🏺 Classics Bluesky 050
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 25/12/2023Jolabokaflod book for tonight, new one from @jomc.bsky.social 020
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 02/11/2023Artist Angela Lorenz produced the "Sir Thomas'more angelonium.com 0242
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 02/09/2023One of Oakland’s many phenomenal murals (by Joshua Mays) 140
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 28/08/2023Cursed image when reading "Fear and Trembling." 010
Thomas Arnold @thomasarnold.bsky.social · 21/05/2023And Bluesky said, "Children, have you no whales? Cast your nets to the side of the stuck boat, near the orcas, and ye shall find them." 040