"We should acknowledge that AI does not care about Ethics, because it is dependent on political authority that can easily shift any ethical responsibility evading legal repercussions." This is why the field of AI ethics is a scam. (Fig from umaine.edu/learnwithai/ which I'm not familiar with)

"Loops of attention and algorithmic recommendation function as a form of soft power, subtly dictating what is culturally legible..." AI complicates the boundaries between listener, artist and music in troubling new ways, argues DeForrest Brown, Jr. Read in full: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

In other PT news, populist canditate to the presidency & far-right head of Chega (André Ventura) is being judged whether his racist billboard ads are lawful or need to be taken down. Meanwhile, TV news media continuously show them, unblurred & prominent, getting his message to more people.

Another Lisbon club Planeta Manas had to close earlier this year following a series of police raids (& raids of neighbouring venues). Seems the only way to get by is by paying off the cops or some other corrupt insider, which these Left-leaning spaces don't kno how to do. Fundraising won't do much.

Means of production ciphers as means of attention. Multiple choice: poetics without ( )readers ( )readers without poetics without ( )readers poetics without poetics ( )readers poetics ( )readers without ( )readers poetics without

When you write the promo, it becomes easy to spot the rehashing or AI-churn versions of your language, whether or not you knew of any of it. Alongside the music, of which shards & snippets soul-seek, there's a similar infodump cherry-pick.

from Suzanne Treister Hexen 2.0

To quote Penn Gillette, when people ask “If you don’t believe in God, what’s stopping you from murdering/raping/robbing everyone around you?!“ Dude… I have murdered/assaulted/robbed exactly as many people as I’ve ever wanted to. Zero. I don’t need a god to keep me from doing that. Why do you?

From 30 NOV. Got to play out some dancehall 45s (thank you Tdot bargain bins) interspersed with pendrive tunage & other wax. Was a Sunday Night affair, before a "holiday" Monday. No edits, as usual. www.mixcloud.com/lendl/251130...

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Livraria Trama gifted me this in thx for my talk... back to the PhD I quit? (i.e. looking fwd @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social)

PT 11 DEC 2025 GENERAL STRIKE

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Frank Gehry rip.

Run counter the homogenization of listening. There are many albums outside those best of lists... tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ooooh

Live in 10' 20h, 2 dec on DomesFM. domes.bidstonobservatory.org

It really is

Sun, 1dec: 5-hr DJ set @ Passos Manuel. Sat, 6dec: Talk for TramaFEST, Livraria Trama A ( )reader's Guide to Anti-Archetypal Tarot: Anindexical Alchimery *Antitypal

Sun, 1dec: 5-hr DJ set @ Passos Manuel. Sat, 6dec: Talk for TramaFEST, Livraria Trama A ( )reader's Guide to Anti-Archetypal Tarot: Anindexical Alchimery *Antitypal

Out Now! Ryu Hankil - Continuum of the Remainders #ET15 Stefan Maier - Third Skin #ET16 www.etat.xyz

In case anyone still uses these this way...

Name 10 current female artists you love Marja Ahti Aylu Allison Cameron Lucrecia Dalt Mia Koden Valentina Magaletti Karen Ng Azu Tiwaline Upsammy Voice Actor

L&L are dear friends & collaborators living up the road, nice to see them featured.

When asides & anecdotes help you grasp the larger networks you're embedded in, & what you can keep a lookout for. Great.

Thanks so much @badaude.bsky.social for the special reading of Amateurs! at Livraria Trama in Porto.

Waiting for your hot take on this wave of philBios.

Tonite!

I read somewhere that it should actually be called Simulated Intelligence. It makes immediately clear what it actually is.

Men are dumb. I kno, I've been one. | #ToniDenise

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

If I said the last of the great twentieth century British film directors died last night, and very few people even remembered him by the time of his death... would you know what I'm talking about? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...

It was two nights in Porto Alex Lukashevsky 5 Nov Livraria Trama 6 Nov Donau PWYC

Buy Florian Schneider's Kraftwerk Instruments : Auction of 450 artifacts including vocoders, drum machines & bike

Baudrillard points, for example, to the suggestion of the negative tax (the proposition that everyone receive an income as a right). This for many on the political Left was regarded as a step in the right direction, but for Baudrillard it is the stamp of complete domination in a new form. | #Gane²

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

'The Argentinian artist (and host of NTS's Austral show) works through her fears on an album of stuttering rhythms and fluttering lightness. Though it will be soothing to most, there’s no assurance that everything works out for the best.' aylu - Fobia buff.ly/opLnOQm

Worse, some cite their buddies and the people who they think get them attention within certain institutional networks (citation mafia, aligning with the club). The people who cry for "meritocracy" as the guiding principle seldom enact it.

Please learn this already

encourage people to leave big tech, no more gmail - no more google docs etc make an effort and build peripherial connections if you need help to start -> pad.riseup.net/p/online-too...

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Full Idiocracy.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...