‘A lucid guide to what is at stake when we engage with digital storytelling. It offers valuable critical tools, & its historically informed & intellectually rigorous yet accessible approach is much needed.’ Hanna Meretoja Digital Storytelling by Leah Henrickson: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Voice technologies are being rapidly integrated into AI systems, raising new questions & intensifying old ones, across everyday life. This paper surveys the history & current developments, highlighting emerging responses in real-world settings. apo.org.au/node/331920 #AI #VoiceTech #Authenticity

We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done Check it out at Australian Policy Online here: apo.org.au/node/331920

New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where only bots roam. www.wired.com/story/browse...

Fantastic to see this rich archive of Trove Twitter bots by @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Long before today's commercialised AI these bots pushed boundaries. Through generating faces and remixing data they were experiments of curiosity and heritage

thompson improved navel oranges, painted by amanda almira newton, 1915

Curious what Reddit’s best known ex-pats have been up to? Turns out they’ve been busy breathing life into an even older relic of the internet - one that happens to have once been a competitor! In a moment of AI slop they’re “on a quest to make the social internet feel fun again”

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If you're not sure how to write alt text for memes, this resource from Veronica With Four Eyes (Veronica Lewis) will help you. veroniiiica.com/2018/11/29/h...

Thanks to @jeanburgess.bsky.social and @kkasianenko.bsky.social along with @leoflores.bsky.social and the many wonderful bot creators, scholars, activists, and journalists for their invaluable archiving efforts in establishing, documenting, and preserving the legacy of these community creations

Please share - call for papers #MeToo and Higher Education Special Issue Editors: Professor Denise Cuthbert & Associate Professor Ceridwen Spark Manuscript deadline: 25 April 2025 More information: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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We have discovered a planet. We could fly there on eagle's wings. Whispering trees cover the ground. I imagine that there are composers there.

valencia oranges, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1913