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Tim Cowlishaw

@timcowlishaw.co.uk
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PhD-ing @ UOC DARTS (Design Research + STS + Environmental Humanities + Digital Waste). Teaching @ UDIT y Elisava. Working @ greenweb.org & FabLab BCN. Anglès a Catalunya (sempre guiri, mai "expat") www.timcowlishaw.co.uk

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Mike (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mxmike.co.uk · 14h
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt Bethany Antonia rehearsing for Strictly Come Dancing in a Protect The Dolls t-shirt that’s been edited to look like a plain white t shirt
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 13h
are we going to talk about how the mail has pulled this article (2nd) or just move past it as everybody tends to do
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Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · 08/10/2026
[foreboding music]
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S01E04 The Apes of Wrath 19 February 2004
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today is the day! Go and campaign for @zackpolanski.bsky.social if you can! Even if it's just for an hour! Go to 📍St Pancras Gardens NW1 1UL. Spread the word!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 08/10/2026
it's good to see this laid out clearly, but i'm once again going to point to Peter Naur's 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building"
The present discussion is a contribution to the understanding of what programming is. It suggests that programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk
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Pablo Bustinduy @pbustinduy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Estos mercenarios votaron en contra de prohibir los desahucios hace cinco días. Buitres al servicio de los buitres. Siervos del dinero y no del pueblo. Mala gente que lo envenena todo.
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Chevy Ray @chevyray.dev · 05/10/2026
i do not like people who miss the trees for the forest
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 07/10/2026
**Clearly** there would be a particularly hideous slop graphics poster for Carl Weathers' stage fighting workshop
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 07/10/2026
George Senior coming to believe that it is god and starting a TESCREAL-ist sect from prison, Tobias falling in love with and eloping with Claude... ...and obviously Gob would finally be made president of the Bluth company, until one day the internet connection goes down and he loses everything.
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 07/10/2026
God, all the arrested development characters apart from Michael would be all over AI wouldn't they? Lindsey protesting a datacentre, until she finds out that it's the thing that powers ChatGPT, Barry Zuckercorn getting disbarred for filing increasingly implausible AI generated depositions...
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 07/10/2026
youtu.be/jmo0M2_OWsU?...
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Gob at Sitwell
YouTube video by Robin Weatherbee
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Big Gob Bluth energy youtu.be/jmo0M2_OWsU?...
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Gob at Sitwell
YouTube video by Robin Weatherbee
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my brain when decide to work on my draft
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 06/10/2026
handsomeboymodelingschool on tumblr: "School of Rock but Dewey is really into weird industrial experimental metal instead of classic rock and shows the kids like Throbbing Gristle and Mr Bungle and shit and the battle of the bands is a disaster and they do arrest him at the end"
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When the lads say “this party is unelectable”, that is their cast iron promise: we are going to raise hell and scream abuse until you rue the day you opened your big mouths to criticise. Fuck you.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.
Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 05/10/2026
hahahaha, I don't know if it's *all* down to Jabba, but I do remember being absolutely terrified, and both the phobia and the star-wars ambivalence are extremely real :-D
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 05/10/2026
hahaha It's not from someone in Chile by any chance? (Weá in chilean spanish is an extremely informal placeholder word for "any object you've forgotten the name of", like "thingy" in English)
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 05/10/2026
I credit a glimpse of Jabba the Hut on TV at 2 or 3-ish with both my lifelong phobia of slugs and snails, and my abiding, total disinterest in the Star Wars franchise.
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Bang up to date in my cultural references for the class I'm teaching this term, clearly.
A flow chart of Alvin Lucier's "I am sitting in a room", for some fucking reason.
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Being a ‘good guy’ doesn’t usually mean saying the *right* thing and then getting praise, but saying the *difficult* thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence. Follow-up post: how to be difficult www.girlonthenet.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to be difficult | A guide on challenging creep chat
Being a 'good guy' doesn't mean saying the right thing and then getting praise, but saying the difficult thing that prompts an uncomfortable silence.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Hans Holbein the Younger - The Ambassadors (1533)
Screengrab of a product page at a spanish DIY store for a toilet seat with a photorealistic print of a llama. The image is sheared diagonally making it look a bit like the skull in the holbein painting
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also stop the repulsive grandiosity and smug threats about your product. I’m gonna be left behind? What the fuck are you even talking about? I don’t care! I’m old and have plenty to do and don’t want to follow your parade of lazy shitheads! I don’t know enough about it? Yes I do! You failed.
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 02/10/2026
The day the US gov't announced it would rather announce winners & losers than let the market punish bad behavior, or regulate out the fundamental problems, investors knew the bigger they were the more likely they were to win. There is a direct line between the bailout and AI investment patterns
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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘if I were there in that room, I’d have stopped it.’ ‘if I were there in that group chat, I’d have said something.’ You're here now. What are you doing? A blog post about Cornell. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/cornell/
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Cornell | What are you doing to challenge rape culture right now?
Protecting women from rape doesn't mean swooping with a sense of victory, it means starting a conversation that might leave you feeling like shit.
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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 01/10/2026
It will never not be fucked up how Nathalie was treated and continues to be treated by this industry.
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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Oh no! There's a silly little data centre in my studio 🙀
A raspberry pi zero and a solar powered battery pack inside a mason jar, on a shelfA lo fi white window on a blue desktop background in a browser window. Inside is some slightly corrupted text that more or less reads "Hello. I am a silly little data centre. Sometimes i forget things. Oh well."
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Sindicat de Llogateres @sindicatlloguer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Avui hem conegut el suïcidi del Javier, un sabater de 60 anys de l’Hospitalet, que es va llevar la vida abans que el desnonessin de la seva botiga. Fa uns dies, va ser l’Olga, també a l’Hospitalet. I abans, molts més. No són morts, són assassinats. Vine i acabem amb el negoci de l'habitatge.
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Albert Lloreta @albertlloreta.cat · 30/09/2026
Sobre el megacentre de dades projectat a Móra la Nova i Tivissa, la sobirania digital passada pel filtre de la Unió Europea i la falsa dicotomia entre poders estatals i Silicon Valley. directa.cat/no-es-sobira...
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No és sobirania, és destrucció ecològica i tecnològica - directa.cat
La intel·ligència artificial és un conjunt de tecnologies interessants, i les hauríem de reclamar per al bé comú
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a joke, obviously, the concept of "infinite personalised music" is such a deeply inhuman thought to even have. Part of what makes music music is that you learn it and know it and repeat it and do your own versions of it. There are albums I must have listened to hundreds of times over.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
57 in the gc
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actually, I can’t find confirmation of the exact number in the group chat. But only one said anything—after the fact. The Cornell student newspaper is doing critical work breaking this story & making sure it doesn’t get buried. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026... www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Cornell, Chi Phi Sued by Victim of Alleged Gang Rape, Drugging in 2024
A former Cornell student filed a lawsuit on Monday, alleging that she was gang raped after being coerced into consuming drugs by several men at the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell in 2024. 
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the only rule is that if you're in their little club, you can do whatever you want to. that's why guys like brand rush to join when they get in trouble bsky.app/profile/russ...
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
two startups trying to IPO out any day now are literally responsible for a multi-billion-dollar assault on basically everything worthwhile about society, it's maddening
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
It is really important to understand that anyone trying to claim this is a "technological transition" is either deeply misguided or trying to sell you something. What this is, is a deliberate act of harm being done by people with names and addresses.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026
What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We didn’t uninvent filling buildings with asbestos or putting lead in all the gasoline and paint. You’re allowed to stop doing harmful things and it’s possible to do so.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Deeply unserious country. Imagine being one of those cops. Fucking pathetic.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Augustine: “The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty promises. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The dark art of maths and the AI revolution | Letter
Letter: Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"the author of that harry potter story leads an insane cult that's captured much of the media in this country" is a different person if you're in the UK or the US
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 25/09/2026
if you go check on this thread now you'll see the author has a root shell
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