Archive - Programmable Mutter

April 2025

March 2025

More me (now with link to Friday discussion)

and apologies for repeated email ...

Mar 31 •

if you want it. And why on earth should you want it?

Mar 31 •

The reactionary right is not a monolith

J.D. Vance is trying to cover the cracks

Mar 28 •

Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE?

There's magical thinking about the magical thinking

Mar 18 •

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies

A new article in Science, with Alison Gopnik, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans, and, well, me.

Mar 13 •

The attention economy is devouring politics

Social scientists need to understand how. As do we all.

Mar 9 •

ChatGPT is great at Stakhanovite propaganda

Comrades, we must seize the opportunity of LLMs if we are to be socialists

Mar 1 •

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