Ben Swift

These three paragraphs are so spot on

i prefer my AI content explicitly hallucinogenic and nightmarish

Diagram of loom development in 18thC

Joe Burgess at #nime2025 with a brief history of the loom (and a fascinating aside about pre-histories of textiles)

System overview diagram for a musical system

Jordie Shier at #nime2025

*alone

A slide titled ‘educational gaps in Gugak training’

Michaella Moon at #nime2025: notation and textbooks along can’t teach Gugak…

Presenter slide of a violinist and computer musician

Victor Shepardson on the living looper at #nime2025

watch and listen here lewiswolf.github.io/drum-modal-f...

A presenter next to a big screen displaying their slides

Lewis Wolstanholme on the creative potential of drum feedback at #nime2025

if you’re in Canberra this week (either for #nime2025 or otherwise) then my installation PANIC! is installed in the ANU School of Art & Design foyer gallery

congrats to Karen Brad for being the official theorist of #nime2025

One of the most lucid tweets I ever saw regarding AI was along the lines „We created a machine that acted like middle management and believed that meant it had a soul instead of understanding it meant that middle management didn’t.“

In terms of art, there are SO many great artists thinking critically about AI and its place in society. @eryk.bsky.social is one I consistently recommend as an artist who sees value in expression through the kinds of ecosystems of noise through which AI models articulate. Fascinating work.

Worthwhile reading.

Some of the features that John rightly criticizes in AI writing are shared by the sort of committee reports and consensus papers that emerge from workshops and symposia because someone felt that there had to be a “product“ associated with the meeting.

appreciate the shout-out, but I’m the wrong benswift ☺️

Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud This week, I was thrilled to read about the first well-documented case of explicit academic fraud in the artificial intelligence community. I hope that this is the beginning of a trend, and that other...

the e/acc approach to the problem of AI research credibility

jacobbuckman.com/2021-05-29-p...

DeepSeek and shallow moats: what does it mean for higher education? DeepSeek’s arrival may have spooked the markets, but what does it mean for the research and development of LLMs? Higher education should avoid putting all its eggs in one GenAI basket, writes Ben Swif...

Great piece by @benswift.me for @timeshighered.bsky.social highlighting how dynamic the #GenAI space is - and that universities are well advised not to keep all their eggs in one AI basket by signing exclusive deals.

Strong agree with Ben's arguments.

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/deeps...

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OK, shit is getting real. A lot of teachers that understand the limits of straight LLMs — and know when an assignment falls outside them — are going to need to recalibrate in 2025.

A post by @16af93@wetdry.world on Mastodon: renaming the main branch to 'canon' and side branches to 'heresy' (forking is renamed to schisms and pull requests/merges become ecumenical councils)

look i made it the 1979 ibm warning

Is LiteFS abandoned? · Issue #436 · superfly/litefs Dear fly.io, Thanks for making LiteFS! It looks like a really cool project. However, its currently quite difficult to decide whether its safe to use, because by the looks of it, the project seems a...

Yep, I’m also v interested in the Phoenix + SQLite + LiteFS combo. Having said that, just FYI

github.com/superfly/lit...

Do this in 2025:

that delivery is getting out a lot of batters better than Harshit Rana #AUSvsIND

Dave Mil(ner/bo)?

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Citation Needed Citation Needed features critical coverage of the cryptocurrency industry and of issues in the broader technology world. It is independently published by Molly White, and entirely supported by reader...

i would do one of those posts like all the other writers about how much more traffic i'm getting to citationneeded.news from bluesky than i do from twitter or threads or whatever, but i don't collect that information because i don't like tracking my readers 🤷‍♀️

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A series of five satellite images showcasing diverse landscapes: an island with turquoise waters, a snowy terrain, mountainous regions with winding roads, colorful lakes, and a dry, arid area with circular features. More importantly, they spell out DAVID with their landscape images.

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...