On "AI slurs" (clanker, etc) -- on one depressing level, I worry that slurs for machines humanize them b/c assigning slurs is what people do to people. But I understand the impulse, because we assign slurs to dehumanize. But if you tell me to "kick a clanker" and am gonna feel bad for it.

»The figure of the artist is not an auratic superman underwritten by Walter Benjamin’s writing, a worker hero who captures his productive value as a just reward for posessing a mystical spark that his comrades lack.«

the world needs more Marxist live-coders

Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.

I think some people should not be allowed to use a computer

If, like me, you're ashamed of listening to music, check out Spotify. You don't have to feel like you're supporting artists and thanks to the Discovery feature, you can really minimize your engagement with the music.

the pythagorean veil may not have existed (Kane 2014), but loudspeakers do, and that’s bad 😤

(Goodman, 2009)

no posts, just followers..

enboids seething

since I believe that LLMs do language without communication (vs. non-human animals that do communication without language), it follows that chatbots are not really conversational interfaces or agents, since conversation is a mode of communication. At best they are conversation simulators

does anyone have good explainers on the differences between Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey's conceptions of 'spatial' political economy, or their (what is sometimes described as) 'second circuit of capital'

hear me out, a surrealist cooking film called Mashes of the Afternoon

So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU. Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸 politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...

Thank you, Tone, for everything. rip

>> intellectual work is squeezed out by admin capture, universities are thoroughly hollowed out, their husks turned into degree mills highly optimized for maximum throughput >> consumers decide to use ChatGPT to speed up the perfunctory process >> students are cheating nooo.jpg

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

if you’re working for NSO Group, you have to tell me 😤

I don’t believe that any of you are real…

The average worker has fewer than 3 dolls under capitalism, but has demand for 15 dolls. Doll Communism addresses this fundamental need.

Is there a Professor Oak in Games Studies willing to write the foreword for this?

The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, and 8 hours for friends.

supply and demand doesn’t adequately explain friendships. we must develop a friendship theory value, in which value is derived from the socially necessary friendship time.

In response to the highest court in UK claiming the right to define others' gender, we recall the words of a famous French anarchist: "To be gendered is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, & enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated…" 🧵🏴

does anyone have reading suggestions on the adoption of standard time zones in 1883 in service of american railway monopoly interests

I’ve got a joke about Prometheus but I can’t de-liver it

always has been 👂👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

From the use of percussion to the feedback loop with Lucier’s brain in the centre, ‘Revivification’ really is Music for Solo Performer 2: Undead Edition.

This comes full circle with writers like Kodwo Eshun and Sadie Plant, who tend to take on a popular writing style, but end right back in the wonderful realm of “the obscure, the opaque, the impenetrable.”

It is easier to AI-generate the end of the world than the end of capitalism

“It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff ‘with AI,’ informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.”

new article idea: Simulacral Onomatopoietics: Sono-Semiotic Branding in Suno, Udio, and Boomy.

unbelievable amount of times when, writing about WHATEVER RANDOM TOPIC, I would find the best take about it and realize it was written by Jonathan Sterne

like this is how to study technology

Jonathan Sterne says delete your account: “I would strongly encourage any humanists still on here to move over to Humanities commons, bring their colleagues with them, and then delete their accounts here.”

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

Remembering Jonathan Sterne, who died yesterday in Boston. He was a shining star, a mentor and friend to many in Disability Studies. I'm grateful to have known him. His blog was old school, Web 1.0 style musings and funny commentary, and contains multitudes. superbon.net

Thanks @dadadrummer.bsky.social dadadrummer.substack.com/p/for-jonath...

RIP Jonathan Sterne. He was my former brilliant colleague, but more importantly, one of the nicest, coolest, perceptive, imaginative, and kindest friends I've ever had. His other half, Carrie, also a luminescent, kind, and brilliant soul, was with him when he left us last night. I will so miss him.

Oh no…! RIP Jonathan Sterne. I can’t even begin to delineate the many ways he’s influenced my academic life. His work was my introduction to sound studies. He was the reason I went to study abroad at McGill in 2011 (even as he ended up going on leave once I got there)…

16. fav quote (from amy ireland)

New piece in Tech Policy Press builds on the collective work from the “AGI Should Not Be The North Star Goal of AI Research” paper with my own argument — that AGI frames also distort the perspective of policymakers shaping AI regulation. www.techpolicy.press/most-researc... #aipolicy

THE DEEP LISTENING CLUB N⁰1: PLUNDERPHONICS Passos Manuel (Porto) Thursday, 20 March, 2025 @ 23h00 Part of a new monthly series, each focusing in on a particular topic (genre, artist, year, mood, etc.) & with an accompanying publication around it. Free entry. Publication 2-5€

Eurovision takes a hard line against transcendental idealism. www.independent.com.mt/articles/202...