Alex Saum
@alexsaum.bsky.social
reader, writer, poet, editor, professor. Doing digital things in and out of UC Berkeley. En inglés y en español. Spain and LatAm, but also English comparative stuff <3 (she/her)
http://www.alexsaum.com/
// not sure if she can do this all over again //
http://www.alexsaum.com/
// not sure if she can do this all over again //
About a year ago I wrote a poetic essay on *this* precise scenario [coming out soon in U of Michigan Press>>https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/First-Encounters-with-AI2] and all I can say now is that it is finally...
time to jump off the internet, friends.
#moltbook #ai
time to jump off the internet, friends.
#moltbook #ai
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
simonwillison.net
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...
MAL founder & director @loriemerson.net talked to Fast Company about the lab - www.fastcompany.com/91483774/the...
These historic computing labs teach kids what technology was like before phones, social media, and the cloud
The labs help students and researchers understand computing’s history and future—and stoke an interest in cloud-free technology.
www.fastcompany.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...
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Come work with us at The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies <3 THE BEST JOURNAL of its kind
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
think.taylorandfrancis.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Come work with us at The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies <3 THE BEST JOURNAL of its kind
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
About to give a little brown bag talk on AI Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Machine-Human Interaction and much much more with my @bcnm.bsky.social colleagues @ken-goldberg.bsky.social @celestekidd.bsky.social and Lisa Wymore <3
I love my Berkeley Center for New Media, I really do <3
#AI #newmedia
I love my Berkeley Center for New Media, I really do <3
#AI #newmedia
February 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
About to give a little brown bag talk on AI Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Machine-Human Interaction and much much more with my @bcnm.bsky.social colleagues @ken-goldberg.bsky.social @celestekidd.bsky.social and Lisa Wymore <3
I love my Berkeley Center for New Media, I really do <3
#AI #newmedia
I love my Berkeley Center for New Media, I really do <3
#AI #newmedia
Come work with us at The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies <3 THE BEST JOURNAL of its kind
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
think.taylorandfrancis.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Come work with us at The Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies <3 THE BEST JOURNAL of its kind
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
We are looking for an Assistant Managing Editor to work with our fab editorial collective *and yours truly* starting in May
think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
@jscs-revista.bsky.social
RT🙏
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THRILLED to share The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize for best essay in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies!!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize
think.taylorandfrancis.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
THRILLED to share The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize for best essay in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies!!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
No excuses now, friends
We know you have too much work, so we are extending the call for ELO26 till February 28! Don't miss out!
anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/
anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/
ELO 2026 - University of Central Florida
anastasiasalter.net
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
No excuses now, friends
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January 21, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Among all the horrors/ Entre todos los horrores
This beautiful work on the future of writing / Este hermoso trabajo sobre el futuro de la escritura
ensayo-sobre-futuro.viniciusmarquet.com
Gracias, Vin, por invitarnos a pensar sobre todo esto juntes :)
This beautiful work on the future of writing / Este hermoso trabajo sobre el futuro de la escritura
ensayo-sobre-futuro.viniciusmarquet.com
Gracias, Vin, por invitarnos a pensar sobre todo esto juntes :)
Ensayo sobre el futuro de la escritura-lectura
ensayo-sobre-futuro.viniciusmarquet.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Among all the horrors/ Entre todos los horrores
This beautiful work on the future of writing / Este hermoso trabajo sobre el futuro de la escritura
ensayo-sobre-futuro.viniciusmarquet.com
Gracias, Vin, por invitarnos a pensar sobre todo esto juntes :)
This beautiful work on the future of writing / Este hermoso trabajo sobre el futuro de la escritura
ensayo-sobre-futuro.viniciusmarquet.com
Gracias, Vin, por invitarnos a pensar sobre todo esto juntes :)
THRILLED to share The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize for best essay in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies!!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize
think.taylorandfrancis.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
THRILLED to share The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize for best essay in the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies!!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
SEND US YOUR BEST WORK FRIENDS!!!
@jscs-revista.bsky.social #culturalstudies #spanish
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🎈 @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the January 2026 issue of #ReviewsInDH! This is a special issue on Electronic Literature. Thank you to our guest editors, Samya Brata Roy, Reham Hosny, and Leah Henrickson, for an exciting issue. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n1
Vol. 7, No. 1: January 2026 - Electronic Literature · Reviews in Digital Humanities
Vol. 7, No. 1 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...
reviewsindh.pubpub.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:45 PM
🎈 @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are happy to share the January 2026 issue of #ReviewsInDH! This is a special issue on Electronic Literature. Thank you to our guest editors, Samya Brata Roy, Reham Hosny, and Leah Henrickson, for an exciting issue. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n1
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imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
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Reposted by Alex Saum
Having already read big chunks of it, I can tell you @alexsaum.bsky.social forthcoming Earthy Algorithms is 🔥🔥🔥
And, for the locals, a little bird told me Alex will be in Boulder sometime in the Spring 🎉
And, for the locals, a little bird told me Alex will be in Boulder sometime in the Spring 🎉
January 23, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Having already read big chunks of it, I can tell you @alexsaum.bsky.social forthcoming Earthy Algorithms is 🔥🔥🔥
And, for the locals, a little bird told me Alex will be in Boulder sometime in the Spring 🎉
And, for the locals, a little bird told me Alex will be in Boulder sometime in the Spring 🎉
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
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Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...
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everyone’s feeling it
Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.
January 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
everyone’s feeling it
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FREE ACCESS until March 1, Pedro García-Caro explores how the Republican trial of José Antonio Primo de Rivera served as a model of wartime criminal prosecution which was – through Franco’s propaganda – first forgotten then distorted
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
The fabrication of a hero: José Antonio Primo de Rivera’s trial and its afterlife in Franco’s propaganda machine
The Franco regime consolidated power by converting a documented legal event into a foundational myth: it erased public memory of a lawful Republican trial and manufactured a martyr through systemat...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
FREE ACCESS until March 1, Pedro García-Caro explores how the Republican trial of José Antonio Primo de Rivera served as a model of wartime criminal prosecution which was – through Franco’s propaganda – first forgotten then distorted
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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Beñat Doxandabaratz analyzes a pair of recent Basque films – “Ander” and “80 egunean” – that foreground queer as well as other nonnormative identities, in this way showing unexpected visions of the Basque countryside
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Beñat Doxandabaratz analyzes a pair of recent Basque films – “Ander” and “80 egunean” – that foreground queer as well as other nonnormative identities, in this way showing unexpected visions of the Basque countryside
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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The collective performance art of Raquel Friera is the focus of this essay by Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra, which studies how Friera’s piece appropriates earlier works of durational performance art to comment on the un-/undervalued domestic work of women
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The collective performance art of Raquel Friera is the focus of this essay by Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra, which studies how Friera’s piece appropriates earlier works of durational performance art to comment on the un-/undervalued domestic work of women
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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FREE ACCESS until March 1, Adam Cohn studies how Violeta Salama’s film “Alegria” presents a contemporary perspective of convivencia – its joys, struggles, and contradictions – in Melilla
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
Performing convivencia: female ritual and Jewish belonging in Violeta Salama’s Alegría (2021)
Violeta Salama’s debut film Alegría (2021) explores Jewish life in Melilla as a unique site of convivencia in contemporary Spain. This essay interprets the characters’ enactments of female-centered...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
FREE ACCESS until March 1, Adam Cohn studies how Violeta Salama’s film “Alegria” presents a contemporary perspective of convivencia – its joys, struggles, and contradictions – in Melilla
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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Published OPEN ACCESS, this essay by Maribel Peñalver Vicea offers a reading of “El Agua”, the recent film by Elena López Riera, and its depiction of the confrontation between local myth and global climate change
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
El peso del mito en El Agua de Elena López Riera: del miedo atávico a la liberación
El Agua (2022) es la ópera prima de Elena López Riera. Rodada en Orihuela, un pueblo al sur de la Comunidad Valenciana, una riada amenaza de nuevo con desbordar el río que lo atraviesa. El agua “se...
doi.org
January 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Published OPEN ACCESS, this essay by Maribel Peñalver Vicea offers a reading of “El Agua”, the recent film by Elena López Riera, and its depiction of the confrontation between local myth and global climate change
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
doi.org/10.1080/1463...
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We just published issue 26.4! Featuring articles on the trial of José Antono Primo de Rivera and artist Raquel Friera, as well as three essays on film: queer film in the Basque countryside, Violeta Salama’s "Alegria", and Elena Lopez Riera’s "El Agua"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/c...
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:41 PM
We just published issue 26.4! Featuring articles on the trial of José Antono Primo de Rivera and artist Raquel Friera, as well as three essays on film: queer film in the Basque countryside, Violeta Salama’s "Alegria", and Elena Lopez Riera’s "El Agua"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/c...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/c...
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on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM
on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com
you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias:
we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com