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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 1h

Now zoning snooper7.bandcamp.com/track/come-t...

Come Together, by Snooper

from the album Worldwide

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4h

This video had such a huge influence on me youtu.be/SDpzSja058g?...

Alien Workshop - Photosynthesis (2000)

YouTube video by VHS Skate Tube

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4h

Oh man I definitely had the issue of Transworld where this photo first came out... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/m...

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6h

"More statistics are cited during American prime time television than acts of violence are portrayed on the screen." -Ian Hacking

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6h

The blueprint

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 10h

Does this sound like a company making progress on “curing cancer?” or focused on profiting off atomization and addiction.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah - this article focuses a lot on an Austrian scholar who is quite aware of this contradiction... www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

Looks awesome: Fred Turner on "The California Authoritarians" at Sciences Po / CNRS in November: medialab.sciencespo.fr/actu/the-cal...

The California Authoritarians | médialab Sciences Po

Le médialab de Sciences Po et le Centre Internet et Société du CNRS s’associent pour organiser une conférence exceptionnelle avec Fred Turner (Stanford University), autour d’une question centrale : Co...

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 2d

I hope philosophers of science will chime in on the Prize Committee's discussion about kinds of knowledge, and its dissemination, as drivers of innovation and competition: www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025... #PhilSci #NobelPrize

Useful knowledge
So – what creates this sustained economic growth? This year’s laureates used different methods to
answer this question. Through his research in economic history, Joel Mokyr has demonstrated that
a continual flow of useful knowledge is necessary. This useful knowledge has two parts: the first is
what Mokyr refers to as propositional knowledge, a systematic description of regularities in the natural
world that demonstrate why something works; the second is prescriptive knowledge, such as practical
instructions, drawings or recipes that describe what is necessary for something to work.
Mokyr shows that prior to the Industrial Revolution, technological innovation was primarily based on
prescriptive knowledge. People knew that something worked, but not why. Propositional knowledge, such
as in mathematics and natural philosophy, was developed without reference to prescriptive knowledge,
which made it difficult, even impossible, to build upon existing knowledge. Attempted innovations were
often haphazard or had approaches that someone with adequate propositional knowledge would have
understood were futile – such as building a perpetual motion machine or using alchemy to make gold.

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susanne förster @sufo.bsky.social · 4d

Going to present on the notion of task as it let up to the Common Task Framework, the origin of today’s benchmarks!

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6d

If you are attending @shothisttech.bsky.social annual meeting in Luxembourg, please come say hello at one of the series of panels “Technologies of Pattern Recognition” organized by @vgoujon.bsky.social and I.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6d

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6d

My talk will look at the emergence and development of the language modeling system objective.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6d

If you are attending @shothisttech.bsky.social annual meeting in Luxembourg, please come say hello at one of the series of panels “Technologies of Pattern Recognition” organized by @vgoujon.bsky.social and I.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

You and I, our zoom meetings are not the same...

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

Love this

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

Same with René Girard just TOTAL theoretical non-entities...

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7d

At some point it starts to look like a deliberate strategy of targeting becoming “too big to fail” and thus real or implicit bailouts at the end

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 8d

"It's a mistake, I think, to characterize this transformed economic structure as “neoliberal.” It is rather neo-autocratic, a continent of principalities ruled as if by divine right by their heroic founders..." arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com/p/disappoint...

Disappointments

1. The End of the Tacit Social Compromise

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 8d

Andreas Reckwitz is an important social theorist. But I strongly reject this argument that our modernity should be characterized by "loss." "We" (who?) didn't passively lose things. Many were destroyed. And of course most of the world's population has "gained." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | The West Is Lost

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 8d

Now zoning: music.apple.com/gb/album/hit...

hit of the highlife by Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 6:03

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