Lars Lundgren
@larsewlundgren.bsky.social
Media and Communication Studies @ Södertörn University. No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure (MIT, 2023).
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 +
“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.
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Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:
Why the AI backlash has turned violent
And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.
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YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...
(1/n) My new (edited) book is out! 'Cosmic Fragments: Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age.' Out from @upittpress.bsky.social, the book has 18 scholars weigh in on aspects of space, esp deleterious phenomena, that rarely get foregrounded in celebratory narratives. Most critically..
Postdoc position for Digital Vulnerabilities in Södertörn university DL April 3. The full job opening is available here eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden
Digital sårbarhet i den automatiserade välfärden - Ingen beskrivning.
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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...
Institute for the Study of War
Russian forces currently occupy around 20 percent of Ukraine, leaving the remaining 80 percent of the country under Ukraine's sovereign control. At the current rate of advance, it would take Russian f...
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*glances up from mashing sweet potatoes* Do you want children to be completely ill-prepared for understanding social media when they turn 16? And you know how you enforce it, truly? You ID everyone. It’s totally age verification internet for everyone.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoAustralia imposed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world’s most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. But many details are still unclear, such as how it will be enforced. nyti.ms/3Zbp1vL
AI in schools is a huge market opportunity for the tech industry, but it's also a massive public problem and requires much better oversight. Our report on this for the National Education Policy Center tried to ring the alarm bell on AI in schools earlier this year nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ai
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2y agoHonestly, this should be ringing alarm bells everywhere — if OpenAI is successful in this effort, it would mark the biggest intrusion into general education of Silicon Valley yet, giving it power to shape lesson plans and course generation, and locking schools into enterprise contracts.
one of the best books in media studies this year! a tour de force in blue humanities
Lisa Yin Han@thehanopticon.bsky.social · 2y agoFor those who don't know me, a quick intro to my work! This is Deepwater Alchemy, published this year via @uminnpress.bsky.social! You can grab a copy and hear me talk about it on The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social and the UMN Podcast under the extras here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791594...
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Stephen Buono (Soc'y of Fellows, U of Chicago)’s rvw of Christine E. Evans (UW-Milwaukee) & @larsewlundgren.bsky.social (Södertörn Uni)’s bk _No Heavenly Bodies: A Hist of Satellite Communication Infrastructure_ 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social Rvw avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 2y agoNew book review: Buono on Evans, Christine E.; Lundgren, Lars: _No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communication Infrastructure_. MIT Press, 2023. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20050606...
