Today we're celebrating the two year anniversary of Bellingcat's Online Open Source Investigation Toolkit. The resource that helps you discover and use open source tools is maintained by a group of amazing volunteers. If you've not explored it yet, you can find it here: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
For anyone who has been doing their utmost to avoid "AI" discourse but feels like they can't anymore, I offer this encyclopedia entry as a starting point that will hopefully give you the broader context:
Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w agoBender 2026: Artificial Intelligence. (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society.) doi.org/10.1093/9780... Preprint: faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...
I'm starting to add A/UX to Infinite Mac (thanks to the awesome Snow emulator). An early version (with a few releases) is available at https://infinitemac.org/?filter=aux Would appreciate any leads for 1.0 or 1.0.1 install media (or pre-installed images), and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Julien Mailland's new book Soviet Blocks, published by @mitpress.bsky.social, offers an in-depth look at the machinations that brought Tetris to the West and made it into a consistently profitable piece of intellectual property. I've linked to my review on the Technology and Society blog.
Review of Soviet Blocks from The MIT Press - Technology and Society, Incorporated
Landing page for Technology and Society, Incorporated. Owner Curtis Frye is an online trainer and conference keynote speaker.
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Some sort of record here. Guy posts one video, never posts another for 13 years. Then he posts more. The Terrence Malick of youtubers. www.youtube.com/user/politiz...
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A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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acmsiggraph knocking it out of the park with some antiques m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aia8...
1985 Calculated Movements by Larry Cuba
YouTube video by ACMSIGGRAPH
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🏛️ Before the Internet, computer clubs helped people learn, trade software & explore personal computing. A surviving binder of 50 Atari newsletters from August 1987 offers a time capsule of that world. Explore the Atari collection & more computer history: blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a... 🧵
meet meat clarinet 🥩🪈
Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · last mo.In this Lingthusiasm zine, @gretchenmcculloch.com gets a little bit too enthusiastic about a horrifying metaphor to encourage you to explore the workings of your own meat clarinet For more zines and downloadable files to print your own, check out our zine page: lingthusiasm.com/zines
Wow. Blown away by this glowing review of Inventing ELIZA in the Wall Street Journal! My favorite line is that we were "talmudically annotating the code." archive.ph/fCcIy @sarahciston.com, @mitpress.bsky.social @wsj.com #critcode #ArtificialIntelligence #computerhistory #SoftwareHistory
The STEIM | Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music archive is so underused, with the most incredible live performances from a vast array of performers, such as Pole, Microstoria, Jan Jelinek. And these wonderful sessions from Pauline Oliveros. Dig in!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEv...
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basically you need to market these items to the sort of phoneticians/linguists who also delight in sharing those equally cursed robot vocal tract videos (me, probably a few other sickos) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qobh...
Motormouth Robot KTR-2 - Full Original Video
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*Haul out the hyperpolitical digital demagogues www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics
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To say I’m a fan of @onthemedia.bsky.social is a gross understatement. But even I heard this week’s episode and thought, “Ohmygawd, this show is unmatched.” Thank you for the amazing interview with @doctorow.pluralistic.net, @brookegladstone.bsky.social and team. pca.st/episode/caf8...
F@#$ the AI Overlords
The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week’s On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how even critical…
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jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2mo agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
The same gesture can mean different things, or have different names in different languages. In this Lingthusiasm zine, @superlinguo.bsky.social gets enthusiastic about these "emblem gestures" For more lingthusiastic zines: lingthusiasm.com/zines
Hello everybody, we've spent the last year working with the Coltrane Estate on our 2 x Blu-ray set containing nearly 9 hours of Alice Coltrane's 1980s television show ETERNITY'S PILLAR. It is being RELEASED TODAY! For full details and to purchase right now, please see: www.exoticmaterial.com
