🤫 This week’s episode of #Brainticket brings some quiet reflection, with great #Prog from Popol Vuh, Harold Budd & Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Galactic Explorers, Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society, Jonas Munk, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. Settle in and get some rest… 😌 www.mixcloud.com/LexaSnurb/x/

Three days spent at conferences and meetings called for another solid walk along the Außenalster. Bit over 8km today…

And a great summative presentation by our conference host Dirk Lewandowski closes the Search Engines and Society (#SEASON2025) conference in Hamburg. Liveblog here:

Very lively session at the #SEASON2025 conference. Liveblog here, and I’ve also already uploaded the slides for my presentation, which follows in the final session: snurb.info/taxonomy/...

Interesting opening keynote by Anne Beaulieu on Day Two of #SEASON2025 in Hamburg. Liveblog here:

And that’s the end of the first day’s sessions at #SEASON2025. Some more lioveblog updates here:

Interesting and diverse set of papers in the first #SEASON2025 session – liveblog here:

ChatGPT prompt: create the most embarrassing image imaginable of a world leader having a selfie with Donald Trump. Make both of them grin like cats passing razorblades.

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

Excellent opening keynote at the inaugural Search Engines and Society (#SEASON2025) conference in Hamburg by the great @spielkamp.bsky.social from @algorithmwatch.org – such important work. Liveblog here, with more to come (including our paper tomorrow):

Hamburg was particularly shiny today, so remnants of my Aarhus cold notwithstanding I just had to go for another 8.5km walk along the Außenalster. Bit slower today though.

Bit under the weather at the moment, but a nice walk through Planten un Blomen this evening. So many squirrels !

Perhaps you all know this already, but I wish someone had told me much earlier that you can use your iPad as a second screen while travelling. Better resolution for screenshots too ! 🤯🤩 (FWIW, I’m using the Spacedesk app.)

FFS. #SGDH96

Come on Yuki. Channel your inner Vettelstappenmacher as you defend against Lando. 💪 #AzerbaijanGP

Well this escalated quickly. #SGDH96

Well, that’s a start. Keep it going. #SGDH96

Come on then @hannover-96.bsky.social Let’s do this thing. #SGDH96 🖤🤍💚

Ugh. Looks like Oscar’s caught a case of the Landos just at the wrong point of the season. Get well soon ! #AzerbaijanGP Ah well, under papaya rules Lando is now obliged to crash out in the next race, right ?

More of this

The road to authoritarianism - total information control. bsky.app/profile/scot...

It remains so bewildering why we as a country let entirely unexperienced non-experts who have no real knowledge of the sector run the country’s universities for million+ salaries.

Very solid 9+ km walk around the Binnen- and Außenalster on a surprisingly warm last day of summer in Hamburg today. Consistent 5.5 km/h walking pace. Must do this again if I get the chance this week.

JFC. This has to be the crashiest, disruptedest F1 qualifying session I have seen in a loooong time. #AzerbaijanGP 🏎️💥🙄

I may be travelling, but the show must go on: #Brainticket 085 is out now, rounding up some #Prog releases I nearly missed. Featuring an appropriately Nordic selection from Gösta Berlings Saga, Viima, Elds Mark, The Far Meadow, The Flower Kings, Papir, and Wudewuse. www.mixcloud.com/LexaSnurb/br...

Pretty obvious answer here: return the #AustralianGP to Adelaide _where it rightfully belongs_. Much better track anyway.

Successfully defended my thesis to the jury this week 🥳 Public defense on 13/11! grateful to @snurb.info @tomdeleyn.bsky.social @pieterballon.bsky.social and Ksenia Ermoshina for their insightful feedback and @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social and Trisha Meyer for their amazing supervision!

Really like the idea of having a founding document for a research centre. With signatures !

I’m in Aarhus today for the 25th (!) anniversary of the AU Center for Internet Studies, which starts with @jakoblinaa.bsky.social and an opening keynote by the great @djchuck.bsky.social. I’ll speak in the afternoon.

Don't miss this important article (and a beautiful visual abstract) by @cazuarina.bsky.social and team!

Breaking: Australian government admits its social media ban for kids is unenforceable bullshit masquerading as policy.

I’m on the road again for a series of conferences and events, starting with a visit to @imec-smit.bsky.social in Brussels – where I presented a BrIAS lecture on the dynamics of polarisation in public communication today. Many thanks to Ike Picone and team for organising !

Imagine being this stupid, and yet millions of people still hail you as a genius.

I had a lot of fun chatting with Klaus (@klaus.bsky.social) about The Discursive-Digital Link. You can listen to the episode on the Read Them Sideways podcast.

👋 #Brainticket 084 is out — and this week we're exploring what happens when major #Prog artists go it alone, with solo works from Steven Wilson, Adam Holzman, Tony Levin, Nick Mason, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Gavin Harrison, Ian Anderson, Robert Fripp, and Jon Anderson. 🎶 www.mixcloud.com/LexaSnurb/br...

What this really means is a worry Trump etc will use this as an excuse (even before knowing the identity of the killer) for more violence and ending civil liberties. No one was writing after the murder of Melissa Hortman of a fear that Democratic lawmakers were about to unleash violent mobs.

whoah

👉 Just published: "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies" - Book of Abstracts of the Weizenbaum Conference 2025. #WIConf25 ➡️ doi.org/10.34669/WI.... 🔗

The conference program for the #AoIR2025 Ruptures conference is now available, here: www.conftool.org/aoir2025/ses... Can't wait to see you all in Niterói (or online)!

OK, so it’s taken me a looooong time, but I’m finally on the last recording in King Crimson’s _Heaven and Earth_ boxset: the abandoned 2008 reunion tour. #Prog The early 2000s were a troubled period for the band, but a necessary failure ahead of the glorious reinvention of the 2010s…

Oh sweet Jeebus, imagine explaining to a Tesla’s AI how a Melbourne hook turn is meant to work. (It’d probably just keep driving around the intersection in a swastika pattern.)

Once again, ARC hits the 🎯 with their comms strategy: 8pm on Sunday night. When the eyeballs of researchers are glued to … twitter? They've not posted this anywhere else. I can't think of a better way to _not_ "engage stakeholders". Almost uncanny.

23 days since the Alaska summit, 24 days since Trump vowed “severe consequences” if Putin didn’t agree to a ceasefire. www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/e...

OK then. Let’s see if this race can manage to turn out even messier than the support races, because hoooooo boy. 💥🏎️💥 #ItalianGP

The golden rule of reporting on neo-Nazis? Don’t interview them.

Obviously not the most important thing here, but the fascist right's misreading of American cinema continues apace.

Pathetic.

He’s thin skinned and weak when challenged. The media doesn’t do it nearly enough.

Flat-out false reporting: "$16b in annual fuel excise that other motorists [pay] to fund road construction & maintenance". Excise hasn't paid for roads in 30+ years; it goes to consolidated revenue. Council ratepayers pay for 3/4 roads. #auspol #EV www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/fed...

"They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they will never give it."