José Delpino
@jdelpino.bsky.social
Ed-Tech Strategist & Software/AI Engineer at @GarrettSeminary. Poet & Translator. Living in Chicago since 2015, and learning to be a Dad and a musician.
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All the camp (Gary Marcus, Bender & co.) saying LLMs “can’t produce knowledge” should read some historical epistemology, dialogism, and techno-critique — Damerow, Lefèvre, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Simondon, Stiegler, Pasquinelli.
Throughout history, humans have externalized parts of their thinking and technē into tools, artifacts, and machines—but we never simply hand cognition and craft over to them. Tools become partners in action, reshaping our own capacities through the very activities we perform together.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Throughout history, humans have externalized parts of their thinking and technē into tools, artifacts, and machines—but we never simply hand cognition and craft over to them. Tools become partners in action, reshaping our own capacities through the very activities we perform together.
Research that studies LLMs with humans in the loop — co-writing, co-programming, mixed-initiative problem solving — will give us far better clues about what these models actually are and do.
Treating them only as autonomous solvers misses their real function as collaborative tool.
Treating them only as autonomous solvers misses their real function as collaborative tool.
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Research that studies LLMs with humans in the loop — co-writing, co-programming, mixed-initiative problem solving — will give us far better clues about what these models actually are and do.
Treating them only as autonomous solvers misses their real function as collaborative tool.
Treating them only as autonomous solvers misses their real function as collaborative tool.
LLMs are speculative mediators — hyper-tools for co-thinking and co-working. They go far beyond pattern-recognition but don’t reach full reasoning; under the hood they run a kind of computational speculation, generating possibilities for us to question and refine and interact with…
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
LLMs are speculative mediators — hyper-tools for co-thinking and co-working. They go far beyond pattern-recognition but don’t reach full reasoning; under the hood they run a kind of computational speculation, generating possibilities for us to question and refine and interact with…
All the camp (Gary Marcus, Bender & co.) saying LLMs “can’t produce knowledge” should read some historical epistemology, dialogism, and techno-critique — Damerow, Lefèvre, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Simondon, Stiegler, Pasquinelli.
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
All the camp (Gary Marcus, Bender & co.) saying LLMs “can’t produce knowledge” should read some historical epistemology, dialogism, and techno-critique — Damerow, Lefèvre, Bakhtin, Voloshinov, Simondon, Stiegler, Pasquinelli.
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Vector for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century
hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]
Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London
In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]
Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London
In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Vector for Workers: Models of Automation and Autonomy in the Long AI Century
hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]
Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London
In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
hdl.handle.net/10278/5099627 [preprint]
Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture - XXII Historical Materialism Conference - 7 November 2025, SOAS University of London
In memoriam Paolo Virno (1952-2025)
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My book “Web Accessibility Cookbook” was published about a year ago. The ebook and printed book have sold 1025 times since then. That's overwhelming! Thank you, thank you, thank you! ❤️
accessibility-cookbook.com
accessibility-cookbook.com
Web Accessibility Cookbook
The Web Accessibility Cookbook provides you with dozens of recipes to help you build common components on the web.
accessibility-cookbook.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My book “Web Accessibility Cookbook” was published about a year ago. The ebook and printed book have sold 1025 times since then. That's overwhelming! Thank you, thank you, thank you! ❤️
accessibility-cookbook.com
accessibility-cookbook.com
The best CSS book I have ever read. A jewel!
May 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The best CSS book I have ever read. A jewel!
Having some fun revisiting CSS from the ground up.
Here’s a fun insight: selector specificity is like a card game—each selector is a card! An ID Card beats any number of Class Cards, and a Class Card wins over any number of tag cards. And IDs are like aces—they beat everything else. 🃏💥
Here’s a fun insight: selector specificity is like a card game—each selector is a card! An ID Card beats any number of Class Cards, and a Class Card wins over any number of tag cards. And IDs are like aces—they beat everything else. 🃏💥
May 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Having some fun revisiting CSS from the ground up.
Here’s a fun insight: selector specificity is like a card game—each selector is a card! An ID Card beats any number of Class Cards, and a Class Card wins over any number of tag cards. And IDs are like aces—they beat everything else. 🃏💥
Here’s a fun insight: selector specificity is like a card game—each selector is a card! An ID Card beats any number of Class Cards, and a Class Card wins over any number of tag cards. And IDs are like aces—they beat everything else. 🃏💥
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Stopped using the-social-media-formerly-known-as-twitter back when the new landlord took over, but I sort of missing being able to share the occasional tidbit that interests, enlightens, or amuses me. So I'm finally going to try getting back on the horse.
Steve www.sensible.com
Steve www.sensible.com
Home
Usability, mostly.
www.sensible.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Stopped using the-social-media-formerly-known-as-twitter back when the new landlord took over, but I sort of missing being able to share the occasional tidbit that interests, enlightens, or amuses me. So I'm finally going to try getting back on the horse.
Steve www.sensible.com
Steve www.sensible.com
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New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | Part 1
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
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February 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New video! Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos: youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
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Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
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If you're following the OpenAI o3 announcements and are curious about the "ARC-AGI" benchmark and why I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose, here are some past posts about this from my Substack: (1/3)
December 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
If you're following the OpenAI o3 announcements and are curious about the "ARC-AGI" benchmark and why I think solving these tasks by brute-force compute defeats the original purpose, here are some past posts about this from my Substack: (1/3)
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AI skepticism matters!
For example, there's an excellent "skeptical" thread on the other site from @nabeelqu.bsky.social, debunking the scary (but misleading) anthropomorphic claims of this bit from OpenAI's o1 system card. See x.com/nabeelqu/sta...
For example, there's an excellent "skeptical" thread on the other site from @nabeelqu.bsky.social, debunking the scary (but misleading) anthropomorphic claims of this bit from OpenAI's o1 system card. See x.com/nabeelqu/sta...
December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
AI skepticism matters!
For example, there's an excellent "skeptical" thread on the other site from @nabeelqu.bsky.social, debunking the scary (but misleading) anthropomorphic claims of this bit from OpenAI's o1 system card. See x.com/nabeelqu/sta...
For example, there's an excellent "skeptical" thread on the other site from @nabeelqu.bsky.social, debunking the scary (but misleading) anthropomorphic claims of this bit from OpenAI's o1 system card. See x.com/nabeelqu/sta...
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Whenever given a chance to recommend a single book for anyone wanting to think about where AI is headed, I have recommended @shannonvallor.bsky.social's AI Mirror. I also interviewed Shannon on @hearsayculture.bsky.social about the book. Great to share a terrific interview with her in Nautilus.
AI Is the Black Mirror
Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.
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December 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Whenever given a chance to recommend a single book for anyone wanting to think about where AI is headed, I have recommended @shannonvallor.bsky.social's AI Mirror. I also interviewed Shannon on @hearsayculture.bsky.social about the book. Great to share a terrific interview with her in Nautilus.
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.