This week's net.wars, "Blur", goes to #gikii 2025 and finds its surrealism struggling to keep up with the weirdness of real life: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/19/blur/ #NetWars #AI #ScienceFiction #privacy
Blur

In 2013, London's Royal Court Theatre mounted a production of Jennifer Haley's play The Nether. (Spoiler alert!) In its story of the relationship between an old

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This week's net.wars, "Dethroned", goes to #gikii and talks about restrospective doping controls that revise history: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/09/12/dethroned/ #NetWars #doping
Dethroned

This is a version of a paper that Jon Crowcroft and I delivered at this week's gikii conference. She sounded shocked. But also: as though the word she had to p

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Bluesky

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This week's net.wars, "Beware the duck", goes to #gikii 2024 and finds blurred boundaries everywhere in futurelaw: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/09/06/beware-the-duck/ #NetWars @giki #AI #copyright #Law
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Once upon a time, “convergence” was a buzzword. That was back in the days when audio was on stereo systems, television was on a TV, and “communications” happened on phones that weren’t computers. The word has disappeared back into its former usage pattern, but it could easily be revived to describe what’s happening to content … Continue reading "Beware the duck"

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Gikii is certainly pretty good!
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Last day to submit abstract to #Gikii in London, 4-5 Sep! https://www.gikii.org/gikii-2024-call-for-papers/
Gikii 2024 Call for Papers

Gikii’s Existential Threat, or Nerding Out–As–A–Service? As the most powerful technologies companies in the world reorient their whole business models to automated fan-fiction production, we invite…

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This week's net.wars, "Doom cyberfuture", goes to speculative law conference #GikiiUtrecht2023, where AI overwhelms science fiction: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/09/15/doom-cyberfuture/ #NetWars #Gikii #AI #law #ScienceFiction
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Midway through this year’s

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The slides of my talk at the tech, law and popular culture conference Gikii are now online at https://bit.ly/gikii23 (Google Slides).

Using memes and financial data from FOI requests, I argued that, when it comes to digitised cultural heritage collections, many institutions have copyright and access policies that conflict with relevant law, lose money and – crucially – undermine their public missions.

What do you think?

#Gikii #museums #copyright #openaccess #licensing #OpenGLAM

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This week's net.wars, "Small data", summarizes the talk I gave with Jon Crowcroft at this year's #gikii, arguing that large language models will ultimately prove to be a distraction: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/09/08/small-data/ #LLMs #AI #NetWars
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Shortly before this gets posted, Jon Crowcroft and I will have presented this year’s offering at Gikii, the weird little conference that crosses law, media, technology, and pop culture. This is what we will possibly may have said, as I understand it, with some added explanation for the slightly less technical audience I imagine will … Continue reading "Small data"

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@1br0wn I propose a Vanilla Ice karaoke session at the next #gikii