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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 16h

Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 2d

Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 3d

Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d

If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines

YouTube video by Databricks

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 16d

Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs | LinkedIn Help

LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 20d

New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)

Books: 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan and 'Language Machines' by Leif Weatherby.

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 21d

New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’

New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)

mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · 26d

Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE

Strudel/TidalCycles Live Coding Metal Djents

YouTube video by boggo

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you can’t bully your way to truth. And you can’t make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...

OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections]

Post GPT-5, the narrative has flipped — and that could hurt them

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 14

Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!

Books: 'Emanciapation(s)' by Ernesto Laclau and 'Adversarial Design' by Carl DiSalvo.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Aug 14

Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to work… www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

LLMs vs. Geolocation: GPT-5 performs worse than other AI models - bellingcat

Bellingcat challenged the latest models—Grok, GPT and Gemini—on geolocation tasks, revealing GPT-5 as a clear downgrade.

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...

Dries Depoorter

Belgian creative technologist and artist Dries Depoorter, based in Ghent, creates thought-provoking work about technology, surveillance, ...

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Aug 13

Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

www.bellingcat.com

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 13

"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?

A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 12

Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!

Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 11

'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...

Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data

Birdsong is all around us, but is there a deeper meaning? Can computer analysis help us decipher these hidden patterns in our own backyar...

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Aug 5

New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8

Paper abstract for 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' by Oliver Dawkins and Rob Kitchin.

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Jul 29

New from Data Stories - Carla and I recently visited Oxford Brookes to participate in the Tiny House Games workshop with Mel Nowiki and our collaborators Ella Harris and Hannah Mumby. Check out the post and video for more on #ResearchCreation with games: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?page_id=33

Data Stories Commodity Narratives research question and ideation

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Jul 26

How to save a PNG to a bird! 😂 Great video from Benn Jordan youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is a great, irreverent interview with David Krakauer on the implications of complexity science for the understanding of emergence in LLMs. Feels spot on! youtu.be/jXa8dHzgV8U

Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)

YouTube video by Machine Learning Street Talk

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm loving this live coded performance by Eli Fieldsteel in #SuperCollider I really must find some time to give it a try! youtu.be/09o9IUanLng

SuperCollider Live Coded Improvisation - 15 March 2025

YouTube video by Eli Fieldsteel

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · Jun 6

Fascinating piece from @bellingcat.com testing LLMs for Geolocation. I was particularly struck by the negative impact of 'reasoning' and 'thinking' functions which often feel like 'self-checking', or sometimes even 'self-defeating', functions: www.bellingcat.com/resources/ho...

Have LLMs Finally Mastered Geolocation? - bellingcat

We tasked LLMs from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral and xAI to geolocate our unpublished holiday snaps. Here's how they did.

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Marcos Dias @marcospdias.bsky.social · Jun 3

investigates.thejournal.ie/data-centres

The Journal Investigates: Where are all the data centres and why should you care?

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · May 29

New from Data Stories: Read about the recent paper presentation of 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data' by @juliettedavret.bsky.social on behalf of our team at SAGEO in France: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=734

Juliette Davret presenting the Data Stories paper 'Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data'.

Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · May 27

Got a bit excited in the recent @versobooks.bsky.social sale. 📚Sorry, not sorry. Still prefer reading physical copies.

Verso books sale haul including books by Wark, Laclau, Doctorow and Routhier.

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Virtual Architectures @virt-arch.bsky.social · May 26

Latest from Data Stories: Read about Danielle and Sam's recent presentations on ‘Creative Methodologies’ with artists and ‘Critical Geographies of Housing’ on eviction data for CIG2025 at Queens University, Belfast: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=727

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