Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...
13.10.2025 18:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@virt-arch.bsky.social
Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at MUSSI Data Visualisation | Urban Sensing | Mixed Realities | 3D Dynamic Mapping
Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...
13.10.2025 18:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
08.10.2025 07:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768
06.10.2025 14:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.
05.10.2025 15:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...
22.09.2025 08:02 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Books: 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan and 'Language Machines' by Leif Weatherby.
New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)
18.09.2025 10:03 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New report: โThe property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issuesโ
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE
12.09.2025 16:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you canโt bully your way to truth. And you canโt make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...
15.08.2025 08:43 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Books: 'Emanciapation(s)' by Ernesto Laclau and 'Adversarial Design' by Carl DiSalvo.
Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!
14.08.2025 17:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to workโฆ www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
14.08.2025 11:28 โ ๐ 141 ๐ 46 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...
13.08.2025 21:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
13.08.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 248 ๐ 87 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 3"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
13.08.2025 20:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!
12.08.2025 11:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...
11.08.2025 15:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Paper abstract for 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' by Oliver Dawkins and Rob Kitchin.
New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
05.08.2025 09:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Data Stories game ideation
Tiny House board game
Testing game mechanics
Data Stories Commodity Narratives research question and ideation
New from Data Stories - Carla and I recently visited Oxford Brookes to participate in the Tiny House Games workshop with Mel Nowiki and our collaborators Ella Harris and Hannah Mumby. Check out the post and video for more on #ResearchCreation with games: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33
29.07.2025 14:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How to save a PNG to a bird! ๐ Great video from Benn Jordan youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo
26.07.2025 21:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is a great, irreverent interview with David Krakauer on the implications of complexity science for the understanding of emergence in LLMs. Feels spot on! youtu.be/jXa8dHzgV8U
26.07.2025 18:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm loving this live coded performance by Eli Fieldsteel in #SuperCollider I really must find some time to give it a try! youtu.be/09o9IUanLng
22.07.2025 14:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fascinating piece from @bellingcat.com testing LLMs for Geolocation. I was particularly struck by the negative impact of 'reasoning' and 'thinking' functions which often feel like 'self-checking', or sometimes even 'self-defeating', functions: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...
06.06.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Juliette Davret presenting the Data Stories paper 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data'.
New from Data Stories: Read about the recent paper presentation of 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data' by @juliettedavret.bsky.social on behalf of our team at SAGEO in France: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=734
29.05.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Verso books sale haul including books by Wark, Laclau, Doctorow and Routhier.
Got a bit excited in the recent @versobooks.bsky.social sale. ๐Sorry, not sorry. Still prefer reading physical copies.
27.05.2025 20:06 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Latest from Data Stories: Read about Danielle and Sam's recent presentations on โCreative Methodologiesโ with artists and โCritical Geographies of Housingโ on eviction data for CIG2025 at Queens University, Belfast: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=727
26.05.2025 07:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Four things to know about the art of Jean Tinquely: news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...
21.05.2025 21:12 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read our latest blog update by Sam Mutter about the recent Community Action Archives Event in Dublin, hosted by Tom OโDea with the Liberties Community Development Project and CATU: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=723
21.05.2025 15:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Visualisation of 3DTiles for Dublin running with Cesium in the open-source Godot game engine.
I took a first look at the Cesium 3DTiles plugin by Battle Road Digital for the open-source Godot Engine today. I haven't tested Godot in a while but this project was a great reason to pick it up again. The plugin was really easy to setup. Further details here: cesium.com/blog/2025/05...
07.05.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sign post to Luxembourg
Read about researcher @juliettedavret.bsky.social's recent meetings with Eurostat and ESPON to explore links between housing Data Stories in Ireland and the rest of Europe: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=707
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