This is the most detailed thing I’ve read about how and why the AI bubble might collapse www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Feeling this

Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

Every reply to this is good

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Oh damn — I hadn’t thought about the fake citations to Google scholar profile pipeline 🫣

I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...

My essay "Zombie Canons" has been translated to Spanish in Concreta journal - in a super interesting issue for the hispanophone: "Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental" editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...

🏛️How should cultural heritage institutions share data in the age of AI? Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social explores when heritage data should be available for AI training. Part of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. Read more: openfuture.eu/publication/...

Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness

My new book, Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images, has a release date: December 1, 2026 from MIT Press 🎉

lol if I called my dad’s cousin ”my dad’s cousin” rather than my auntie, I’d get a right bollocking from her I’ll tell you that

Everyone's sharing this but worth a share again www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social

When I’m in this critical AI/AI ethics bubble it feels like there are a ton of ppl in academia thinking critically about AI but then I go and sit in a seminar full of ppl in the natural sciences and realize how many academics are uncritically excited to have LLMs do their work

The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online: Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

RIP John Searle www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war; #AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem.... #criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org

ohhh kay. I see how it is.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

We have gotten into old school (non-digital) radio listening in our house and I had no idea AM has been effectively phased out. Our radio didn’t even come with AM functionality

DECENTRING ETHICS: AI ART AS METHOD is now out -- and it is free to download! My contribution is titled: "The Role of Artists in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" Check it out: www.data-browser.net/db09.html

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One for @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social - I was reading this morning about the Asda 'Price Promise' stones that were erected across the country in the 90s loststonesofasda.wordpress.com Some are definitely on the way to being archaeological monuments, such as this one in Trumfleet, South Yorkshire

Given that the value of humanities is once again in the debate cycle. Here's a report by none-other-than Lynne Cheney on the state of the humanities in 1988. The same complaints as there ever were: humanities scholarship is too esoteric (to be relevant) and too political. eric.ed.gov?id=ED303408

Our preprint is up for this collaborative article, written to address the effects of generative AI on the digital commons. Check it out: arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470

Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

Job alert: My department is looking for a new PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

📣CFP 📣 Beyond the Theory-Practice Divide: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Methods for Research and Scholarship in Art and Art History Co-hosting this panel at CAA next February as part of the Committee on Research and Scholarship: caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...

paradox, you say

Just finished reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI — and wow so good!

I have read a few books lately where I know chapters have been published elsewhere as essays and are reproduced verbatim in the book but I don't see any acknowledgement of this in the book itself. Confused by this... I would have thought you acknowledge previous publication.

White paper from Open Future Foundation / @paulk.bsky.social "Beyond AI and Copyright" openfuture.eu/publication/...

I really don’t think they needed to measure brain activity to figure out people using chatGPT are thinking less. As far as homogeny goes it’s very clear to me from reading student papers - they absolutely sound more similar (and boring) than before LLMs

📣 My department at Uppsala University is now looking for a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

in hindsight we probably should have seen this was a trap, but everything was so new and we were still just kids

I hate this so much... just let me read the damn book. Why is this the default? So many students are going to miss out.

If I'm reading this correctly, then Yarvin wants the role of führer to be awarded via a Wings of Voice-style competition www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I love reading old tech literature. ...when terminology had not yet settled (2009)

Two pages that have aged pretty badly

Very happy to see this statement from the board of Uppsala University: www.uu.se/en/news/2025...

On NFTs ed. Robert Alice: This is advertised as an academic book that promises the "first major art historical survey of this field includes 10 academic essays" And yet I can't get it anywhere. And the cheapest copy to buy is a $850 "collector's edition" (the cheapest of a several collectable books)

Whenever I find myself trying to explain Chicago and my upbringing to ppl elsewhere, the role and legacy of Catholic immigrants in building the city is central to the story. Despite being lapsed, can’t help feel a little proud — it is fitting the first pope from the US is from Chicago