Imagine that McCarthy had gone with "cybernetics" rather than "AI," and imagine that we chose to describe current LLMs as "immitative" rather than "generative." In an alternative timeline everyone would thus be talking about "immitative cybernetics" rather than "generative AI."🫣

Simone de Beauvoir, asked about her extremely hard-working, highly disciplined creative habits, which involve: + 2-3 months of vacation per year + Starting work at 10am, and going until 1pm, then taking a four hour break for friends + She does work in the evening, but she also

I'm so thrilled to announce the launch of The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on AI reporting over the next two years. All trainings will be FREE & mostly virtual. Register now to join us! pulitzercenter.org/focus-areas/in…

Walter Benjamin's Rules for Writing

Starting this Saturday join us in #Berlin and online for the #BeyondControl conference: keynote, panel and workshops to challenge #wartime systems of #misinformation, communication #monopolies & anti-democratic #propaganda. Learn more: dnlb.org/32 #DNL32

turns out that designers are rebranding as experts of the imagination, since the problem-solving hustle didn't go that well

We are so so SO looking forward to welcoming these folk to MITH & AADHum this week. Join @jmjafrx + the Keywords for Black Louisiana team for a meeting of big minds n' big hearts, doing the scholarship our souls need today more than ever. In person on Tues. 4/3 @ 5:15 |

Some of my favorite digital archives Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view…… Walter Benjamin Digital: walter-benjamin.online Hannah Arendt's Papers: memory.loc.gov/ammem/arendtht…… NYPL Digital Collections: digitalcollections.nypl.org

As outgoing president of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, I'm so happy to see the CFP for this year's virtual conference in November! Submit early, submit often! Proposals are due May 20. Learn more at ach2024.ach.org

The biggest issue on Mastodon is that it is SO WHITE & ppl think every person in the world's priority is to fight against centralized corporations. We need more ppl raising awareness about genocide, racism, authoritarian governments etc & not only that brand of white leftists.

Everyone was there. Not talking of numbers, I have never seen a demonstration that brought everyone together and this picture comes very close to showing what that felt like. If it can unite people in segregated EU, then nothing can stop a free #palestine to be. #ceasefirenow

This documentary was really good

Wonderful day of talks and conversations about critical practices with invited guests, colleagues, artists and scholars. Thanks to them all for joining us to officially kick off the Centre for Critical Data Practices cc.au.dk/en/c4cdp

a gem of a paper with real-world impact. audit of an algorithm that the Danish child protective services wants to deploy shows the algorithm is not fit for purpose and should not be deployed. read and amplify

As for surveillance capitalism, it's obvious that advertising is mostly peripheral to the whole AI enterprise. So is manipulating users into "extracting" their personal data, creating behavioral future markets, stealing their "right to the future," etc. It all feels dated now.

Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University will will be participating in the Investigating the #KillCloud conference: 29 Nov- 1 Dec. Learn more and get tickets now: dnlb.org/34. #DNL34 #ai #automatedweapons

Justice for Gaie Delapp, 77year old mother, grandmother and aunt, and a person concerned about the future for us all. Letting violent offenders out while this non violent protester is facing being sent to jail. theguardian.com/environment/20…

FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zo…