A new year full of self-knowledge, politics, science and, mainly, art.

#Philosophy #Politics #Science #Art

I just switched here, after creating the instance! Time for a re-introduction.

I believe in:
🍁 Canadian digital sovereignty
🌐 Building the gardens, not the walls
🪨 Imagining Sisyphus happy (even when the boulder has ML capabilities)

I also host the https://northtube.ca platform!

If you're interested in #Django, #Fediverse infrastructure, #Philosophy, #Absurdism, or just #Canadian things, let's connect.

#introduction #Ontario #Canada #OpenSource #WebDev

A quote I like and resonate with from the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest tale ever written!).

There's not many ancient representations of Siduri.
Hopefully what I drew is not too disgraceful.

https://thebad.website/comic/sumerian_wisdom

#quote #history #philosophy #sumer #gilgamesh

Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces | 🔗 https://brennan.day/thoughts-on-digital-third-spaces/

#community #indieweb #third-spaces #philosophy

A quote I like and resonate with from the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest tale ever written!).

There's not many ancient representations of Siduri.
Hopefully what I drew is not too disgraceful.

https://thebad.website/comic/sumerian_wisdom

#quote #history #philosophy #sumer #gilgamesh

Do you have a topic you want to debate, but no one willing to sit with the complexity instead of rushing to conclusions?

I am here for that kind of conversation.

Let us think out loud without turning it into a performance.

#ThoughtfulConversation #DeepThinking #Nuance #Complexity #CriticalThinking
#Ideas #Debate #IntellectualCuriosity #Philosophy #LongTermThinking
#FediMeta #AskFedi #WritersOfFedi #TechCulture #IndieWeb #OpenWeb

A quote I like and resonate with from the Epic of Gilgamesh (the oldest tale ever written!).

There's not many ancient representations of Siduri.
Hopefully what I drew is not too disgraceful.

https://thebad.website/comic/sumerian_wisdom

#quote #history #philosophy #sumer #gilgamesh

#newissue
Now online #TheReasoner's special issue about the inaugural meeting of the “Milan Logic and Philosophy of Science Network", held at Politecnico di #Milano in March 2025.

Part 1: #AI, #Robotics, and #Cognition
Part 2: #Epistemology, #Reasoning, and #Logic
Part 3: #Philosophy of the #PhysicalSciences, #Biology, and #Health.
Part 4: Science, Values, and Uncertainty.
Discussions: #gender, #mentalhealth and #publicengagement in academia

⬇️ https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/thereasoner/issue/view/2713?mtm_campaign=mastodon

@cultura @scienze

A special guest episode from software engineer and Aristotle scholar Andrew Tane Glen (also my best mate), voiced by the man himself, introducing the Super-Defector!

#Cooperation #Evolution #History #Philosophy #Anthropology

https://open.spotify.com/episode/39lei249kVSqbPpSSjLXSr?si=DbJqy4m3SJqJpS1NeDbT2g

A special guest episode from software engineer and Aristotle scholar Andrew Tane Glen (also my best mate), voiced by the man himself, introducing the Super-Defector!

#Cooperation #Evolution #History #Philosophy #Anthropology

https://open.spotify.com/episode/39lei249kVSqbPpSSjLXSr?si=DbJqy4m3SJqJpS1NeDbT2g

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This is an example for another latent dysfunction:

Fewer (public) questions get asked on the internet and so knowledge is not spread, but contained, making it more individualized.

This also creates an even stronger bias towards older content, so people might take the shortcut and use a more established technology, instead of looking into new, less explored, but more innovative solutions.

#LatentFunctions #LLMs#Innovation#Society#Philosophy

2026 is the year of #AI sobriety - a Quiet #Rebellion in a World full of #Slop

- by persistent bloom

Invidious:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac)

"Does this allow me to hear myself think? Or does it make it harder to hear what voice is my own?"

I absolutely love this! 💯 So many good points!

I also highly agree with the usefulness of smaller open language models.

#AISober #AISobriety #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #Art #Philosophy #CriticalThinking

Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces | 🔗 https://brennan.day/thoughts-on-digital-third-spaces/

#community #indieweb #third-spaces #philosophy

#introduction I am new here. My brother @jaforbes tells me it is customary to do an opening post of things I find interesting or likely to discuss in the future. Here is my list: #democracy #ai #eng #engineering #osint #geopol #math #mathematics #humanrights #compsci #history #philosophy #space #australia #japan #bluemountains #science #tech #anu #unsw #uts #physics #uai #agi #nafo #peace #ukraine #taiwan #photography #tdd #andor. I have friends everywhere. I hope that you'll join me.

I just switched here, after creating the instance! Time for a re-introduction.

I believe in:
🍁 Canadian digital sovereignty
🌐 Building the gardens, not the walls
🪨 Imagining Sisyphus happy (even when the boulder has ML capabilities)

I also host the https://northtube.ca platform!

If you're interested in #Django, #Fediverse infrastructure, #Philosophy, #Absurdism, or just #Canadian things, let's connect.

#introduction #Ontario #Canada #OpenSource #WebDev

#introduction I am new here. My brother @jaforbes tells me it is customary to do an opening post of things I find interesting or likely to discuss in the future. Here is my list: #democracy #ai #eng #engineering #osint #geopol #math #mathematics #humanrights #compsci #history #philosophy #space #australia #japan #bluemountains #science #tech #anu #unsw #uts #physics #uai #agi #nafo #peace #ukraine #taiwan #photography #tdd #andor. I have friends everywhere. I hope that you'll join me.

Conservatives have been trying to kill #humanities #education for decades--billionaires and other power-hungry people want a world filled with skilled technical workers who are unable to meaningfully assess, change, or even imagine realistic alternatives to the system that keeps the rich and powerful rich and powerful.

It has occurred to me that #philosophy, often a punching bag for right-wing influencers, is a key area: Right-wing populism (e.g., Trump) relies on fucking up epistemology for hundreds of millions of people. The last thing Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, et al. want is for their supporters to actually learn how to evaluate sources of knowledge.

#thoughts #politics #uspol

Conservatives have been trying to kill #humanities #education for decades--billionaires and other power-hungry people want a world filled with skilled technical workers who are unable to meaningfully assess, change, or even imagine realistic alternatives to the system that keeps the rich and powerful rich and powerful.

It has occurred to me that #philosophy, often a punching bag for right-wing influencers, is a key area: Right-wing populism (e.g., Trump) relies on fucking up epistemology for hundreds of millions of people. The last thing Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, et al. want is for their supporters to actually learn how to evaluate sources of knowledge.

#thoughts #politics #uspol