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Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 22 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Bookmark The “algospeak” dialect. An emerging vocabulary designed to… | by Cory Doctorow…
The first social media — blogs — were built on the idea of “user-pull” (users would decide which creators to follow) and “reverse chrono” (users received the most recent posts first).

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology…
This story is the introduction to MIT Technology Review’s series on AI colonialism, which was supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center. Read the full…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Experts to World: We’re Doomed
A dangerous mix of increasing international conflict, global climate change, and a lack of governmental efforts to fix either could be leading the world to an era of unprecedented destruction.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts
I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times
Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Anna L. Tsing on Creating ‘Wonder in the Midst of Dread’
Through her writings and the collaborative curatorial platform Feral Atlas, the anthropologist is offering new ways of imagining – and representing – our relationship to nature

January 31 2022, 1:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception. A big shift is apparently underway in Silicon…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This summer, when Fame Lady Squad launched, claiming to be the first ever female-led crypto art collective, it quickly raised $1.5 million from people who wanted to support underrepresented artists. Weeks later, it turned out, the group…

November 25 2021, 1:51am | Comments
Syllabus Cache TikTok Cultures Research Network (Methodologies)
The TikTok Cultures Research Network held its third virtual event TikTok Methodologies on 19 July 2021 hosted by founding members Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Professor Patrik Wikström, and Dr D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. The field of digital media…

November 9 2021, 1:33am | Comments
Bookmark Resource scarcity not a doomsday scenario
At the moment, there is an abundance of scarcity. Companies complain that there are shortages of semiconductors, lumber, steel, plastics, chemicals, and other inputs and raw materials. The pandemic disrupted many…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark How to Live in a Climate ‘Permanent Emergency’
The phrase Jay Inslee used was “permanent emergency.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark All the right words on climate have already been said » Nieman…
Sometime last week, an editor who semi-ghosted me on an article I wrote several months ago texted me saying she wanted to talk. I didn’t want to talk to her because…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs
Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…
We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence - YES! Magazine
In her new book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, Ruha Benjamin breaks down the “New Jim Code,” technology design that promises a utopian future but serves racial…

May 1 2021, 5:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache RESOURCE PORTAL ON ANTI-RACISM AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO ART HISTORY…
This portal contains hundreds of references arranged along subject, themes and media in eight bibliographies.

April 15 2021, 10:36pm | Comments
Bookmark We’re already colonizing Mars.
Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or,…

April 1 2021, 4:55am | Comments
Bookmark Where Do Men Go When They Get Lost? | by Zoetica Ebb…
I just lost a friend. In addition to the immense loss of life to Covid-19, we have lost people in other ways over the past year, when the confluence of quarantine,…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should…
The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Joyful Militancy | The Anarchist Library
To survive. Just keep it alive Like the moment when I first heard Gil Scott-Heron, I knew upon first read that I would return to this book.

March 3 2021, 12:36am | Comments
Bookmark The Climate Crisis Is Worse Than You Can Imagine. Here’s What Happens…

February 12 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark "The world has become weird": crisis, natures and radical re-enchantment - STEPS…
In this essay, Amber Huff and Nathan Oxley reflect on questions that have emerged through Natures, the STEPS Centre’s theme throughout 2020.

January 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Rethinking Artificial Intelligence through Feminism | CCCB LAB
Technology surrounds us and is everywhere, but how this technology is made and who really benefits from it and who does not, are still important questions to be investigated.

January 8 2021, 11:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future
Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark When The World Isn’t Designed for Our Bodies | The New Yorker
“What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World,” a new book by the artist and design researcher Sara Hendren, opens with a challenge. A curator named Amanda has…

September 5 2020, 8:13am | Comments
Bookmark Do Cyborgs Have Politics? — Pax Solaria
Image by Jamy van Zyl In 1986, Science and Technology Studies scholar Langdon Winner launched a debate about the power of technologies to shape human politics when he asked “do artefacts…

August 20 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…
We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

July 26 2020, 12:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments

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