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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name

@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social

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AKA Avel Guénin--Carlut Researcher in cognitive science, focusing on contextuality in life, mind and society; formalization & application of Active Inference; naturalizing ontology Occasionally schyzoposting on main. There are many occasions

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · Jul 29

Hi 👋

Maybe it is time to give a proper impression of who I am and what I'm doing here.

First, I'm a PhD student / researcher in cognitive science, under the supervision of Andy Clark and Chris Buckley, financed by the XSCAPE project on Material Minds.

Avel GUÉNIN

avelguenin.github.io

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 15h

bsky.app/profile/fluf...

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 15h

What

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 15h

Hmm sir do I need to call someone

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 15h

What

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 15h

January 1983. Test subject #2371 dies a gruesome death. I must not think about it. The work must press on.

Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · Feb 10

Ask not for whom the Babybel tolls.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 21h

"yes you can paint a house. But can you paint a house - *dramatically reveals pommel horse* - like THIS ?"

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Aoḋán Ó Conġaile @tinydonkey.bsky.social · 1d

The older I get the more I appreciate when people say "oh I don't know the answer to that" or "actually I was wrong". It's probably the biggest shortcut to get me to trust you tbh.

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 22h

I can't definitively say I was wrong, but let's say if I was right it remains a well kept secret 😂

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 22h

When Russia invaded Ukraine, I talked myself into believing it was based on US intelligence feeding them bad intel about Ukrainian attitude / defense capability in a bid to destabilise Putin and/or strengthen NATO

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 5d

I think people are still unprepared for a world where you cannot trust any video content, despite years of warning.

Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

www.404media.co

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 22h

Is that recording real ? It feels a bit too perfect in my opinion

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Shadow of a shadow of a @shadowofashadowofa.bsky.social · 1d

"Captain Haddock cursing" meme template

First panel
Captain Haddock, visibly angry, tries to remove a piece of tape glued to his hand

Second panel
Captain Haddock starts cursing at the tape : "Drowner! Grape-dryer!
Examiner of underclothing! Fish- bender!"

Third panel:
Captain Haddock shakes his hand furiously while cursing louder : "TURNIP SHEPHERD! COUNT AS FEMALE! SAMPLER OF DRUGS! COLOURIST OF ARTIFICAL FISH!"

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Can't decide between "Knight of the Thimble", "fish-bender", and "Count as female" so I'll leave the choice to you

Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself. I am fatuous pauper.

Work, Work, Work

On about this date in 1801, Britain's first census was begun. In a subsequent survey conducted in 1881, residents were asked to furnish their "rank, profession, or occupation." Some of the more puzzling responses, as preserved by the London Genealogical Society, included:

Colourist of artificial fish

Knight of the Thimble

Disinfector of railways

Examiner of underclothing

Invisible net maker

Electric bath attendant

Proprietor of midgets

Fifty-two years an imbecile

Knocker-up of workpeople

Maker of sand views

Gymnast to house painter

Turnip shepherd

Emasculator

Sampler of drugs

Fatuous pauper

Drowner

Count as female

Fish-bender

Goldfish-catcher

Cow-banger

Running about

Grape-dryer

Beef twister

Random waller

2015 Jeff Kacirk

Sellers Publishing, Inc.

www.makefup.com

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Emma Thane of Cawdor @redwellyfeats.bsky.social · 1d

Tag yourself. I am fatuous pauper.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

But when it comes to it, if it comes to it, in that awful moment of decision, yes, you will want the old grandmas and grandpas at the front, as many of them as you can get, so those terribly young fellows with the rifles understand what a wicked, awful thing is being asked of them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target.

And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

The issue with academic careers being that if you o-soto-gari your boss or rival flat on their back you get fired instead of getting a medal 😫

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Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · 1d

Non ironically I love reading athletes social media because I relate to their struggles.

Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 1d

Academic careers have become a professional sport blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences

Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

By which I'm not suggesting the statu quo is fine and we can rest easy. On the contrary: there is much more we can can do to make things better, and the returns on benefit remains immense.

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

"Life was brutish, nasty, and short" is a caricature, yes, but still: most people don't appreciate nearly enough how much industrialization and social democracy did to allow us a life that isn't work, pain, and work

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Her household was quite wealthy by the standards of rural France, and more important than that she was part of the clan that controlled the village.

Still, her life was only work, work, and more work, and when the work was done everyone slept in the same bed because they couldn't heat the house

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

It keeps striking me that just 100 years ago, when my great-grand-mother (whom I got to know) was a young adult, life for most people (i.e. peasant) was still "get up with the sun, work until it's down, hope the weather is good this year and dad doesn't break a leg because else we don't get to eat".

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Amazingly this is not a shitpost

rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up is learning that Scientology is just repackaged Thelema

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Most people calling themselves intersectional would define that word as the total rejection of all intersectional analysis

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is failing and flailing, but that doesn't make them harmless - I fear they will be even more immediately destructive in failure than success.

The good news: the Athenians retained their democracy. We can too.

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