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@timzyzz.bsky.social
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I'm a researcher interested in how the internet mediates cultural evolution Working on recommender systems for "societal good" (whatever that means) timbooker.net

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Tim @timzyzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Albanese is upset with waiting times? Welcome to Medicare 😀
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turbolib @megalib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very difficult to draw lines that simultaneously make humans special and also let you eat all the meat you want and not give a shit about AI
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Tim @timzyzz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
announcement: i am permanently banned from chatgpt without possibility of appeal
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 03/09/2026
the current “anti-AI” debate is like getting hit by a nuclear bomb and complaining that you don’t like the hue of the mushroom cloud
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Tom McCoy @rtommccoy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🤖🧠NEW PAPER🧠🤖 (The result of an 8-year project!) LLMs seem very different from symbolic systems. Yet LLMs excel in symbolic domains (e.g., language/code/math). How do they do it? Our finding: LLM representations have implicit symbolic structure! Link in thread ⬇️ 1/n
Overview of the paper. 
Title: The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
Authors: Tom McCoy, Paul Soulos, Tal Linzen, Paul Smolensky
Left: Neural networks encode information in vectors (there is then an image of a vector), yet they excel at tasks long thought to require symbolic structure (there is then an image of a symbolic representation, specifically a syntax tree). How do LLMs do it?
Right: We find that LLM representations can be closely approximated with symbolic structures. This approximation lets us edit the structure of an LLM’s output by editing the structure of its internal representations, as shown. There is then an image of two edits to LLMs. In the first one, the original input is 3 + 6 * 8, with an answer of 51. But if we swap the positions of the 3 and the 6, the output becomes 30. In the second one, the original input is a Python command repeating the list [Z, U] three times, producing [Z, U, Z, U, Z, U]. But if we edit the input in a way that adds a Q at the end of the input, the output becomes [Z, U, Q, Z, U, Q, Z, U, Q].
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Tim @timzyzz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Looking forward to this fuckin flight to Helsinki leesgoo #rebuild @ruggsea.eurosky.social @lorrenz.bsky.social
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Esteemed author Richard Flanagan delivered a powerful speech at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas warning of a new McCarthyism, accusing Israel of "seeking to silence" Australians with the slur of antisemitism. We have published the full text of the speech.👇️ www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...
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The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22
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Kirill Solovev @ksolovev.com · 01/07/2026
Check out the largest open multilingual preprocessed news corpus from Common Crawl News (built with @ruggsea.eurosky.social & @janalasser.eurosky.social). 1.36B articles | subsecond search | FOSS Demo: infini-news.uni-graz.at Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18337 Code: codeberg.org/ksolovev/inf...
infini-news.uni-graz.at
infini-news
infini-news: search 1.36B+ news articles with sub-second full-text search
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ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Here's my new blogpost on the dataset I have created alongside @ksolovev.com: we decided to solve the issue of data availability for research on news articles by processing, cleaning, tagging and indexing the whole news subset of the Common Crawl, resulting in cs2.uni-graz.at/blog/infini-...
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ruggsea @ruggsea.eurosky.social · 27/03/2025
A friend and colleague at my lab (the CS² under @janalasser.bsky.social ) is organizing a super nice school on democracy and social media here in Graz! If you're interested, check it out and share! Link: sicss.io/2025/graz/
CS² Summer School Poster: A black background featuring a fragmented, digital-looking olive branch or plant with green leaves and fruits. The poster announces "DATA, DEMOCRACY & THE NEW SOCIAL FABRIC" in a red box, hosted by Complex Social & Computational Systems. Located in Graz, Austria from September 15-26, 2025, the summer school explores the intersection of social media, technology, and democracy. Themes include philosophical foundations, social media's impact on democracy, ethics of large-scale data use, and the future of democracy and the internet. A QR code for application is provided, with an April 13, 2025 application deadline.Program details for CS² Summer School on Data, Democracy, and Social Fabric. The image features a textured, architectural background with fragmented brick walls. A schedule shows a two-week program: Week One covers daily lectures on democracy, social technologies, and ethics, while Week Two focuses on group project work. The poster details the audience (Masters, Doctoral students, Postdocs in computational social sciences), key details about application (deadline April 13, 2025), and potential financial support. Organized by Complex Social & Computational Systems (SICSS), with a QR code for application and further details.
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