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• Bookmark Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The…

  Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Notes on a genre

  The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well,…

  June 10 2022, 8:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Notes on a genre

  The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well,…

  June 10 2022, 4:51pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

  In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark All About Glitch: Datamoshing - Notes on Design

  In our second installment on Glitch Art we’re going to look at a type of glitch that is made using the compression artifacts from digital video called datamoshing. Datamoshing visual effects…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

  June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 19 2015, 6:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

  November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Transits: Notes on the Xenofeminist Manifesto | poetix

  It’s a bold gesture, to be sure: to insist on the conjugation of lived experience with stringent formal abstraction, on the compatibility and even identity in the last instance of intersectionality…

  June 12 2015, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 15 2014, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark New project, new people: the Digital Panopticon | Early Modern Notes

  Starting a new project is exciting and intensely busy (which is also my excuse for taking a month to blog about it). And the Digital Panopticon is the biggest one we’ve…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark David Berreby – The obesity era

  Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’…

  August 26 2013, 3:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

  December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

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• Bookmark Meta is making life even harder for Horizon Worlds creators - The…

  Meta will no longer let creators using its Horizon Worlds social VR playscape make dedicated events, the company announced as part of the platform’s v109 update notes on Tuesday. It’s a…

  March 22 2024, 4:27am | Comments

• Bookmark Notes on a genre

  The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well,…

  June 10 2022, 8:51pm | Comments

• Bookmark Notes on a genre

  The thing to know about the AI lan­guage mod­els, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fun­da­men­tally bull­shit­ters. The bull­shit has got­ten better and bet­ter, but at the core … well,…

  June 10 2022, 4:51pm | Comments

• Metafilter MeFi: AI dictionary, from cybertriumph to wringie, and beyond! AI Dictionary is a Twitter bot that tweets a . I wanted to see how much OpenAI's language model actually knew, so I tried to get it to define words... but I accidentally had it set to 'random', not 'best'. [via mefi projects]…

  December 2 2019, 7:30am | Comments

• Bookmark Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker

  In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note…

  October 27 2017, 4:50pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

  July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Transmediale 2017 (events)

  February 9 2017, 8:50am | Comments

• Bookmark All About Glitch: Datamoshing - Notes on Design

  In our second installment on Glitch Art we’re going to look at a type of glitch that is made using the compression artifacts from digital video called datamoshing. Datamoshing visual effects…

  October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments

• Portfolio Embracing the Horror of The Anthropocence (plenary talk)

  August 3 2016, 4:50am | Comments

• Additivism 3D Printing & Art Activism Workshop + Talk and Q&A

  June 3 2016, 2:07am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 19 2015, 6:00am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Annotating online content + read later: new app solutions? I read a lot of content from articles/essays I save online. Sometimes I want to annotate these articles and organise them for research purposes. At the moment the best way to do this is Evernote, but I find the iPad / Android app…

  November 6 2015, 3:04am | Comments

• Bookmark Transits: Notes on the Xenofeminist Manifesto | poetix

  It’s a bold gesture, to be sure: to insist on the conjugation of lived experience with stringent formal abstraction, on the compatibility and even identity in the last instance of intersectionality…

  June 12 2015, 2:01am | Comments

• Bookmark p-zombies are inconceivable. With notes on the idea of metaphysical possibility. «…

  Philosophy of mind and the nature of consciousness are fascinating topics, which recur both here at Scientia Salon [1] and at my former writing outlet, Rationally Speaking [2].

  August 10 2014, 4:15am | Comments

• Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life

  n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

  June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 9:00am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Morehshin Allahyari

  January 31 2014, 8:00am | Comments

• Vimeo

  January 15 2014, 3:29am | Comments

• Bookmark Evolution of the mutant in popular fiction

  Update: I’ve been working on expanding this timeline into a book. I’m currently in the research phase, but you can read my notes here. They are generally more up-to-date and correct…

  December 29 2013, 9:42am | Comments

• Bookmark Four Notes Towards Post-Digital Propaganda | post-digital-research

  “Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments and to integrate the individual into a technological world” (Ellul xvii). How might future research into digital…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia

  Places that have never existed except in the human imagination may find an incongruous afterlife in the everyday world. Umberto Eco tells of how an attempt to commemorate the brownstone New…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark Digital Metaphors: Editor’s Introduction | Alluvium

  Metaphor wants to be… ‘[...] metaphors work to change people’s minds. Orators have known this since Demosthenes. [...] But there’s precious little evidence that they tell you what people think. [...]…

  December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments

• Bookmark New project, new people: the Digital Panopticon | Early Modern Notes

  Starting a new project is exciting and intensely busy (which is also my excuse for taking a month to blog about it). And the Digital Panopticon is the biggest one we’ve…

  November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

• Portfolio Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 8:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Erica Scourti

  October 8 2013, 7:30am | Comments

• Rhizome Contributions The Phantom Zone

  September 10 2013, 8:00am | Comments

• Bookmark David Berreby – The obesity era

  Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’…

  August 26 2013, 3:39pm | Comments

• Bookmark Bigfoot genome paper “conclusively proves” that Sasquatch is real | Ars Technica

  It's not often you come across a scientific paper which notes that the information it covers is like something "seen on the television series Monster Quest.

  March 8 2013, 3:54am | Comments

• Portfolio An Object Oriented Glitch Ontology?

  December 10 2012, 3:22pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Do Artists Actually Confront Our New Technological Reality?

  September 8 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Portfolio Kipple and Things II: The Subject of Digital Detritus

  August 25 2012, 10:00am | Comments

• Bookmark Computing Texas Hold 'em

  About five years ago, Rubin’s father mentioned that Avi’s younger brother, Yaacov, had been winning money playing poker online. Soon after, Avi suggested to Yaacov that they play sometime. “He kind…

  June 27 2012, 3:21pm | Comments

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