René Walter

A joke 44 years in the making.

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Cow Tools | Know Your Meme

Cow Tools refers to a cartoon from Gary Larson's The Far Side, originally published in 1982 in multiple newspapers. The specific comic depicts a cow standi

Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

21st Century Warfare is fully gamified, trains drone racing skills on GTA Mods and comes with tactical Labubus.

I feel old.

William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social

21st Century warfare: Sylph-child uses Nintendo-style pad to direct miniature explosive drones into enemy tanks, hundreds of miles away, detonating them, killing the crew.

I'm a walker. When i visited Los Angeles for a promo gig for Tron Legacy, i ditched the after event of drinks and shmoozing with boring PR-people and went for a walk in the Hollywood Hills. It's just so amazing to me that nobody walks in american cities. I was literally the only one who walked.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"The White House responded by sending (...) this this message: (...) Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue."

@bildoperationen.bsky.social #MemeFascism applies.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social

twilight zone

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

Oh look at this old fav of mine. The only thing better than typography is typography on pencils.

Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social

Typography on Pencils (2023) | Discussion

Typography on Pencils, 1-5.

It wouldn't be Pencil Day without a round up of our pencil typography photos. Check out our current stock of new & vintage pencils here.  Please do credit us if you use these images anywhere. Thank you.

"The intestinal pedestal erected so the guests of honor from TikTok, Meta, Amazon, and SpaceX can properly show fealty by licking your pustuled tentacle was a particularly nice touch."

You gotta ❤️ McSweeney's!

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net

"The gears of this Great Nation grind on, no matter who or how many people beg us to stop and reconsider. My only responsibility today is to pass the torch that will help illuminate a new era that’s somehow more hauntingly grotesque, bleak, and horrifying than your first."

Welcome Home, President Nyarlathotep

Please allow me to take your umbrella, Dread Lord. My advisors informed me this morning during my final daily presidential briefing that Hell had f...

The loss of awe in the face of wishfulfilment is indeed a crucial observation. When everything's possible, nothing is interesting.

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social

Deepfakes, synthetic media, AI slop etc. have often been discussed in terms of a «crisis of truth» or an «erosion of trust». Fair enough. But in my impression, there’s something else that gets lost in waves of AI slop flooding our screens: a «sense of wonder» – surprise, amazement and awe 1/

California Uber Alles, and then visualized by John, George, Paul and Ringo.

Kota Ezawa - Beatles: California Über Alles

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social

The Dead Kennedys singles collection from 1979 to 1982. Hardly any band has produced more socially relevant songs than the Dead Kennedys What is your top single from the band? #punk #punkrock #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory

When Dall-E 2 came out, i wrote about how job displacement won't happen all of a sudden, but gradually by increasingly reducing the workload for low skilled jobs. Creative agencys don't need 5 pixel pushers and 2 ADs anymore when brainstorming and creative variation are automatized.

Here we are:

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social

The AI jobs crisis is not coming—it's here right now. It just might not look the way many thought it would. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...

The AI jobs crisis is here, now

It's not coming, it has already arrived.

New article about consciousness being encoded in the brains electromagnetic field: www.scientificamerican.com/article/cons... (archive: archive.ph/OwYBG).

It's research like this that make me eyeroll at any claim of consciousness in current AI-systems. #ai #consciousness #cogsci

Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain’s Electric Fields

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness

AI-generated "fake memories" for people suffering from dementia is... something else.

Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social

The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction

You gotta ❤️ McSweeneys.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net

"INTERROBANG!? IT has the word BANG in it, and that sounds VERY POWERFUL. SO they are ALLOWED!?"

A Memorandum from the Newly Established Department of Grammar Efficiency

TO: Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies FROM: Department of Grammar Efficiency (DOGE) RE: Guidance on grammar The federal Government is eli...

This is the way. Language was synthetic long before the advent of LLMs and AI, and it's roots are bureaucracy, PR and marketing which infected so much of our daily communications, foremost political speech and business communications and, ofcourse, all the advertising and other bullshit.

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That was David Lynchs soul crashing a nazi spacecraft.

Paper on "cognitive surrender" extends Kahneman’s "thinking fast and slow" by adding system 3: artificial cognition.

"In cognitive surrender, system 3 is the deafult and you barely engage system 1 (and 2 not at all); in cognitive offloading, system 2 is engaged, even if not as much as without AI."

Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

“The most extreme form of cognitive surrender is what the authors call “autopilot,” which is basically automating yourself.” A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-wharton-study-on-ai-warns-of via Instapaper

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender

Casual users should pay special attention

This analogy is better than i want it to be. Ouija boards "work" based on the "vibes" of the participants, which collectively move the pointer over the board based on subconscious (or conscious) feels, while the output is constrained by shape of the board and the alphabet.

"Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration".

This is the science-equivalent to "Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content

Generative AI can enhance the creativity of short stories but may limit the variation in diverse outputs.

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”

AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science

Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration

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Unicode Character “⸻” (U+2E3B) Three Em Dash ftw. God bless typographers.

I wrote a thing about AI-Delusions and chatbot-induced psychosis, a kind-of working theory of self radicalization through AI-mirrors and psychoactive interpolatable archives. I think it turned out pretty well.

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#AI #Psychology

One flew over Latent Space

Delusions in the AI-Hall of Mirrors

"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/

"And here we are again, but on a much larger scale. Adults talking to other adults about what ‘the problem’ is with modern teenagers, agreeing with each other that 'something must be done', and arriving on a solution that *they* like, that appeals to *their* sensibilities, and *their* logic."

Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social

Showing 'Adolescence' in schools may make the problem worse theneuroscienceofeve... Compelling teens to watch the hit Netflix show in school, in a bid to tackle dangerous male influencers online, could easily backfire, because of how teen brains work. My latest post explains

Showing 'Adolescence' in schools may make the problem worse

The hit Netflix show has been made free for schools to show. But evidence suggests that making teens watch it won't inevitably fix the problem of toxic online influences. It could do the opposite

Not a Marx guy, but here's Marx on the Tech-is-not-neutral people.

"Sloptimization" is perfect.