The Rest Is My Ghost // あとは私の幽霊です

Maybe the real AI friends are the data centers we smothered the earth with along the way?

I’m calling this the military-industrial Pokédex

Not awful

Climate science recast through the frame of 'decarbonisation' technology in the Rinn Energy remit is especially shocking giving the heavily industry-facing slant of proceedings.

The open letter regarding industry and applied bias in Research Ireland's strategy is still open for signing ... openletter.earth/concern-abou...

it seems the only rationale for jumping on the genai bandwagon is the fabricated fomo (not actual benefit to research) and this is not surprising tbh. the ai industry has poured millions into setting much of the ai "potential benefit” discourse

If we really wanted to deal with the negative effects of AI all tech workers, including CEOs etc. would require chartering by professional engineering bodies who could then de-charter them for working on ethically questionable projects.

"Four performers prepare to go on stage. The same routine. Night after night after night." Put together a mix with Jane Deasy and the cast of The Warm Up for Éist tonight at 6pm. It's a sonic sketchbook of music and influences that have inspired the show. www.corkmidsummer.com/whats-on/the...

We've just issued our newsletter, late for May or early for June depending on your POV ! It includes a round-up of news, events and opportunities of interest to Ireland’s Digital Arts and Humanities community. Check it out on our website (and sign up to subscribe!) dariah.ie/newsletter/

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

Strong recommend if you can get to Cork for this.

Lol

The land rover craze on Irish country roads is just mutually assured destruction for culchies.

Embarrassing to only now be learning about the Harold Budd album with Cocteau Twins. But wow!

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

New music on the way! I finally finished the follow up to Leviathan 3 years later. Won’t be out straight away but will be out soon enough.

This kind of a mood today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVF8...

My new composition 'The Artificer' debuts at the Dream Journal Institute's Public Domain Film Festival under the moniker Leviathan. It's the first in a forthcoming series of works building on the palette developed for the initial Leviathan album released in 2023 See the film here: bit.ly/4dM3y5g

Japan the country or Japan the band?

Finally finished cleaning up my pure profile. If you want to do a PhD with me get in touch! research.ucc.ie/en/persons/s...

It's release day! My new book Sonic UX: The Science of Sound in User Experience Research is officially out today! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205373... #UX #sounddesign

Uhoh

Oh. Yes he can 🙏

Can’t a man find a sweet and tasty can of cream soda flavor Pepsi max in this god forsaken hole.

This is where we’re going. No AI as a selling point.

The exchange rate between money and sandwiches continues to decline in Cork city.

Our Call for essays is closing on June 30th for volume 2 of Digital Art in Ireland. (Ireland being VERY broadly construed). If you've got something that you think could fit please do get in touch. www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...

Delighted to have Guang representing us at the DARIAH Annual event in Rome!

Been slowly working towards a followup to this but it took like 10 years and 3 collaborators one of who was a genius and is now dead. So like. Hang on a minute.

Firstly, that’s ridiculous. Bandcamp is going to the dogs! Secondly delighted this newsletter now exists!!

The Catholic Church would like to acknowledge that cigarettes are bad. Sinful even. That's why we've partnered with John Player to develop a safer, godlier cigarette. Now everyone look under your seat.

RIP to Sonny Rollins, the last of the jazz greats to feature in this classic photograph. A phenomenal player. www.theguardian.com/music/galler...

Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-black-bo...

Just read my first papal encyclical. Didn’t see this coming when I started doing AI research a decade back.

Enjoyable walk to work this morning listening to @seanlclancy.bsky.social's new album. Flickering electronics, field recordings and chamber ensemble with a nod to Reich and similar but with a distinct voice.

The Wire 508 is out now! Featuring Seefeel on the cover, plus Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, Asher Gamedze, Magic Tuber Stringband, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Guttersnipe's Jukebox, KINACT, Egg Meat, Paul Pinto and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

The corporate and govt controlled tech crisis that all the Linux nerds warned us about in 2010 has now accelerated to the point of being totally unsustainable and requiring major legal and cultural change if computers are going to work for everyday people again.

Im avoiding the No Parades discourse because w/out Robert Helen and Argo it's not ZA/UM. The absolute cheek of them unionising AFTER kicking out the key creative force. Nah. Not interested.

Wait no I’m wrong this is happening

There’s nothing going on here is there?

The arXiv ban for AI hallucinated references is most definitely the right way to go. I don’t understand how this is even a debate? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Finally pulled together the essay that culminated our long running project with Jean-Luc Nancy including each of the compositions created over the 10 years. It'll just live on my own website for now: www.stephenroddy.com/projects/ind...

In my Digital Institute module students model cultural & sociotechnical systems w/digital electronics techniques producing a video essay exploring their prototype with the library's Digital Scholarship Studio team. We had some really exciting projects this year: www.ucc.ie/en/dah/news/...

A little reminder that our call for Digital Art essays for the forthcoming volume isn't closing until June 30th. www.blackwaterpublishing.com/digital-art-...

possibly better than the original

Finally put together a list of compositions. Should really have done this a decade ago but better late than never! If you want one performed at your thing. Let me know! www.stephenroddy.com/music/pracRes