Catch us at @shothisttech.bsky.social #SHOT2025 at @c2dh.uni.lu today!

I am still processing the many impressions, insights and ideas that emerged from our conference. Many heartfelt thanks to all the speakers for their inspiring contributions and the intensive discussion—it was great to welcome you all to Zurich, and I hope we'll be able to continue the conversation!

📣 #OpenCall: SNSF Starting Grants 2026 For researchers wanting to lead their own independent project and research team in Switzerland. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 5 May 2026 ➡️ https://sohub.io/rptw

Man, the “institutional neutrality” gambit really worked like a charm….

Fascinating to see how the very historical ideologies - stuffy east coast bureaucracies - that Silicon Valley rebelled against are now being used to criticize it... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

can she take on assemblages

youtube algorithms got those nerd dollars on lock.

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich. Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures. Program & Registration:

@4sweb.bsky.social friends, we are starting in ~10 mins!! Come see my midnight zoom face. #4S2025

Please submit! Conference CFP CRIES AND WHISPERS: PODCASTING AND THE PROMISE OF DISRUPTION (Feb 20-21, 2026 at Florida Atlantic University) Keynote: Jeremy Morris (UW-Madison) Conference website and submission portal: criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com

vibe check on the american polity

#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Submission deadline: November 17, 2025. More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

ok it is SO over for the American university system, the overest it has ever been. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Now accepting submissions for my session, "Photography's Other Workers," at the upcoming CAA (Chicago, Feb. 18-21, 2026). Proposals can be submitted via the CAA platform until August 29th More info here: caa.confex.com/.../webprogr... Please share widely! #photosky #filmsky #caa2026

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

Sounds more like a Microsoft product than before. Some sort of alert system you can't turn off.

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

rip michel callon

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Please support and donate if you can donate.wck.org/give/525879/...

i'm often asked when my next book is coming out and am now very pleased to be able to say: next month! it's a wicked story collection i wrote with my talented and beautiful partner @spookymeatball.bsky.social, who also penned beautiful illustrations for each tale. asterismbooks.com/product/doub...

uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

this, by kate wagner , is an excellent read! lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

A few weeks ago, I spoke with Alessandro Ludovico ( @neural-mag.bsky.social ) about criticisms and dangers of AI (not the expected ones), and what it means for the interactions, language, and the figure of humans. With subtitles in Portuguese. Now at youtu.be/I37Zbiumkx0

Someone wrote to me (via a webform) asking to send them my article on addressability and left a non-repliable email, so now I don't have their address and am wondering if this was performance art.

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

And we're off @ranjodhdhaliwal.com gets right into the material reality of signals and noise, talking about computation and heat- jump onto the livestream www.youtube.com/live/ZGBAJWT...

In today's issue of @faznet.bsky.social, you shall find a source code criticism of the DeepSeek code performed by Markus Krajewski and myself. We try to unpack what can and cannot be known about AI from its open source repositories. Now available at your local newstand! www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

In today's issue of @faznet.bsky.social, you shall find a source code criticism of the DeepSeek code performed by Markus Krajewski and myself. We try to unpack what can and cannot be known about AI from its open source repositories. Now available at your local newstand! www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...

Starting in a few minutes!

who up training their mental models???

sounds like the dean of my faculty

idk what is happening on my youtube but i dig,,,

The amazing @shannonmattern.bsky.social wrote about her departure from the academy. From title to final period, I have so many feelings about this piece that I can't articulate. @shannonmattern.bsky.social is such a generous and brilliant scholar. wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i...

another day, another slaughter

Sweets companies are asking for further delays to the EU deforestation regulations for commodity ingredients b/c of already higher cocoa prices We can't only care about the environment when the economy is good; that is a recipe for further ecological disaster www.ft.com/content/8014...

This time next week is #AusSTS. If you can't make it in-person, join for the keynotes, which we're streaming. Includes this one on Infrastructures of Noise, with @digitaldang.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, @katemannell.bsky.social & @ranjodhdhaliwal.com: www.youtube.com/live/ZGBAJWT...

Read "The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation" by Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal from the Fall 2022 issue of Configurations It's #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/867525

Now Available Open Access, thanks to the University of Basel. My piece on 'The Cyber-Homunculus: On Race and Labor in Plans for Computation.' Accessible via doi.org/10.1353/con.... .

"Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?" Brilliant illustration of the current state of commercial publishing.

Sounds like we should destroy them, then.

Friends in Oceania, I am headed your way! From 29 June to the 5th of July, I am a part of the History and Philosophy of Computing symposium, 'The Computer in Motion,' at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology. (1/4)

this is because grok was mean to catturd 2 btw

Workshop 3: How to Train Your (Mental) Model: Workshop Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal and Fabian Offert events.humanitix.com/how-to-train...

💎 NETWORK ANARCHY AND UNSTABLE DIFFUSIONS 💎 7 - 8 July Naarm/Melbourne @blueskychris.bsky.social @ranjodhdhaliwal.com @eryk.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️‍🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page: