"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."

It's already well-known in CS, but for those unfamiliar in humanities/social sciences doing historical/social critique of speech processing, NLP, and AI/ML, Dan and Jim's textbook + site is an incredible (and accessible) resource for gaining a foundational understanding of key techniques.

Hey, so it turns out I'll be in NYC next week. Who's around?

I am increasingly convinced that the problem is not so much that people don't seem to understand how computers work than it is that they seem to have forgotten what *language* does.

See downthread re: v. cool forthcoming special issue on algorithms+occult, but as a tangent: is there a name for visual genre of merging vaguely late-antiquity/early-modern imagery w/digital/electronic iconography? Like sacred geometry+circuit schematic vibes. If not, can I propose glitch esoterica?

So . . . what do we think is going to happen when they eventually incorporate all that text that people have been scraping from *fanfiction archives* into these datasets?

the curse of enjoying the early internet is having to watch all its silly little aspects get churned up and spat out in its final form as a civilization-eating demogorgon

I would say that only 95% of my writing problems are, in fact, thinking problems. The remaining 5% are the result of my doomed attempts to turn my point into a pun.

"to solve DoD use cases"--I've read decades-worth of documentation from NLP-related DoD projects since 1940s & seen proposed use cases from run-of-the-mill mass surveillance to "idk, we try telepathy yet?" I can't think of one for this that isn't just to watch the world burn.

Me, an absolute monster, with curiosity borne from deepest void of late capitalist despair: "what kind of ads were they?"

No idea why Mariners are trending since I don't follow baseball and never have, but this 3.5+ hour documentary that @secretbase.bsky.social put out some years ago might be one of my favorite pieces of media of all time. Fully serious. It's this and vol. 3 of Proust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIgK...

Okay, while I'm here, something sound studies and media tech history folks may find of interest: the Ray Dolby papers were recently processed and are now available for research at Stanford's Silicon Valley Archives. A bunch of stuff has been digitized too: exhibits.stanford.edu/dolby

Wow, I couldn't even remember to put a link to the actual @sigcisconf.bsky.social account in my repost. It's social media amateur hour over here. (Don't worry, I'm not going to be the one actually running the SIGCIS bsky account.)

Reminder that the extended deadline for SIGCIS proposals is tomorrow 7/14! We're on our all-virtual rotation this year, which means registration will be Pay-What-You-Can and you don't have to travel to Luxembourg.

I should probably be making my own "go follow the new SIGCIS account" post, but instead I'm just going to repost Laine's:

Anyway, it's our fundraising season, pls donate to ROMchip if you like our rizz donate.romchip.org

Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...

File under: tech company execs eventually "innovate" themselves into an slightly worse version of the very thing they sought to disrupt. This is just how a lot of long-running procedural shows on network tv worked.

2024 is absolutely nailing it: "Air Canada essentially argued that 'the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,' a court order said." Impeccable, no notes. 🙃 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

UPDATED DEADLINE for submissions for SIGCIS Conference 2024 (July 14th in Viña del Mar, Chile) by Monday, February 12th. Please find the CfP on the SIGCIS conference website meetings.sigcis.org.

I first set up my twitter account 15 years ago, so I truly have no recollection of how I'm supposed to do this.