MachineMachine /stream https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin]]> http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/378843

In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come from appreciated.

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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:38:54 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/378843
<![CDATA[AI and Indigenous Languages]]> https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/

It is estimated that one language dies every 14 days, with it a world of concepts and ideas that could only be expressed in its words. Most of the languages at risk of extinction belong to Indigenous communities.

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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:42:43 -0800 https://blog.westerndigital.com/indigenous-languages/
<![CDATA[Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker]]> https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai

On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion of automated machinery.

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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 10:03:29 -0800 https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai
<![CDATA[There Are 14 Billion Videos on YouTube - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/

The video site isn’t just a platform. It’s infrastructure. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.

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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:37:47 -0800 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/
<![CDATA[MeFi: Well, here's your viewing for the week decided.]]> http://www.metafilter.com/202421/Well-heres-your-viewing-for-the-week-decided

Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of Episode 1, nor is it an attack. The idea is a detailed, fair, and informed analysis. We'll go over the entire movie, giving credit and blame as needed."

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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:46:23 -0800 http://www.metafilter.com/202421/Well-heres-your-viewing-for-the-week-decided
<![CDATA[Obnoxious Machines - the prospects for Luddism in the era of AI]]> https://danmcquillan.org/obnoxious-machines-the-prospects-for-luddism-in-the-era-of-ai.html?s=09

It's time to talk about the Ludding times. That's how they talked about it, those who were there, when readying themselves for an insurrection a few years later.

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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:17:58 -0800 https://danmcquillan.org/obnoxious-machines-the-prospects-for-luddism-in-the-era-of-ai.html?s=09
<![CDATA[You’re wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories]]> https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories

Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy theories have found a natural home online.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:57 -0800 https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories
<![CDATA[“There’s Nothing New / Under The Sun, / But There Are New Suns”: Recovering Octavia E. Butler’s Lost Parables | Los Angeles Review of Books]]> https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables

 THE BAD NEWS is waiting for us on the first page of the first chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s 1998 science fiction novel Parable of the Talents.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:55 -0800 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theres-nothing-new-sun-new-suns-recovering-octavia-e-butlers-lost-parables
<![CDATA[John Carpenter’s THE THING is More Lovecraftian Than You Thought - Nerdist]]> https://nerdist.com/article/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/

In the 35 years since John Carpenter‘s first big studio movie, 1982’s The Thing, which he made for Universal, was released, it’s metamorphosed from flop to underground classic in the horror genre.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:54 -0800 https://nerdist.com/article/john-carpenters-the-thing-lovecraftian-35-anniversary/
<![CDATA[Survival of the Richest | by Douglas Rushkoff | OneZero]]> https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 ]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:53 -0800 https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1 <![CDATA[Memes Are For Tricksters: The Biology of Disinformation - Mondo 2000]]> https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/21/the-ends-dont-justify-the-memes/

Back in 1990, when MONDO 2000 magazine promised Screaming Memes on its cover, it was more or less a secret argot winking at our technohip Mondoid readers.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:51 -0800 https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/21/the-ends-dont-justify-the-memes/
<![CDATA[A.I. Needs New Clichés. The old ones aren’t helping, and the… | by Molly Wright Steenson | Medium]]> https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb

If you plug “AI” or “artificial intelligence” into Google Image Search, here’s what you get. Electric brains firing blue with neurons. Translucent robots and robot heads, code dribbling down their foreheads and noses.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:40 -0800 https://maximolly.medium.com/ai-needs-new-clichés-ed0d6adb8cbb
<![CDATA[Flesh Moves]]> https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkbyn/flesh-moves

Whatever future comes, one thing is fairly certain, excepting total American collapse—the goods will continue to flow. By human, by vehicle, by automaton, or by some combination of the three,stuff will be distributed, sold, and speculated upon across the land.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:36 -0800 https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkbyn/flesh-moves
<![CDATA[Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | Pankaj Mishra | The New York Review of Books]]> https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/

“Men have to toughen up,” Jordan B. Peterson writes in 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote to Chaos, “Men demand it, and women want it.” So, the first rule is, “Stand up straight with your shoulders back” and don’t forget to “clean your room.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:34 -0800 https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
<![CDATA[Heroku | Application Error]]> http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-camp-issue/sex/the-queer-art-of-fucking-your-friends

For as long as I can remember, I’ve desired romantic relationships with boys, and then as I got older, men. Also for as long as I can remember, I’ve had sexual fantasies exclusively about girls, and then as I got older, women.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:33 -0800 http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-camp-issue/sex/the-queer-art-of-fucking-your-friends
<![CDATA[Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic]]> https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and let them teach themselves.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:29 -0800 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html
<![CDATA[What It’s Like to Be a Bot — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/

Bots are everywhere. From simple algorithms and aggregator bots to complex “artificially” intelligent machine-learning systems, they have become inescapable. Some are in chat programs.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:24 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-bot/
<![CDATA[Leaving Herland | The Point Magazine]]> https://thepointmag.com/politics/leaving-herland/

But even after I overcame my instinct for detachment, I remained wary of the movement’s language, which was a language of binaries: women and men.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:20 -0800 https://thepointmag.com/politics/leaving-herland/
<![CDATA[Pedro Domingos on the Arms Race in Artificial Intelligence - DER SPIEGEL]]> https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pedro-domingos-on-the-arms-race-in-artificial-intelligence-a-1203132.html

In an interview, best-selling author and machine-learning expert Pedro Domingos discusses the global competition to take the lead in artificial intelligence, the advance of autocrats and the threats modern technology presents to Western democracies.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:19 -0800 https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pedro-domingos-on-the-arms-race-in-artificial-intelligence-a-1203132.html
<![CDATA[Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out | Communism | The Guardian]]> https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto

For a manifesto to succeed, it must speak to our hearts like a poem while infecting the mind with images and ideas that are dazzlingly new.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:17 -0800 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto