Last night, a good friend of mine introduced me to Norwegian Reggaeton, and now I'm afraid I can't unsee or unhear this ghoulish abomination: https://youtu.be/j0YXfeNxJJ0

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115962455533017842 I got some really interesting reactions to this. I'm teaching on Friday. Anyone else willing to chime in?

How would you teach the importance of philosophy and reflection on concepts to first-year PhD students in oncology? 🤔

Maybe you can guess in which part of the world I was having lunch today?

This essay by @mattsheffield about experience generating minds, rather than minds generating experience is awesome! I can't wait to discuss the connections and differences of relevance realization and somatic deixis with Matthew. I've been sitting on various trains for 12 hrs today, so may not […]

On my way from #switzerland to #barcelona by train, via #paris, which is the fastest connection, and just shows how awfully centralized and star-shaped the French train network is. Let's hope no more Spanish train wrecks today...

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Just one more boost for this wonderful conversation about a science for the 21st century, beyond the view of the world as a machine: https://youtu.be/lL0bkHQeanY Highlights from the conversation are available here […]

Boycott the #worldcup #usa.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@macst/115955229883002777 ❤️ 🇨🇭 I just past this (on the other side of the lake) by train! #switzerland

Enshittification^2: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal

We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart: "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" https://zenodo.org/records/18293424 Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt […] [Original post on spore.social]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 The emotional need to control is what underlies the machine view (computationalism, these days), not rationality all the way down, as I explain in this last snipped of our conversation: https://youtu.be/UdEl3CmzU3A Only once we let this […]

Als Patient mit mildem #mecfs und #mcas, macht mich das so verdammt wütend und traurig. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000305309/samuel-21-wie-schlimm-es-sich-anfuehlt-wenn-man-an-mecfs-leidet Ich kann diesen Artikel gar nicht lesen. So weh tut das. Diese Krankheit betrifft hunderte von […]

Re: https://climatejustice.social/@muellertadzio/115943053866443855 "Trump, die fleischgewordene #arschlochgesellschaft"

"No War on a Dead Planet" https://www.technosphere.earth/no-war-on-a-dead-planet by @jamesdyke "While defending corporate interests is a simple explanation of why politicians continue to fail to act with any urgency to the climate and ecological crisis, there may be deeper motivations. The […]

Ich habe mir diese Woche den dreiteiligen #arte Dokumentarfilm von Cédric Tourbe über den amerikanischen Kapitalismus angesehen: "Reichtum als Kult" https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103517-001-A/kapitalismus-made-in-usa-reichtum-als-kult-1-3 Wirklich sehenswert für alle, die verstehen wollen […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Today: the third snippet out of this wide-ranging conversation: https://youtu.be/We25VbAN7pw Here, I channel John Vervaeke's four types of knowledge (4P): (1) propositional, (2) procedural, (3) participatory, (4) perspectival. And I also […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115933599154161433 Another quick boost for my summary of the paper that explains Bill Wimsatt's philosophy of multi-perspectival realism to scientists across disciplines. Reading this paper will change how you do science! Become a better researcher through […]

"The collapse of the #AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the #StockMarket, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there […] [Original post on newsie.social]

"“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.” I’m a science-fiction writer – my job is to think of a dozen alternatives before […] [Original post on newsie.social]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Good remarks on how scientific research has been failing its role in society (which is constructing a collective understanding of the world around us), with ideas for doing better.

Almost 10y old, but more relevant than ever: Ted Chiang's analysis of strawberry fields (or paperclips) as metaphor for Silicon Valley's own greed […]

"Davos, Milliardäre und die wachsende Macht des Vermögens" https://www.moment.at/story/davos-milliardaere-und-die-wachsende-macht-des-vermoegens von @barbaraschuster vom @mom_inst Vermögensungleichheit so extrem wie noch nie (und schnell wachsend): 3,000 Milliardäre weltweit kontrollieren so […]

"Und doch hatte er selbst mitten in diesem Nebel Momente der Klarheit. In einem solchen Moment gab er zu, was viele von uns bereits wussten: Er betrachtet sich selbst bereits als Diktator." Heather Delaney Reese

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115938865404119323 No shit, Sherlock. And good luck! #ai is #algorithmicmimicry

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Here's another short snippet of our conversation: why AI combined with U.S. capitalism amounts to total bullshit. https://youtu.be/oHOGdAbXL-k "We, humans, are agents, and have the future in our own hands." For the full podcast, see the […]

Nice to see a very visible person like @anilkseth converge, in every possible way, with things I've been saying for a while now: https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai Consciousness is *not* a matter of computation, but a matter of experiencing. hashtag#AI algorithms are unable […]

Falls Euch wieder mal Leute erzählen wollen, auch #Syrien werde durch "einen starken Mann sicherer": Aufgrund des Vormarsches des syrischen Regimes gegen die #Kurden konnten zahlreiche IS-Terroristen aus Gefängnissen fliehen. Was das für die #sicherheit aller Menschen der Region & weit darüber […]

Nice to see a very visible person like @anilkseth converge, in every possible way, with things I've been saying for a while now: https://www.noemamag.com/the-mythology-of-conscious-ai Consciousness is *not* a matter of computation, but a matter of experiencing. hashtag#AI algorithms are unable […]

Mit der Schlagzeile ist der Postillon übrigens näher an der Realität als die meisten seriösen Medien. Und das ist kein quib à la "haha satire ist tot", sondern ernste Medienkritik. Wenn Medien die Realität nicht mehr aussprechen wollen, weil sie so bizarr ist, verfehlen sie ihren Job.

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 My hosts on the #mindrift podcast made a bunch of short teaser videos of our interview. "You can have a perfect simulation of your bike, but you cannot ride that simulation to work." This video features three examples of what a post-machine […]

Aroser Weisshorn / Plattenhorn. #tschiertschen

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 TL;DR: a summary thread on this monster of a paper ... The basic take-home message is this: there is no knowledge without a knower. No "view from nowhere." But this does not lead to relativism - anything goes - either, as our perspectives […]

📍Zurich airport, on the flight path to Davos conference Everyone Hates Elon: If you can fly a private jet to a bullsh*t conference in Switzerland you can pay more tax mate

"Da gewinnt man durch Arschkriecherei nichts, sondern man verliert viel, nicht zuletzt Würde und Selbstachtung." "Autoritäre Charaktere wie Trump oder Vance reagieren am besten auf Härte. Wenn europäische Politiker:innen sich lieber in den Staub werfen und die einzige Sprache, die sie kennen […]

Yesterday, an anonymous contribution sent data on members of the Austrian parliament. Thank you for the support! Their statistics are better than those of the EU and the Netherlands. Check them out: https://leavex.eu/politicians-at/ (1) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@asiny/115928293161320751 People are marching in several European cities in solidarity with #rojava. International media should cover what's going on there (and European/U.S. contributions to the treachery), instead of helping you-know-who to distract everyone from a […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115898749471137581 Moved on to another fantastic Swiss metal band, much underrated: #coroner. They have their first album out in 32 years. No sign of old age, I'd say. Check it out. It's called "Dissonance Theory:" […]

Helicopters flying above my home town #Tschiertschen like we're in Apocalypse Now. What could that be? Ah, yes. It's that gathering of planet destroyers called the #WEF, across the ridge in Davos. I wonder what they see from their copters up there? And I […] [Original post on spore.social]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 Yes. Science is a social construct. But even though our knowledge will never be truly objective, or complete, we can still get a good grip on reality. Science is the best way we've devised so far to get to terms with the large & bewildering […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Just one more boost for this wonderful conversation about a science for the 21st century, beyond the view of the world as a machine: https://youtu.be/lL0bkHQeanY Highlights from the conversation are available here […]

Ich habe mir diese Woche den dreiteiligen #arte Dokumentarfilm von Cédric Tourbe über den amerikanischen Kapitalismus angesehen: "Reichtum als Kult" https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/103517-001-A/kapitalismus-made-in-usa-reichtum-als-kult-1-3 Wirklich sehenswert für alle, die verstehen wollen […]

Mozilla's survey about the future of Mozilla and AI is terribly biased towards AI. Make your voices heard. Tell Mozilla to be stewards of privacy and the open web, to not use AI and to stop violating the trust of the users https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201 #privacy #noai #firefox

Plant music anyone? This performance staged by Willow Gatewood and Sylwia Orczykowska streams TODAY at 7pm CET, and I would totally want to participate if I didn't have previous commitments: https://www.artnow.global/event-details/web-of-life-02 Bring your favorite plant to the call. There is […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115918117109281530 Yes. Science is a social construct. But even though our knowledge will never be truly objective, or complete, we can still get a good grip on reality. Science is the best way we've devised so far to get to terms with the large & bewildering […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 The emotional need to control is what underlies the machine view (computationalism, these days), not rationality all the way down, as I explain in this last snipped of our conversation: https://youtu.be/UdEl3CmzU3A Only once we let this […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Today: the third snippet out of this wide-ranging conversation: https://youtu.be/We25VbAN7pw Here, I channel John Vervaeke's four types of knowledge (4P): (1) propositional, (2) procedural, (3) participatory, (4) perspectival. And I also […]

We have a new preprint out! And one that is especially dear to my heart: "Re-Engineering Wimsatt for Limited Beings" https://zenodo.org/records/18293424 Bill Wimsatt is possibly the most underrated philosopher of science of our times. In this paper, I attempt […] [Original post on spore.social]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115899940657336915 Here's another short snippet of our conversation: why AI combined with U.S. capitalism amounts to total bullshit. https://youtu.be/oHOGdAbXL-k "We, humans, are agents, and have the future in our own hands." For the full podcast, see the […]

RE: https://spore.social/@yoginho/115719899402077025 Die Beschreibung von #theperspectivestudio gibt es übrigens auch auf Deutsch: Eine kollaborative Praxis in einer fragmentierten Welt […]