Johanna Rodehau-Noack

@jrodehaun.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Fordham University | international security, war, science, technology rodehaunoack.com | she/her

watching ken burns’ civil war as a german is an interesting experience because it features different renditions of john brown’s body/the battle hymn of the republic, which i know as a german children’s song about learning to read

I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:

JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON
FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION

ZIZEK: that Al will be the death of social media & so on; to this, I say NO! The AI user shares content, which has been created by AI, other AI users like and comment & we are free! While the 'socializing' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to do whatever we want

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2y ago

Meta confirms they plan to add tons of AI-generated users to Facebook and Instagram They will have bios, profile pics and can share content (via Financial Times)

It would be fun to have sideline reporters at academic conferences. Reporter: "Prof. Rothman, how do you come back from such a devastating Q&A? They really hammered you out there." Me: "All we can do is go back to the archives, find more evidence, and then just trust the process, Helen."