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happy to say my book, Language Machines: AI Between Cognition and Culture is now forthcoming from @UMinnPress in the Posthumanities series bc of the wonderful @noctambulate - on bookshelves early 2025

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I’m in the only bookstore that gets it

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I don’t think there is a “humanities crisis” as such - there is instead a crisis of knowledge in general, in which the question of what counts as real knowledge has neither theory nor funding to back it, and focus lands on “applied research” 1/

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Plato always makes it seem like everyone came away dazzled and transformed, but i have a feeling Gorgias and them often were just like "well there's 6 hours of my life i can't get back"

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Michael Heinrich spitting 🔥

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produce and fund knowledge at all. this is a social crisis and national crisis, in which "the humanities" operates as a fetish object for extremely poor culture-war thinking - nothing more 3/

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Listen whatever you think about this peaceful protest I think we can all agree that shutting down a business school for a day is an absolute good

Party for Socialism and Liberation

@pslnational

3 months

RIGHT NOW — multiple NYPD buses are moving in to encircle the Palestine solidarity encampment at NYU. Your urgent support is needed! 📍Gould Plaza

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the humanities have almost no "applied" stuff to offer, on their own - but everyone who has little on that front is suffering from admin and funding neglect and even hostility, not just lit scholars. the real crisis is far, far worse - it's about a collective lack of will to 2/

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Cybernetics and the Human Sciences - Stef Geroulanos and I edited this amazing group

History of the Human Sciences - Volume 37, Number 2, Apr 01, 2024

Table of contents for History of the Human Sciences, 37, 2, Apr 01, 2024

journals.sagepub.com

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there is not enough popcorn in the world

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for the record i dngaf about Gay or any university president but i keep seeing this idea out there that presidents are hired for "scholarly excellence" and i just... is anyone serious about this? we all, like, know what their actual job is, right?

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Huge if true

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this is how i think about my research style

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I’ve been saying for a while: math is a humanity

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@littmath

3 months

I’ve been thinking a bit lately about my “pitch” for mathematics. It boils down to something like: it’s extremely cool that we can make progress in understanding *concepts* themselves. Something interesting about this—nearly the same pitch works for many of the humanities.

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universities are becoming consultant/cop hybrids that enclose and control your kid for 80k/year while canceling the promise to educate them liberally. the fully Administrative University is a reactionary institution clothed in DEI rhetoric that ends at the lowest bar, speech

The Atlantic

@TheAtlantic

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Critics of colleges are seeing "the unstoppable force of years’ worth of self-righteous rhetoric and pseudo-radical posturing meets the immovable object of students who took them at their word," @Tyler_A_Harper writes:

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Columbia hybrid to Zoom, NYU's business-school plaza cleared - the university is finally a safe space, and all we had to give up was any notion that a campus is a the place where knowledge and democracy intersect.

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people who drive 150k trucks and wear carharts w no smudges on them are part of a class outside both legislative and discursive democratic norms and attached to a vision of pure exec authority - they are not rural but rep wealth that they imagine untethered from the body politic

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

3 months

@katrosenfield Thanks! To me that’s the far more interesting question the book could have asked: how has rural identity became a political force entirely untethered from actual rural residence or geographically rural areas? That seems deeply important and would illuminate a lot politically.

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the French word for couch potato should clearly be homme de terre

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This is like a crossover Marvel-DC movie, requiring extra popcorn

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it's funny that the tack against the poststructuralists has moved from "they're mystics who say nonsense and believe in nothing" to "they're all-powerful institutional lords who have dictated the constraints of policy and discourse"

Yascha Mounk

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Much of my academic training is in intellectual history. So to understand the ideas about group identity that have become powerful so quickly, I did a TON of reading. Here's the true story of the origins of "woke"—and how it explains many themes of today's left. A loooong 🧵.

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put it this way: if the "applied" versions of much social science went away, it would probably be a net win for humanity. if the humanities went away, it would incrementally damage our collective critical abilities, but nothing would really happen as a result. the crisis 4/

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there should be more bible-story clickbait. "god told me to kill my son Isaac. you'll never guess what happened next."

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Oh hey we’re at the exact intersection of “defund the humanities” and “defund the police”

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Dep. Commissioner Daughtry says he found "a book on terrorism" at Columbia. (The book is not a how-to book, but a history written by a renowned British historian.)

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should not be sought where a weak node, if removed, would make almost no difference - if you think the humanities is the problem but aren't paying attention to the broader data/knowledge crisis, including the replication scandal, you've lost the plot End/

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i wrote for @GlobeIdeas about the wild misperception that universities are "left-wing." in reality, universities have swung sharply rightward with the rest of our society 1/

Shirley Leung

@leung

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Good piece by @leifweatherby . Are Harvard and other top universities left-wing? Not at all. via @GlobeIdeas

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Executive function is far more important than intelligence in predicting who becomes an academic

Paul Schofield

@pschofie79

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When I say stuff like this, sometimes others accuse me of presenting an overly romantic view of the uneducated masses. A lot of regular folks are, after all, ignorant idiots. Well, let me tell you all about a group of highly educated people we call "academics" . . .

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I don’t get it were the videos plagiarized somehow

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i'm an expert in this area and this is an important area of research in the development of modern science and the way we interpret it as humans, as well as how we formed our current notion of ecology. "garbage in, garbage out" applies to congress more than the humanities

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UPDATE: the Chicago Manual of Style has banned all citations. if you cite anything *at all* a guy from the press will come to your home and beat you up while screaming about original thought. i'm excited for the this long-overdue change.

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we need to shut science down until we can figure out what is going on

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this reminds me of Michael Denning's notion of the "university-hospital city" - part of a larger real-estate wealth-parking organization that converges with the end of fundamental research and the rise of "applied science," a national risk from any angle

Opinion | Universities Are Prioritizing Their Health Systems Over Teaching. That’s Killing Academic...

When Universities carry health systems, they buckle to politicians’ whims, leaving academic freedom behind.

www.politico.com

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3 months

The postmodern humanities was a low-interest-rate phenomenon

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join the Digital Theory Lab at NYU for "Re-Interpretation: Hermeneutics in the Age of AI," on September 22, in person, RSVP required at

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filed under: Marx saying Freud stuff

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Charles Babbage issues a world-historical burn

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making slides for lecture

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for @nytimes i wrote about the situation at WVU. @OnlyMyya has covered the losses to students beautifully and @DrLisaCorrigan has shown the plan for higher ed. i focus on the "educational gerrymandering" of this despicable proposal 1/

Opinion | What Just Happened at West Virginia University Should Worry All of Us

Republicans are making the liberal arts scarce in the poorest states.

www.nytimes.com

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I don’t always respect people, but when I do I use 50+ cops in full stormtrooper gear

she/hererzade

@tubbsOreally

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don't call the cops on them then

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@slucy @jjoque i think the point is that it's far over-applied, not that all of it is bad; also i seem to remember software and capital interests killing some 800 people last year

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The Digital Theory Lab will launch the new issue of @CriticalInquiry , hosted by @NYUHumanities , on Dec 10th at 12pm on Zoom. _Surplus Data_ co-edited with @JeffreyKirkwood and @ohalpern and Patrick Jagoda. Register here: @mhandelm @atg_dbp @b____j_____

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happy to say that "Surplus Data" is forthcoming as a special issue of Critical Inquiry, co-edited w/ @JeffreyKirkwood , Orit Halpern, and Patrick Jagoda: Co-authored piece, "Indexical AI," with @b____j_____

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Watch people react when they don’t expect art, this is why Hegel put it in the category of “absolute spirit,” you can see these people just freeze as they’re transported into divine sadness

Stereogum

@stereogum

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This unearthed Elliott Smith appearance on the 1995 FX morning show 'Breakfast Time' is the most surreal thing you'll see today.

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people are incapable of realizing that "spreadsheet-based" is a form of ideology, maybe *the* contemporaneous form

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@Tyler_A_Harper

7 months

In which a dean critiques my article and says “this is definitely not how it works!” only to have a tenured historian at his own institution point out that they’re doing a cluster hire which does the exact thing I accuse them of doing. But don’t worry it’s “spread-sheet based.”

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@JeffreyKirkwood The town of two Talbots

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Join us in Berlin for a conference on “Semiotic Machines” co-hosted by the ZfL and the Digital Theory Lab on May 29-31, with a scorching lineup. Drop by!

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The perfect headline doesn’t ex-

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the only thing Marx actually failed to consider was that people would not read a single word that he wrote

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inside you are two wolves

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this is the only way you can write now, since no one reads

𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊

@incastellated

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Write like no one is reading.

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i tried to do this at my university job but for some reason it didn't work

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Clarence Thomas threatened to quit SCOTUS unless he could get rich, so Republican politicians arranged for billionaires to start inundating him with money and gifts in exchange for his continued service. He gladly accepted the trade-off.

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my cybernetics course is featured on NYU publicity here, you can see both the general approach and my LLM exercise with photos from a few weeks ago in lecture:

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You have to be promoted TWICE in academia in grueling years-long processes before they take the prefix ASS off your job title

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Dear Ass Professor.

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since people are learning this term: cluster hiring, among other practices, is a kind of final nail in "faculty governance" which shifts the forward legacy of shaping research to administrators instead of members of actual fields. this is a far more pressing issue than "DEI"

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"Cluster hiring"?

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i wrote a feature for Jacobin, now out from the paywall, about Chomsky's linguistics, his politics, and the need for a cultural theory of automated language in the new era of AI. come for the Big Lebowksi, stay bc you're mad at my take on Taylor Swift and universal grammar

Jacobin

@jacobin

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ChatGPT feeds on language, outputting texts that reinforce the basic assumptions of our culture. The rise of AI forces the Left to take a hard look at the politics of language and the linguistics of Noam Chomsky.

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The funniest part about this is that this is not how purveyors of luxury goods act. When we say the university is using a customer-service model we should specify that it’s the fast-fashion one, not like the Wüsthof one

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

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Every quantitative metric universities lean on to assess performance – whether of students (grades) or faculty (evaluations) – is negatively correlated with learning. Studies continue to bear this out, and yet colleges keep doubling down on what is basically alchemy for admins.

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in the 90s there was talk that history had ended, but now it's more like people think history *started* in the 1990s

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

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Tom Cotton is a world-class asshole who regularly pushes back the frontier of asshole, but the people who think we exist at a high point of political threats and violence perplex me. There were assassinations, church bombings, students shot on college campuses in the 60s/70s.

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for Jacobin, i wrote about how GPT systems do something unprecedented: they quantitatively surface ideology, as both hegemony and kitsch.

ChatGPT Is an Ideology Machine

Debates about the new AI focus on “intelligence.” But something more interesting is going on: AI is a culture machine.

jacobin.com

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no quip could possibly be funnier than the content of this headline

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LLMs have just reached their Finnegans Wake phase, everyone chill

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tapping the sign

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Researchers leverage deep learning to make shocking discovery: queers are hot

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We should remake Gossip Girl but it’s about the Frankfurt School does anyone know people at Netflix

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@Matt_Bove when you gotta go you gotta go

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was delighted to speak with @Tyler_A_Harper for this article on "disabling technologies." the marketing strategy is to sell disempowerment as liberation and empowerment. AI is an algorithmic screen that changes the playing field of our cognitive-cultural abilities

The Atlantic

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"Even if your personalized dating concierge is not here yet, the sales pitch for them has already arrived, and that sales pitch is almost as dangerous as the technology itself: AI will teach you how to be a human," @Tyler_A_Harper writes:

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cowards in congress blocking experts after they embarrassed themselves, nihil sub sole novum est

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@focusfronting fwiw my institution not only banned these but even abandoned the older plagiarism software in reaction to how bad they are

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⁦ @hannesbajohr ⁩ ⁦ @FuchsFlrn ⁩ hot off the presses

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on March 30/31, join the Digital Theory Lab on Zoom or in person for showcase conversation and doubleheader between Hayles and Deacon, two of the most important thinkers about what is happening in AI of our generation. register here:

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All the rightoids freaking out about Taylor imaginarily endorsing Biden at the Super Bowl are gonna lose their absolute shit when this happens

William Gerrard

@Bill_Gerrard

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Incredible #HalfTimeShow interview with Chomsky about the Ukraine crisis

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Andrew Breitbart reads Adorno - me on how the Alt Right uses theory tools @ned_ogorman @cwellmon @hedgehogreview

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Two planes, alas, struck towers one by one // yet cause attested was not what it seemed

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The Daily Beast just ruined my day. They claimed Jamaal Bowman wrote his 9.11 conspiracy theories in blank verse - getting me really excited - and then it turned out he clearly wrote them in *free verse,* which is way less funny

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i don't allow students to cite anything after 1806 (Phenomenology of Spirit)

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I will never recover from this student email.

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Oliya Scootercaster 🛴

@ScooterCasterNY

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"Somebody is radicalizing out students" Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz spoke after NYU and New School raid this morning, "we will find out who that is". Chief of Patrol John Chell showed literature found inside the New School 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment' after it was

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Bayes was born in the 18th century so the chances he was the mathematician who got epistemology right must be pretty low too

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The reason SBF is in prison is because he's not even half as smart as he thinks he is Exhibit 931: SBF on Shakespeare

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It’s like Kittler smoked a joint

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Every time this argument comes up I get this response that’s like “lol academia is so liberal” and I’m begging ppl to be serious about institutions versus personal beliefs. I agree that the problem is the pipeline (we couldn’t find a conservative candidate in any 1/

Tyler Austin Harper

@Tyler_A_Harper

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@ajbauer Sure that’s fair — I’m mainly thinking of the humanities. I agree with @leifweatherby in general that the applied social sciences are functionally conservative.

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in which i write about the "statistical uncanny" AI is revealing

AI Won’t Just Replace TV and Movie Writers—It Will Make Pop Culture a Nightmare

We rely on TV and movies to be a healthy distraction from day-to-day life. Handing the reins to AI is a mistake on so many levels.

www.thedailybeast.com

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This requires treating the humanities as knowledge-production, and humanists adopting this stance for themselves too

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we should have humanities writers like we have science writers who trawl new issues of scholarly journals for stories for the popular press

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about to curate the worst bibliography of all time

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the postmoderna vaccine protects you by avoiding the grand narrative of the pandemic

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i believe - i was told - i believe the author is dead

Joshua Rasmussen

@worldviewdesign

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A friend and I had a disagreement over how to interpret a message from ChatGPT. But then I wondered: what determines the *correct* interpretation if there's no authorial intent?

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Spring 2022 gonna be wild

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this is one of the best reviews i've read in some time, really capturing the depth and the "materialism" of Daston's new book, while pointing out that it sidesteps the problem of modeling, which is outside her terminological focus but squarely inside the problem she's addressing

Rob Lucas

@roblucas

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In the latest @NewLeftReview , I wrote about the historian of science, Lorraine Daston, and her recent book, "Rules".

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Althusser (1970)

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Hey!

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beyond punishment the main way we've absorbed this crisis, still widening, is *procedurally* - the question of *what we know* - the picture of the world that a huge cluster of sciences claims is true - has not been adjusted, no epistemological reckoning has happened. it must

Jacob Shell

@JacobAShell

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The biggest ongoing scandal in academia ought to be that it turned out in mid-2010s that 50% of studies in Psych were failing to replicate--but nobody's career has been penalized. Not a single demotion over the mass-fraud; instead much Bushesque "heckuva job Brownie" promotions.

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when someone tells you they can model something like "honesty" you could, i don't know, NOT pay them a top-3 salary at Harvard University, you really can make that choice

Retraction Watch

@RetractionWatch

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"Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism."

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re-upping my ChatGPT/ideology piece as we see this Gemini thing roll out. there are several places where "ideology" can be produced in these systems: training data, human-feedback learning, and filters (hard-coding). Gemini appears to be a hard-coding issue (i have no special 1/n

Jacobin

@jacobin

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ChatGPT and its peer systems bring ideology to the surface, and they do it quantitatively. This has never happened before.

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i for one do not think that just listening to whatever my students say and taking their lead entirely is "teaching"

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i seriously feel a bit of sympathy for Thomas here, i watch so many George-W-Bush-ass intellectuals call in favors owed to their dads and then act like they hit a triple

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No pain au chocolat, no gain au chocolat

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people in the culture industry including all academics are stuck in college the way stereotypically small-town people are stuck in the glory days of high school

Brandy Jensen

@BrandyLJensen

3 months

was reminded of this blog i wrote years ago

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2 months

This is what a real city looks like

Ben Binday

@benbinday

2 months

BREAKING: Penn asked the Philadelphia Police Department to immediately help disband the College Green encampment — and the PPD declined to do so until Penn proves that the situation is more dangerous. From @diamywang :

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we're SO back. you've heard of the digital humanities, the environmental humanities, even the medical humanities - now get ready for the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE HUMANITIES

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@leifweatherby

5 years

in defense of grad unions, Andrew Sartori and me @uchicagogsu

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4 months

I want this on my gravestone

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the central epistemological divide of our time is those who think AI is/isn't intelligent and those who know its significance lies in its unprecedented manipulation of representation systems

Dan Sinykin

@dan_sinykin

6 months

The central aesthetic divide of our time is between those who think that AI art is good and those who know it's bad.

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4 years

suspension seems fair, but i'm a little surprised that twitter was considering beheading Steve Bannon

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2 years

So glad @m_b_fazi is here and that we could put this on together! NYU community welcome in person, otherwise register online for links

M. Beatrice Fazi

@m_b_fazi

2 years

💥💥What Is Digital Theory? 💥💥 A symposium hosted by the #DigitalTheoryLab at @nyuniversity and co-sponsored by @SussexHumsLab 📆 5 and 6 May 2022 On NYU campus + some hybrid sessions (for Zoom link: )

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for @thedailybeast i wrote about "Tesla Syndrome," where digital upgrades make even simple things worse. i argue owners are winning a virtually invisible class war against CEOs; wealth is destroying even the minimal promise of market capitalism

‘Tesla Syndrome’ Explains Why Tech Is Making Us Miserable

There’s a class war that’s leading to worse innovations—but it’s not between the sides you think it is.

www.thedailybeast.com

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