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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1h

📜 Dunno if I’ll have time to nip into this while I’m in London in a few weeks but this looks amazing.

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 15h

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 13h

The conference looks rather interesting! And the fact it is next door too - I might think about sending something off...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 8d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 8d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 9d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 2d

One more share for 'long tail' traffic - "Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social. Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece align into different visual and semantic structures ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 2d

One more share for 'long tail' traffic - "Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social. Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece align into different visual and semantic structures ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 2d

That's generous of you to say, thank you! I do actually use it most days, and it really is extremely close to what occurred to me in that dream.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 3d

Haha, thank you - that's generous of you to say! A colleague once characterised my work as a form of 'lonely art-making', and I think that's the best description of what I do online 😅

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 3d

Celebrating the late Harvest moon in the Haiku Garden racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

#bitsy #pixelart #games #gameDev #indieDev #harvestMoon

A pixel art garden. Spirits dance in the moonlight. A haiku on screen reads "harvest moon: / building up the fire: / autumn foliage".

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 3d

Irony is that I probably don't appear on there myself as I post quite a lot!Undoubtedly to its benefit! 😅

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 3d

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 3d

Officially determined that 'Quiet Posters' feed is my main channel on here. A sudden burst of colour and poetry and art that I worried was vanishing entirely.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 4d

It's the "games" week on Digital Methods, which means it's that time of the year where I give my lecture with controller in hand, trying to be all composed and cool as I discuss a game as I play it on the big screen...

(You can imagine how well that works, but I persist nonetheless 🎮)

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 4d

Still at it

A photograph of clouds with generated poetry overlaid

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 5d

I have a small quote in the Guardian in this article about drone incidents across Europe, in connection with my work with the Centre for Drones and Culture at Cambridge, working with lead Beryl Pong.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#drone #drones

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

www.theguardian.com

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

Almost looks like De Bruijn lambda notation

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

Best wishes for a great start! I find myself visiting Cambridge on a semi-regular basis these days - would love to say hello if you're ever around.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

Departing fires of Storm Amy

#photography #nature #naturePhorography #sky #clouds #storm

Clouds catch the setting sunlight and glow against the darker purple, blues, and aquamarines of clouds behind them

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

"🧱" <- Bricks <- Lego etc.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

Nice to see this BBC piece covering @legolostatsea.bsky.social - I don't get enough chances to travel back to Cornwall these days, but I try to keep a lookout whenever I do 🧱🧱🧱 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lost Lego still washing up after 28 years

From dragons to wands, pieces lost from a cargo ship in 1997 continue to wash up around the world.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Claire - can't wait to get my own copy.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Really privileged to be included in this new book by Natasha Chuk on post-photography - and in the company of so many fantastic practitioners. I remember Natasha interviewing me not that long after I'd completed Waveform, and am now working on 'v2.0' - full circle. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Promotional postcard:

Photo Obscura
The Photographic in Post-Photography
Natasha Chuk

Drawing on photo history, media studies, visual studies, art history, and the digital humanities, Photo Obscura (Intellect) argues that the profound transformation of post-photography is not merely a trend but a significant movement that redefines photography by integrating it with emerging technologies and creative practices, resulting in works that may not even resemble photographs but still retain a photographic influence. It is structured around various themes, including Al-generated images, the intersection of digital and physical art forms, and the changing relationship between visual representation and perception with in-depth discussions of artworks by Richard A. Carter, Stephanie Dinkins, Snow Yunxue Fu, Carla Gannis, Pascal Greco, Claudia Hart, Auriea Harvey, Sophie Kahn, Ida Kvetny, Lev Manovich, Maria Mavropoulou, Rosa Menkman, Colette Robbins, Penelope Umbrico, and Diana Velasco.
"... essential reading for anyone interested in the evolving language of images."
-LEV MANOVICH, media theorist + artist
NATASHA CHUK PhD is a New York City-based media theorist, educator, and independent curator whose work is situated at the intersection of art, philosophy, and creative technologies. She is also the author of Vanishing Points: Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects (Intellect, 2015).

Part of the investigations in the Lens and Screen Arts series

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Keeping cosy indoors on a wild evening

#photography #rain #autumn #storm

A rain covered window, photographed inside, looking out to a dark evening sky with darker vegetation at the bottom of the frame

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Trying to put together this very simple budget for an application, and I'm finding it actively upsetting - a bad combination of trying to estimate costs for things I have little experience in, fear that the project is a nonsense, and concern that it doesn't require "enough" money to be worth it!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 9d

I'll state the obvious that while short application forms are meant to make applying for research support / funding easier and lower stakes, they actually make it excruciatingly hard to describe all the things you're otherwise still expected to outline in-detail. 500 words today - all day taken! 😅

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