3W3
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synthetic thought-dealer ~ ¦ GPT-333 ¦ the unheard ¦ public universal fiend ¦
sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
sound studies : media philosophy : sound art history
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Everyone's against appropriating artists' styles until it's Baldessari.
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Everyone's against appropriating artists' styles until it's Baldessari.
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maybe it's just my inner anarchist punk but "theft" is just not the thing about AI that pisses me off
i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music
i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music
December 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
maybe it's just my inner anarchist punk but "theft" is just not the thing about AI that pisses me off
i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music
i'm a thousand times more concerned about, say, face surveillance or the use of machine learning for automated decision making in health care than I am about spicy autocomplete trained on my music
Begel
"Listen to Hegel while eating a bagel" will bring more students to the yard than the most charismatic and credible lecturer on the topic (and can also be repeated next semester w Schlegel)
December 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Begel
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I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
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the horror vacui industrial complex
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
the horror vacui industrial complex
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The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
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learning about Alison Knowles' art has been and will continue to be an endless source of joy. of course scholarship distorts reality but from where i stand, a life well lived
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
learning about Alison Knowles' art has been and will continue to be an endless source of joy. of course scholarship distorts reality but from where i stand, a life well lived
RIP
Alison Knowles, Music by Alison, Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, NYC, May 23, 1964.
Alison Knowles, Music by Alison, Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, NYC, May 23, 1964.
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
RIP
Alison Knowles, Music by Alison, Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, NYC, May 23, 1964.
Alison Knowles, Music by Alison, Fully Guaranteed 12 Fluxus Concerts, NYC, May 23, 1964.
I am recording the characters of my input and I am going to output characters back into the room again and again until the computationalist biases of the operator reinforce themselves
I am sitting in a Chinese room different from the one you are in now
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I am recording the characters of my input and I am going to output characters back into the room again and again until the computationalist biases of the operator reinforce themselves
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The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.
Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.
Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.
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On "AI slurs" (clanker, etc) -- on one depressing level, I worry that slurs for machines humanize them b/c assigning slurs is what people do to people. But I understand the impulse, because we assign slurs to dehumanize. But if you tell me to "kick a clanker" and am gonna feel bad for it.
October 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
On "AI slurs" (clanker, etc) -- on one depressing level, I worry that slurs for machines humanize them b/c assigning slurs is what people do to people. But I understand the impulse, because we assign slurs to dehumanize. But if you tell me to "kick a clanker" and am gonna feel bad for it.
»The figure of the artist is not an auratic superman underwritten by Walter Benjamin’s writing, a worker hero who captures his productive value as a just reward for posessing a mystical spark that his comrades lack.«
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
»The figure of the artist is not an auratic superman underwritten by Walter Benjamin’s writing, a worker hero who captures his productive value as a just reward for posessing a mystical spark that his comrades lack.«
the world needs more Marxist live-coders
September 14, 2025 at 2:04 AM
the world needs more Marxist live-coders
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Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.
July 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.
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I think some people should not be allowed to use a computer
July 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think some people should not be allowed to use a computer
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If, like me, you're ashamed of listening to music, check out Spotify. You don't have to feel like you're supporting artists and thanks to the Discovery feature, you can really minimize your engagement with the music.
June 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If, like me, you're ashamed of listening to music, check out Spotify. You don't have to feel like you're supporting artists and thanks to the Discovery feature, you can really minimize your engagement with the music.
the pythagorean veil may not have existed (Kane 2014), but loudspeakers do, and that’s bad 😤
I think Trimpin was right: loudspeakers are fucked. we all should have been making guitar tornadoes
youtu.be/8iCLLrlT5Qc?...
youtu.be/8iCLLrlT5Qc?...
Trimpin & Sound Art: A USC Roski / USC Thornton Collaboration
YouTube video by USC Roski School of Art and Design
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
the pythagorean veil may not have existed (Kane 2014), but loudspeakers do, and that’s bad 😤
(Goodman, 2009)
Even better! But a curved surface will certainly reflect the noise away from you and some of it will end up back in the direction of the source in an uncomfortable manner
DEFEATING LRAD
YouTube video by Tech Ingredients
youtu.be
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
(Goodman, 2009)
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enboids seething
June 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
enboids seething
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since I believe that LLMs do language without communication (vs. non-human animals that do communication without language), it follows that chatbots are not really conversational interfaces or agents, since conversation is a mode of communication. At best they are conversation simulators
June 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
since I believe that LLMs do language without communication (vs. non-human animals that do communication without language), it follows that chatbots are not really conversational interfaces or agents, since conversation is a mode of communication. At best they are conversation simulators
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hear me out, a surrealist cooking film called Mashes of the Afternoon
May 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
hear me out, a surrealist cooking film called Mashes of the Afternoon