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Kevin Hunt
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PhD Programmes in Art & Design, NTU. Culture + Senses. Interested in Film, Painting, Photography, Design, Embodied Knowledges, Ecology, Technology, Space/Time, Touch, Sound & Vision… 👨‍🎤✊🏼🌎

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-4351
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mooseallain.bsky.social
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Cartoon of stylised drawings of a pig seen head on (labelled Pig) and a hedge (labelled hege) seen in section. The area where they overlap forms the shape of a hedgehog. Caption: VENN DIAGRAM
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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gettymuseum.bsky.social
Who is Anna Atkins? Discover the artist and scientist behind the first-ever illustrated photography book. 🧵

www.getty.edu/news/anna-at...
Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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bnerlich.bsky.social
This is my last post in the 'metaphors for AI' trilogy. I never thought there was so much to say about it all. But this is it for now! Comments welcome. #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/28/o...
Observing shifts in metaphors for AI: What changed and why it matters
In my previous two posts I have made the case for an AI metaphor observatory and surveyed the recent academic landscape of studies dealing with metaphors for AI in the sense of GenAI and LLMs. In t…
makingsciencepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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malrog.bsky.social
Barry Flanagan, ‘Elephant’ (1981) in the ‘Beyond the Visual’ exhibition.
Someone touching Barry Flanagan, ‘Elephant’ (1981). Barry Flanagan, ‘Elephant’ (1981) on a plinth in a gallery.
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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erikangner.com
”Runctitional” is up there with ”oyster carnival” as a solution to the nation’s tragic idiom shortage: theonion.com/idiom-shorta...
Idiom Shortage Leaves Nation All Sewed Up In Horse Pies
WASHINGTON—A crippling idiom shortage that has left millions of Americans struggling to express themselves spread like tugboat hens throughout the U.S. mainland Tuesday in an unparalleled lingual cris...
theonion.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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erikangner.com
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
kejhu.bsky.social
You just died.

The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
Photo of an advert showing two people drinking and smiling, with hands reaching across the picture holding full cocktail glasses. However, the woman in the centre of the picture is slightly blurry and someone has added stickers to give her googly eyes that look cartoonishly bloodshot, like a child-friendly zombie.
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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birdsinmuseums.com
Pals (ca 1907)
George Benjamin Luks
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Pals (ca 1907) George Benjamin Luks New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
"Herzog is, as always, playing his own game. He is governed not by norms of inquiry, nor by any grandiose pragmatic theory about what truth is."

Sam Shpall reviews Werner Herzog’s book “The Future of Truth.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/herzog-in-the-jungle-of-truth/
The cover of The Future of Truth against a background
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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christhorogood.bsky.social
I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
We’ve seen research showing LLM chatbots can reduce belief in conspiracy theories in experimental settings: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...

But in the wild, it seems that these tools likely contribute to strengthening belief in conspiracy theories for many.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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amiiillustrates.bsky.social
Enjoy some recent positive news from around the world 🌍 🌱 (1/3)
GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK UK government set plans to phase out animal testing GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK humpback whale population is now well above pre-whaling levels in australia GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK green turtles came off the endangered list, now classified as "least concern" GOOD NEWS THIS WEEK ireland introduced a permanent basic income for artists
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
3 years ago, NASA crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid at 22,000 kilometers per hour. The event changed the asteroid's orbit and tilt & sent it tumbling.

A nearby cubesat captured these remarkable images of the asteroid immediately after the impact. 🧪🔭

aasnova.org/2025/11/03/s...
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Closeups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”
Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors
An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
Physicist Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time" will change the way you think about the nature of time and human perception; @r-emrys.bsky.social discusses the book and how it might inspire new speculative stories
There Is No “Now”: Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time - Reactor
Are you ready to rethink everything you know about time?
reactormag.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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nrvscrcts.bsky.social
Me, a librarian to students warning them about the absolutely dire privacy, data loss, and cybersurveillance dangers: don't put personal information of any kind into a gen AI chatbot

Gen AI chatbot company: but what if you did
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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premnsikka.bsky.social
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.

UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.

Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.

Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.

UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
fortune.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Gosh. Story has gone from 0 to 60 in the UK. Is leading BBC News this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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moth.gay
bet it feels good as fuck to be a fungus using enzymes to break down detritus in order to absorb the nutrients
November 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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krisshrishak.bsky.social
In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course.

Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.

www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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philipcball.bsky.social
Some might consider this Freudian interpretation of That AI Video from Trump to be over-egging it. I don't. Say what you like about Freud, but there's a lot here that rings true to me.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
The politics of the potty
Trump’s defecating fighter jet is an emblem of a man in revolt against civilisation
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.

Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM