Making More of "Us" - my latest article for the Conversation is on the rise of pronatalism. theconversation.com/pronatalism-is…

Revisit this article by Luke Munn (Luke Munn) which explores how 'hate is stratified into layers of different intensity, moving from moderate, public-facing material to deeper and more virulent vitriol'. For more: buff.ly/3XQmAwk #platforms #alttech #radicalright

🚨 Great response to this workshop on journal writing so far, with ~30 registered: sign up ASAP if you want to attend. events.humanitix.com/the-write-stuf… UQ News The Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies UQ

“The heart has to sometimes pump two to four times more blood each minute than it would on a cooler day.” Why heat waves are hard, especially on older people bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by Zahra Hirji

A girl and her lamb. The Gulf War, Kuwait. 1991.

The Hajj is about 1,600 years old. But the globe is hotter now than any time in the last 125,000 years. This news is so sad--people at a peak lifetime experience just falling down dead. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Wonderful #COMU7304 Digital Media lecture and workshops today. Thank you Luke Munn for a super interesting and provoking talk on AI. Fantastic case studies. Engaged students, great questions. Ta Angela Hannan for showing students how they can use our UQ Library for assessment

Looking forward to this super interesting and timely workshop by @richardson_m_a tracing the longer arc of synthetic media and its epistemic implications. Join us next Thursday if you're in Meanjin. events.humanitix.com/interrogating-…

platforms are "optimizing" work for a world that no longer exists. #climatechange

Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it” as 𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 said.

Jason Hickel explains how we can easily solve the climate crisis 🌍 Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=6dBy4-…

Will be in central Tokyo from 13-20 November. Scholars or orgs doing work on critical AI, environmental media, digital labour feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to connect.

First as tragedy, then as farce.

1 million downloads, includes my chapter on 'Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI' link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

It's 'the intelligence age', say tech titans – but information will not save us. Luke Munn explains, in his timely Friday essay Luke Munn UQ News theconversation.com/friday-essay-i…

Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybersyn project as a means to counter neoliberal capitalist realism and expand economic imagination. By Luke Munn & Liam Magee buff.ly/4fSSwt8

Talking about misinfo, the missing human, and the limits of reason today at extremism symposium University of Melbourne

"From Dreary to Theory": EOI for our workshop on creative theorizing is now open. Learn, get inspired, and get feedback on your own projects with us at UQ City. hass.uq.edu.au/event/session/…

New article up! 🙂 In this new article for the New Media and Society, @LukeMunn and I ask: how is the culture made computational? Read here: doi.org/10.1177/146144…

OpenAI: promises to unearth the Machine God™, releases another product feature you’ll forget exists in a week Anthropic: "here's an alignment blogpost and oh, our model is 0.1% better at coding now!" DeepMind: models can solve protein folding and generate new realities, but