📚🎊✨ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm 💜 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Parting bedtime thought of why are these organisations I care about (British Library, Office for National Statistics) falling into such disrepair? I hope they can find their way through to recovery for all our sakes…

Heute 20 Uhr deutscher Zeit + online - wir reden über ChatGPT, Literatur und Romane. Schaut vorbei. 👇https://www.goethe.de/ins/ie/de/ver.cfm?event_id=26979823

📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).

📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).

Happy Internet Archive Day! Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built! If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library! 🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h... #Wayback1T

You can get totally different advice from a language model depending on how you frame your question. Which could be a weakness. On the other hand, if you're patient enough to ask the question several times, with different framing, you start to get a kind of 3D scan of the possibility space.

Everyone should try this 😜🧮

Libraries, archives & museums are under pressure, but cultural memory can survive. Hear author @TJOwens.bsky.social of AFTER DISRUPTION: A FUTURE FOR CULTURAL MEMORY chat with @ShannonNattern.bsky.social on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧 Listen & subscribe ⤵️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic "Are language models worth it?" Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

I posted this last night cause I kind of wanted to bury it. I got cold feet about putting it out there. embedding-space.github.io/sparse-netwo... The subject is WHY neural networks work, and I think the answer I offer is kind of interesting. Maybe even a little correct, possibly.

This might interest some of you 👉 Doing AI Differently ⚡️sandpit and funding call – open to UK, Canada, US researchers for 4 projects integrating humanities into core AI development, benchmarks + tools that enable AI to handle cultural complexity. Deadline 31 Oct: www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Join us if you are in London to discuss the language of LLMs! Wednesday, 15 October 4pm. 👇

Oh yes. 🫶👇

“First is sight, that is to say the eye; second is the form of the thing seen; third is the distance from the eye to the thing seen …” Piero della Francesca Spending the day at Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino 🖼️🎨🏰

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

We have a new call for papers. If you're working on AI, democracy and public voice, please take a look. You'll need to move fast! digitalgood.net/call-for-abs... @mrsbunz.bsky.social @divya.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

I really don’t like our times.

… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.

Ok I guess I have to go through that Apple paper. My immediate issue is the framing which is super binary: "Are these models capable of generalizable reasoning, or are they leveraging different forms of pattern matching?" ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-i...

Join me at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany next Wednesday June 4 to discuss caring about data and technical collectives. ✊

Applications just opened for a postdoctoral position in Digital Media Studies with Markus Krajewski and myself at the Department of Media Studies and the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the University of Basel. (1/3)

Just over a week until our Technomoral Conversation on AI & Creative Labour! We’ll be looking at issues ranging from the AI industry’s copyright violations, responses from creatives, and the wider ethical & political questions about the role of AI in creative practice and culture ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH

How about taking your AI research one year to Rome? The project "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing" has interesting Predoctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships 👇 www.biblhertz.it/3628094/2503...

It's out, free and open access: Thinking _with_ AI: Machine Learning the Humanities. 11 essay on AI and how to think with it – by Peli Grietzer (@peligrietzer.bsky.social), Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social), Mercedes Bunz (@mrsbunz.bsky.social), Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich…

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!

This looks good: Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/...

I’ve spent most of the last few years being pretty down on the potential of open source AI and I’m coming back around to believing! Models are here, time to build.

Universities, libraries—the whole nonprofit sector—ought to unite in supporting this. If efforts like this succeed, we have a good chance of remaining relevant in 2040.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Amazing that @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social has a lovely little documentary about Sylvia Wynter. I wish it had gotten into the concepts a bit more, but still v charming. I’m impressed a news site would commission this 🫶✨ aje.io/vkxgyf

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Public compute — state provision of computing resources — could be a powerful tool for reshaping the AI sector. In our report, Jai Vipra and I offer an overview of existing approaches, and recommendations for avoiding industry capture, reducing environmental harms, and delivering public value 1/5

We're up to 43 by 12:12pm. They will find me slumped over my keyboard, emailed to death.

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

real world (not in frame) 📲🌐 Release me from your technical collective! by @mrsbunz.bsky.social yesterday at @transmediale.bsky.social

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

For those who can’t be with us at transmediale, here is a link to their livestream. 💨 Olga Goriunova, @ranjodhdhaliwal.com and me will discuss digital subjects & technical collectives at 12 👇 (=11am UK time). transmediale.de/en/livestream

Join us at transmediale tmrrw 👇

Good point by @nickmvincent.bsky.social on the deep tension in today’s ask-for-forgiveness-free-for-all approach regarding data for model training. Will "open" models cause this paradox to reach a breaking point? dataleverage.substack.com/p/db20526d-f...

Spring/Summer talks at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM), Warwick - follow for more: @cimethods.bsky.social

So peaceful.

You can also find me earlier on Friday, Jan 31, at noon, when in conversation with Olga Goriunova and @mrsbunz.bsky.social about subjectivities and collectivities today. (2/2) transmediale.de/en/2025/sche...

Looking forward to be in Berlin for 🚀transmediale 🚀next week. Join our kick-off Friday, 12h w/ Olga Goriunova & @ranjodhdhaliwal.com; we discuss how is it to be digital subjects, and the politics of 'technical collectives' in times of Trump & AI ✊ - please share! transmediale.de/en/2025/even...

And here it is! A new history of @transkribus.bsky.social and a dive into how cooperatives can deliver responsible and transparent artificial intelligence: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-1...

"What if Bruegel is not telling us how to live within contradictions, but rather rendering them conspicuous – an aesthetic that seeks not to reflect, but to help us see where to look if we want to change the world." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...