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Richard A Carter
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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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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · Nov 7
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/
a screenshot of a yet-to-be-released artwork. A video feed of overhead clouds has a synthetic circular overlay, showing lines and arrows and text that moves with the clouds. a black and white photograph of a moorland tor, overlaid with a constellation of brightly coloured boxes featuring poetic text. a book cover. Black and white overhead photo of a wave. the title waveform by richard a carter, is overlaid in a plain outlined box. a screenshot of a game. it resembles a hand-drawn isometric landscape on artsinal grainy paper. The word "agentia" is overlaid in bright green, semi-transparent letters.
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Find out more about ‘Deep Maps: Blue Humanities’ 🗺️

ℹ️ An OBF-funded experimental #Book #Publishing pilot project in collaboration with @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @uwpress.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social Labs

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Launch of Experimental Book Publishing Pilot Project 'Deep Maps: Blue Humanities' - Copim
The Open Book Futures (OBF) Experimental Publishing Group is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Deep Maps’, one of three funded pilot projects resulting from OBF’s call for experimental book projects.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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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
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Interrupting your gloomy timeline with some unassailable brightness, courtesy of the lakeside view at York's Campus East, just now.

#sun #photography #york #nature
The sun rises over the lake, sky mirrored in the water
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Orbital enclosure
improbablemaps.bsky.social Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 1d
The map's form: satellites etc. align
It shows: divisions and portions
Its purpose: to destroy
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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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'.
A New York skyline The same skyline, but as a stock image with watermarks and a few details (ships in the water) that are 'cleaned' from the ostensibly AI generated image.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Clouding the sun: storing and distributing low-carbon games
This paper explores Solar Server, a solar-powered web server hosting low-carbon games, in relation to data centers, digital marketplace platforms, and rentier capitalism. Drawing from critical data...
www.tandfonline.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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 ⬇️
eryk.bsky.social Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Stills from 20 minutes of observing
Nephoscope screenshot - overlaid flow of words relating to the weather on a video of passing clouds Nephoscope screenshot - overlaid flow of words relating to the weather on a video of passing clouds Nephoscope screenshot - overlaid flow of words relating to the weather on a video of passing clouds Nephoscope screenshot - overlaid flow of words relating to the weather on a video of passing clouds
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Improbable indeed 🌊✨🗺️
improbablemaps.bsky.social Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 4d
The map's form: water feature
It shows: stars
Its purpose: permanence
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The ocean of air was myriad shades of grey today until it was my turn to fly - deep pinks and golds all around at altitude. Scuds of cloud even running below the glider, during two very pleasant sorties.

#gliding #aviation #soaring #autumn
A glider cockpit set against a cloudy evening sky, with scuds of gold running through
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Re-sharing this one for a Friday, because when is this ever going to happen again?

#art #painting #poetry #design #calligraphy
richardacarter.bsky.social Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 8d
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.
An artwork in a frame in a package. The artwork shows classic flying saucers, rendered by hand with paint and gold paint, overlaid with the alien characters from the Signals collection - which, in this form, almost look like Japanese Kanji characters, being hand brushed, with smooth sweeps.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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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
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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
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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...
The book cover to Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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walshbr.bsky.social
"hand-crafted adversarial poetry" is a concept I will think about for a long time.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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lornarichardson.bsky.social
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...
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
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Today! And with some notable weather activity to accompany it ❄️❄️❄️
richardacarter.bsky.social Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 12d
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
richardacarter.bsky.social
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.
An artwork in a frame in a package. The artwork shows classic flying saucers, rendered by hand with paint and gold paint, overlaid with the alien characters from the Signals collection - which, in this form, almost look like Japanese Kanji characters, being hand brushed, with smooth sweeps.
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A package from Japan!
A package from Japan
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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ELIZA visualisation routine now working for tomorrow's lesson - it is surprisingly robust, even when faced with my efforts at nonsense dialogue...
Transcript of conversation: You: The need for food is overwhelming my mind and senses ELIZA : Does that have anything to do with the fact that you came to me? You: Oh yes - I hear you have some chocolate covered hobnobs in stock ELIZA : Do you wish to have some chocolate covered hobnobs in stock? You: Goodness yes - my life's needs would be sated ELIZA : I see - and what does that tell you? You: I am officially more biscuit than man ELIZA : Do you enjoy being officially more biscuit than man?
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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just gonna scream for a wee while in sociolinguistics over here: www.accentharmonizer.ai
Accent Harmonizer - Clarity. Connection. Confidence. Every Call. Accent Harmonizer by Omind AI, powered by Sanas, transforms the way people understand each other. Built with AI-powered accent harmonization, it bridges global voices—softening accent barriers, eliminating background noise, and enhancing clarity in every call. Designed for contact centers and global enterprises, it creates conversations that flow effortlessly and sound authentically human. From faster resolutions to higher CSAT scores, Accent Harmonizer by Omind AI helps teams connect with empathy, confidence, and clarity—no matter where they are or who they’re speaking to.
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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...
A very simple 'LLM Animator' template that illustrates basic stages of LLM operations. It is very far from perfect, but it does give enough of an overview.
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
richardacarter.bsky.social
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
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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.
Colourful tiles, with flower like geometric patterns, in warm pastel shades, are seen in the generator window
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM