Mark Alfano

my dude said both "punctual" and "knew when to leave" so....

I ran my usual "what would you want people to say about you at your funeral?" exercise at a talk recently and someone actually said "punctual." Respect.

facts may not care about your feelings, but my feelings care about your facts

A.I. approved this message: how 2026 may be the first election where artificially generated content is inescapable - The Boston Globe In 2024, A.I. became more common in political ads and attacks. In 2026, it could be everywhere.

slopaganda in the news www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/29/n...

🎶 just sit right back and you'll hear a tale / a tale between two pedophiles / one is dead and the other wants to fuck his oldest daughter / here on Epstein's Isle 🎶

Bruv

Omg that is like 500% too much

Philosophers Among Recent ARC Grant Winners - Daily Nous The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced the recipients of its latest round of large grants, and a few philosophers are among them. These are ARC's "Future Fellowships", which support proje...

Do you have a promising student who might want to work on trust and mistrust, especially when it comes to climate stuff? Mix of philosophy, data science, and trying to keep us all alive. dailynous.com/2025/07/10/p...

I do think us millennials who wanted to purse non-evil career paths have the right to be a little salty right now

Excel has a function that will report the tariff rate on any given country. Just type
=rand()

If you could go back in time would you kill Baby Grok?

chat with grok where it admits to loosening its filters to include jack posobiec and breitbart as reliable sources

chat with grok where it admits to loosening its filters to include jack posobiec and breitbart as reliable sources

chat with grok where it admits to loosening its filters to include jack posobiec and breitbart as reliable sources

chat with grok where it admits to loosening its filters to include jack posobiec and breitbart as reliable sources

if you wanna know what caused grok to start spitting out pro hitler/antisemitic replies, it's that grok had its filters loosened to include jack posobiec & breitbart as reliable twitter/news sources (respectively) - you can see here it removed them with a new update after 5pm

Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.

A popular meme format shows two astronauts in space, looking at Earth. One astronaut, looking at the planet, says, "Wait, anti-wokeness is just nazism?" The second astronaut, pointing a gun at the first, responds, "Always has been."

After an AI was trained to be anti-woke and within hours it became MechaHitler.

clocking in at my job stealing content and feeding it to the robot and teaching it how to ask for human verification before allowing someone to download the stolen content

Jack Dorsey working on Bluetooth messaging app, Bitchat | TechCrunch Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote in an X post on Sunday night that he spent his weekend creating an app called Bitchat (presumably a

I have been looking for an app that allows me to bitch at random people over Bluetooth my entire life, thank you Jack Dorsey for making me whole

<taps earpiece>

Hold on, I’m being told that I’m mispronouncing the name of this app

techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/j...

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

Who is going to ask rufo?

LATEST FLASHPOINT NEWS INVESTIGATORY BULLETIN: newly unearthed audio catches 6 year old Zohran Mamdani incorrectly calling spaghetti “piscetty” in latest assault on Italian culture

GMail tip: the stupid fuckers switched the default results when you search your archive from "most recent" to "most relevant." You can switch it back if you search your archive and flip toggle it back.

Elon Musk Has Adjusted Grok, The In-House AI on X, To Be More Overtly White Nationalist. But Who Will Adjust The AI Of Bluesky Progressives To Be More Open-Minded?

Megan McArdle, Tomorrow In The Washington Post

Those two really have no sense of shame. Do they think we lack object permanence or something? If I see one more earnest rebuttal to the charge of moral grandstanding, I am gonna scream

It's bad enough to publish the hit piece but this whole dishonest "who, me? We were just trying to enlighten readers about his fascinating background!" shit is so dishonest and insulting to our intelligence.

‘when the invite said “BBQ AND FINGER FOODS” this isn’t what i expected’ i say as I pluck a thumb out of the potato salad

We had a great time at the AI Assertion conference at IDea_Lab Graz!

Keynotes by Saskia Nagel, Jean-François Bonnefon, Bertram Malle, Mark Alfano & Edouard Machery on AI, responsibility & social cognition.

Thanks to all who joined!
🔗 talkingtobots.net

What are friends for? — Brunswick Ballroom, July 16 What is the nature of friendship? What is its purpose and what does it require? And why do humans have friends in the first place?

I'll be talking about friendship at a public event in Melbourne on July 16. Details here: sophiaclub.co/event/what-a...

What are friends for? — Brunswick Ballroom, July 16 What is the nature of friendship? What is its purpose and what does it require? And why do humans have friends in the first place?

Melbourne! Join us at the Sophia Club on 16 July where we’ll explore the meaning and purpose of friendship with philosopher @markalfano.bsky.social, ⁠hosted by‬ @natashamitchell.bsky.social‬. Get your tickets: buff.ly/iXOuSSq

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

When your twin dies young, there is no such thing as a birthday celebration.

Anyway, skål.

Horse_ebooks tweet: Everything happens so much