Jennifer Walshe

An Opera Takes A.I., Pronatalism and Hustle Culture to Space

The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival

Nine Inch Nails and Chris Hadfield are playing Dublin tonight and the city is buzzing with loads of cool people in black leather and also me unzips hoodie to reveal NASA t-shirt

had a dream that in the future teens said thank you not in person but via an app that sent the message “thonk u”

Truly cursed

who is going to buy that poop data when the company goes bust/is acquired, and what will they do with it

I’m not afraid of the toilet, I’m afraid of the camera tracking my aim

Must say the thought of the camera footage makes me think of a @drewdaniel.bsky.social @lordchiefjustice.bsky.social
piece where they flushed glitter down a posh loo

Also Heston’s space food and many other delights

Visit to the National Space Centre allowed me to view Buzz Aldrin’s underwear and a space toilet at close range

Our hotel lobby art in Berlin says METALLIC LIFE REVIEW! See Matmos at Silent Green tomorrow Wednesday! Metal metal metal.

The Wurzels release AI-written single called Wurzel Me Up The band are best known for top 10 hits The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key) and I Am A Cider Drinker.

Ah yes, the Singularity

www.standard.co.uk/culture/musi...

“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed - The Wire The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art ...

Tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social: the Wire Salon explores AI's effect on music with @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Zubin Kanga, Cyborg Soloists & @saving-throw.bsky.social.

Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

Read our review of Walshe's book on AI:

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.

No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed - The Wire The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art ...

The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music

@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

I was once at a party in Chicago and I was introduced to a couple, a man and a woman, both very nice, both called Blake.

Congrats Maya can’t wait to read!

I've decided that the people who believe LLMs are literally demons are more correct than the people who believe they can send emails

As a professor of composition, I appreciate the clarity on this.

Bookmart in Sligo is a treasure trove

Great if dark article by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social one of TikToks he mentions is bananas - kids using Vril/Agartha dogwhistles for a school game, comments full of racism and also people assuming Diarmuid & Niamh are some sort of fascistic lore rather than Irish names pitchfork.com/thepitch/tik...

13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music available here, will be talking about it at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on May 13 for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social: unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennif...

Old but excellent thread. Could easily be describing AI-generated music. To paraphrase, musical works are boiled down to “reproducible clichés” dropped into musical landscapes based on the most stereotypical understanding of a given genre, with little understanding of context/history of the music.

Don't forget to book ahead for our second Salon event exploring the impact of AI on music, with composer @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social.

13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.

Tickets below:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...

📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift

Spent this morning reading the CIA’s field manual on sabotage… and am terrified to say that this whole time…I’ve been going to meetings that were being sabotaged??? www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...

The beautiful thing about Easter Sunday is that people in Midjourney newbie channels pause from prompting “white man with his wife and daughter on couch soldiers with rifles they are under siege” for the more traditional “Easter Bunny wearing Bob Marley head smoking a joint high out of he’s mind”

Unlike classic fascism, #MemeFascism doesn't even try to produce a coherent narrative. Like Bukele with his torture camps, it can simultaneously celebrate and deny the crimes it commits. Its followers do not want to be seduced, they want to be entertained. And they are entertained by our outrage
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YouTube video by IncognitaMundi True cyan illusion

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I brought my niece today. At one point a small boy screamed “HE LOOKS JUST LIKE MR BEAST” which is how it all felt.