Richard A Carter
@richardacarter.bsky.social
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
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An introduction for new followers! I am an academic interested in exploring the relationships between digital systems and the environment. My research practice engages a wide variety of technologies, formats, and modes. You can see more, inc. many free books, at my site: richardacarter.com/work/
As a continuation from my last - I find that my favourite part of the day is the very final 30 minutes or so before bed (!), where I'm just doing some cleaning, listening to something slow and abstract on the radio. A real meditation that is almost wholly free of the burdens and anxieties of the day
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
As a continuation from my last - I find that my favourite part of the day is the very final 30 minutes or so before bed (!), where I'm just doing some cleaning, listening to something slow and abstract on the radio. A real meditation that is almost wholly free of the burdens and anxieties of the day
Teaching has gone well today, with fun and laughter in the lessons, but I would have given anything for a quiet, peaceful day of not really speaking at all. Definitely want to retreat to a small corner and disappear entirely.
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Teaching has gone well today, with fun and laughter in the lessons, but I would have given anything for a quiet, peaceful day of not really speaking at all. Definitely want to retreat to a small corner and disappear entirely.
Interrupting your gloomy timeline with some unassailable brightness, courtesy of the lakeside view at York's Campus East, just now.
#sun #photography #york #nature
#sun #photography #york #nature
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Interrupting your gloomy timeline with some unassailable brightness, courtesy of the lakeside view at York's Campus East, just now.
#sun #photography #york #nature
#sun #photography #york #nature
Orbital enclosure
The map's form: satellites etc. align
It shows: divisions and portions
Its purpose: to destroy
It shows: divisions and portions
Its purpose: to destroy
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Orbital enclosure
A curiosity - preparing for tomorrow's teaching session on image generating AIs, I've noticed that Nano Banana Pro appears to dump out altered stock images (at near full resolution too) vs. generating them whole cloth (at a smaller size) - see e.g. below. Even the filename reads 'licensed image'.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A curiosity - preparing for tomorrow's teaching session on image generating AIs, I've noticed that Nano Banana Pro appears to dump out altered stock images (at near full resolution too) vs. generating them whole cloth (at a smaller size) - see e.g. below. Even the filename reads 'licensed image'.
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On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
On the third anniversary of ChatGPT, I aimed to pull back from “AI” as a flowing current of new models, new data centers, new initiatives, “new new new” — and look at it as a product of a specific and unique moment in history. What *was* ChatGPT? A few points in the thread ⬇️
Stills from 20 minutes of observing
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Stills from 20 minutes of observing
Improbable indeed 🌊✨🗺️
The map's form: water feature
It shows: stars
Its purpose: permanence
It shows: stars
Its purpose: permanence
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Improbable indeed 🌊✨🗺️
Re-sharing this one for a Friday, because when is this ever going to happen again?
#art #painting #poetry #design #calligraphy
#art #painting #poetry #design #calligraphy
A package from Japan, Stage 3 - Wow. What you're looking at is a gift from a Japanese calligraphic artist, Mika Ando, whose recent work has built directly off my 'alien poetry' collection 'Signals'. This is an entirely hand brushed painting - it's just beautiful and I'm staggered by this generosity.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Re-sharing this one for a Friday, because when is this ever going to happen again?
#art #painting #poetry #design #calligraphy
#art #painting #poetry #design #calligraphy
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Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Before #AI there was Frank Rosenblatt's Perceptron, the origin of much neural network technology & misunderstood in its own time.
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
PERCEPTRON is a work of experimental #poetry & a critical biographical reading of Rosenblatt & his 1957 invention. #OpenAccess & FREE to download!
tinyurl.com/y2n89p8d
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Our EAD (Enhanced Audio Description) Demo Reel is now available. For a quick demonstration of the work we do and how it adapts to different types of productions, do have a watch/listen. It's in an A/B format, so you can watch the 'original' clip followed by the EAD version vimeo.com/1139009191
EAD Demo Reel - November 2025
EAD (Enhanced Audio Description) is an accessibility method that uses sound design to provide access to film and television for visually impaired audiences. EAD…
vimeo.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Our EAD (Enhanced Audio Description) Demo Reel is now available. For a quick demonstration of the work we do and how it adapts to different types of productions, do have a watch/listen. It's in an A/B format, so you can watch the 'original' clip followed by the EAD version vimeo.com/1139009191
Having to manually rebuild the hundred or so endnote references in this book length document within inDesign, from an original word export (that stripped them all), to eventually make them interactive in the final pdf, is just 'excruciating' 😅
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Having to manually rebuild the hundred or so endnote references in this book length document within inDesign, from an original word export (that stripped them all), to eventually make them interactive in the final pdf, is just 'excruciating' 😅
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Coming soon -- early 2026: Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. I have a chapter in here called "Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures".
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Coming soon -- early 2026: Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. I have a chapter in here called "Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures".
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
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"hand-crafted adversarial poetry" is a concept I will think about for a long time.
Quite an opening.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
"hand-crafted adversarial poetry" is a concept I will think about for a long time.
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Excellent OA article about the impact of AI beyond carbon emissions "the advancement of AI is contingent upon hazardous extractive & polluting practices" (not to overlook the impacts on human rights, IP, creativity & critical thinking but that's another lecture)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The attribution problem of a seemingly intangible industry
We promote a more comprehensive understanding of the environmental costs associated with AI and “clouds” by raising awareness about the resource and e…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Excellent OA article about the impact of AI beyond carbon emissions "the advancement of AI is contingent upon hazardous extractive & polluting practices" (not to overlook the impacts on human rights, IP, creativity & critical thinking but that's another lecture)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today! And with some notable weather activity to accompany it ❄️❄️❄️
Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...
Towards a Wind Humanities
IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...
www.rmets.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today! And with some notable weather activity to accompany it ❄️❄️❄️
A package from Japan, Stage 3 - Wow. What you're looking at is a gift from a Japanese calligraphic artist, Mika Ando, whose recent work has built directly off my 'alien poetry' collection 'Signals'. This is an entirely hand brushed painting - it's just beautiful and I'm staggered by this generosity.
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A package from Japan, Stage 3 - Wow. What you're looking at is a gift from a Japanese calligraphic artist, Mika Ando, whose recent work has built directly off my 'alien poetry' collection 'Signals'. This is an entirely hand brushed painting - it's just beautiful and I'm staggered by this generosity.
A package from Japan!
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A package from Japan!
ELIZA visualisation routine now working for tomorrow's lesson - it is surprisingly robust, even when faced with my efforts at nonsense dialogue...
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
ELIZA visualisation routine now working for tomorrow's lesson - it is surprisingly robust, even when faced with my efforts at nonsense dialogue...
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just gonna scream for a wee while in sociolinguistics over here: www.accentharmonizer.ai
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
just gonna scream for a wee while in sociolinguistics over here: www.accentharmonizer.ai
Working furiously on tomorrow's lesson, which is a precis on AI text generation from 1950s to LLMs - from Strachey to 'Agents'. Put together a bunch of live 'visualisation' demos of early systems like ELIZA + basic principles of processes like Markov Chains. Now, ambitiously (foolishly?) LLMs too...
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Working furiously on tomorrow's lesson, which is a precis on AI text generation from 1950s to LLMs - from Strachey to 'Agents'. Put together a bunch of live 'visualisation' demos of early systems like ELIZA + basic principles of processes like Markov Chains. Now, ambitiously (foolishly?) LLMs too...
Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...
Towards a Wind Humanities
IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...
www.rmets.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...
Working on some print design for a (paid!) project. At present, the fun bit - layouts and visuals. An afternoon's toil has delivered this colourful tile generator for borders and dividers.
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Working on some print design for a (paid!) project. At present, the fun bit - layouts and visuals. An afternoon's toil has delivered this colourful tile generator for borders and dividers.