#Nostalgia done right at #Aoir2024 - a wonderful recap of #internet #research over 25 years. #Aoir

Starting a thread about #fashion #looks at #aoir2024 aka #Internet #Sartorialists Here are Elinor and Jess

At an excellent, productively triggering pre-conf #Aoir2024 workshop on Ai, ethics & the university. Our group is talking about crises of knowledge, policy gaps, exploitation, institutional and risks to students and learning

Someone pls splain me what an “ethnic” German is and what an “ethnic” Pole is. Is ethnic about language 🤔 Why is ethnic otherwise used to refer to embodied characteristics? Is this just me? This is from the NYT’s story about how “foreigner leery” countries like Poland, among others, have opened up to Ukrainians. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/world/europe/poland-ukraine-war-refugees.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

My family went down to a floriculture factory a few days ago and brought back some liliums. I’m lying here post afternoon nap and their utterly seductive sweet smell is wafting in. Life is good.

So happy to be back in the beloved Nilgiris, home of the once-in-12-years blossoming Kurinji; native tussock grasses; the last remaining grasslands; and the deep, dark green Shola forests ecosystem. Ca 200 years ago colonial plantations destroyed the Shola and the grasslands and indigenous communities who sustained them. Today there are new movements of local people and newcomers (like my sister) who are thinking about and working on new ways to repair and live sustainably in a dying ecosystem.

Today I became a biometricised subject of the in-name-only democratic socialist republic of India by applying for an Aadhar card. I have resisted this for many years and then my parents, bless them, said they were very concerned that they wouldn’t be able to leave their home to me without this form of ID. I did it because it gave them peace of mind. Photo taken at the Aadhar center at the taluk office.

Count the number of adjectives and metaphors in the top story in the Times of India. I guess journalism is not just the 9 o clock news.

One of my favorite pictures from the recently concluded and simultaneously joyous, draining & stimulating AI Anarchies https://aianarchies.net/ I spent the past year developing this with my collaborator Nora N Khan, and Clara Hermann and Nataša Vukajlovic at Akademie der Künste Berlin. Here I am with two beloved mentors/friends, Sarah Sharma and Jac Sm Kee, anchors of different parts of my intellectual-political life. 💜