Error 417 Expectation Failed | Error 406 Not Acceptable The funding program Error 406 Not Acceptable supports open processes and risky art projects through an annual open call. Each edition highlights a different urgent topic, setting the focus on a condit...

error417.expectation.fail/406 interesting call.

Some healthy enactivism for the AI agency debate <3

Professorship Memory Cultures TH Köln is one of the most innovative universities of applied sciences and a member of the university alliance UAS 7. We offer 21,000 students and 1,...

We are looking for a professor of Memory Cultures at TH Köln. Come work with us! karriere.th-koeln.de/job/view/157...

Professorship Memory Cultures TH Köln is one of the most innovative universities of applied sciences and a member of the university alliance UAS 7. We offer 21,000 students and 1,...

We are looking for a professor of Memory Cultures at TH Köln. Come work with us! karriere.th-koeln.de/job/view/157...

A screenshot of our website featuring a collage image with a historical map, the old Yahoo! interface, and a historical index. We also see the class: surfing, browsing, scrolling, crawling: web search and digital discovery

Tomorrow in Search & Discovery we explore *digital discovery* + ask: what the hell happened to web search? We’re going to Google to contrast commercial search with alternative genealogies: library discovery + speculative / activist exploratory tools

crossreference.wordsinspace.net/spring2026/w...

infinite scrolling der renaissance

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Location: Lyubertsy, RU
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#shodansafari #infosec

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social!

deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly.

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Tolman's Sunburst Maze 80 Years on: A Meta‐Analysis Reveals Poor Replicability and Little Evidence for Shortcutting In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...

Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts?

Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze.

Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think.
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@uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

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Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

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narrator: no, it cannot

Time to plug Alexander Peterhaensel's Voting Booth (2017) alexanderpeterhaensel.com/voting-booth...

This is amazing. I am sharing this with the people in our gestaltung.ai/en project, who are looking into similar approaches to DIY compute, unlearn.gestaltung.ai/de/article/r...

A worker sorts through a large pile of e-waste in an industrial facility, highlighting the environmental impact of discarded electronics.

We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?

In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.

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if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

6.1 Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research 6.1 Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research: Promoting Plurality and Equity

At DRS 2026, we are hosting a track about Innovating Scientific Publishing of Design Research: Promoting Plurality and Equity. The call is open until October 31: drs2026.thedrs.org/6-1-innovati...

Photograph of three shelves with books, plus posters showing their covers. The books are the three un/learn AI books from our research project https://gestaltungai

The books are here! Come to kind-lab.de/transform2025/ to see them.

Photograph of three shelves with books, plus posters showing their covers. The books are the three un/learn AI books from our research project https://gestaltungai

The books are here! Come to kind-lab.de/transform2025/ to see them.

Banner saying Transform. Conference on AI, Art, Design and Society, September 24-27, 2025

Join us next week to reflect on AI, Art, Design, and Society at Transform 2025 in Trier! We are looking back at four years of gestaltung.ai/en, release a few books and meet for presentations and an exhibition! kind-lab.de/transform2025/

Bad Keyboards Thread:

So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin.

Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard:
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Ekphrasis Fall 2025

A whole issue of Dilettante Army on ekphrasis — from the method's origins; to image description / alt text + accessibility, to AI-based pattern recognition; to practices of describing films and maps and photobooks; to extremists' paranoid forensic *over*-analysis of memes + videos

Your last save pic is your moral philosophy.

Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access | Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis

Here is our article for aarhus2025.org on Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access wherein we reflect on the potential of designing accessibility not as a technical obligation, but as a situated, co-creative process. Based on work at kisd.de with un-label.eu dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access | Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis

Here is our article for aarhus2025.org on Infrastructuring for Aesthetics of Access wherein we reflect on the potential of designing accessibility not as a technical obligation, but as a situated, co-creative process. Based on work at kisd.de with un-label.eu dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...