both are true tons of people use + will continue to use it AND the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics it's not that hard people

So after listening to multiple talks by philosophers of mind who defend consciousness as the substrate of the entire universe, and physicists who invoke quantum mechanics as the source of consciousness, the conclusion is clear: they have no idea about neuroscience, nor any interest to know about it.

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins. Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.

What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Context Collapse and Halloween Traditions REAL VIDEO MOSTLY NO AI (Hotline 79/81) youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0

I can't even read this "great read" without wanting to rescue an 8-year-old son from his father's effort toughen him up and exploit him for a Times byline. I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Poetry made by bots and outrage

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

I think Faine is right the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves you win the information game by playing a different game

I still think declarative quoted posting instead of conversation is a net societal negative

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expanding on this the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally

I keep thinking about how powerful our phones have gotten and how almost all of that power is used to process cloud-hosted UIs instead of processing anything locally

"The dollar is no longer the reserve currency of American capitalism. Digital data is. Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one." open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

I agree but also think that defying the sort of thinking steadily programmed into civic society by algorithms that thrive off of outrage might have something to do with why not that many people realize it's an option we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making. 1. user makes [xyz claim] 2. another user corrects them 3. blocked, hidden it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

Unironically keep doing this. BC&BB

next step is nuclear sovereignty for the Diné nation

oh wow the Atlantic wrote an article about poster's syndrome

honestly I get the waffles thing because it feels the same as how anyone reasonable has started to feel about the AI thing

it’s a lot harder to get unjustifiably outraged online when you have real hobbies that you’re involved with

The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here

can we seriously please stop screenshot-posting it's giving fear of consequences

My conclusion after the last 24 hours of discourse on this app about AI is that maybe reading comprehension is something that we should really be investing in as a society just maybe.

man the current wave of ai discourse is one of the bleakest i've seen. some of the smartest people i know within their domains spending useless hours trying to explain "no it doesn't work like that, i know this because i actually work with these for a living" to people who are like "don't care cunt"

also FYI Garmin is the superior company here and Strava will not win www.techradar.com/health-fitne...

thought-stopping language is going to kill the internet

the main thing I hate seeing on bsky is that users will exhibit the same behavior they critique from the other site but because they are surrounded by people they like they think it's okay the internet used to be a place where you could talk to people, not just yell at strangers

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I just got back to NYC from a trip to Kyrgyzstan After traveling to a number of developing countries (and otherswise) in the last few years, I have to say: NYC really does have a trash problem

What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

the opposite of despair is not hope, it is uncertainty it is within uncertainty that we find room for hope, because when things are uncertain, it means better things are always possible do not let them take your heart and mind, you are free

i will not give up hope and neither will you

All I'm asking for is someone else who loves Anathallo's 2006 masterpiece 'Floating World' as much as I do and wants to see it become an on-stage performance

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I am begging newsrooms to hire web anthropologists so that you can actually understand the internet instead of guessing the internet has connected people into really weird systems of belief you don't have to speculate on, you can go see them for yourself

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

wtf is this menu It's the most mid lineup I have ever seen

THE TRUTH IS WE OUT HERE

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saw a reels video today about how trans women are thriving in new york living very normal lives just here to tell you that letting people live normal things ends up looking really mundane and that's a good thing letting people live normal lives is good

tf is the justice department doing posting about hinge

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I remember when Obama was pro net neutrality and then they went ahead and made the internet not neutral anyway by putting up paywalls everywhere

the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands

Happy Labor Day 🙂

hey uh remember how this was the first thing the Nazis did? bc this was the first thing the Nazis did

how the hell is Ralph Lauren MAGA. do you not pay attention to black culture on purpose?