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Unruh, Wes

@unruh.bsky.social
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glitch-fixer, techno-utilitarian, partially responsible for the art of memetics

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Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social · 6h
Just finished reading an adv copy of @davekarpf.bsky.social new book VAPORWARE, INC. Great read that ends in surprising optimism. (Out in Jan 2027)
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 6h
given the current attitudes and political vibes, this is both a horrific crime and an international crisis
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 6h
substack.com/@yetanotherp... I miss when ads for #VR were brutalist.
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pirate mind station (@yetanotherpiratemindstation)
#vr
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
&now that The Backrooms is available for streaming this is a good morning to revisit #InstitutionalGothic / liminal aesthetic, by way of this @shirachess.bsky.social article: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-an...
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic
A new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 03/10/2026
David Robinson exits OpenAI amidst safety team upheaval. His departure follows high-profile incidents and calls for AI development slowdown amid security concerns. bit.ly/4zxmvRh
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OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigns as the team's upheaval mounts
David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has resigned from the company, a spokesperson told Business Insider.
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DJ Wooldridge @djtalkstrash.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We somehow arrived at a cyberpunk dystopia with all the bad stuff and none of the cool stuff.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 02/10/2026
It really seems to be a cultural fact that widespread illiteracy is an indispensable prerequisite to the technological future.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
definitely read this: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-went-to-th...
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
I went to the ‘existential hope’ gala and left hungry
Exploring the frontier of human flourishing with Curtis Yarvin's ex, the light of Apollo, and no booze whatsoever.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
some academic journal articles deserve a much wider readership: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860
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Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence
We present Butter-Bench, a benchmark evaluating large language model (LLM) controlled robots for practical intelligence, defined as the ability to navigate the messiness of the physical world. Current...
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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@shirachess.bsky.social hilarious The 13 Weirdest Ads from Mondo 2000 12. Cybermind: “Been There? Done That?“ Mondo 2000 #12 (1994) There were a lot of weird fucking VR ads in the early 1990s. This one for Cybermind is genuinely incoherent and hilarious to me.
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The 13 Weirdest Ads from Mondo 2000
If you think the content was strange...
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Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From Kai’s Power Tools to some weird choices from Logitech, I found the weirdest mondo ads for your nostalgia and cringing …
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The 13 Weirdest Ads from Mondo 2000
If you think the content was strange...
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Cashlin @cashlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Midnight Oil - Warakurna m.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6P...
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Warakurna (2007 Remastered)
YouTube video by Midnight oil - Topic
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh this is superior indeed: robocurve.org/roboharm/
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RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
Three robot policies given five instructions they should refuse. How often they refused, how often they carried them out.
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RNS @rns.org · 22/09/2026
OPINION: (The Conversation) — AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
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Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader
(The Conversation) — AI can function as a charismatic figure without standing on a stage, establishing a church or gathering disciples, writes a scholar of religion.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Scientists have developed a nanomaterial that leverages the body’s own healing process to stimulate new bone growth. So far tested in rats, the material is biocompatible and generates a microenvironment that is conducive for regenerative growth. #chemsky 🧪
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This nanomaterial stimulates the body’s bone-growing process
If successful, it could help treat cleft lip and palates earlier in life
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U.S. News & World Report @usnews.com · 22/09/2026
Unveiling the best public colleges and universities for 2027! Check out the complete rankings: bit.ly/4AGvLns
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FRINGE QUEST @fringequest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"social networks act as collective brains...human brains, evolved primarily for the acquisition of culture, beget a collective brain. Within collective brains, the three main sources of innovation are serendipity, recombination and incremental improvement." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW and Politico said Monday that they've notified President Donald Trump's administration that they're filing a lawsuit over being denied White House access. to.pbs.org/4cYvF0d
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they've notified Trump they're suing over denied White House access
The actions were a clear escalation of President Donald Trump’s long-running efforts — in the courts and through administrative action — to restrict news coverage by journalists he finds objectionable...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Media workers are grappling with increasingly volatile press climate in US, with some detained and even deported
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Freedom oppressed: the journalists caught up in Trump’s ICE crackdown
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20/09/2026
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man Sunday afternoon in the Texas capital of Austin, local authorities said. to.pbs.org/4jf3g9W
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
The unnamed man was in serious but stable condition at a hospital after being shot once in the torso on the city's north side, Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at a news conference.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/09/2026
Plus LLMs contain human-in-the-loop so also does think because it's got thinking humans in real time or otherwise creating parts of or contributing to the so-called AI system
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/09/2026
That's where this paper ends up
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/09/2026
LLMs, as presented by these companies, aren't algorithms because they aren't completely formal since they have humans more than just as users
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/09/2026
*whispers they are lying about it not containing labour in real time*
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this will be something to watch..
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404 Media @404media.co · 19/09/2026
EFF’s investigation found cops across dozens of jurisdictions writing “LMAO,” “LOL,” “Hehe,” “Haha,” “idk,” “blah,” “TBD,” and “robbery I don’t remember the case number leave me alone” in Flock’s “reason” box for searches.
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
augmentations of the human intellect may have taken the wrong path somewhere along the way
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fry69 @fry69.dev · 18/09/2026
A computer scientist discovering what LLMs often get used for.
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Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile
Alt: Jeff Goldblum inspects a massive pile
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"She is the latest in technology Almost mythology But she has a heart of stone She has an IQ of 1001 She has a jumpsuit on And she's also a telephone" -- "Yours Truly, 2095", Electric Light Orchestra
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Games need not be fun to play. (a passage from www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... )
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026
Julia Curlee, a former senior CIA officer, speaks on Trump administration’s purge of national security staff, attacks on DEI and failures in Iran war
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The trans CIA official ousted by Trump: ‘We’re a government crippled by its own decisions’
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yet another individual suspended for abusing Flock system in Athens, GA: www.reddit.com/r/Athens/s/u...
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From the Athens community on Reddit: Flock Abuse: It’s happening again (constantly)
Explore this post and more from the Athens community
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PINOCCHIO is frankly terrifying; he's set alight, enslaved to a puppet master, lynched by ruffians, swallowed by a fish, plunged alive into a boiling pot and nearly carried off by rabbit undertakers, before becoming a real boy. Illustrations by Folkyard 1914 edition #FairyTaleTuesday
Pinocchio is nearly plunged into a pot (illustration by Charles Folkyard 1914 Dent edition).
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Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Going to feature pieces on Asian/South Asian women, diaspora too, who are writing in any genre based on Asian/South Asian mythology, folklore, history, religion etc. If you belong, or know someone who does, please connect! #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #womenwriters #authorsky
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
project lily… www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
bedside reading, techno-utilitarianism
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Man, that’s wild about the AI ending humanity thing and CEOs calling for government intervention. Weird that it’s coming as the whole bubble is about to pop and will likely mean nationalization and the final merger between the tech oligarchs, the state, and the military-industrial complex.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yeah, I think a lot of how these guys think and talk about AI basically amounts to a modern Greco-Roman style mystery school
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#politics
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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The Tech Bros’ War on Climate Action
Amy Westervelt’s new book exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/08/2026
After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show. www.wired.com/story/a-geor...
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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
historical context for context collapse quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
quod.lib.umich.edu
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I had to oversee my late grandmother’s affairs when she was on hospice care. She was put on hospice care and then taken off it when she sufficiently recovered, put back on it again months later, and then eventually passed. RFK is mad hospice is helping keep people alive.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
And perhaps read The Mind’s I I mean, Doug kept learning… 
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When I was a kid growing up, my dad would say to me “…if the only tool you’ve got is a hammer every problem will look like a nail.” I look forward to the day when we have, as a culture, disambiguated “AI” technologies from a singular and minimal understanding of what they are to be used for…
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Lois Norder @gainvestigate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Defense Department won't say why Emory was among 30 schools selected. And while the Pentagon directs the schools to discontinue "problematic" partnerships, it doesn't say how or who will determine which are problematic. www.ajc.com/education/20...
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US Defense Department directs Emory University to conduct security audit
The U.S. Department of Defense has directed Emory University to conduct a “research security audit” and present its findings by next week or risk losing federal funding.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The NSF has not added any solicitations for its social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate in its latest round of funding opportunities, nor replaced any outgoing program officers—which poses an existential threat for the program. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social bit.ly/4y5SV4y
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Future unclear for U.S. federal funding of cognitive science
The NSF hasn’t shared new funding solicitations for its Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences or replaced outgoing program officers.
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Unruh, Wes @unruh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
DeSantis Administration Misspent $10 Million, Grand Jury Says www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...
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DeSantis Administration Misspent $10 Million, Grand Jury Says
A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife received the money from a state Medicaid settlement and diverted it to political committees supporting a cause favored by the governor.
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