Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Applications to our 4 CC-EE CDP fully funded AHRC studentships are now open! ccc.cam.ac.uk/cc-ee/students…
Exciting opportunities to research amazing collections of Fitzwilliam Museum Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery in partnership with Cambridge University ARU Durham University

Interesting comparison with theguardian.com/australia-news…

Join us for a roundtable discussion on AI, Teaching & Research in the Humanities - bringing together different communities of practice to build a shared vocabulary & better prepare for the AI-inflected present

📅8 May 12:45-2:45PM
📍 Online & In-person

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come work with me? I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my 4-year research project “Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation” (ALGOFOLK) at the University of Bergen - looking for socsci&hum+tech people with global outlook jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

On April 23, 2024, I'll be speaking at the ILO about this: what if tech companies were required by law to disclose how much human labor is concealed behind their AI?

'His conviction that he was on the verge of greatness produced a spiral of self-sabotage.'

Edward Wilson-Lee (Edward Wilson-Lee) on the banker who became an art historian
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I was a Guggenheim media curator for 15 years, and I still find it easier to name all the digital art exhibitions NOT curated by Christiane Paul than keep track of all of hers. So excited to join her in conversation about AI art Tuesday at 4:30pm EDT blog.still-water.net/digital-curati… 🐘♻️

TLDR: to 'solve' trash content on trash surveillance platforms, BigTech AI will flag whether content is 'good' or not.

Can we please stop falling for this? This isn't 'solving' the problem. It's simply consolidating control over platforms w/o attending to who will wield it.

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
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I’ve been waiting for this paper to drop like yall wait for the latest Kendrick or Bey hit! On eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence by @[email protected] on Mastodon + Dr. Émile P. Torres. <> firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

🚨We’re hiring!🚨
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is looking to appoint a part-time Photo Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) to support the care of & access to it's important Photographic Collection.
Find out more & apply here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/46099/

Closing date: 28/04/2024
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Forty years ago, Gay's The Word was reeling from raids by HM Customs & Excise. You might've heard of 'Operation Tiger', but probably know less about the books accused of being 'indecent or obscene'. Our new exhibition Senate House Library School of Advanced Study, University of London reveals more –
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Terrible news for Abingdon and Basingstoke. x.com/jjoque/status/…

Two days to go to submit applications for Lise Meitner Group tenure track positions khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/c…

Cemetery of robotic art

A big deal: IEEE will stop accepting papers containing the Lena image — a photo published in Playboy & used for decades in image-processing research. It's a fascinating tale about how women are deeply embedded in the history of technology, whether we consent or not.

In the liminal space between prized ZKM exhibit and twitter shitpost

Excited to be co-hosting this event in Sydney in December. Call for papers now out. Come join us! ArTechLaw.org/hacking-visual… UTS Faculty of Law UTS Arts & Social Sciences #CPRG Dr. Andrea Wallace Dr Cristina S Martinez Leonardo Impett Joy Twemlow (she/her)

What if **occasionally**, just very occasionally, the dodgy government we shouldn't be doing business with is.... our own?