胡子哥

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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胡子哥
@notsaved.bsky.social

honored to be a guest of the Anthropotype student-run podcast at UDLAP, the mascot of which is a plush named Benedict (after Ruth, not the eggs)

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@notsaved.bsky.social

some reasons to apply: - No fee, lunches & excursion included - N. Katherine Hayles & Olia Lialina keynotes, with more TBC - You meet a lot of cool people - Bergen is always sunny

胡子哥
@notsaved.bsky.social

used Claude to reverse-engineer ChatGPT and now I have my own CrackGPT coding a whole Kimi from scratch which I will use to clone Gemini and download the entire Google so I can self-host the internet

胡子哥
@notsaved.bsky.social

so my current theories of why I got shingles: - two weeks before I watched a documentary about a magical healer of shingles which I dismissed as bunk and the healing ritual actually cursed me - I forced myself to finish reading the Antimemetics book - I shaved my head at 3am

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@notsaved.bsky.social

to all academics posting on LinkedIn about being in the top 2% scientists of whatever Elsevier metrics: well done, I'm proud of you

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mareinna.bsky.social
@mareinna.bsky.social

I wrote a spell. It's about dread.

胡子哥@notsaved.bsky.social

new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna.bsky.social on academic writing itself as a gothic practice www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

euppublishing.comAcademic Meaning-Making as Gothic Practice: A Spell | Gothic StudiesThe author uses the Gothic as both method and metaphor to examine academic meaning-making as an affective, haunted practice. Invoking the forces that interrupt, distort, and haunt thought as it become...
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@notsaved.bsky.social

ALGOFOLK represent

Jill Walker Rettberg@jilltxt.bsky.social

People tend to talk about “my algorithm” - they deliberately train their algorithm, worry if they’ve “ruined” it by watching content they didn’t want more or.

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@notsaved.bsky.social

imagine this: you don't have to read&grade mountains of AI text; you can literally check if students have learned to think; students will get to talk to talk to someone. All in one go. Ten minutes and it's over

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@notsaved.bsky.social

I am honestly so done with "AI art" that is just like "I generated a bunch of images and you should look at them because they say something about what AI can do"