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08.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 3644 🔁 1077 💬 57 📌 216@acornapocalypse.bsky.social
Writer, tabletop & Warhammer dork, queer person, imminent PhD (enaction, ecological psych, language, interaction). Yes that's actually Nessie
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
08.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 3644 🔁 1077 💬 57 📌 216And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.
(As far as I can tell, anyway.)
If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!
Thank you!
These are absolutely fire. Amazing kitbashing.
Whoa! You've probably answered this elsewhere, but where's that head from?
07.10.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0100%. You get people fired up and uhhhhh their most passionate views come out hahaha
07.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rock and Stone type shit
07.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And they said no one takes homo economicus seriously anymore.
07.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's hard to confront genius, sometimes, as it reveals our own shortcomings. We all feel this way 😔
Relatedly www.goodreads.com/series/18524...
Forgot to add 🐦🐦
06.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Fully on-rails shooter, each target a photorealistic Sora-looking animation of a Twitter avatar that was once honest twith him. The game is 20 minutes long. The controls don't drift so much as glue the reticle to the top left corner. If you press escape it crashes your PC.
07.10.2025 04:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful, in its own way. Like a slime mold spreading through a Connect Four set, game half in progress, some slots full of rusted, ancient coins
07.10.2025 04:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Holy shit what a gorgeous photo (of a gorgeous person)
07.10.2025 02:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Social media use averages 2.4 hours per person per day and there's rich data on its effects on attention span.
This is a fantastic thread but the phones — and specifically short-form, scrollable content — are completely corrosive to reading.
umaine.edu/undiscovered...
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
05.10.2025 18:02 — 👍 5637 🔁 1249 💬 95 📌 29For what it's worth, the person everyone's dunking on is trying to say something substantive about both ML and the ethics of encountering new kinds of beings.
Misplaced, obvs, and I really don't think the cog sci holds up, but IMO it's more about individualism and computationalism than fandoms.
I get that your point is more subtle than this and involves default ways of treating other beings.
But what we call "AI" is no more animate than a blender or a shoe. And most resistance to it is resistance to ecological destruction, tech hype, and social harm. At least as far as I've seen.
In those stories the AI has agency. It's a fundamentally different category of entity that shares ONLY a name and some marketing with the current range of products.
LLMs have neither agency nor independent being nor perspective nor autopoietic self-maintenance nor operational closure.
If it helps, your memories are all reconstructed imagination anyway
02.10.2025 02:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is really quite beautiful. It's not in any meter (I don't think?) but it reads poetically
30.09.2025 03:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Anteater
Since we're exploring visual metaphors
I love this creature even though I have never met them before
Gotta also include "basket of deplorables"
29.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You're clearly right.
IMO, so is Hobbes: condescension is annoying, but Fox has made people think liberal elites HATE them over differences in values, lifestyle, aesthetics, etc.
That disinformation erases the line between frustration at bad electoral choices and true revulsion at MAGA policies.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
This whole section really.
28.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 9523 🔁 4263 💬 37 📌 114Thanks! Kinda seems like a reasonable reaction to me. Is the problem that he was wrong, that it's bad politics to say it out loud, or that he sounded arrogant?
'Cause unless you're a billionaire or a committed, avowed racist, voting for MAGA candidates just *was* a poor choice by almost any metric.
Michael Hobbes or the guy he's responding to?
29.09.2025 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0There's a messy middle ground between "Republican policies are dumb and Republican leaders lie a lot" (true) and "Republican voters are stupid" (false).
It's easy for anger + disdain to slip from fair, accurate targets (Murdoch or Miller or Alito) to classist ones (e.g. Appalachia or Ohio).
Thanks, great post. "An intracultural account" captures one of the big things wrong with huge swathes of theoretical linguistics.
29.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. And to write or speak well is, usually, to deliver both nuance and clarity. Which is why it's so hard
29.09.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The performative idiocy of right-wing leaders is, in part, shelter from this kind of serious debate. If you're a clown who just shouts "fake news" or "Antifa terrorist" instead of speaking clearly, no one can defeat you in a contest of ideas. You effectively refuse to engage.
28.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 124 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0Totally, I got u
I do that all the time — on both sides of the interaction lol. That's how I spotted it
Anyway, have an excellent day!