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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2h

Me realizing that I timed my conference travel for an international break

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2h

You and I, our zoom meetings are not the same...

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4h

www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 5h

Love this

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 6h

Same with René Girard just TOTAL theoretical non-entities...

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7h

verfassungsblog.de/violence-and...

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 9h

New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 11h

At some point it starts to look like a deliberate strategy of targeting becoming “too big to fail” and thus real or implicit bailouts at the end

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 1d

"It's a mistake, I think, to characterize this transformed economic structure as “neoliberal.” It is rather neo-autocratic, a continent of principalities ruled as if by divine right by their heroic founders..." arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com/p/disappoint...

Disappointments

1. The End of the Tacit Social Compromise

arthurgoldhammer356783.substack.com

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 1d

Andreas Reckwitz is an important social theorist. But I strongly reject this argument that our modernity should be characterized by "loss." "We" (who?) didn't passively lose things. Many were destroyed. And of course most of the world's population has "gained." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | The West Is Lost

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 1d

Now zoning: music.apple.com/gb/album/hit...

hit of the highlife by Kurt Vile & Luke Roberts on Apple Music

Song · 2025 · Duration 6:03

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

Allegedly Niklas Luhman's research proposal at Bielefeld:

"Topic: the theory of society
Duration: 30 years
Costs: none"

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

For the latter - I wonder what other things are/will be like this? "we...find that the model converges to a local optimum that lacks the required long-range dependencies."

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

Two somewhat different papers:

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
arxiv.org/abs/2509.20328

Why can't transformers learn multiplication? arxiv.org/abs/2510.001...

Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Range Dependency Pitfalls

Language models are increasingly capable, yet still fail at a seemingly simple task of multi-digit multiplication. In this work, we study why, by reverse-engineering a model that successfully learns m...

arxiv.org

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 2d

“Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning…” Looks awesome: events.humanitix.com/1000platform...

Adrian Mackenzie and Anna Munster Book Launch

Book launch event for '1000 Platforms' by Prof Adrian Mackenzie (ANU) and 'DeepAesthetics' by Prof Anna Munster (UNSW), hosted at ANU

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 3d

Through the car window in Northumberland

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 3d

My goodness that left foot on Philogene…

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4d

Disappointing we haven’t laid a glove on a very average Man United. Looked a bit more solid after the change of shape. Wouldn’t mind starting some of these away matches with the back 3. #SAFC

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4d

Masuaku can’t deal with Amad #SAFC

Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 4d

“This is the philosophical anthropology of Romanticism. And it naturally tends to give art a fundamental role in shaping the way we conceive of ourselves and what it is possible for us to be…” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephen Mulhall · Self-Interpreting Animals

The philosophical anthropology of Romanticism naturally tends to give art a fundamental role in shaping the way we...

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BBC Radio 6 Music Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social · 5d

BBC Radio 6 Music
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Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 5d

At some point European nations need to simply exit FIFA and take the lead in creating some new governing body. Saudi and the USA can have their own tournaments. Not holding my breath of course... www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...

World Cup ticket resale madness begins as FIFA takes two 15% fees on each sale

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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 5d

Now zoning: music.apple.com/gb/album/bod...

Bodhidharma by Agriculture on Apple Music

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