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Matthew Isaac Harvey

@acornapocalypse.bsky.social

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Writer, tabletop & Warhammer dork, queer person, imminent PhD (enaction, ecological psych, language, interaction). Yes that's actually Nessie

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · Jul 30

Warhammer's creative breadth summed up by my two factions:

1. Adepta Sororitas🤘: fascist nuns, conlang space Latin; orbital drop cathedrals; satirically sharp; aesthetically indulgent.

2. Maggotkin💩: uh oh so gross! Ew, goopy. Haha sneeze attack! (Look for my poetry series, "Nurgle's Gurgles.")

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

And if you don't win, hey, that's a cool essay you can post, publish, or submit elsewhere.

(As far as I can tell, anyway.)

If you're an undergrad in linguistics, anthro, cog sci, STS, comms, etc., think about submitting!

Babel: The Language Magazine @babelzine.bsky.social · 2d

✍️ Babel Young Writers' Competition! Write on your specialist linguistic topic and you could win publication in Babel!

📖 Get inspired by previous winner Isabella Mandis: babelzine.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Babel article: Rethinking the biases of language and society

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

These are absolutely fire. Amazing kitbashing.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa! You've probably answered this elsewhere, but where's that head from?

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

100%. You get people fired up and uhhhhh their most passionate views come out hahaha

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

Rock and Stone type shit

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 1d

And they said no one takes homo economicus seriously anymore.

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

It's hard to confront genius, sometimes, as it reveals our own shortcomings. We all feel this way 😔

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Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 2d

Forgot to add 🐦🐦

Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social · 2d

Call for papers: "𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚" (deadline: 31 January 2026)

Theme session as part of the @essenglish.bsky.social conference in Santiago de Compostela (31 Aug-4 Sept), co-convened with Anna Piata. Full details & submissions via metasocial.unamur.be

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

Fully on-rails shooter, each target a photorealistic Sora-looking animation of a Twitter avatar that was once honest twith him. The game is 20 minutes long. The controls don't drift so much as glue the reticle to the top left corner. If you press escape it crashes your PC.

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful, in its own way. Like a slime mold spreading through a Connect Four set, game half in progress, some slots full of rusted, ancient coins

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

Holy shit what a gorgeous photo (of a gorgeous person)

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

Social media use averages 2.4 hours per person per day and there's rich data on its effects on attention span.

This is a fantastic thread but the phones — and specifically short-form, scrollable content — are completely corrosive to reading.

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Social Media Statistics Details - Undiscovered Maine - University of Maine

Check out this compilation of interesting statistics that we at Undiscovered Maine have put together regarding the major social media platforms!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 4d

For what it's worth, the person everyone's dunking on is trying to say something substantive about both ML and the ethics of encountering new kinds of beings.

Misplaced, obvs, and I really don't think the cog sci holds up, but IMO it's more about individualism and computationalism than fandoms.

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 5d

I get that your point is more subtle than this and involves default ways of treating other beings.

But what we call "AI" is no more animate than a blender or a shoe. And most resistance to it is resistance to ecological destruction, tech hype, and social harm. At least as far as I've seen.

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 5d

In those stories the AI has agency. It's a fundamentally different category of entity that shares ONLY a name and some marketing with the current range of products.

LLMs have neither agency nor independent being nor perspective nor autopoietic self-maintenance nor operational closure.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 7d

If it helps, your memories are all reconstructed imagination anyway

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

This is really quite beautiful. It's not in any meter (I don't think?) but it reads poetically

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

Anteater

Since we're exploring visual metaphors

I love this creature even though I have never met them before

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta also include "basket of deplorables"

Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

You're clearly right.

IMO, so is Hobbes: condescension is annoying, but Fox has made people think liberal elites HATE them over differences in values, lifestyle, aesthetics, etc.

That disinformation erases the line between frustration at bad electoral choices and true revulsion at MAGA policies.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! Kinda seems like a reasonable reaction to me. Is the problem that he was wrong, that it's bad politics to say it out loud, or that he sounded arrogant?

'Cause unless you're a billionaire or a committed, avowed racist, voting for MAGA candidates just *was* a poor choice by almost any metric.

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Matthew Isaac Harvey @acornapocalypse.bsky.social · 9d

Michael Hobbes or the guy he's responding to?

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