@supercamilla
Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.bsky.social Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science. Academic hedge witch.
The free "DIY Web Archiving" zine by me, @ilya.webrecorder.net @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me covers a friendly (even for kids!) intro to using Webrecord (+other methods) to preserve things you care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...
Wonderful commentary by @nancybaym.bsky.social - "It's Bad. Now What?" Manages to encapsulate what so many of the conversations I've had with other digital media scholars the last year or two have centred around. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
We set up a mailing list for the reading group too, with the list of future meetings. There's a link to register for hybrid attendance if you're interested. lists.uib.no/list.uib.no/...
Our next Critical AI Theory Reading Group meeting is coming up on Tuesday at noon Norway time. We're reading @ryanheuser.com's paper doi.org/10.22148/001... - if you've read the paper and want to discuss it, join us in the glass house at CDN.
Ukas overskrift og årets ord
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... they're building data center construction company towns, cool, normal
There’s a spectrum from
A) using AI as a tool for humanistic problems, to
B) using the humanities to steer or improve AI, to
C) using the humanities to describe or critique AI.
The computational hermeneutics paper is both B and C; it’s also possible to do both A and B — or all three.
maybe if humanity outsources all functional, formal, boring writing to LLMs then we get to finally embrace total grammatical anarchy as signs of humans, redo the language in leetspeak and slangs not yet imagined -- watch me produce next token with so much perplexity that oceans evaporate
New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)
davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has told a judge that it is not able to comply with his order to begin refunding tariffs.
I dag beskrev jeg til kollega at katter i flertall på mer enn tre eksisterer ikke i hierarkiske strukturer men i kunnskapsgraflignende sammensetninger mens 3 og mindre kun eksisterer i pseudo-hierarkiske forhold.
Hehe. Har doktorgrad i bibliotek- og informasjonsvitenskap da. 😌
I love this for them
If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?
Professional UX designers (and to extent, all creatives) are less wowed by all this because being able to mock something up quickly is a skill we learned very early on.
And the thing you do with that mock after you make it is that you critique it. Separate yourself from the object.
First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her
“Do the strategies employed by subjects of empire offer productive models of resistance and subversion?”
In the penultimate piece in our AI series, @megsmith.bsky.social offers vignettes from early modern Ireland that could suggest productive models of resistance.
www.nacbs.org/post/contest...
OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭
Next up, @eliterature.bsky.social has a call out for talks on "Creative Responses to Coding and AI: from Infrastructure to Output" -- this includes open weight models, thinking about open source futures, and approaches to agents / claws / skills, etc. mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web... (2/3)
It is unfortunate that this clip stays relevant but for as long as it is relevant I'll keep reposting it
Bluesky is where all the coolest 50-somethings hang out and refer to the youngest posters (age 38) as kids
Når du inviterer til ÅPEN høring men det koster penger å delta. 🙄
DHKO sin 4. konferanse er i år hos Høgskolen i Østfold! Bli med og del gjerne 💓💓
#digitslhumaniora #bibliosky #arkivsky
USS Gerald R. Ford's toilet crisis drags on amid deployment near Iran: The U.S. Navy's largest and most expensive aircraft carrier is facing persistent plumbing problems that have left large portions of its bathroom system out of action while the ship remains deployed amid rising tensions linked to Iran. 2 days ago
According to Wang, prolonged deployment at sea undermines crew morale and mental well- being, thereby weakening combat effectiveness. Moreover, malfunctions in the Ford's toilet system itself further amplified the problem. Crew members throwing objects into the toilets also exposes lax discipline within the ranks. Wang explained that vacuum sewage systems are in fact an advanced technology and are widely used on most commercial vessels today. However, they depend on strict compliance with operating regulations by crew members. When personnel are subjected to prolonged, high-intensity readiness tasks, their mental state inevitably changes, making it difficult to maintain strict discipline over an extended period, Wang said.
NBC News IRAN U.S. and Iran hold new talks as Trump raises pressure for nuclear deal The third round of indirect negotiations were taking place Thursday in Geneva as President Donald Trump threatens Tehran with possible military action.
OMG!
So the USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. largest, most expensive aircraft carrier en route to Iran, has been stalled.
Why?
Because of plumbing issues.
Apparently the crew are deliberately clogging the toilets in an effort to stave off WWIII!
This explains the last minute talks.
Bro, WUTT??? 🤣
Meta said subcontracted workers might sometimes review content, including films and images, captured by its AI smart glasses for the purpose of improving the "experience". Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP). "We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies," one worker reportedly said.
Meta takes the protection of people's data very seriously, which is why their subcontractors are watching your amateur porn as they surf user data for credit card numbers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo
Noen som er fysne på vedde å mot meg om at når jeg spør NRK om hvordan denne undersøkelsen er utført, så dukker det opp minst en ting som gjør det ytterst tvilsomt å presentere resultatene på denne måten?
Jeg skjønner jo problemstillingen på makronivå om at hvis man skal opprettholde et lite språk som norsk så er det viktig at folk leser på norsk, men jeg får likevel litt utslett av denne negative vinklingen på at folk velger å lese bøker på originalspråket istedenfor i oversettelse.
Første gang for meg: vi er så få i flyet at folk begynte å sette seg hvor de ville og det har betydd at de nå ikke kan ta av fordi de har oppdaget at de må rejustere og flytte rundt på folk så det blir mer... Likevekt?
