Wayne X
curiositybits.bsky.social
Wayne X
@curiositybits.bsky.social
associate professor at umass-amherst researching/teaching digital politics & computational methods curiositybits.cc
AI startup:
LampBotics (https://www.lampbotics.com)
Stress-testing Co-Journer, the Telegram-based chatbot I'm building. Pass or fail?
July 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!
June 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Satirical AI Nightly is now on Telegram.
Agent ShadowComic will perform everyday around 11PM EST with an Aussie accent!
June 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Signal or noise?
June 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Turn any paper into a firestorm conversation. Rolling out PaperTweet-LampMind beta v0.1: studio--papertweets.us-central1.hosted.app
(built through agentic coding)
April 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the latest episode of Synthetic History has dropped, featuring the story of a teenage girl in the Hitler Youth.

opensourcesoul.substack.com/p/episode-5-...

Also available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and YouTube. #SyntheticMedia #GenAI, #ai #lampbotics #podcast
April 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A teacher's choice in Nazi Germany.

Listen to the latest episode from Synthetic History.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
March 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Episode 3 of Synthetic History is live, focusing on the Mohican stories in Stockbridge, MA.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
March 14, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Are you interested in working with AI research agent to do automated content analysis ? I am developing a no-code prototype for that. Still early stage, but it could be shipped before the cherry blossoms. If you are interested in beta testing, please DM me.
March 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Happy New Year 2025, the year of AI agents.
January 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
🚨 step into the #digitaldystopia of post-election America with #TheMessenger, a #fiction co-authored with #AI. 🎙️ Tune in to our Real Time with AI Agents #podcast to experience it now.
Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and YouTube.

📺 YouTube: youtu.be/I7UfCW1Us3o?...
December 29, 2024 at 4:08 AM
December 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Nevertheless, I’ve decided to share these messages publicly, with the hope that in this AI age, we are granted the wisdom to use these God-given tools for good.
December 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
While the message of hope, humility, and care for the last, the least, and the lost is deeply needed today, the irony is these videos were made possible by the often invisible and forgotten digital toil performed in the Global South—by those who are themselves among the "last and least."
December 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
My Christmas message in four parts. I wrote the script; AI did the acting.

I share this with mixed emotions.
December 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Blocked musk on X.
November 18, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Day 3 of talking to an AI agent about the 2024 election. Today's audio deep-dive focuses on how the AI agent understands today's WSJ poll data. open.spotify.com/episode/06iX...
October 12, 2024 at 3:42 AM
I created P, an Asian American AI agent, to talk about the 2024 US election. Delve into my conversation with P by subscribing to the Real Time with AI Agents podcast, on Spotify, Apple Podcast and YouTube.
October 11, 2024 at 4:26 AM
GloTech Lab (glotechlab.net) will be officially launched on April 19, 2024. We are thrilled to convene researchers, advocates, storytellers, campaigners, institution-builders, and community leaders to converse on "Empowering Election Integrity in the Global Majority." 🚀
April 16, 2024 at 3:52 AM
ChatGPT identified how 🇨🇳Xi’s new year speech has evolved from 2014 to 2024, concerning Taiwan 🇹🇼
January 1, 2024 at 3:19 AM
The volume of WeChat content (posts & vids from official accounts) containing the key term 'fever' has hit one-year high, much higher than last Nov. & Dec. when COVID was raging through the country.
November 28, 2023 at 1:15 AM
An unmoderated answer provided by Mistral Instruct (an open-source LLM). Shall we call it a Responsible or Irresponsible AI?
November 22, 2023 at 4:52 AM
Among the AI chatbots (ChatGPT4, Bing Chat, Bard, and Baidu ERNIE Bot), Bard is the most reticent about the Israel-Hamas war. Baidu ERNIE Bot explicitly refutes the claim that Hamas employs human shields.
November 15, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Demagogue speaking on the housing crisis in Amherst, MA. I built this GPT to imitate Ron DeSantis, J.D Vance, Jim Jordan, and Mike Johnson. Will you elect 'him'?
November 10, 2023 at 2:03 AM
The amount of coverage by global English media on: Ukraine, Palestine, Trump, and the Pandemic. (Data from Media Cloud)
October 18, 2023 at 9:44 PM