Now the book promotion scammer emails im getting are impersonating well-know culture figures and journalists from quality venues and like niche high culture media, so I’m sorry in advance to anyone real that i unintentionally ignore going forward! 🫩

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"EU rules aim to stem the flood of this deceptive content: starting from Sunday, artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look authentic must be labelled." So more pop-ups then? Return of the 90s internet but now bluntly bureaucratic www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real

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"A study done in Phoenix done by Arizona State University found data centres can increase air temperatures by up to 4 degrees Fahrenheit in downwind neighbourhoods. The waste heat given off by one data centre as it cooled itself exceeded the amount produced by 40,000 households."

CNN@cnn.com · 6d ago

New research suggests data centers have an alarming and overlooked environmental impact: heat pollution. CNN's Laura Paddison reports.

RIP Raoul Vaneigem 1934-2026 A good run for a radical leftist and an influential legacy

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

”Do not question the broadest claims about AI. I cannot emphasize this enough. If someone says ’AI is changing everything’, just let it pass if your goal is to fix an object-level problem rather than challenge the reality at the institution.” 💀 hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani...

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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So now I'm left wondering which junior person at the ad agency deliberately decided to use "Five Years," correctly betting that no one on Meta's team would realize it's about the end of the world.

Amanda Silberling@amanda.omg.lol · 2w ago

this broke me techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/m...

I wrote a double review for Screen on two books that deal with photography, depth, and the body: academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

Robert L. Bowen, The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images; Brooke Belisle, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation Brooke Belisle, Depth Effects: Dimensio...

In the summer of 2016 I found myself standing in line on the terrace at the top of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, waiting for a chance to see artist Jon Ra

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The whole of the news media just taking tech companies and the hype machine at their word without actually thinking about things critically is getting old 🫩 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...

OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Hacked Into Hugging Face, a Digital Library

The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.

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I wrote a double review for Screen on two books that deal with photography, depth, and the body: academic.oup.com/screen/artic...

Robert L. Bowen, The Human Shutter: Photographs, Stereoscopic Depth, and Moving Images; Brooke Belisle, Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation Brooke Belisle, Depth Effects: Dimensio...

In the summer of 2016 I found myself standing in line on the terrace at the top of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, waiting for a chance to see artist Jon Ra

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A developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...

'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."

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This thread is so deeply depressing to read

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

So much for the information superhighway✌🏻of course it’s ads all the way down

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

The last 5 minutes of that Cabo Verde Spain match had me sweating like it was the champions league final 😅 absolutely incredible goalkeeping

The memes are yet another example of the contrast between what AI companies say in public about its potential power and benefit versus the reality of how the people who help create these AI tools use and criticize them internally. www.404media.co/sloppenheime...

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company’s AI on Slack

Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

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This account/comment is making the rounds right now. My friends, this is an AI-generated profile picture and clearly a political spam operation don’t engage with this crap

Wow. I used to teach at CUNY colleges — NYers of all ethnicities attend bc costs are low. I think ppl don’t understand how unique and diverse the CUNY system is (11 individual senior colleges, 7 CCs, Grad Center etc). This is not like an ivy trying to recruit ppl of color to a solitary institution 🙄

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon: "What CUNY is doing is disproportionately favoring African American men and students in general, and this is illegal. They could lose funds."

Just heard that UofC historian of photography Joel Snyder passed away. Here's a great quote from him: "When people talk about indexicality, they generally confuse photons with objects, and they think it is objects that are necessarily indexed by photographs."

It’s profoundly depressing seeing friends who are addicted to chatGPT e.g. asking chatGPT for medical advice without any kind of assumption it is often wrong. And to think we thought webMD was bad back in the day

This is by far the dumbest corporate AI story… even dumber than the google AI overview suggesting eating rocks stuff. LLMs cant be trusted with real things www.404media.co/email/f2ac17...

Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.

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How chuffed with himself do you think AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky was when he got this angle on Putin

This is what happens when you replace customer service with an AI chatbot: Instagram users getting hacked in the dumbest possible way. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Professur für Digital Humanities in Graz jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/12b6...

www.totei.com/story/trevor...

Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

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Quelle surprise… that’s also exactly what happens when AI tools are used to write. Can we stop pretending these tools are good for something other than pattern recognition and replication?

The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics@iethics.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"Researchers have used top Generative #AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately": www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-u... #ethics #tech

I just randomly had a flashback to when the CMS made us capitalize internet… they only changed it in 2017!

I called the Eiffel Tower a strange-looking tower to try to explain Paris to my son and my Paris-raised husband took offense. Listen bud, I taught architectural history I know what I’m talking about. In my professional opinion it looks super weird for a ”tower”

Watch me crush a dying man’s dreams of having discovered a da Vinci painting on Swedish public television: www.svtplay.se/video/jMdmpB...

ARSENAL 🥹