The gap between adding a language to a model and including the community that speaks it in governance is not a technical limitation, writes Sofia Magdalena Olofsson. It is a political choice, she says. www.techpolicy.press/the-multilin...
Not sure I’ve ever gotten whiplash from a list of verbs before
Photo from today’s NYT of Artemis II Mission Control with CAPCOM (capsule communicator) sign visible in the foreground
From CAPCOM’s company history page: “The name CAPCOM is an abbreviation of CAPsule COMputer. This was a phrase symbolic of an internal company objective to create a new gaming experience that would exceed that of rival personal computers which had also been increasing in popularity during the same period. The "Capsule" segment of the CAPCOM name was based on 2 key concepts: "a container packed to the brim with fun" and "a desire to create securely packaged games to decrease the rapid expansion of pirated materials".
The two CAPCOMS
Poster for Weatherhead talk by me, "Japanese Approaches to the Computational Image," April 6, 2026, 12-1pm.
Giving a talk on my new research at @harvardusjapan.bsky.social this coming Monday at noon, in person and streaming!
Zoom registration at us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/japane...
They reset the link, so it should work now
I thought so, but yes I'm seeing the login too. Will check
Poster for Weatherhead talk by me, "Japanese Approaches to the Computational Image," April 6, 2026, 12-1pm.
Giving a talk on my new research at @harvardusjapan.bsky.social this coming Monday at noon, in person and streaming!
Zoom registration at us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/japane...
Cover to Lee Bul: Life and Work, eds. Doryun Chong and June Yeong Kwak, 2025
first pages of essay: Paul Roquet, "Karaoke and the One-Person Space"
Accompanying image from Lee Bul, "Live Forever II" installation view (2001)
I have a brief essay on karaoke enclosures in the new Lee Bul catalogue, part of a retrospective currently on at M+ (Hong Kong)
Exciting this is out -- lost count of how many times I've recommended people read the original dissertation
Glasses promising to lower your cognitive load that depend on you being too cognitively overloaded to realize you shouldn't be wearing them
Poster for Harvard East Asia Society conference: "Delineations" February 13-14, 2026 https://heasconference.hsites.harvard.edu/
If you're in the neighborhood this weekend, I'll be presenting the Saturday keynote at this Harvard conference. Part of my project on Japanese CGI beyond simulation. Really just here to share the slick poster design though
Wednesday night at the Global Mediations Lab: Paul North (co-editor of the new edition of Capital) joins us to talk mediation in Marx
That article makes me realize I don’t really care if students can recite the plot. It’s not about enforcing one particular form of attention. I do still dream of in-person screenings, because there are some things you just can’t perceive at all without a bigger screen, or a bigger group
11am/8pm (Boston time) tomorrow!
11am/8pm (Boston time) tomorrow!
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Join us!
Poster for "More Cultural Politics of the Computational Image," Friday Jan 23, 2026. Schedule SESSION 1. 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST Amitabh Vikram (Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University), “Holy Pixels: Temple CCTV, Darshan Livestreams, and Crowd Vision” Ann Wang (University of Pennsylvania), “Amphibious Tropics: Automation, Extraction, and the Imaging (Making) of Malaysia’s Geospatial Landscape” Hansun Hsiung (Durham University), “NHK Engineers Meet Media Theory: The Televisual Image in Japan’s ‘Informationalizing Society’” SESSION 2. 8:00 – 9:30 PM EST Ding-Liang Chen (National Tsing Hua University), “Prospecting Resource: Early Satellite Vision and War Ecologies in Southeast Asia” Joia Duskic (UCLA), “The Procession Does Not Proceed, It Gets Prompted from the Sidelines” Yedong Sh-Chen (Harvard University), “Under the Chinese Skin: A Digital Dermatology of Video Games” Register at https://globalmediations.mit.edu/cpci-workshop/
Join us for a follow-up conference to Cultural Politics of the Computational Image, this time online. Friday, January 23, day/night. Register for the zooms at: globalmediations.mit.edu/cpci-workshop/
NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...
Given ambient audio capture is now mainly being used in medical contexts to record interactions with patients, it's helpful to think of Meta et al.'s 'always recording' strategy as basically turning all of life into one endless doctor's appointment
TIL about the tradition of satirical computer vision papers that propose using computer vision to automate the recognition of 'good' computer vision papers
Congrats, looks great!
“In the rare cases when the bot makes a mistake, they strap on a VR headset and use joysticks to manually control grasp and place the drink back on the shelf […] In a typical eight-hour shift, they take over the robot about 50 times, and it takes up to five minutes each time to resolve the error.”
NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:
Hurrah, congrats!
Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.
Conversely, if you taught classes approaching AR/VR critically, that learning is just as relevant today ; )
A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.
Meta deleted the evidence.
New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Shocked, shocked, I tell you