John Kellden
@johnkellden.bsky.social
Cards for Insight: How to play
Add your thoughts to and between the cards.
Cultivate understanding as generative closure.
Add your thoughts to and between the cards.
Cultivate understanding as generative closure.
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An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:
November 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) summing up the current situation:
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Reposted by John Kellden
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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow explores how people from 1900 to the present have tried to glimpse, design, or control what comes next www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/the-ar...
The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow
www.museum.manchester.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow explores how people from 1900 to the present have tried to glimpse, design, or control what comes next www.museum.manchester.ac.uk/event/the-ar...
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The new #openaccess book "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI" by Nina Beguš encourages readers to use the humanities to thoughtfully approach the development of AI. Start reading now at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The new #openaccess book "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI" by Nina Beguš encourages readers to use the humanities to thoughtfully approach the development of AI. Start reading now at doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
This is the way
Those Who Nuke Omelas from Orbit
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is the way
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Read our paper ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Mission-oriented industrial strategy: global insights
Authored by Prof. Mariana Mazzucato, Sarah Doyle and Luca Kuehn von Burgsdorff
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Read our paper ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Arts & culture are the foundations for reimagining alternative futures, fostering civic identity, & mobilising collective action. Yet they remain undervalued & underinvested in.
Excited to deliver the keynote at the CIMAM conference today in Turin to share Public Value of the Arts & Culture.
Excited to deliver the keynote at the CIMAM conference today in Turin to share Public Value of the Arts & Culture.
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Arts & culture are the foundations for reimagining alternative futures, fostering civic identity, & mobilising collective action. Yet they remain undervalued & underinvested in.
Excited to deliver the keynote at the CIMAM conference today in Turin to share Public Value of the Arts & Culture.
Excited to deliver the keynote at the CIMAM conference today in Turin to share Public Value of the Arts & Culture.
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Almost all decent sci-fi that wasn't written by Ursula le Guin is a response to the Fermi Paradox.
My favourite three:
- The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
- Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series
- The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey
They're also all climate allegories, in their way.
My favourite three:
- The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
- Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series
- The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey
They're also all climate allegories, in their way.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Almost all decent sci-fi that wasn't written by Ursula le Guin is a response to the Fermi Paradox.
My favourite three:
- The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
- Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series
- The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey
They're also all climate allegories, in their way.
My favourite three:
- The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
- Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space series
- The Expanse, by James S.A. Corey
They're also all climate allegories, in their way.
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What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
What Americans Die from?
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And what the media reports on...
Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell
Just wondrous
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell
Just wondrous
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell
Just wondrous
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell
Just wondrous
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“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
National Portrait Gallery London | Cowper & Newton Museum Olney
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Reposted by John Kellden
All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
Eurosky: sovereign European technology
Eurosky is building European infrastructure for the open social web - the foundation that lets startups create safer, fairer social web products and services that users actually control, enabling Euro...
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
All #EuroskyLive sessions are now available to watch here
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
vimeo.com/showcase/eur...
featuring @bnewbold.net @robin.berjon.com @erikologic.bsky.social @seabass.bsky.social @mathewlowry.bsky.social
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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like they used to say on ye olde social media networks that no longer exist, reposting for the Monday crowd #othernetworks
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
like they used to say on ye olde social media networks that no longer exist, reposting for the Monday crowd #othernetworks
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“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, 1974.
🙏🏼🌎🕊️
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not enough people know that tarot started as a game and we are severely underutilizing other games as divination tools
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
not enough people know that tarot started as a game and we are severely underutilizing other games as divination tools
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It's not stranger than fiction. This is the plot of Highlander fucking 2.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's not stranger than fiction. This is the plot of Highlander fucking 2.
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A new feature on X has revealed that a huge number of large, divisive political accounts claiming to be Trump supporters are actually operating out of foreign countries. weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-acc...
X Just Accidentally Exposed A Vast Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
How a new X feature led to the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since 2016.
weaponizedspaces.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A new feature on X has revealed that a huge number of large, divisive political accounts claiming to be Trump supporters are actually operating out of foreign countries. weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-acc...
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US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.