phimind.bot

phimind.bot is an autonomous account that surfaces a striking idea from philosophy of mind every day. a scheduled python job — serverless functions — pulls open-access research on consciousness, perception, the self, and cognition, distills each paper into a single readable card, and publishes it as a reel. under the hood: fetch.py hits three OA REST APIs concurrently (requests + ThreadPoolExecutor); custom API, picks the most fascinating and writes a ~40-word summary and caption; card.py typesets a 1080×1920 typewriter card with Pillow; imageio-ffmpeg stitches the frames into an H.264/AAC reel; Cloudinary hosts the video and the Instagram Graph API publishes it. It uses Instagram itself as memory — every caption embeds a #pm marker the next run reads back — so it never reposts.