đź“„ New Institute publication:
Algorithms and the Occult
https://asapjournal.com/cluster/algorithms-and-the-occult/
ASAP Review cluster, edited by Tamara Kneese @tamigraph, Jeffrey Moro @jeffreymoro & Briana Vecchione.
feat. Sigil SĂ©ance Against Space Billionaires w/ Lucile Olympe Haute @luh2203
https://asapjournal.com/node/sigil-seance-against-space-billionaires/
Elon Musk deployed his vast resources to help Trump get elected, and now he’s poised to remake the US government to serve his interests.
But that was only possible because far too many people chose to ignore who he was to tell a more appealing story of a founder moving humanity forward. They should be held accountable.
Should the accounts of dead people to stay around after they die? Why are tech billionaires preparing to turn themselves into chatbots?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @tamigraph to discuss what happens to our digital footprints when we die.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/239_what_happens_to_our_digital_footprints_when_we_die_w_tamara_kneese
In Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond , technology scholar Tamara Kneese, director of Data & Society’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab and former green software researcher at Intel, explores the precarity of our data and digital selves.
@davidthewid and @tamigraph were next up in the plenary sessions for #DESIGNJUSTICEAI
"low resource" NLP means that there isn't a lot of data on the internet - simply being "included" isn't necessarily a good thing /1
"How does transhumanism—the set of ideologies, technologies, and practices that aim to extend the human lifespan—embed itself in the mundane and the material, in products that are shipped and marketed at scale?" @tamigraph for The Baffler
Institute of Diagram Studies
Paris Marx
Ben Waber
CriticalAI
Nick T
Longreads
melgregg