Don't let the Monday blues get you! Submit your work at xcoax.org #torino #xcoax2026

Legends in Portugal, congrats! 👏🎇✊ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Lucky seven! Good luck with your submission at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Or the upcoming album by Matilde Meireles, “Four Tales”, a limited-release edition that ships with a wonderful Riso print poster created by Rachel O’Grady cronica.bandcamp.com/album/four-t...

It's still Bandcamp Friday, so why not preorder a copy of the amazing new album by Machinefabriek, “Spelonk” cronica.bandcamp.com/album/spelonk ? @machinefabriek.bsky.social

The connections among Epstein, AI oligarchs, cognitive scientists, eugenicists, misogynists, rapists, and outright fascists are so strong it's stunning that they are not outlined in every account of AI development and deployment. If you are bullish on AI you might want to check yourself.

We entered the one-figure time zone. Chop chop! xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Download codes for Matilde Meireles’s “Two (Another Way)” single in anticipation of her forthcoming album “Four Tales”. Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum 389d-kngt ak2c-6jf7 8yme-y6ev 2289-bkn8 kmnn-yvv2 kgav-u9tc nk78-j9ux lz52-ytjq 4t65-779t euyb-vj67 nhkg-u7u9 mq3z-evmz 98xz-uyyg yuck-vfnu

X days to go! (See what we did there?) xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Better hop to it! xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

It's new release day, and we're glad to announce a new single by Matilde Meireles, “Two (Another Way)", in anticipation of her forthcoming album "Four Tales", due in March, and now available to preorder. This single is available to download right now! www.cronicaelectronica.org/246/

12 nights of working for X! Go for it: xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

For all the Swifties out there. [wink wink] Fill your blank space at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Sunday Funday! Send your fun to xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

#JobAlert! The New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NYC area) is currently conducting a faculty search for an Assistant Professor or Lecturer in Digital Design: njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop” www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

...and this is today! Submit at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Inactuelles reviews Machinefabriek’s “Spelonk”, “Machinefabriek reste l'un des enchanteurs de la musique électronique!” inactuelles.over-blog.com/2026/01/mach... @machinefabriek.bsky.social

Are you double checking those bibliographical references yet? Submit at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

There is still time...but not so much time! Submit at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Time flies when you are having fun! More fun at xcoax.org Submit your work and see you at xCoAx 2026 in Torino!

'Art is not simply a hallucination of otherworldly escape. Art reminds us of the possibility of freedom in this world, and the reality of our connection to each other as the basis and grounding condition of that freedom’s expression' Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism buff.ly/Wad6QAt

Submit at xcoax.org We look forward to your submissions! #xcoax2026 #torino

The digital version is also available in open access, that is, free! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Hey! What about some extra time to hone your submission to perfection? New deadline: February 15, 2026. Submit away! xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Let's make it more X in Torino next July! The call is open: xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

We're extremely happy to announce our first release in 2026, Machinefabriek’s new album, “Spelonk”, now available for download or as a limited-release CD. www.cronicaelectronica.org/245/ @machinefabriek.bsky.social

Marie Neurath is amazing, and her book on cognitive science for kids is wonderful: Machines which Seem to Think (1954). H/t @irisvanrooij.bsky.social youtu.be/XBWhdcD0r9I for this video about her. Book available for free online: www.fulltable.com/iso/mw.htm

I needed some good news this evening—Bandcamp's guidelines for generative AI in music and audio blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

Come join the 💛 in Torino this July. The call is open at xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

Machinefabriek’s “Spelonk” reviewed by Aural Aggravation: “Spelonk grows in depth and darkness, becoming increasingly dark, strange, and unsettling. Rutger Zuydervelt makes a lot out of very little, to subtle but strong effect.” auralaggravation.com/2026/01/12/m... @machinefabriek.bsky.social

"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM.... "many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."

Who are the experts / journalists / researchers you turn to for critical perspectives on AI & the tech world? I created a feed of experts who watch AI developments with a skeptical & critical (but *informed*) POV. I'd love more people to follow it, but I'm also looking to add people - recs welcome!

Farewell today to Hungarian director Béla Tarr (1955 – 2026), one of cinema’s great visionaries. His deeply poetic and uncompromising films—like Sátántangó and The Turin Horse—redefined slow, contemplative cinema and left an indelible mark on the art of filmmaking

Bruno Duplant’s “Écouter les Fantômes” reviewed by @soundprojector.bsky.social "Duplant has turned in some ultra-minimal offerings (…) in previous years, but this one has more exciting content per square inch, and is more accessible than some of his delightful but impenetrable sonic riddles."

Great review of Durán Vázquez & Kloob’s album on Blow Up! Copies are still available at www.cronicaelectronica.org/243/

See you where? At #xcoax2026 ! The call is out at xcoax.org See you there!

Some shots from our last performance of 2025 at Pherifera 2025 \ 30×N | audiovisual performance . @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals. . #audiovisualart #livevisuals #newmediaart #codeart

In what's now become an annual tradition, I've written another piece for The Gist about how and why I hate A.I. On a bubble about to burst, a future rotted to its core, and the limits of the Mrs Doyle Theory of artificial intelligence. www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2...

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

Happy new year! We're celebrating by adding three compilations to the Crónica Archive: 2008's “Mus*****c”, 2010's “Crónica L” and 2011's “Poststop”. All are now free to download at www.cronicaelectronica.org/archive/

Too many things happened this year to summarize. Here's my 2025 wrap-up of some of the people, places, and things that made it amazing.❤️ (1/3)

All 16 releases of 2025 in a tidy grid! All CDs are limited releases, and stocks are getting low. Everything can be downloaded from cronica.bandcamp.com

Another ongoing series, 30×N, by @c + Visiophone, had two releases: “VRD1” and “LRJ1”, with accompanying videos and remixes by Jordan Rita Seruya Awori & Marc Behrens, Joana de Sá, and Jos Smolders. www.cronicaelectronica.org/30%C3%97N/ @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @visiophone.bsky.social

Let's look back at Crónica in 2025! In spite of the usual hardships that come with being an artist-run and non-profit label, was a fantastic year of releases that kicked off with a collaboration between Jérôme Noetinger and @c, “Expansão” www.cronicaelectronica.org/229/

Ready for the countdown? See you next year! xcoax.org #xcoax2026 #torino

The Crónica Archive, a work-in-progress collection of our releases, features more than twenty releases, available as audio downloads and/or video streams. We will keep expanding it at www.cronicaelectronica.org/archive/

Not for academics it isn’t. You learn by reading and by following citation chains and talking to other people in the field. Letting the AI do the summary is abdicating your job.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite