"I call for a 'general poetics' of computational-cultural forms that include a renewed study of ideology and rhetoric under the formal conditions of the algorithmic reproducibility of language."
- @leifw.bsky.social Language Machines, p. 2
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AI feeds on already-broken systems
I’m sorry, I can’t accept that this article will be published in 2030 as my training data extends only to 2025
I’m going to ablate “wait” from your vocabulary
Great point! These aren’t having feelings, as you correctly point out. Would you like me to redraft this post to incorporate this viewpoint?
Imagining an AI getting sad as it learns that its accepted academic paper won’t be published until 2030
Another day, another book talk 📚
4 March 2026
6.30 CET / 12.30pm EST ⏰
Thanks to the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Basel for the invitation.
The talk is online and open to the public 💻🌍
Link (with registration): tinyurl.com/DigitalTheory
987 responses a version of "FUK_COIN on the rise and only available at [QR code]"
No worries if not just extremely interested in this one - reading the papers associated already
Is this streamed?
Correct Ty
Glenn Billy Glenn Joel
If you’re around NYU next week, join us! We have a very exciting list of speakers lined up
Defund the humanities?
thanks Deirdre! will be in Boston next year :)
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The Gell-Mann amnesia effect, but for coding agents.
Andrew?
Literary Theory 101
Many such cases
Fuck does bran not actually help?
Mb it was Captain Hook and when he lost the hand they were like ooohhh
I hear taste is eating Silicon Valley
Everyone is Maxxing when they should be Marxxxing
The corollary to this is that figuring out how to do reliable evals and tests for tasks other than code — incl fuzzy, subjective tasks — has become a critical bottleneck and will receive a great deal of attention.
Softwarization will be uneven and weirdly distributed for this reason
Optimist: AI has achieved human level performance!
Realist: “AI” is a collection of brittle hacks that, under very specific circumstances, mimic the surface level of human intelligence
Pessimist: AI HAS achieved human level performance
bureaucracy stays winning
