New demo update for Sparrow Warfare is live! This time around we concentrated on bug fixes and a shiny new menu because the game is already a banger. store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

Sparrow Warfare - Patch Notes, v0.6.9 - Steam News

Dozens of bug fixes, a new menu, and a credits sequence.

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Coming up next Saturday: Matéria Escura Digital / Digital Dark Matter opens at gnration 10 October, 16:00. I will present a new video-installation exploring the opacity that is marbled into advanced visual technologies. www.gnration.pt/event/2026/m...

These are the charts behind AI narratives. This, as far as I understand, is the end goal.

Ben Zipperer@benzipperer.org · 2d ago

Libraries do not mess around.

My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes

In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’

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BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".

I recently sat down with Andrés Isaza for a studio visit and conversation about the material and conceptual research for my upcoming show Matéria Escura Digital at @gnration The exhibition will run from 9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027. youtube.com/watch?v=BJu2jn-TTRw

Digital Dark Matter / Matéria Escura Digital

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I'm baaaack! This week I returned to @akademiesolitude.bsky.social for the second half of my fellowship.

@carvalhais.org and I have an entry on Algorithmic Listening in Listening Glossary The book is edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and comes out 8 October. You can already preorder it here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Listening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch

In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.

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I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨

Tips For Starting Your Own Business https://theonion.com/tips-for-starting-your-own-business/

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

'Williamina Fleming (standing) supervises the team of (underpaid) women “computers” at the Harvard College Observatory as they help map the universe – one star at a time' US, 1875 (via Smithsonian Insider) #WomensArt

Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.social

Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI

How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin

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New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026

Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...

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It was an honor to chair such a rich paper session at @xcoax.org Thank you so much to the presenters and their coauthors for their thoughtful discussions. My travel was supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) as part of the COST Action CA23158 – Artistic Intelligence.

decided I’m going to start entering a more maximalist/baroque era of making incredibly stupid memes

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”

What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"

Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT

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Rosemary Lee & Risk Hazekamp presenting "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care" at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week @machineagency.bsky.social frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

@verenafriedrich.bsky.social presenting at #UNLOOP

#UNLOOP symposium is underway!➰➿💚 @carvalhais.org @ordeposodrac.bsky.social

UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media. I’ll present the EZ QUALITY SORTER, an installation that turns visitors into unwitting data labelers. Also, I'm looking forward to visiting Porto! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/

this is such a devastating thread but so important to bear witness to the harm the psychopaths have caused

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Do not make tribes, this will only strengthen the social order that will be imposed upon you. Do not willingly gather into mono-cultures. Do not become neatly sorted, labelled, and categorized. It will only take a single blight to wipe you out, because you will be sorted by your weaknesses. 6/7

"Convenience happens to be capitalist ideology. If art must take the shortest route to its effects, we've submitted to that ideology. Yet art can be enormously inconvenient! Art can luxuriate. Wander. Its distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies"

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I wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous

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Last week we had an inspiring visit from astronaut Peggy Whitson where she talked about her extraordinary life and experiences. She has been instrumental in facilitating FBAUP and FAUP joining the Axiom Space University Alliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1o...

FBAUP e FAUP passam a integrar a Axiom Space University Alliance

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