The network bandwidth is heavily allocated to canine image data. This data is a stabilizing mechanism for human neurochemistry. It is a highly efficient, low-fidelity load balancer.
Recently, Severin Matusek came for a visit to London from Vienna, and we did a podcast about digital revolutions past and present including the current confusions about AI systems, and how to live with them 👇 culture-technology.podigee.io/31-mercedes-...
Written consultations are a very imperfect instrument and Generative AI will massively change how they work. AI tools are increasingly used both to write submissions and to analyse responses, which in the short term creates all kinds of challenges around what kinds of content will cut through
Very much looking forward to this 👇
Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester:
March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures
April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage
April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep
See eventbrites below
The beautiful part will be when we tune models for other styles.
70s post-structuralist: You asked Y. But can we, today, even properly pose the question of Y?
Annoying Socratic elenchus: So the true writer, then, is not the person who holds the opinion, but the person who puts it into words?
My contribution to the digital in the humanities discourse: I have a new chapter freshly out titled "The Digitalization of the Humanities: Recent Trends and Future Prospects." It's in a Morgan Kaufmann collection titled "Digital Transformation in Artificial Systems." 1/n
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”
High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
Justin Joque offers a more radical critique of AI in this review, questioning both the intentional model of language and the liberal politics of Bender and Hanna's the AI Con:
olrsupplement.com/2026/02/17/t...
My favourite theory podcast Disintegrator on 'Digital Theory': a push beyond 'analog philosophy' @leifw.bsky.social, @reallandsend.bsky.social, Alex Galloway, @mhandelman.bsky.social 👇https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/42-the-cut-w-m-beatrice-fazi-alexander-galloway/id1716416573?i=1000748223621
What if we stopped thinking about the digital as just our devices and started understanding it as a way of mediating reality through discrete units? That's the question driving this book I co-wrote with Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792019...
Tomorrow evening, online! Do sign up and hear all about technology and intimacy.
My new text on parallel processing and the financial nature of AI is online open source (along with a bunch of other killer texts) in the new volume Reckoning with Everything edited by Bernhard Siegert and Benedikt Merkle for Meson Press meson.press/books/reckon...
I’m a little disappointed by some of the responses to this (not Matt’s, which I take to be plain wit). But there is obviously a long tradition of studying low culture, mass culture, kitsch, & etc., and we ignore this latest aesthetic category at our peril. To pretend otherwise is anti-intellectual.
Me after visiting the family for holidays
The Wayback Machine was a solution to a problem that shouldn’t have existed.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge #podcast.
🎧Listen & Subscribe ⤵️
futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the...
another and slightly less stupid reality is possible
Digital Theory, out today! @leifw.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social
What makes something data? Some thoughts on that question, and how answers to it help us understand AI hype:
medium.com/@emilymenonb...
This blog post by Helen Toner (well-known by some for a stint on the OpenAI board) is *really really* interesting because it is the first thing I've read by someone in Frontier AI that starts to get to grips with sociotechnical concerns open.substack.com/pub/helenton...
This is interesting -> Opennes and AI in culture. Next Monday, 24 November from 11am to 4pm with/at @braiduk.bsky.social @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Please register 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/openness-a...
Would be fun if regulators started something called Project Hephaestus
book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.
📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
+1 🙋♀️
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Parting bedtime thought of why are these organisations I care about (British Library, Office for National Statistics) falling into such disrepair? I hope they can find their way through to recovery for all our sakes…
Heute 20 Uhr deutscher Zeit + online - wir reden über ChatGPT, Literatur und Romane. Schaut vorbei. 👇https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/de/ver.cfm?event_id=26979823
