Mastodawn

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 8, 2022

Charles Seife Nov 7, 2022

I want to echo what other Mastodon admins are saying: please report any harassment or violative messages you're seeing. Unlike the birdsite, your local admin will likely react quickly -- and you'll make the instance better for everyone, not just yourself.

So... please don't just ignore! Let us know if there's a problem.

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 6, 2022

I don’t know how to make content warnings here, but I will say that I love the idea of the CW feature as a way of reducing the wall of text on the feed. CW with the topic and let people decide if that’s a topic of interest and then clock to reveal. Would be helpful for speeding up my scrolling, and make me feel less guilty about how many characters I use. (And would respect/preserve/normalize the CW’s intended purpose).

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 6, 2022

Thea Nov 6, 2022

I keep seeing people say Mastodon is nothing like Twitter. And they’re right.

Mastodon is an echo of the old internet, it’s decentralised, chaotic. What you get depends on your sysadmin. You can’t search, everything has to be shared to you by a human. Networks split apart and rejoin. What you see is your unique connection to it.

Is this good? Maybe. But for me that’s the internet I grew up with. No algorithms, no targeted adverts, just human interaction, and it was glorious.

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 6, 2022

Mastodon setting up the servers as “identities” is a weird move. Is someone gay or an artist? Are they interested in tech or cake recipes? Probably all of them! The server-as-identity is a counterproductive and highly artificial way of presenting the idea to the public, and its doing more harm than good. Most newbies assume they are limited to those servers, and freeze deciding what box they should be in (or rightfully reject the idea of any boxes).

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 6, 2022

“The AI photographer develops a curious vision, steered by these technologies: a way of seeing that is aligned with the information flows that curate our lives. The GAN photographer learns to see like a dataset, to internalize its rules.” https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/seeing-like-a-dataset-notes-on-ai

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 6, 2022

#introduction Hi all, I’m an artist and researcher thinking through bias and social effects of technology. That’s informed an art practice framed around centering relationships in design, most recently through a study of mushrooms and synthesizers. I also publish about AI and its relationship with our imagination, particularly AI as an ideological frame. Here’s some recent writing of mine on #aiart and what these images represent: https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/how-to-read-an-ai-image

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 5, 2022

If you’ve ever used the phrase “at the intersection of art and technology” I might want to follow you over here — how about we all post a Tweet with hashtag #intersection abd see if we cant get something brewing? #twittermigration

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 4, 2022

I will be in conversation with Agata Siniarska (Museum of the Anthropocene) this Wednesday (Nov 9 2022), discussing the necessity and impossibility of post-anthropocentric design / designing for non-human relationships. If you wanna talk mushrooms, geek out on design theories, or acknowledge the difficulty of engaging with non-human intelligences then come hang out! Details: http://postapocalypticencounters.com/

Postapocalyptic Encounters

Workshops, encounters around non-Eurocentric bodies of knowledge

Postapocalyptic Encounters

Eryk Salvaggio Nov 4, 2022

When the women in Adventure Time speak to other women (in the absence of male characters) they seem to have different cadences and mannerisms. Some media-linguist-scholar should write an article on that, because I’d read it.

Eryk Salvaggio Oct 30, 2022

Given his interest in Longtermism I wonder when Twitter will add “algorithms” to the protected identity category