New work from me in AI & Society: "Systems Programming the Model" theorizes LLMs as systems-level objects. Agentic AI makes this obvious now, but my argument is that LLMs have always been systems +
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him)
You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser
We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩
I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!
Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.
Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.
Better questions:
Has misogyny failed women?
Has gendered violence failed women?
Has chronically unequal pay failed women?
Has inadequate childcare failed women?
Has the end of SNAP failed women?
Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?
Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!
For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.
www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...
it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!!
thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!!
and among such amazing books!!!
www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...
4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.
"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..."
hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...
More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
Here are some common scans used to diagnose and surveil cancer:
www.cancercouncil.com.au/news/10-comm...
Here are some resources for folks interested in number stations:
99percentinvisible.org/episode/numb...
Yet the “recognition,” (in numb.station) is more accurately understood as misrecognition, as these sounds functionally become gibberish. An interference signal broadcasts into the hollow space between these two logics. Listen carefully and jot down as many numbers as you can possibly recognize. 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣
In numb.station, speech-to-text methods “listen” to these scrambled, reassembled sounds. Sounds recognized as numbers by software are broadcast using a software-defined radio (SDR) transceiver over FM radio.
The 2nd work is an excerpt from “numb.station,” utterances of numbers drawn from collections of archived cold-war era numbers stations and machine listening datasets are broken into very short segments and reassembled.
The enhance-redact images are iteratively looped thru a process of transcoding to slow-scan television (SSTV), broadcast, reception, image enhancement, & image analysis. Textual descriptions of objects identified in the enhanced images are broadcast as radio-teletype (RTTY).
The 1st is from “enhance-redact (cancer surveillance study #1).” It operates on a series of medical images produced as part of cancer surveillance of their body.
The episode is divided between two durational transmission-based projects @aphid.org built using open-source software, software defined radio, and collections of media.
Please checkout Transmission Ecologies Ep.41 featuring Abram. They were invited by resident host and fellow artist and educator Afroditi Psarra! ☺️
I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲
stegi.radio/show/transmi...
