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Artist, writer, xenologist. Based in Amsterdam. Artistic practice: https://tranxxenolab.net Newsletter: https://letters.tranxxenolab.net/ This account only posts cross-posts from my Mastodon account. Please follow me there @zeitkunst@post.lurk.org.
It really is amazing how much these classics of STS are so apropos of our discourse today. And equally amazing how so few pundits and commentators seem to have knowledge of them--or at least, if they do, they're not sharing it with their reading audience.
I find myself pleading too: read Phil Agre!
This is huge! The European Court of Justice, the top EU court, has ruled that EU member states must provide a process to change gender markers on identity documents for trans people.
sofiaglobe.com/2026/03/12/e...
I know this marks me as officially Old but cummon people, we've been through this a few times before.
It gets very tiring to see the same arguments made over and over again because people don't *checks notes* read history.
It's not as if people have been arguing over this since 1956.
I saw a major critical AI paper recently that didn't cite one of the main figures of critical AI, Agre.
Sigh.
"Dispatches from Radiotopia: Hamburg Rehearsal": https://selestra.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-radiotopia-hamburg-rehearsal
The combined Big Dipper + Cassiopeia in their form as Tower Cranes
Good to see Venus again
We would perhaps not draw from hermeneutics today (and would instead reference new materialism, infrastructure studies, etc etc), but Agre's method of analysis is, I think, still quite valid.
I think a lot of our contemporary discourse around AI would be improved if we remembered that others have questioned the basic assumptions long ago, including in Phil Agre's classic text on critical technical practice from 1997: https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/critical.html
Lift yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.
Although I've found that I'm more partial to ASMZ these days.
This is real. This is happening.
In case you're wondering how things are going in the US, the state of Kansas just invalidated the IDs of all of their trans residents who had changed their gender markers: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
Is this database shared with the TSA? Does a suspended license prevent someone from passing through airport security? Would this potentually strand someone on the other side of the country? Because if so...wtf.
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.
Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.
What I find frustrsting about all of this is that we have 40-50 years of results showing that if an AI program is not embodied in some way (besides existing on a computer) it's going to have a hard time "understanding" the world. So yeah, probably hard to skip that 20 years of development "cost".
Yup, sad :(
New CV category: "Articles that I did not write".
It's getting harder and harder to figure out how to relate to this majority timestream (not that it's ever been easy, but now...oooof).
I really don't know how so many programmers I follow are okay using Claude when, ahem, it is the only LLM allowed to be used within the US military and, in fact, was used to depose a leader of another country: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth .
Just gonna leave this here...there's a lot more in the files: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
MS Stubnitz is such a treasure from a different time...it's so necessary to try and keep it going as a reminder that our cultural world can be emancipatory, transformative, and radical.
I spent a week on the ship in 2022 as part of the RADIOTOPIA event...an incredible time with other radio artists. I even composed an EP during that week! Which you can listen to and/or purchase here: https://selestra.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-radiotopia-hamburg-rehearsal
Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.
Nonfiction, and perhaps too academic for what you need, but I wrote about it and how it warped my sense of time in this essay: drive.proton.me/urls/YWQADAD...
This curmudgeon will return back to her hovel now :)
In can you want to see a blast from the past, look at my old Fluid Nexus website, coded in Pyramid (ha!) and thus never to be resurrected again, thus this Wayback Machine archive will have to do: https://web.archive.org/web/20131110035307/https://fluidnexus.net/infos/concept .
I *did* however write a book on noise and finance, which you can read (for free!) here: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/how-noise-matters-to-finance
