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also Media and Comms at LSE! I'm also generally interested in how much space European programs allow to do your own research and to teach undergraduate classes (not just as TAs). Lots of moving parts that I'd love to learn about!

hello comrades, I'm looking to speak to folks who have done/are doing a PhD in Digital Humanities at KCL, a DPhil at the OII, and/or graduate programs in media studies in mainland Europe (e.g. UvA). Would appreciate any connects!

so exciting to be amongst this lineup!

“We are living under FDR’s personal monarchy.”

-Marc Andreessen, quoting Curtis Yarvin, yesterday

From the Vault: LPE & Tech To accompany your new holiday gizmos and gadgets, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on technology, featuring Salomé Viljoen, Veena Dubal, Frank Pasquale, Yochia Benkler…

Today, we reach into the vault and highlight some of our favorite posts on technology 🤖

Featuring Salomé Viljoen, Veena Dubal, Frank Pasquale, Yochia Benkler, Raúl Carrillo, Meredith Whittaker, Genevieve Lakier & Nelson Tebbe, Matthew Bodie, Elizabeth Joh, and Julie Cohen.

not AI in general; I think such a generality is buying into the flawed idea that there is a category of things uniformly comprehensible as AI

not to be an obdurate Marxist but it seems to me that any discussion of an AI system should begin with a consideration of its use-value

i used to mishear a line from vampire weekend's ice cream piano as "the world was weaponized, soon as it had postulates" and i think that still holds yeah

The Luddites were right.

A stack of Haymarket Books on Palestine: Freedom is a Constant Struggle Palestine: A Socialist Introduction Light in Gaza Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow Rifqa Boycott, Divestment Sanctions A Little Piece of Ground Uncivil Rites The Battle for Justice in Palestine On Edward Said Culture and Resistance Apartheid Israel Israelis and Palestinians Against Apartheid

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

Why believe in anything if you don’t believe in art

Most celebrated use cases for AI (personalized learning, medical care, etc.) only make sense in scenarios of absolutely bloodthirsty austerity, in which public investment in the common good is completely decimated. When you notice that, you realize that these interests are intertwined.

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

So excited to read this! The in/convenience reading group shaped my thinking in many ways, and I'm sure this book will do the same

TOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround Theory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates

Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate!

networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Chat GPT: The word "cup" has four letters

::tech guy sitting backwards in a chair:: "what if instead of saying 'fuck the police,' we simply forked the police."

need more posters on here

feel like some issey miyake pants would heal me

‘A Man on the Inside’ Review: Ted Danson Earns Laughter and Tears in Mike Schur’s Nursing-Home Comedy for Netflix Based on the Oscar-nominated 2020 documentary 'The Mole Agent,' the series centers on a widower who goes undercover in a retirement community to catch a thief.

sauce: www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-review...

A screenshot from a news story that reads: "One week after breaking audience records by televising either Logan or Jake Paul (TRULY, I couldn’t care less) pummeling Mike Tyson in the ring, Netflix is delivering a much more compassionate portrait of the challenges of aging and the dangers of elder abuse."

jesus christ this lede

Play These Wordle Alternatives While the NYT Tech Guild Is on Strike As part of its ongoing strike against management, the New York Times Tech Guild has built strike-friendly versions of Wordle and other word game classics to keep you occupied until a fair contract is ...

Our youngest is home sick but busy playing Strikle because in this family we don't cross picket lines. Support striking NYT tech workers by playing the online games they've crafted @nytguildtech.bsky.social lifehacker.com/entertainmen...

Thank you for writing this! I've been trying to figure how to address this question of privacy-respecting disclosures when auditing AI systems too (although historically this discourse has been centered around AI devs' proprietary data), so I'm very interested in the answers you develop

do peer reviews ever start hurting less

Dangerous Play in an Age of Technofinance: From the GameStop Hunger Games to the Capitol Hill Jamboree: TOPIA: Vol 45 In this paper we explore one dimension of the contemporary cultural politics that gives rise to reactionary formations and movements: the desire for a kind of dangerous play within a financialized wor...

there's been some work on the links between conspiracy, paranoia, and gamification which i've found super interesting:

utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t...

ah of course, excited to read this piece too!

currently reading Patricia Struelke's Ruse of Repair which makes v similar points!

So excited for this!