🚨 The paperback version of my book is out this week! With a new preface from me where I reflect on the past couple of years in AI. If you haven’t got a copy already this is the perfect time to buy!

Also remember that part of why many love that "AI" conforms to and reproduces their biases but does so in a format they can claim is "objective" is that it lets them offload responsibility and obfuscate their intent: bsky.app/profile/wolv...

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

Tomorrow (05.31.2025) I'm presenting a talk on Misinformation in the Age of "AI" with the Durham County Library. If you're interested, you can find out more and register here: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14318472

If you are working on anything related to AI right now, do yourself a favor and read this book.

Tomorrow is the last day of the 50% off sale at Princeton University Press -- why not stock up for some summer reading, including on a positive and practical vision for the future devoid of fear-mongering and hype (if I do say so myself!)

ICYMI: Our new collection of essays, “Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity,” is out! ✨ Download it here: doi.org/10.18130/03d.... Offering some responses & asking more questions, we cover topics like arts administration, data centers, digital sovereignty, sustainability & more.

This time last year I was on stage at the wonderful @hayfestival.bsky.social being interviewed by @jonniepenn.bsky.social about (what was then) my new book “AI Needs You”. It was a dream to be there and to be the third best- selling book of the day! Good luck to all authors going this year 📚

Also also, way too many of you are still taking this as "those poor benighted deluded fools who believe in the spiritual" rather than understanding what I'm actually saying: All "AI," from the beginning, has and has always had religious and mythological resonances woven through it.

So excited for @wolvendamien.bsky.social's program on misinformation and 'AI'! It's a free program on May 31st (open to all!), taking place on ZOOM from 2pm-3pmish Eastern time. Register here (more info at the link or in alt text) durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14318472

Getting to talk to public libraries about the intersection of "AI," misinformation, consensus reality, and democracy is, frankly, a dream come true. Come on in, if you can!

Some of my family are trying to rebuild their lives after a shockingly catastrophic house fire. Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/83pxt-help...

"Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…[: On Occultation and Magical Logics in the Realm of 'AI'"] scholar.google.com/citations?vi...

Did you know that @chelsea-wolfe.bsky.social has oracle card readings on her site? I just found out. And the first pull was… Well. Anyway. You can play with it here: oraclereading.chelseawolfe.com

A12 Summit day 1 was great! Key takeaway theme: we have a chance, right now, to really change higher education in fundamental ways that will impact learning, teaching and student success in so many positive ways but we have to catalyze that change with new approaches and thinking with AI. Also BB8

AI2 Day 1 Start! At the airport building a NotebookLM for the conference.

Hello world! padlet.com/jcary1/justi...

Heading to the pwd.aa.ufl.edu/ai2-summit/ this week! So excited to learn, collaborate and gather around AI in Academic Innovation. Follow along for updates and conversations!!

Strongly recommend that you read this concise but brilliant speech that Prof Nelson delivered in front of world leaders in Paris. “Three Fallacies of AI”

'Appendix A: An Imagined and Incomplete Conversation about “Consciousness” and “AI,” Across Time'

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@verityharding.bsky.social Thank you for this absolute gift. “AI Needs You” is a must read for anyone interested in a broad, socially conscious and historical view of how to think about this important tech. And it is so beautifully written. Top of the pile for a reason!!

My heartfelt goodbye to David Lynch. Blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/justinca... #davidlynch

He would be baffled by how fucking sad this is making so many of us. Which, ironically, is a big part of why it's gonna make so many of us so very fucking sad. Fuck. Goodnight David Lynch. See you around

Join us on February 6-7 for #gsole 8th annual online conference! “Humans, Non-Humans and Humanity”. Find out more at gsole.org/GSOLE-annual... 🚀!!Register now!! 🚀

Magic in the U.S. S 3 E 6: Magical Futures! www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s3e6 Tech-savvy magical practitioners reveal a great deal about the future of both magic and technology in the United States. #witchsky #spiritsky #occultsky #podcast @prx.org @wolvendamien.bsky.social

Announcing the #gsole2025 Eighth Annual Conference Plenary Speakers! Registration is open: gsole.org/GSOLE-annual... See you in February!

I know we're all tired as hell, but please get back on the phones and in your emails to write your senators and congresspeople to make sure KOSA fucking tanks as permanently as possible.

Magic in the U.S. S 3 E 5: Teen Witch! www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s3e5 Teen witches are all over the media -- but *real* ones are shrouded in mystery. Featuring @middleagewitch.bsky.social, Addy Ebrahimy, @heathergreene01.bsky.social and Susan Ridgely. #witchsky #spiritsky #podcast #witch

#gsole2025 Humans, Non-humans, and Humanity. gsole.org/GSOLE-annual...

The videos for both days of the "Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity" talks are now available at the Karsh Institute website; highly recommend checking them out, here: karshinstitute.virginia.edu/events/reima...

The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) is now on Bluesky! Follow now for community, resources and new horizons in online teaching and learning! #gsole

"They developed in-game jobs, shared memes, voted on tax reforms and even spread a religion." www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/27/1...

Thinking about the alteration but also reinscription effects of technology on the elements of academic life, from personal communication to research production to plagiarism detection to peer review to pedagogy to other practices prefixed with P's [and other letters too]). bsky.app/profile/wolv...

"the academy and general public’s willingness to trust computers and “AI” over other humans, even and especially when computers and “AI” are making decisions about humans, is currently hurting, and will continue to hurt, a lot of already marginalized people—unless we work hard to fix it."

New from me in Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences: "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process." [54 (5): 625–629. doi.org/10.1525/hsns... A discussion of the way that LLM's & other "AI" have shaped the expectations, norms, & disciplinary practices of contemporary academia. Check it out:

New report out from @cendemtech.bsky.social, w/ Coworker.org & the American Association of People w/ Disabilities, centering the experiences of disabled workers in their interactions w/ "AI" hiring tools & other employment assessment technologies. (I consulted/advised on an early version of this.)

Good day to remember that RATM does a fucken banger of a cover of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6G...

I just had So. Much. Fun talking with Jake Zukowski and Tres Henry for their astrological software dev podcast youtu.be/G5drhNHNDEg?... (Their weekly video dev update is one of my favorite tech vlogs. Bonus that it's magic-connected. Five stars. No notes.)

Tarot and Twin Peaks ☕️🌲🪄 Falling, Floating, Dreaming: The Magic of Twin Peaks. All eight episodes of season 1 available here! open.spotify.com/episode/67Hu...

Still never quite understood why this piece didn't take off. I mean, sure, it's long, and it gets into the philosophical weeds a little bit on things like epistemology, philosophy of mind, "AI," misinformation, and deepfakes, but… All that, but as a good thing? I dunno. Anyway.

Back in 2017 i wrote a piece about the dangers posed by the trump presidency, "post truth," the then-nascent field of generative "AI," & the manipulation of values by bad actors acting in bad faith. It was kind of a mess, tbh, but i still feel like it was pretty prescient, with something to offer:

[email protected] piece on this, this weekend; would've been nice to read a philosopher in there, but good to see it covered, either way: www.npr.org/2024/10/18/n...

There's a lot in there for the theology, mythology, occulture, and comparative religious studies crowds, as well as being (i think) something everyone interested in "AI" needs to think about, more broadly

hey just for no reason here's a reminder that the Edward Elgar Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence exists www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/han...

What’s that? A new Podcast about Twin Peaks and Tarot? Seems as good as cherry pie and coffee! #twinpeaks #tarot #fallingfloatingdreaming 🥧☕️🍩🌲 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

True Detective: Night Country got nominated for several Emmy Awards! If you want a cool episode by episode breakdown/watch-along Podcast, I made one when it first aired! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...