“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”

Rosemary Lee & Risk Hazekamp presenting "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care" at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week @machineagency.bsky.social frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

@verenafriedrich.bsky.social presenting at #UNLOOP

#UNLOOP symposium is underway!➰➿💚 @carvalhais.org @ordeposodrac.bsky.social

UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media. I’ll present the EZ QUALITY SORTER, an installation that turns visitors into unwitting data labelers. Also, I'm looking forward to visiting Porto! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

this is such a devastating thread but so important to bear witness to the harm the psychopaths have caused

Do not make tribes, this will only strengthen the social order that will be imposed upon you. Do not willingly gather into mono-cultures. Do not become neatly sorted, labelled, and categorized. It will only take a single blight to wipe you out, because you will be sorted by your weaknesses. 6/7

"Convenience happens to be capitalist ideology. If art must take the shortest route to its effects, we've submitted to that ideology. Yet art can be enormously inconvenient! Art can luxuriate. Wander. Its distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies"

Last week we had an inspiring visit from astronaut Peggy Whitson where she talked about her extraordinary life and experiences. She has been instrumental in facilitating FBAUP and FAUP joining the Axiom Space University Alliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1o...

#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.

In "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care", Risk Hazekamp and I will share an ongoing conversation on witnessing More-Than-Human co-researchers' expressions of agency, reflecting on the forms of 'violent care' that arise from our blind spots. frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop

This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)

photo from my talk "neither x nor y — but another secret third thing" at IV Art at the Edge of Nature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid 📸: Marcos Burgos

sweet relief to wake up on a Saturday in a dying empire and find the autocrat did not execute another of his signature Friday night massacres and invade an island ladies and gentleman the weekend

On the tube

This week I am presenting at IV Art at the Edge of Nature. Biocreative Responsibilities and Awareness at La Trasera, Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM. May 21-2 2026 2: photo: Camila Mangueira, 2025

new experiment underway✨🌈🫥🌈✨

🚫 No GMOs through the back door! The EU plans to allow untested, unlabelled #newGMOs on our fields & plates. Only the EU Parliament supports traceability & labelling, but this is now at risk. Email your MEPs now to protect our safety & right to choose 👇 demeter.net/no-gmos-thro... #IChooseGMOfree

if you ever think your research proposal is too ambitious or, I guess, if you think that only the latest generation of AI bros are overly optimistic, recall the original funding proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop on AI:

The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. n.pr/4vOA1P6

As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162

On Thursday, I will give a talk titled "Calculating Images" at the arteciencIA symposium in Santiago de Compostela. The conference will be streamed, so you are welcome to join us remotely. My talk is 13:00-14:00 CEST. More info here: arteciencia.org

oh..🙄 my interests.. mayhem and disaster

✦ 𝐴 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐼 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 ✦ essay by #TegaBrain & #SamLavigne for the 𝗔re 𝗬ou 𝗔 𝗦oftware 𝗨pdate? book 🔖 ✨ Preview and order here > aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update

This has been in the works for more than a year, but I can finally say that today I began the contract for my research project Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence.

We are in our teens and we are not afraid to rebel. No cap. #xcoax2026 #torino

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

my last post was met with a lot of enthusiasm over on instagram, so I am going to start posting more reading recommendations. Here's the reading list for this stack: Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master (1/3)

can you tell I'm doing a lit review?🙄

Come study with us!👾❤️🤖

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to. https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/

Can you believe it's our 14th edition? Join us at #xcoax2026 in #torino ! xcoax.org

Today I am leading a workshop at the School of Arts at Católica Porto, where I am currently an artist in residence. We will discuss methodologies to approaching AI's relevance to artistic practice.

The University of Porto placed 150 worldwide among universities that are best responding to major global environmental, social, and governance challenges in the QS World University Rankings 2026, compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds. noticias.up.pt/2025/11/21/u...

We would all be geniuses if we didn't need oxygen.

Meta should be destroyed and the earth should be salted where it once grew.

by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022) monoskop.org/images/2/2b/...

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

There's a lot of talk of AI being anti-human, or at the very least anti-Humanities, but this is missing the point. The AI assemblage is fine with both people and pedagogies as long as they are docile. What AI is anti, and what it undermines, is any trendency to refuse or revolt.

xCoAx is in Torino this year😍 The deadline for submissions is 1st of February xCoAx.org

Keep going! Keep going! のこったのこったですっ☆

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

not that any of it makes sense, but this diagram describes it well...

Too many things happened this year to summarize. Here's my 2025 wrap-up of some of the people, places, and things that made it amazing.❤️ (3/3)

Too many things happened this year to summarize. Here's my 2025 wrap-up of some of the people, places, and things that made it amazing.❤️ (2/3)