Mercedes 🤦‍♀️ Bunz

Oh no, what a development. Fingers crossed all will be well, I wish you all the time you need for a full recovery! 🦋

I really don’t like our times.

Fabian Offert, Mercedes Bunz, Hannes Bajohr in a Venice patio.

Hand holding up the program of the conference ‘Chat Token Vector’.

… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.

Ok I guess I have to go through that Apple paper.

My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

Poster of an event 4th June in Braunschweig at the Hochschule

Join me at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany next Wednesday June 4 to discuss caring about data and technical collectives. ✊

Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)

Blue to green gradient graphic with headshots of the speakers for the Technomoral Conversations event, and text reading: Technomoral Conversations, AI and Creative Labour. Join us on 10 April at 6pm in Edinburgh & online, where we will hear from: Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh), Caroline Sinders (University of Arts London, CoRD Labs), Paula Westenberger (Brunel University London), and Richard Combes (The Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society).

Just over a week until our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour!

We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH

How about taking your AI research one year to Rome? The project "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing" has interesting Predoctoral Fellowships
and Postdoctoral Fellowships 👇

www.biblhertz.it/3628094/2503...

It's out, free and open access:

Thinking _with_ AI: Machine Learning the Humanities.

11 essay on AI and how to think with it – by Peli Grietzer (@peligrietzer.bsky.social), Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social), Mercedes Bunz (@mrsbunz.bsky.social), Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich…

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post) King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!

Call for papers Call for papers, Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research. Two-day workshop for 10 November 2025 at LSE.

This looks good:

Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research
www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

I’ve spent most of the last few years being pretty down on the potential of open source AI and I’m coming back around to believing! Models are here, time to build.

Universities, libraries—the whole nonprofit sector—ought to unite in supporting this. If efforts like this succeed, we have a good chance of remaining relevant in 2040.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Sylvia Wynter: Beyond man Radical philosopher, Sylvia Wynter calls on us to rethink the very notion of what it is to be human.

Amazing that @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social has a lovely little documentary about Sylvia Wynter. I wish it had gotten into the concepts a bit more, but still v charming. I’m impressed a news site would commission this 🫶✨
aje.io/vkxgyf

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Public compute — state provision of computing resources — could be a powerful tool for reshaping the AI sector.

In our report, Jai Vipra and I offer an overview of existing approaches, and recommendations for avoiding industry capture, reducing environmental harms, and delivering public value

1/5

We're up to 43 by 12:12pm. They will find me slumped over my keyboard, emailed to death.

maybe 250 words describing status

250-ish social justice words

smaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?

And another 150 or so on race

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

real world (not in frame) 📲🌐

Release me from your technical collective! by @mrsbunz.bsky.social yesterday at @transmediale.bsky.social

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

For those who can’t be with us at transmediale, here is a link to their livestream. 💨
Olga Goriunova, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com and me will discuss digital subjects & technical collectives at 12 👇
(=11am UK time).

transmediale.de/en/livestream

Join us at transmediale tmrrw 👇

Data Leverage Our data will define the future of AI, let's make it a good one. Click to read Data Leverage, by Nick Vincent, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

Good point by @nickmvincent.bsky.social on the deep tension in today’s ask-for-forgiveness-free-for-all approach regarding data for model training. Will "open" models cause this paradox to reach a breaking point? dataleverage.substack.com/p/db20526d-f...

Spring/Summer talks at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Warwick - follow for more: @cimethods.bsky.social

So peaceful.

You can also find me earlier on Friday, Jan 31, at noon, when in conversation with Olga Goriunova and @mrsbunz.bsky.social about subjectivities and collectivities today. (2/2)
transmediale.de/en/2025/sche...

Looking forward to be in Berlin for 🚀transmediale 🚀next week. Join our kick-off Friday, 12h w/ Olga Goriunova & @ranjodhdhaliwal.com; we discuss how is it to be digital subjects, and the politics of 'technical collectives' in times of Trump & AI ✊ - please share!
transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

An odd thing with both the "is it a Nazi salute" and "did Trump believe his own lies / election" stuff is this reflexive need by tons of people to believe something can be bad only if it was understood by the person as bad, but since we cannot know to metaphysical certainty their mind, it can't be