René Walter
@rawx.bsky.social
i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model.
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
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if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
if you steal a cell phone or wallet in paris they kick you out of the french thieve's guild for insufficient whimsy
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"In perceiving and experiencing the world, we ‘smuggle in’ our own fundamental self-survival goals. This is something we share with cats and worms and viruses. Whether this is also something we share with artificial systems is another story."
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
What if thinking doesn’t begin in the brain, but in the ceaseless labour of our cells? Today’s essay rethinks the question of how we become minds, arguing that cognition begins not in the mind but in the collective processes that keep a body alive @annaciaunica.bsky.social
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think | Aeon Essays
Contemplating the world requires a body, and a body requires an immune system: the rungs of life create the stuff of thought
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"In perceiving and experiencing the world, we ‘smuggle in’ our own fundamental self-survival goals. This is something we share with cats and worms and viruses. Whether this is also something we share with artificial systems is another story."
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
- @annaciaunica.bsky.social
@ibogost.com on the inherent fictionality of genAI: "Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal ... Chatbots flood the zone with possible worlds—'slopworlds', we might call them, together composing a slopverse." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@ibogost.com on the inherent fictionality of genAI: "Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal ... Chatbots flood the zone with possible worlds—'slopworlds', we might call them, together composing a slopverse." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Memetic Waves FTW
Good match journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Digital rhythmanalysis: Studying memetic and affective rhythms on the post-viral Web - Sal Hagen, Daniël de Zeeuw, Tommaso Venturini, 2025
How to do justice to the pulsing, ephemeral and multisensory dimensions of today's digital lifeworlds? Even as platforms increasingly push audio-visual str...
journals.sagepub.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Memetic Waves FTW
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'the first time as transgressive satire, the second time as a fart joke'
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
'the first time as transgressive satire, the second time as a fart joke'
Oligarch-Narcism Art. Let's see if techbros take this at face value.
The project immerses visitors in a hypnopompic world of techno-glamour
and future panic. The Elon Magazine—the only celebrity magazine
devoted to the world’s most charismatic oligarch—the
installation invites both awe and unease.
www.simonweckert.com/elon.html
#ELON #VVVV #madewithvvvvgamma
and future panic. The Elon Magazine—the only celebrity magazine
devoted to the world’s most charismatic oligarch—the
installation invites both awe and unease.
www.simonweckert.com/elon.html
#ELON #VVVV #madewithvvvvgamma
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oligarch-Narcism Art. Let's see if techbros take this at face value.
GOOD MUSIC featuring Geese / The Last Dinner Party / IT IT Anita / The Hellp / Siriusmo / The Null Club / Westside Cowboy / Brockhoff and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
GOODMUSIC 11.6/25
Geese / The Last Dinner Party / IT IT Anita / The Hellp / Siriusmo / The Null Club / Westside Cowboy / Brockhoff and many more.
goodmusic.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
GOOD MUSIC featuring Geese / The Last Dinner Party / IT IT Anita / The Hellp / Siriusmo / The Null Club / Westside Cowboy / Brockhoff and many more --> goodmusic.substack.com/p/goodmusic-... <-- ALL KILLERS NO FILLERS!
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
People collaborating on a task synch up brain activity and "the alignment of their activity increased over the course of the experiment as the pairs got better at working as a team, following the rules they'd laid out together".
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
Collaborating minds think alike, processing information in similar ways in a shared task, study shows
Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process information alike, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Denise...
medicalxpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
People collaborating on a task synch up brain activity and "the alignment of their activity increased over the course of the experiment as the pairs got better at working as a team, following the rules they'd laid out together".
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11...
I just spent 30 seconds on TikTok and already i feel the brainrot set it. It's unbelievable to me how anyone can stare at this abomination for more than a minute. Then again, i didn't really watch TV since 15 years, and this is just the same on steroids. I have nothing but disdain for this app.
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I just spent 30 seconds on TikTok and already i feel the brainrot set it. It's unbelievable to me how anyone can stare at this abomination for more than a minute. Then again, i didn't really watch TV since 15 years, and this is just the same on steroids. I have nothing but disdain for this app.
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
Oh god this is sweet: vole.wtf/doctype/ "’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML! 10 wonderful web apps, including games, toys, puzzles and utilities."
I spent days typing in Basic and Hex-code on the C64, and i will NEVER do it again. Still, this is sweet!
I spent days typing in Basic and Hex-code on the C64, and i will NEVER do it again. Still, this is sweet!
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Oh god this is sweet: vole.wtf/doctype/ "’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML! 10 wonderful web apps, including games, toys, puzzles and utilities."
I spent days typing in Basic and Hex-code on the C64, and i will NEVER do it again. Still, this is sweet!
I spent days typing in Basic and Hex-code on the C64, and i will NEVER do it again. Still, this is sweet!
Consider me intrigued stonking.com?ref=KBAEAQEM
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Consider me intrigued stonking.com?ref=KBAEAQEM
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How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How to use the internet, 1995
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November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.’”
Nubbin?
Nubbin?
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“When people see it, they say, ‘that’s it?… It’s so simple.’”
Nubbin?
Nubbin?
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The rot is real. “Repeated exposure to highly stimulating, fast-paced content may contribute to habituation, in which users become desensitized to slower, more effortful cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving, or deep learning.” www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
TikTok and Instagram usage leading to brain rot, says APA study
The more short-form content a person watches on social media, the poorer their cognitive performance, the study found
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The rot is real. “Repeated exposure to highly stimulating, fast-paced content may contribute to habituation, in which users become desensitized to slower, more effortful cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving, or deep learning.” www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
📽️
his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
📽️
his one and only social media post:
RIP Udo Kier www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
RIP Udo Kier www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
This is the way: "We have long advocated for the development of 'public AI': models and AI systems that are developed under democratic control and deployed for public benefit, not sold by corporations to benefit their shareholders."
Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
The dangers of artificial intelligence and its potential to consolidate power are clear. But used fairly, it can be a boon for good government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This is the way: "We have long advocated for the development of 'public AI': models and AI systems that are developed under democratic control and deployed for public benefit, not sold by corporations to benefit their shareholders."
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
This report on the internal workings at OpenAI when their sycophant AI started to cause delusions in users is incredible. "A/B testers" tweaking "behavior" in a "war room".
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This report on the internal workings at OpenAI when their sycophant AI started to cause delusions in users is incredible. "A/B testers" tweaking "behavior" in a "war room".
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
This is like Exxon burrying its own climate research, except this time it didn't take 50 years to be revealed.
Meta is the Exxon of psychoactive social media.
Meta is the Exxon of psychoactive social media.
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
This is like Exxon burrying its own climate research, except this time it didn't take 50 years to be revealed.
Meta is the Exxon of psychoactive social media.
Meta is the Exxon of psychoactive social media.