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胡子哥

@notsaved.bsky.social

technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | algorithms, vernaculars, creativity, synthesis | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | "knows when to stop speculating" paranom.asia

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I don't think I understand the outrage around Polymarket when the stock market exists. maybe im missing something

01.03.2026 12:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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News of Sitars

27.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI and Digital Ethnography This interactive session features guest speakers who will discuss a series of pre-established questions about emerging AI technologies.

also today, with some hot/cold takes on ethnography and generative AI www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-dig...

27.02.2026 06:40 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2025/26 APSS International Scholar Talk Series #5 | Event | News and Events | Department of Applied Social Sciences

giving a talk at my alma mater 10 years after getting a PhD www.polyu.edu.hk/apss/news-an...

26.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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found a near perfect one

26.02.2026 16:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

̶b̶e̶c̶o̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ co-creating a Chinese

24.02.2026 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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yeah its been a while. Not the first book even

24.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

yeah I mean he just ripped off Yuk Hui's bio or something tbh

24.02.2026 06:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

using a pen name ≠ making up a whole persona for no apparent reason except exoticizing

24.02.2026 06:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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the Chinese author does not, indeed, exist

24.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

*name

24.02.2026 06:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Prompt Thinking Prompt Thinking, Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought

are we gonna have a discussion about writing a book under the name of a non-existing Chinese philosopher like how is this not theoretical yellowface sorry www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

24.02.2026 06:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 2
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ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

new ALGOpod episode with Anya Shchetvina (@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social) going deep into the history of internet manifestos open.spotify.com/episode/5N0r...

24.02.2026 04:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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holy shit is that

22.02.2026 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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beautiful slop cabinet

22.02.2026 10:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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same dude, same

22.02.2026 10:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I like to think that I'm finely chopped

20.02.2026 05:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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@mareinna.bsky.social here, alas

18.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Atalaia & Gunderson, "Alexa’s Monstrous Agency: The Horror of the Digital Voice Assistant" - Lateral First released by Amazon in 2014, the digital voice assistant Alexa allows users to connect and automate their smart home devices through the sound of their voice. Alexa’s automation of domestic space...

new coauthored article from ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on the mostrous agency of smart assistants csalateral.org/section/digi...

18.02.2026 18:17 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

yes I do understand the shortcut usage, but I suspect a majority of people imagine that the model is somehow capable of understanding what a role is, what it entails, and then provide a response by embodying that persona, which likely makes them take the response a lot more seriously

18.02.2026 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

do they think that this will somehow unlock a secret PhD in sociology mode and the model is suddenly capable of more things? Or that it will understand what an economic sociologist is, and role-play as such, and that somehow large-scale role-playing approximates the real thing

18.02.2026 09:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

when people prompt an LLM with stuff like "You are an economic sociologist...", what exactly they think they are doing. I am very confused

18.02.2026 09:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

you found me in a very chinese new year of my life

17.02.2026 03:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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gm who's in the fragrant harbor

16.02.2026 23:25 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

sounds dope

15.02.2026 19:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

so the buttons just open/close connections between patch points? looks sick

15.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

how are those controlling those others? midi in?

15.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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all in-browser, no need to login, no watermarks, can fork

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15.02.2026 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0