Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name
@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social
AKA Avel Guénin--Carlut.
Studying the relation between material & cognitive landscapes in the XSCAPE project.
Physics of cognition; naturalizing ontology; (neo)pragmatism applied to pol sci.
Occasionally schyzoposting on main - there are many occasions.
Studying the relation between material & cognitive landscapes in the XSCAPE project.
Physics of cognition; naturalizing ontology; (neo)pragmatism applied to pol sci.
Occasionally schyzoposting on main - there are many occasions.
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avelguenin.github.io
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.
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.
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Erreur 404, pas de budget trouvé.
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Erreur 404, pas de budget trouvé.
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Le macronisme aura vraiment tout réussi.
November 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Le macronisme aura vraiment tout réussi.
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"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Hey !
Does anyone know if the drop in lithium batteries / solar panels impacted on consumer-end products yet ?
Considering buying a 1kWh + 200W system, and I'm surprised not to find better than 750€ (with -50% Black Friday reduction!)
Does anyone know if the drop in lithium batteries / solar panels impacted on consumer-end products yet ?
Considering buying a 1kWh + 200W system, and I'm surprised not to find better than 750€ (with -50% Black Friday reduction!)
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Hey !
Does anyone know if the drop in lithium batteries / solar panels impacted on consumer-end products yet ?
Considering buying a 1kWh + 200W system, and I'm surprised not to find better than 750€ (with -50% Black Friday reduction!)
Does anyone know if the drop in lithium batteries / solar panels impacted on consumer-end products yet ?
Considering buying a 1kWh + 200W system, and I'm surprised not to find better than 750€ (with -50% Black Friday reduction!)
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Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
The prominent linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky called it a “most valuable experience” to have maintained “regular contact” with Jeffrey Epstein, who by then had long been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, according to emails released earlier in November this month by US lawmakers.
Such comments from Chomsky, or attributed to him, suggest his association with Epstein – who officials concluded killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges – went deeper than the occasional political and academic discussions the former had previously claimed to have with the latter. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
Doing less effort to learn about something leaves you knowing less about it?
Uh, I guess we should learn everything the hard way (hanged by the feet to a tree that a friendly bear is shaking while a Russian man punches you in the abs)
Uh, I guess we should learn everything the hard way (hanged by the feet to a tree that a friendly bear is shaking while a Russian man punches you in the abs)
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Doing less effort to learn about something leaves you knowing less about it?
Uh, I guess we should learn everything the hard way (hanged by the feet to a tree that a friendly bear is shaking while a Russian man punches you in the abs)
Uh, I guess we should learn everything the hard way (hanged by the feet to a tree that a friendly bear is shaking while a Russian man punches you in the abs)
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We have long known that people retain more from doing synthesis themselves than from a prepared summary. And yet, papers have abstracts, journals have review essays, and the web has Wikipedia. People decide for themselves—not always rightly!—when to consult the full text of original sources.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We have long known that people retain more from doing synthesis themselves than from a prepared summary. And yet, papers have abstracts, journals have review essays, and the web has Wikipedia. People decide for themselves—not always rightly!—when to consult the full text of original sources.
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It’s unfortunate to watch neuroscientists debating about whether spike rates or oscillatory dynamics are more important for cognition when Kant already showed that it’s done by the transcendental ego and so won’t appear in any time-series data.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It’s unfortunate to watch neuroscientists debating about whether spike rates or oscillatory dynamics are more important for cognition when Kant already showed that it’s done by the transcendental ego and so won’t appear in any time-series data.
J'ai enregistré ma propre version de "Je pourris camarade" en l'honneur de Guidoni.
Je ne dirais pas que c'était un échec, mais ça n'a pas marché.
(La version originale pour référence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM4... )
Je ne dirais pas que c'était un échec, mais ça n'a pas marché.
(La version originale pour référence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM4... )
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
J'ai enregistré ma propre version de "Je pourris camarade" en l'honneur de Guidoni.
Je ne dirais pas que c'était un échec, mais ça n'a pas marché.
(La version originale pour référence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM4... )
Je ne dirais pas que c'était un échec, mais ça n'a pas marché.
(La version originale pour référence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmM4... )
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You’d think the forced displacement of 10 million people owing to climate change would be headline news everywhere.
Instead 🦗 🦗🦗.
Instead 🦗 🦗🦗.
November 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
You’d think the forced displacement of 10 million people owing to climate change would be headline news everywhere.
Instead 🦗 🦗🦗.
Instead 🦗 🦗🦗.
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI, sanctionné par les Etats-Unis : « Face aux attaques, les magistrats de la Cour tiendront »
Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI, sanctionné par les Etats-Unis : « Face aux attaques, les magistrats de la Cour tiendront »
Six juges et trois procureurs de la Cour pénale internationale, dont le procureur général, Karim Khan, ont été placés sous sanctions par les Etats-Unis. Dans un entretien au « Monde », le magistrat français évoque le poids de ces mesures sur son travail et sa vie quotidienne.
www.lemonde.fr
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Nicolas Guillou, juge français de la CPI, sanctionné par les Etats-Unis : « Face aux attaques, les magistrats de la Cour tiendront »
I didn't think "electric scooter-based low intensity harassment tactics against ethnic cleansing" would be a thing in my lifetime, or afterwards, but here we are
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I didn't think "electric scooter-based low intensity harassment tactics against ethnic cleansing" would be a thing in my lifetime, or afterwards, but here we are
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?
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First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.
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Comme l'écrit Micheal Eldridge : « In short, nature, which is inclusive of humanity, is all there is, and that’s okay. »
a man with a beard is driving a car with his arm out the window .
Alt: The Dude, qui d'autre ?
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Comme l'écrit Micheal Eldridge : « In short, nature, which is inclusive of humanity, is all there is, and that’s okay. »
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On the origins of Finnish nuclear energy law. Might be of interest to #HistSciTech and #STS folks too
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
On the origins of Finnish nuclear energy law. Might be of interest to #HistSciTech and #STS folks too
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This was a fun interview. One day prof. Laurila ordered them to his office and said, “boys, I hope you have notepads ready. I will now dictate new nuclear energy law for Finland.”
(Laurila was an academic who consulted the state owned IVO, now Fortum. He wasn’t an official, let alone legislator.)
(Laurila was an academic who consulted the state owned IVO, now Fortum. He wasn’t an official, let alone legislator.)
We once interviewed the former chief legal counsel for IVO/Fortum, who was one of two young IVO lawyers who *took the dictation.*
He claimed the current law is in practice almost word to word what Laurila dictated to them one day in his office.
Without notes.
He claimed the current law is in practice almost word to word what Laurila dictated to them one day in his office.
Without notes.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This was a fun interview. One day prof. Laurila ordered them to his office and said, “boys, I hope you have notepads ready. I will now dictate new nuclear energy law for Finland.”
(Laurila was an academic who consulted the state owned IVO, now Fortum. He wasn’t an official, let alone legislator.)
(Laurila was an academic who consulted the state owned IVO, now Fortum. He wasn’t an official, let alone legislator.)
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A lot of people don't quite understand how and why modern nuclear regulation came to be, or who designed it.
Like in #Finland, the current (1986) #nuclear #energy law was *literally dictated* by the man hailed as the father of Finnish nuclear energy, academician Erkki Laurila!
Like in #Finland, the current (1986) #nuclear #energy law was *literally dictated* by the man hailed as the father of Finnish nuclear energy, academician Erkki Laurila!
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM