Lori Emerson

exactly what I hope for too! my favorite pro-radio slogan is to point out that unlike wired networks that require the resources of nations and/or global corporations, the electromagnetic spectrum is a natural resource whose potentiality lies around all of us, at all times, like air #othernetworks

both! techniques for harnessing the electromagnetic spectrum, whether audible or not

👆 one possible justification for my belief that radio is the future 2/2

just as Francis Bacon understood that the technology of print was latent in writing itself, so too is the technology of radio latent in the internet (in both conceptualization and functioning) and increasingly becoming visible as the technology that lies beyond the internet--? #othernetworks 1/2

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system 🦩

it feels these days like about one in every three professors here is deeply depressed at any given time…and we have it pretty good here

“You are now using Google Gemini”? Oh no I am not delete @developers.google.com #refuseAI

these days radio artists & writers from the Black radical tradition are the ones giving me joy, inspiration. at a workshop last night by Chilean radio artist Rodrigo Ríos Zunino: "when you listen to community radio you are listening to the sound of community itself" #radioisthefuture #othernetworks

THANK YOU! I will pass that on. I'm not sure about details but I know AAUP Boulder is co-sponsoring

black background. yellow text reads "TEACH-IN ON AI: CU'S CHATGPT DEAL, THE PLANET, AND YOU." white text "MARCH 3 TUESDAY 4:00-4:30PM CTL CASE E390." green text: TOPICS: / ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY / INHERENT BIASES & CIVIL RIGHTS / SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE / SURVEILLANCE & MILITARIZATION / LABOUR & SOCIETY / IMPACT ON LEARNING &SCHOLARSHIP / ALTERNATIVES"

feeling mighty proud today of all the fantastic colleagues across campus who have started organizing to fight the incursion of LLM's / ChatGPT on campus. we're doing a teach-in today at 4pm! #ai #refusechatgpt

Pelptic Ulcer

Pelptic Ulcer, 1983
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5253

this is 18th century philosopher David Hume telling us to get off social media: "Only in the absence of lively impressions & heated passions will the brain be willing to succumb to the pursuit of reason--the tracing of a cognitive logic of ideas, often against customary association..." (D. Bates)

it's tricky because his thinking is dispersed across many books - but, for an archivist, I do think _Does Writing Have a Future?_ is probably the most relevant

have you seen the grid pads and notebooks you can get from Princeton Architectural Press? my absolute favorites

but with the Smithson, somehow that heap of language has always made my mouth water - delicious looking raw material

that's a wonderful origin story! I had a similar experience with Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems when I was 21 or 22 - to think that poetry could be light, silly, fun, use words like "ploop" and somehow deeply lyrical was life-changing

I've loved it for such a long time and I still can't quite articulate why

I don't know how I became a person who feels somewhat confident in saying "I get and might even appreciate Heidegger's late work" but here we are. and you know, my new/old pal Flusser agrees with me.

and also yessss Wynter is still a goal...I'm sorry I keep getting waylaid with other responsibilities - putting it back on my list of things to do

I just happened to have ordered a copy for our library! excellent to hear

excellent affirmations - thank you! these are both on my list

ty! this is good to hear - I ordered a copy of the catalog a few days ago

thank you for this! I am daunted and quite excited at the prospect of digging into Sun Ra...

Robert Smithson. A heap of Language. 1966 | MoMA Robert Smithson. A heap of Language. 1966. Pencil on graph paper. 6 1/2 × 22" (16.5 × 55.9 cm). Gift of Jan Christiaan Braun in honor of Agnes Gund and Marie-Josée Kravis in appreciation of their extr...

for Vilém Flusser, hens are also intelligent and astute readers (if not writers) in their ability to select signs from a heap--whether peas or corn kernels. both Flusser and hens would like Smithson's "Heap of Language" from 1966 www.moma.org/collection/w...

In this week's class we're exploring the past/present/future of reference resources — dictionaries, almanacs, field guides — and the kinds of search + discovery they made/make possible. Feeling lots of nostalgia for their analog completism, the absence of algo's delivering tailored results, etc 🥹

I sent myself an email to myself last night, subject line “self vaporization.” I must have really been on to something!

Coleco Head to Head baseball handheld game

Mattel Electronics Basketball handheld game

Maxtron Football Electronic Game handheld game

Atari Touch Me handheld game

new handhelds, who dis?

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ever noticed that we've got a hard time sharing our hours in a coherent way? well... we're trying something new. all the hours postings, events, and calendars in one place. thanks, neocities.org, for existing. you're the best.

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in which case, the writing is a laborious undertaking, or the writing is effortless, in which case, it will quickly become illegible."

"the better a memory is, the more laborious it is to dig into it...; the easier it is to dig into it...the more quickly the information dug into it will disappear. Either writing remains legible for a long time, +