'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
Rosemary Lee
@machineagency.bsky.social
Artist Integrated Researcher, University of Porto i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts+Engineering Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024 https://rosemary-lee.com
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/
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 · last mo.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"
Art for Our Sakes | Zadie Smith
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
YouTube video by Universidade do Porto
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#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.
Why Slop Matters
AI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social functi...
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In "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care", Risk Hazekamp and I will share an ongoing conversation on witnessing More-Than-Human co-researchers' expressions of agency, reflecting on the forms of 'violent care' that arise from our blind spots. frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop
This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)
photo from my talk "neither x nor y — but another secret third thing" at IV Art at the Edge of Nature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid 📸: Marcos Burgos
sweet relief to wake up on a Saturday in a dying empire and find the autocrat did not execute another of his signature Friday night massacres and invade an island ladies and gentleman the weekend
This week I am presenting at IV Art at the Edge of Nature. Biocreative Responsibilities and Awareness at La Trasera, Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM. May 21-2 2026 2: photo: Camila Mangueira, 2025
🚫 No GMOs through the back door! The EU plans to allow untested, unlabelled #newGMOs on our fields & plates. Only the EU Parliament supports traceability & labelling, but this is now at risk. Email your MEPs now to protect our safety & right to choose 👇 demeter.net/no-gmos-thro... #IChooseGMOfree
No GMOs through the back door! - Demeter International
Ask your politicians to maintain our freedom of choice by keeping new GMOs regulated and labelled. We want to know what we eat and grow!
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if you ever think your research proposal is too ambitious or, I guess, if you think that only the latest generation of AI bros are overly optimistic, recall the original funding proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop on AI:
The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. n.pr/4vOA1P6
EU approves a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto
The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock.
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As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162
e-flux Journal #162 April 2026 - e-flux
with contributions by Elena Vogman, Matteo Pasquinelli, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Alla Vronskaya, Aleksei Gastev, Evgenii Petrov, Aleksandra Selivanova, Devin Fore, Kalindi Vora, N...
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On Thursday, I will give a talk titled "Calculating Images" at the arteciencIA symposium in Santiago de Compostela. The conference will be streamed, so you are welcome to join us remotely. My talk is 13:00-14:00 CEST. More info here: arteciencia.org
