Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms: Why it’s good to be bored

Defending Our Consciousness Against the Algorithms

We are about to do something cool with it 😎

Cover image for "Death of a Software Developer" on isthisanart.substack.com. Dark green-tinted composite of two images: the upper half shows what appears to be a detail of a figurative oil painting, the lower half shows multiple monitors displaying code — looks like Solidity smart contract output and Python terminal errors. The title is set in large white serif type.

Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding

open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

Kelani Nichole (@kelani.bsky.social) of @transfergallery.bsky.social at #TDA2026 on decentralised archives and artist-owned preservation. A strong case for new models of care and governance in digital art.

Baby Vera saw stars UP in the sky for the first time 🌟 happy equinox

Deep in the hop little bunnies industrial complex

Same. Deal with it.

Alan Warburton Alan Warburton is a critical artist-theorist using and reflecting on computer graphics, machine learning, artificial intelligence , virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D animation, motion graphics an...

If you’re looking for a short film that tackles AI, computer vision, data and power, Alan Warburton’s three-and-a-half minute “Image Empire” is a brilliant scratch for that itch. If you’re teaching critical AI, it’s ideal. Has a very accessible paper attached too. alanwarburton.co.uk/image-empire

Agentic AI development: I feel like detectives but we’re not really doing anything

Vibing with a team of 4 bots and, well, this shit is WILD.

‘Productivity’ and terror and awe and existential slippage, all in a days work.

𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙎𝙁𝙀𝙍 𝘿𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙙: 𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙉𝙀𝙏, a 10 year ongoing project by @transfergallery on view at @nguyenwahedart in #NYC thru Mar 7. Here are a few clips of my 5m 30s 3-channel video ‘Model of Me’ that weaves in physical sculptures I’m making in the studio & features my avatar of 9 years, C.A.R.L.A G.A.N.

HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS! A screenshot of a link with a question mark followed by a seemingly random string of characters. These are source identifiers. Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="

This thing 🫴

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

🫩👎 here we go again …

Trying to catch up on this… what’s the tl;dr ?

Wheat paste poster that says the all the world is dying and the new world struggles to be born now is the time of monsters. There's a picture of Elmo

Morning walk

Homepage screenshot showing a node animation and the headline ‘TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist owned archive’

TRANSFER has evolved from a gallery into Data Co-op for Contemporary Art.

Introducing a New Model of Data Stewardship: After 2 years of dedication and development, our vision of an artist-owned archive and conservation network that’s free of dependencies on big tech is live 💫

🌐 TRANSFER.art/trust

Been thinking about this.

Social Media is the new Titanic and trump is the iceberg

Seminar: Kelani Nichole Presents On Transfer Data Trust · Zoom · Luma TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network. Our mission is to maintain artworks in perpetuity, ensuring…

Join us on Wednesday July 23 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: @kelani.bsky.social presents on Transfer Data Trust.

​TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network. (​http://transfer.art

Learn more and register here - lu.ma/wondemt3

How to use Bluesky to grow your brand - atpotato A comprehensive guide for companies, communities, and creators looking to establish and grow their presence on Bluesky.

Bluesky is good for brands, and it’s never been a better time to use it as a communication & growth channel! Best part? It’s easy.

Whether you’re a content creator, a social media manager, or an activist leading a community, there’s something here for you.

Read our guide to get started:

A typewritten sheet of paper containing Walter Benjamin’s IX thesis in German.

Walter Benjamin’s typed manuscript draft of his IX thesis, describing the Angel of History propelled into the future while facing the growing catastrophe of the past.

The future is bouncy

im here to learn so :)))))) | Zach Blas im here to learn so :)))))) is a four-channel video installation that resurrects Tay, an artificial intelligence chatbot.

zachblas.info/works/im-her... (TRANSFER placed this work with the Whitney Museum of American Art 🥰 Tay 4evr)

The Uber/Lyft pickup area at Minneapolis/St.Paul Airport is absolutely sane, we can have nice things.

Federal Arts Funding Withdrawn from Gray Area Last Friday, Gray Area received confirmation that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has canceled our $50,000 grant, which had been awarded to support this year’s Gray Area Festival. This puts ...

If you have $10 to spare, @grayarea.org is trying to make up for a cancelled NEA grant to organize its annual festival, one of the few in the US “addressing the most urgent topics in technology and society through radical artistic inquiry.” Give if you can! ⬇️

This is my second scripted post for DWeb for Creators

This is a test, I'm posting from a script

20TB of storage in the stroller is how I roll

Don’t miss Eva Papamargariti at Eugster Belgrade !