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Amazing that @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social has a lovely little documentary about Sylvia Wynter. I wish it had gotten into the concepts a bit more, but still v charming. I’m impressed a news site would commission this 🫶✨ aje.io/vkxgyf

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Public compute — state provision of computing resources — could be a powerful tool for reshaping the AI sector. In our report, Jai Vipra and I offer an overview of existing approaches, and recommendations for avoiding industry capture, reducing environmental harms, and delivering public value 1/5

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The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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real world (not in frame) 📲🌐 Release me from your technical collective! by @mrsbunz.bsky.social yesterday at @transmediale.bsky.social

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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For those who can’t be with us at transmediale, here is a link to their livestream. 💨 Olga Goriunova, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com and me will discuss digital subjects & technical collectives at 12 👇 (=11am UK time). transmediale.de/en/livestream

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Join us at transmediale tmrrw 👇

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Good point by @nickmvincent.bsky.social on the deep tension in today’s ask-for-forgiveness-free-for-all approach regarding data for model training. Will "open" models cause this paradox to reach a breaking point? dataleverage.substack.com/p/db20526d-f...

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Spring/Summer talks at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Warwick - follow for more: @cimethods.bsky.social

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So peaceful.

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Looking forward to be in Berlin for 🚀transmediale 🚀next week. Join our kick-off Friday, 12h w/ Olga Goriunova & @ranjodhdhaliwal.com; we discuss how is it to be digital subjects, and the politics of 'technical collectives' in times of Trump & AI ✊ - please share! transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

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An odd thing with both the "is it a Nazi salute" and "did Trump believe his own lies / election" stuff is this reflexive need by tons of people to believe something can be bad only if it was understood by the person as bad, but since we cannot know to metaphysical certainty their mind, it can't be

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"What if Bruegel is not telling us how to live within contradictions, but rather rendering them conspicuous – an aesthetic that seeks not to reflect, but to help us see where to look if we want to change the world." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Anyway, I very much enjoy reading this. 👇

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Oh the many critiques of imaginary technologies… nice anecdote of Benjamin Bratton listening to Slavoj Zizěk 🟦

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Let's talk more about AI training data: Can collective governance build more supportive structures for AI projects? Can ArtxAI help to prototype this? Our BRAIDxSerpentine event/video linked to HollyHerndon+MattDryhurst's exhibition is online👇 @braiduk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=V363...

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Why not pop this in your diary before you break for the holidays? New BRAID/IDI research talk: Red Teaming and Operationalising Responsibility with @alex-taylor.bsky.social 30 Jan, online/in person #Edinburgh Find out more/book here: bit.ly/4fiN9mc @designinf.bsky.social #ResponsibleAI #RedTeaming

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With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #funding

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…alive or AI?

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I think a really important way to counter what's coming is IRL organizing. Being offline over the holidays and coming back, it is really jarring how much of social media is rage-baiting or resistance dooming. You can't build in these environments.

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General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really? I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like: ⚓️ Popeye 🕵️ The Maltese Falcon 📖 The Sound and the Fury 🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms 🏠️ A Room of One's Own 🙌 Hallelujah 🎺 Bolero and many more! 🧵👇

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In case you find yourself bored II: ‘A History of the World According to Getty Images’ by @misek.bsky.social is a shortfilm about power and property, and the absurdity of our recorded past in the public domain hidden behind the paywall of Getty Images www.ahistoryoftheworldaccordingtogettyimages.com

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In case you find yourself bored in the next few days, here is a bloody brilliant concert to entertain you with style. ✨@doechii & band ✨ 🫶🏻 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...

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Extra points to Anthropic for using the scene of torment that opens Foucault's _Discipline and Punish_ (!) in their paper about a language model that realizes it is being disciplined and learns to subvert the discipline — unaware that it is also in a panopticon. www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

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Yes, I warmly recommend this short film on drones. Enjoyable critique, fun, annoying, plus featuring drones 🛸 - what more can you want? 👇

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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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The new Deep Research feature from Google feels like one of the most appropriately "Google-y" uses of AI to date, and is quite impressive. I've had access for a bit and it does very good initial reports on almost any topic. The paywalls around academic sources puts some limits around it, though.

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Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

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Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

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how we think about AI (ie, as an artifact of "theory" or "science", vs a situated invention like manila envelopes and bureaucracies) can massively shape whether we think we need to explore AI as an intrinsically unproblematic incremental step of Science, or as something like... idk, authoritarianism

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Thomas E. Kurtz, a Creator of BASIC Computer Language, Dies at 96.

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An Illustrated Guide to Modern Machine Learning with Geometric, Topological, and Algebraic Structures arxiv.org/html/2407.09... Phenomenal review of modern ML with a very intuitive geometric, topological and algebraic perspective. An absolute must-read. #machinelearning #review

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Finally.

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Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

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"Sollte es öffentlich-rechtliche KI geben? Wie kann KI demokratisch gestaltet werden?" Bin zu Besuch in Köln und freue mich über Mitdiskutanden diesen Donnerstag, 14 November 19 Uhr in der Stadtbibliothek. Kommt vorbei! 👇 stadt-koeln.easy2book.de/ki-demokrati... Image Aryana Ahmed+BiggerPicture

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KI-Systeme werden mit unseren „digitalen Spuren“ trainiert. Mehr denn je stellt sich aktuell die Frage: Wie kann eine #KI gestaltet werden, die den demokratischen Werten unserer Gesellschaft entspricht? Diskutieren Sie mit Dr. @mrsbunz.bsky.social, vom 12.–14. November! Mehr Infos: uni.koeln/DRTQR

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Bin in Köln nächste Woche. Kommt vorbei! 👇

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Kommt vorbei! 👇

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Very excited about our Art x AI event tomorrow. We are 'sold out' and have no tickets anymore, but we will film the event and put it on the mighty internet. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-x-ai-c...

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Please share widely: I am hiring a postdoc in philosophy of AI at the University of Florida! The AOS covers philosophy of AI, mind, science, cognitive science, and ethics, and we also welcome applications from PhDs in related disciplines. philjobs.org/job/show/27762

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