the @nprofile1q... has been hosting Berlin artist Clemens Schöll for the past month - tonight he installed his incredible “Artist at Work” while talking about “the right to automation”

I had the chance to go on the Boulder Valley Frequency podcast to express my...disgust, I think is the right word, with the contract that CU recently signed with Open AI and with the prospect of integrating ChatGPT throughout higher education #ai https://www.boulderfrequency.com/2600535/episodes/18981131-cancel-it-cu-students-profs-sound-the-alarm-on-ai-deal

Benjamin wrote his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" in 1940, shortly before he died by suicide escaping the Nazis. Imagine, now, Hannah Arendt reading this aloud to fellow refugees fleeing the Third Reich on the ship that was smuggling them to the U.S.

and then yet another random dude from the far side of the fediverse thought he'd let me know I'm "excessively full of myself" because of an article I posted on AI and data centers. I suppose it's inevitable that one will be reminded every once in awhile of the actually existing foundational simmering resentment toward women. [I deleted the original post because I learned from colleagues that the study the article is about is flawed]

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

oh my. Wendell Berry in 1987. " I would hate to think that my work as a writer could not be done without a direct dependence on strip-mined coal...For the same reason, it matters to me that my writing is done in the daytime, without electric light."

a 1990s-era Earthlink explainer that reminds us of a time when we still had the power (and the ability) to accept - or refuse #othernetworks (pic taken by @nprofile1q...)