Podcast alert!!!! Together with Hanna Schraffenberger I am launching the Computer Science Off Course Podcast Today! Computer Science curricula are very very narrow in scope with a lot of math and algorithms, but very little meta science, philosophy or history.

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*Foucault bursts out of his grave*

Important to remember: You don't wear pervert glasses. Pervert glasses wear you... #NihilismAndTechnology

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“Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at the site, contaminated the city's wastewater treatment facility with a rare bacterium.”

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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"AI is forcing itself in as a gatekeeper of knowledge and understanding." #NihilismAndTechnology

It’s a good thing no ethicist has ever written anything about AI. Otherwise, AI companies might be obliged to read what has been written instead of hiring yes men.

My son is good at Lego...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

TIL the world's new favorite himbo once bought a 13th century copy of one of the Norse Sagas for $150,000, then donated it to the library because "I'm not much of a reader."

Forgot to watch this yesterday...

"For ethicists, in particular, A.I. is a bonanza." #NihilismAndTechnology

It's tragically appropriate that we spent a whole generation telling students that the humanities were moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest innovations in STEM to prove why the humanities were so essential all along.

Paul Verhoeven undefeated

Tired: "Fascism is about turning politics into aesthetics." Wired: "Fascism is about grifting and hoping other people do that whole politics/aesthetics thing."

How I'm celebrating the 4th of July...

4th of July Movie Marathon:

Son: "What's that?" Me: "The national anthem." Son: "Which nation?" youtu.be/sjzZh6-h9fM?...

There are so many powerful images to sum up the USA during the second Trump administration, but this one's in the top five

Happy 4th of July ¯\_🇺🇸_/¯

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Lamine Yamal's younger brother just gave us one of the best reaction shots of the World Cup lol

Belgium's jersey was meant to be inspired by Magritte? Was it designed by AI? I'm not seeing it...

NihAIlism at its finest.

Looks like a Brazilian "news" site used AI to produce an article about me that you'd think was an interview, but I'm pretty sure is just quotes and information from a talk I gave a couple of years ago that's now online... www.fativia.com/noticia/a-et...

More people on the panel than in the audience. Damn I thought only the APA could pull that off...

this can be good adevrserial audit. why not do it on their own bots too... in any case, google, openai, meta... they're all as harmful and shitty as each other. let them bite each other

"This company is turning people into food, but damn they make some delicious meals!" #NihilismAndTechnology

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Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Everything is like this now One of the battles of our generation will be to destroy all efforts to dismiss truth as a central ingredient for how we process the world I remember when JD Vance said he doesn’t regret lying about Haitians because ‘it started a conversation’ It’s why I hate GenAI too.

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There is a very real argument being made in Hollywood that AI democratizes filmmaking, making it available to outsiders. In truth, the cost of effective generative AI is cost prohibitive to all but corporations, leading to no improvement in quality at the cost of jobs both above and below the line.

Real tech visionaries wouldn't waste their time with glasses. They'd cut out the middle man and replace our eyes with computers...

“All of us are going to be walking cameras” as your preferred version of the future is real dire stuff—the fantasy for people who think Black Mirror is a lighthearted comedy.

In the first piece I ever wrote for the Guardian I quoted a CEO of a pharmaceutical company who said that 99% of the research they fund is ‘wasted’ but without that they wouldn’t get the 1% as you can’t pick winners in advance. This is true everywhere: art, music, literature, academic research.

Can't believe they have Star Wars at the Rijksmuseum...