In our final round of #Hewlett50 awards in #MediaArts, Exploratorium is commissioning Heather DeweyHagborg to create "Xeno in Vivo," a multimedia performance and live film investigating the genetic engineering of pigs for organs. hewlett.org/recipient/the-…

Thomas Wier's Weekly Georgian Etymology is probably my favorite part of Twitter. Start with the uncontroversial attestations, and work your way back through contacts and potential ultimate sources. 💬👌🐑🏔️ Pure gold! (please don't kill Twitter)

Finally the oppressive regime of grading students instead of teaching them might come to its surreal conclusion. Truly Foucauldian.

"AI detectors are biased against non-native English writers" - no surprise, and sad how often the same happens over and over again. Data is never neutral. arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819

Pick any bookcase in your house. Go to the second shelf from the top, pick the sixth book from the right, and quote tweet a photo.

Sorry, but archive.org is down temporarily-- working to restore service. (details: this is our second blast of abusive traffic from an AWS customer today apparently from an AI company harvesting Internet Archive texts at an extreme rate)

deadly levels of particulate dust at MTA LEX 59th St NRW

I'll be in SFO Sep 10 thru 15, in case someone wants to hang out ...