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Robin Z

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Professor, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, 4e Cognition and Artificial Intelligence; Science Fiction Fan, Cyborgologist, Retired Knitter, Comic Book Reader, 4ad records fanatic. Wanna see me nerd out about music stuff? @musicephemera.bsky.social

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‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violence

only tech companies can so easily get away with being so deeply corrosive to a healthy society

11.03.2026 11:44 👍 98 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 3
A weird costumed easter bunny looking puzzled at a mall

A weird costumed easter bunny looking puzzled at a mall

All I said was that the Easter Bunny at the Menlo Park Mall was more convincing

11.03.2026 00:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

10.03.2026 11:57 👍 5186 🔁 964 💬 66 📌 25

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.

Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.

expertoptout@superhuman.com

11.03.2026 00:27 👍 824 🔁 343 💬 13 📌 9

My idiot dog stole a hershey's kiss and ate it, foil and all, and the smells coming out of her now could wilt flowers instantly.

10.03.2026 23:44 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Come on out to Wisconsin for the semester, np!

10.03.2026 23:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope the lawsuit bankrupts them into the sun

10.03.2026 23:15 👍 93 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

I'm reviving my Good Place and Philosophy class for next Fall so I'm rewatching this show for the millionth time and it is still so fantastic.

10.03.2026 22:58 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Isn't milk already a protein item, why did they add more!?

10.03.2026 21:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I clicked the article, saw the phrase, and closed the article. Utterly cursed.

10.03.2026 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Wing-flavored protein espresso martini" is absolutely the most cursed thing in this, the most cursed era

10.03.2026 21:01 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
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Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt-out expertoptout@superhuman.com.

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

10.03.2026 16:12 👍 609 🔁 320 💬 19 📌 124

I don't know why I love this but I regret to inform everyone that i continue to hate GenAI and yet I will 100% be confirming all plans henceforth with "clown event still possible"

10.03.2026 19:50 👍 40 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
White dog luxuriating on a soft velvety blanket while showing off her many chins

White dog luxuriating on a soft velvety blanket while showing off her many chins

Rocket is entering her Jabba the Hutt phase

10.03.2026 03:27 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HELL yea

10.03.2026 02:31 👍 2078 🔁 336 💬 13 📌 8

Just admitted in an email that I finally have time to work because it's spring break and it wasn't even a joke 😩

09.03.2026 21:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

*Has AI ever done me any AI-specific harm, personally (as yet)

*Well, they scraped a bunch of my novels to train the models

*I think this might be classified as "harm I myself personally did to AI," due to blameful science fiction dystopias, etc

09.03.2026 18:18 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0
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I can't compete with this.

09.03.2026 16:20 👍 10280 🔁 1740 💬 231 📌 413

I will never back down from my deeply-held belief that a box of Tagalongs has exactly 3 servings and sometimes you need to eat 2.

09.03.2026 17:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sleeping dog with her head resting on a pillow like a fancy girl

Sleeping dog with her head resting on a pillow like a fancy girl

Rocket says good night, sleep well, she'll probably kill you in the morning

09.03.2026 04:20 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So many people need to spend their lives in prison for what this administration is doing in our name

09.03.2026 03:04 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

07.03.2026 00:20 👍 1378 🔁 390 💬 10 📌 12

Same tabloid grift as psychics

08.03.2026 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sleeping doggy

Sleeping doggy

Rocket says goodnight, sleep well, she'll probably kill you in the morning

08.03.2026 05:14 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

As of today there are 3 dog toys in my yard that do not belong to my dog. We have an electric fence so she hasn't run off and stolen them. I haven't seen any dogs in our yard but regularly we have coyotes so without a doubt they are trying to convince my dog to let them in on the sweet deal she has.

07.03.2026 19:04 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

"Warmly" 🙄

07.03.2026 02:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I've petted 4 different dogs today, a victory by any measure

06.03.2026 21:03 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

06.03.2026 17:09 👍 2052 🔁 519 💬 29 📌 14

So this post broke containment and lost a little of the context when it did but Bikini Kill are the ones donating to TCP, not Bandcamp. We generally choose a different org or mutual aid fund to support on Bandcamp Fridays and this is what we chose this month.

06.03.2026 13:59 👍 207 🔁 46 💬 1 📌 1

move slow and repair things

06.03.2026 12:06 👍 3746 🔁 1214 💬 5 📌 0