I used AI. It worked. I hated it. I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

That tracks, doesn't it. This is quite a balanced write up on the coding end of things: taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

How does this sit with your (lovely) paper arguing about reverse centaurs? It seems at least some of these people are happy to play that role. I'm super curious about the idea that we end up with different meanings for what used to be commonly understood concepts once the models get hold of them.

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

White text on pink square: PLUNDERPHOWENICS

I made a @weefuzzy.bsky.social themed plunderphonics album.

Great news for people with ears and short attention spans who love copyright infringement.

harlequinade.bandcamp.com/album/plunde...

The environmental impact of digital streaming The carbon footprint of streaming - whether music or video - adds up significantly on a global scale. While video streaming is more energy-intensive per hour, music streaming’s widespread and continuous use means its overall emissions remain substantial. A look at the total streaming hours and emissions across platforms reveals the scale of digital entertainment’s environmental impact: Netflix (2024) Disney+ (2024) Amazon Prime Video (2024) YouTube (2024) Pornhub (2024) Spotify (2024) Total streaming hours (billion) 94 5.3 49.1 (estimated) 365 10.63 170 Total emissions from streaming (million metric tons CO₂e) 5.17 2.9 2.7 20.08 0.585 0.17655 Emissions per membership/user (kg CO₂e per year) 17 12.8 13.5 - - 0.276 Equivalent to (million one-way flights Paris–NYC) 8.36 4.69 4.37 32.5 0.946 0.288

Or: Grok's climate impact is about 20 Pornhubs (I should make this a standard metric)

Chris Watson - Planet Ocean A sonic journey from the Firth of Forth to Antarctica presented by Chris Watson, one of the world's leading sound recordists of wildlife

Edinburgh (and nearby) sound people, acclaimed sound recordist & sound artist Chris Watson will present a sonic journey from the Firth of Forth to Antarctica & talk about Planet Ocean at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social next Friday eve, 27.03.26. Free, but ticketed: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chris-wats...

Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …

Last shout-out for my post on #AI, #metaphor and #magic! makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...

Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …

This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...

Agreed! I can’t take credit for it, but it’s lovely. A slightly hard one to explain, though!

Hi Brigitte, I'd love to be in your metaphors starter pack - I've been exploring metaphors around AI for a couple of years with some other great people, both exploring challenging some descriptions (dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...) and thinking speculatively (dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....)

Looks great! Thanks for sharing the testing list. We wrote a paper on design tactics around AI and enchantment that could be of interest: dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...

@mlucel.bsky.social

Raw Green Rust (me, @weefuzzy.bsky.social & @davemurrayrust.bsky.social) on this date in 2019 performing our improvised abstract glitch dub at Experimenta, Heilbronn. It's a science dome, so at one point the stage and seating began to rotate, was very odd. Full performance linked in next post.

Raw Rust Remote 250901, by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing track by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing

Get your glitch on with Raw Rust Remote 250901 by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing (any two of Raw Green Rust, me and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social on this occasion). An edit of an online laptop improv session! Free / NYP #computermusic #noise rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/track/raw-ru...

Wavetable #9 - Raw Green Rust YouTube video by Wavetable Edinburgh

Raw Green Rust on this date three years ago! #computermusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkXn...

WT9, by Raw Green Rust track by Raw Green Rust

Raw Green Rust on this date three years ago, now on Bandcamp. Get your improvised abstract glitch-dub #computermusic for free / nyp here: rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/track/wt9

Sound On! Raw Green Rust (laptop improv trio with @weefuzzy.bsky.social and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social) have been rehearsing online more regularly recently using Sonobus. Some of our glitch dub hijinks have been getting quite amusingly noisy. Here's an extract called Low Slink #computermusic #noise

The Unbearable Lightness of Prompting: A Critical Reflection on the Environmental Impact of genAI use in Design Education Design educators are finding ways to support students in skillfully using GenAI tools in their practices while encouraging the critical scrutiny of the ethical and social issues around these technolog...

We ( @mlucel.bsky.social ‬, Elena Cavallin and I) tried to capture some of this in a paper about taking stances on genAI, to support discourse. There's a preprint up here in case it's useful: arxiv.org/abs/2501.16061

Good luck, I really hope you can have a productive chat. It's hard to hold both sides of this, but I think really necessary!

@chrisspeed.bsky.social - time to decentralise the toilet roll?

PhD opportunity: I'm recruiting a PhD student in digital musical instrument design at Imperial College London. Applications now, start date in the autumn. Funding is limited to UK home students. More topic details to follow. Interested? Email me with a CV! andrew.mcpherson@imperial.ac.uk

But if you look at the words surrounding it in text scraped off the internet maybe that's the meaning you would guess it had...

Looking forward to talking about design and AI on the second day, with @kars.leapfrog.nl, Dasha Simons, and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social

Oh, I miss that!

When twitter was working for me, one of the things I loved was getting high theory mixed in with ridiculous shitposting. Somehow it made them both make more sense 😆

Was great to meet you at the symposium! Loved the magically crosslinked book!

Both lovely examples of using one language to talk about something else

SubPlan from the Architectural Association in 2009 explores the absurdist limits of possible development to speculate about planning laws

Many thanks to Johan Redström, Case Milanesissime uses the language of floor plans to critique the housing market in Milan through plausible but awful things to rent

Two lovely books on my table right now