A Special Request
Pledge Drive Season Is Upon Us
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Talk: Slop Infrastructures
What happens when AI image models meet social media algorithms? What is the infrastructure of Slop? How does it get made, and how can we make sense of it? In this 15-minute video, I walk through the slop pipeline as an interconnected social-technical system, fusing generative AI and
Understanding as Proof of Error
Clarice Lispector, Translation, and Artificial Intelligence 💡Nerd Warning: 1/5 (Low). I'm a writer who fears the snare of words: the words I say hide others - Which? Maybe I'll say them. – Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life To translate a work of literature is to select
Reading "The Market in the Model"
💡Nerd Alert: I have a new pre-print up, called "The Market in the Model." It was written as a preliminary outline of my PhD dissertation, which means it's dense, and this presents a stripped-down version of it. I have a new paper! Here'
On Flocks
💡Nerd Rating: Not nerdy but probably boring, as it is an attempt to respond thoughtfully to a social media conversation that I found challenging to address on BlueSky's very limited reply functions. A few weeks ago, after a very successful "noisy systems" conference in Rome, I