Sebastian Deterding

@tedmccormick.bsky.social

We achieved full AI Ouroboros: Job applicants use AI to bulk (re)write and submit resumés, which are then bulk assessed by AI and filtered out for AI use, so job applicants are nudged to use AI to rewrite resumés again so they are less AI, which are then ...

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Ted McCormick

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

Tesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flight

yhoo.itTesla stock pops after unveiling Roadster with compressed air thrusters for limited flightTesla finally unveiled the long-awaited Roadster on Thursday night.

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Hannah Nicklin

@hannahnicklin.bsky.social

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

nature.comAssistant Professor in Fair and Responsible Artificial Intelligence - South Kensington Campus job with Imperial College London (ICL) | 12862563We are seeking candidates who develop novel AI methods and systems that are technically rigorous, trustworthy and deployable in practice

Come work with us! The Dyson School of Design Engineering at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social is hiring for an Assistant Professor in Fair and Responsible AI. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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John Bull

@garius.eurosky.social

19 Sept

happy #caturday

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Graham Annable

@grickle.bsky.social

16 Sept

Just say no, bros. #grickledoodle #mariobros #nintendo #drugs #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social

Reflecting on the National AI in Research Survey. On substance, any "are you okay with using AI for assessing [X]?" question is a mirror of "are you okay with using a metric for assessing [X]?" We already use - and/or oppose the use of - scalable decontextualised shortcuts to judgement.

laurenleek.substack.comTemperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the SameWhat 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

Interesting argument. The one thing I’d add is that maintains exploration/exploitation diversity needs to be a mandate for production and consumption, else we still drift to monoculture. Cf European content mandates forcing streamers to show minimum % regional content.

Lauren Leek@laurenleek.eu

We have more data about ourselves than ever. So why is everything converging on the same? In my new post I use data on high streets, Billboard hits, a million films and my own AI personas to expose the algorithms behind the sameness and how to regulate them. laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

In fact, yes, Spotify has just announced an AI badge, but I‘s be SHOCKED if tastegraph-based personal generators isn’t deep in development in whatever their AI/innovation unit is.

Mandating a particular design/serendipity algo would be overstep IMO, but I can see EU „safety-test“ standards for assessing diversity/distance measures of the content history of anonymised representative user sample of very large platforms.

Lauren Leek@laurenleek.eu

The content itself may be just as prediction-optimised, but at least the origin is diversified. The principle can be extended to an „indie/art house/…“ ratio like other broadcasting license mandates have it

And as platforms vertically integrate to become content houses to increase share of revenue, this becomes even more logical. I.e. when Spotify in-houses AI music generators like Facebook wants to in-house AI people.

5 Aug

Has anyone in #intrinsicmotivation or #sdt worked on frustration over ceasing intrinsically motivated activity? Like, a toddler screaming bloody murder when they have to leave a swing. It's SO obvious, but I don't recall ANY model or explanation why stopping a fun activity is aversive.

Same for NOT realising an anticipated need satisfaction – i.e., driving by a swing with the buggy and not stopping to swing. Massive emotional frustration. Any anticipated-but-delayed-or-blocked-gratification, really.

5 Aug

In introspection, I feel the Buddhist viparinama-dukkha is much more on the mark: suffering from the change or passing of something we are attached to by desire. It is immediate pangs of attachment, not interpersonal pressure or coercion.

Again, it's obvious THAT this happens all the time and is strongly aversive. But it's not really need frustration when need satisfaction simply ceases, is it? Would this be framed as autonomy frustration (I WANT TO keep swinging and feel COERCED to stop swinging)?

31 July

When they work well, design schools, MBA programmes, incubators and accelerators seem to all embody one idea: that intelligence is collective. That the instigator/creator/founder is a high momentum sponge in a hypertrophic advice environment.

31 July

You are not the smartest or the best. You are thrown into a collectively highly smart environment of perspectives and expertise and are able to pull, absorb, and integrate all that input into some forward direction.

4 July

Solstice Saturday First steps alone, swings, tantrums Sleepy, hot, and glee #haiku

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2 July

Less than two weeks to apply. If you are a recent/soon-to-be PhD looking to work on games and adolescent wellbeing, do reach out!

Sebastian Deterding@codingconduct.cc

We have 2 job openings – full time, 2 years – on adolescent digital wellbeing and games data in @nballou.bsky.social's Kaleidoscope lab @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social: * research associate (postdoc): www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... * research assistant: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

13 June

I feel one part of successful adulting is to be able to compartmentalise space for joy: to be able, in a strict time/space window given by outer demands and under ongoing stress and disaffection, to fully let go into an activity that gives you joy.

13 June

In a way, the exact mirror image of being a professional creative: doesn't matter the rain, the break-up, the sick dog: you will be able to sit down at 9, and produce art.

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8 June

5 June

2026 Post-GenAI Student Supervision [Student] Prompts PPT into existence [Supervisor] Critiques PPT [Student] Records and prompts critique to generate new PPT [Repeat] In this loop, the student reduces themselves to a replaceable data entry worker who doesn't run/test their own internal models.

5 June

* Not all students, some students judiciously off-load mindless/unimportant tasks, YMMV, etc. etc. But the pattern is real.

17 May

Science is one of MANY systems where the values and best practices we communicate differ widely from actual practice, everyone knows but nobody talks about that gap on the record, and everyone collectively maintaining that tension does essential work to keep the system running as is, POSIWID-style.

Jubenshacon: Jubensha is Alibi for socialising/mate-finding with people in a third space.

Jubenshacon: here’s one for the Nordic Larpers: Quingganben or emotional scripts. Including player briefings on “how to cry beautifully” during a scene. 360 romance design.

Jubenshacon: David Middleton comparing Jubensha and escape rooms. Can’t help the TTRPG vibes of “it’s like improv, but on the table with rules.”

And yes, that’s the display screen for an audience of ~150. It’s post-Brexit. What can you do.

@simonhammann.bsky.social

Jubenshacon thoughts: this repeats the TTRPG GNS triad as Puzzlism, Dramatism, Narrativism. And the cold start problem of „how to play this?“ when nobody is there yet to model and guide playing culture.

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Simon Hammann

20 Apr

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Minas Karamanis

@minaskar.bsky.social

30 Mar

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.

3 Apr

I thought I was „good at travelling.“ Now with kid and older parents, I realise I was just playing on Easy.

27 Mar

As an #HE educator, if you wonder, “when will COVID start to end?”, it is 2038: that’s when the first cohort enters uni whose development was not impacted by locked down nurseries, schools, and unis. #UKHE

27 Mar

To say nothing, of course, of long COVID and all the other damages that will stay with us.

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dan sinker

@dansinker.com

20 Mar

Replying to @dansinker.com

The thing is the *entire internet* is different now than it was a decade ago (and, largely, not for the better). All of this is interrelated and there's no going *backwards* only forward. So work for a better future, don't angle for a return to an idealized past.

13 Mar

High-tech anti-modernism: When the people who make and sell high-tech embrace anti-modernist postures – beard, bible, biceps. (Out of ... masculine self-loathing?)

5 Mar

Eventbrite has turned the simple 3 minute act of filling a web form into a 30 minute rage-quit session of having to wait for and undo useless AI-pregen "work saving magic" to then struggle and fail to get "responsive" JavaScript from hell to register and save an image and text description.

5 Mar

Meanwhile, on craigslist

5 Mar

God I've become that ye olde Internet grump haven't I

26 Feb

Unsolicited PI advice: never put a student on the critical path of any software development project that others will rely on.* *Unless they were a software developer in their previous career.

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

22 Feb

@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social say, to brush up on my knowledge about the (women‘s) parlour game etc prehistory of TTRPGs, what should I read? Quick public access resources preferred

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@halfrobot.com

19 Feb

On Saturday at 3 PM ET I'm going to be streaming a game I haven't thoroughly played since the mid-90s -- Cosmology of Kyoto, the early game that blew Roger Ebert's mind with the possibilities of an "open world." Also you can get molten metal poured into your ass and out of your mouth! Be there.

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories@romchip.bsky.social

Here's our whole fundraiser schedule at a glance! It all goes down THIS SATURDAY, February 21, 11AM-11PM ET -- don't miss it! (and don't forget to donate!) donate.romchip.org

eventbrite.co.ukTHE DICE THAT CHANGED THE WORLDDungeons & Dragons and the Role Playing Revolution : A Celebration of the History and Legacy of RPGs

20 Feb

Fancy diving into the cultural impact of pen-and-paper RPGs? Then join James Bennison, @adders.blog, Esther MacCallum-Stewart and myself for a chat in Brighton's Wagner Hall on April 21. Details 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dice-t...

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