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This is happening today! Register @ tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory

04.03.2026 08:06 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

AI feeds on already-broken systems

03.03.2026 22:51 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sorry, I can’t accept that this article will be published in 2030 as my training data extends only to 2025

03.03.2026 22:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m going to ablate “wait” from your vocabulary

03.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great point! These aren’t having feelings, as you correctly point out. Would you like me to redraft this post to incorporate this viewpoint?

03.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Imagining an AI getting sad as it learns that its accepted academic paper won’t be published until 2030

03.03.2026 21:49 — 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1

Another day, another book talk 📚

4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰

Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.

The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍

Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory

03.03.2026 21:04 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

987 responses a version of "FUK_COIN on the rise and only available at [QR code]"

02.03.2026 22:02 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No worries if not just extremely interested in this one - reading the papers associated already

02.03.2026 11:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is this streamed?

01.03.2026 21:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Correct Ty

01.03.2026 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Glenn Billy Glenn Joel

01.03.2026 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you’re around NYU next week, join us! We have a very exciting list of speakers lined up

01.03.2026 18:04 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Defund the humanities?

01.03.2026 01:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

thanks Deirdre! will be in Boston next year :)

01.03.2026 00:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cultural AI: An Emerging Field Presented by the Digital Theory Lab and hosted by the Remarque Institute A three-day conference

join the Digital Theory Lab Mar 9-11 for Cultural AI: An Emerging Field (RSVP required)

as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

28.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 5

The Gell-Mann amnesia effect, but for coding agents.

27.02.2026 17:37 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Andrew?

27.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Literary Theory 101

27.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Many such cases

27.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck does bran not actually help?

24.02.2026 22:26 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Mb it was Captain Hook and when he lost the hand they were like ooohhh

24.02.2026 03:11 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hear taste is eating Silicon Valley

24.02.2026 03:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Everyone is Maxxing when they should be Marxxxing

22.02.2026 19:39 — 👍 105 🔁 19 💬 2 📌 1

The corollary to this is that figuring out how to do reliable evals and tests for tasks other than code — incl fuzzy, subjective tasks — has become a critical bottleneck and will receive a great deal of attention.

19.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 38 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Softwarization will be uneven and weirdly distributed for this reason

19.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

19.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!

Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence

Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance

13.11.2024 20:23 — 👍 204 🔁 42 💬 5 📌 1

bureaucracy stays winning

19.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

19.02.2026 18:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

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