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Language Machines is out today, can be ordered from @uminnpress.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932... - gathering a few parergonal writings below 1/
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Meaning of AI conference at University of Chicago end of February with me, Leif Weatherby, Yuk Hui, Nan Z Da, N. Katherine Hayles, Hannes Bajohr, James Duesterberg, Anastasia Berg. Will be streamed and extremely rockin
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Meaning of AI conference at University of Chicago end of February with me, Leif Weatherby, Yuk Hui, Nan Z Da, N. Katherine Hayles, Hannes Bajohr, James Duesterberg, Anastasia Berg. Will be streamed and extremely rockin
happy to be on here but also happy that such a course is being taught, this will be immensely rewarding for students
My “Reading AI” UVA Grad Seminar: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Includes work from @ritaraley.bsky.social, @leifw.bsky.social, @tedunderwood.com, @mrsbunz.bsky.social, @mattseybold.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, @sarahebull.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de +
Includes work from @ritaraley.bsky.social, @leifw.bsky.social, @tedunderwood.com, @mrsbunz.bsky.social, @mattseybold.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, @sarahebull.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de +
Kirschenbaum, Reading AI (Spring 2026 UVA Grad Seminar) PUBLIC
ENGL 8559-001: Reading AI (Spring 2026) Prof. Matthew Kirschenbaum mgk3k@virginia.edu Office Hours: Bryan 304-A, Wed. 10AM-12PM and by appointment (Zoom) Course Meets: Wed. 2:00-4:30pm, Monroe Hall 1...
docs.google.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM
happy to be on here but also happy that such a course is being taught, this will be immensely rewarding for students
if you're in NYC, come see @maxread.info and me discuss Language Machines on Feb 5
On Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism with Leif Weatherby and Max Read
eventbrite.com/e/language-m...
On Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism with Leif Weatherby and Max Read
eventbrite.com/e/language-m...
Language Machines: A Book Discussion
On Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism with Leif Weatherby and Max Read
eventbrite.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
if you're in NYC, come see @maxread.info and me discuss Language Machines on Feb 5
On Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism with Leif Weatherby and Max Read
eventbrite.com/e/language-m...
On Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism with Leif Weatherby and Max Read
eventbrite.com/e/language-m...
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All interpretability research is either philosophy (affectionate) or stamp collecting (derogatory)
January 11, 2026 at 8:47 PM
All interpretability research is either philosophy (affectionate) or stamp collecting (derogatory)
A delightful review from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, critical points are fair and the book’s arc comes across nicely - also must be the only Critical Inquiry review that contains the phrase “Fuckin-A”
"Cultural AI is called out in the subtitle not as a plea to attend to AI’s better half but because culture has been detached from cognition for too long."
New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
New in review, Matthew Kirschenbaum on Leif Weatherby's Language Machines: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 AM
A delightful review from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social, critical points are fair and the book’s arc comes across nicely - also must be the only Critical Inquiry review that contains the phrase “Fuckin-A”
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claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
got to talk literacy (and orality) and go deep on my book on
@ttsgpod.bsky.social with Jay Kang and co-guest Celine Nguyen - book stuff in the second half of an awesome conversation
open.spotify.com/episode/3P8l...
@ttsgpod.bsky.social with Jay Kang and co-guest Celine Nguyen - book stuff in the second half of an awesome conversation
open.spotify.com/episode/3P8l...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
got to talk literacy (and orality) and go deep on my book on
@ttsgpod.bsky.social with Jay Kang and co-guest Celine Nguyen - book stuff in the second half of an awesome conversation
open.spotify.com/episode/3P8l...
@ttsgpod.bsky.social with Jay Kang and co-guest Celine Nguyen - book stuff in the second half of an awesome conversation
open.spotify.com/episode/3P8l...
Rule 35
I need a name for this variant of Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion of causal inference grows longer, the probability someone brings up smoking causing cancer approaches one."
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Rule 35
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Digital Theory, out today! @leifw.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social
Today's releases!
-Ann Druyan's A Famous Broken Heart—now in PB!
"A modern Alice in a literary wonderland." —Carl Sagan
-Digital Theory with @mbfazi.bsky.social @leifw.bsky.social @3vilh0mer.bsky.social
that proposes a powerful conception of the digital
-Ann Druyan's A Famous Broken Heart—now in PB!
"A modern Alice in a literary wonderland." —Carl Sagan
-Digital Theory with @mbfazi.bsky.social @leifw.bsky.social @3vilh0mer.bsky.social
that proposes a powerful conception of the digital
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Digital Theory, out today! @leifw.bsky.social @mbfazi.bsky.social
Find out about Digital Theory
Today's releases!
-Ann Druyan's A Famous Broken Heart—now in PB!
"A modern Alice in a literary wonderland." —Carl Sagan
-Digital Theory with @mbfazi.bsky.social @leifw.bsky.social @3vilh0mer.bsky.social
that proposes a powerful conception of the digital
-Ann Druyan's A Famous Broken Heart—now in PB!
"A modern Alice in a literary wonderland." —Carl Sagan
-Digital Theory with @mbfazi.bsky.social @leifw.bsky.social @3vilh0mer.bsky.social
that proposes a powerful conception of the digital
December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Find out about Digital Theory
this is why you write books — Pete with a super deep, fair read of Language Machines, with several disagreements but i think an overall orientation to the same diagnosis/set of problems
The inevitable has happened. I've started a substack. The first post is now live, and its a longform review of Leif Weatherby's Language Machines that uses the opportunity to say some things about inferentialism, computation, and LLMs: deontologistics.substack.com/p/computatio...
Computation and its Connotations
A Review of Language Machines by Leif Weatherby
deontologistics.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
this is why you write books — Pete with a super deep, fair read of Language Machines, with several disagreements but i think an overall orientation to the same diagnosis/set of problems
I’ll be discussing Language Machines with Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social and Mike Lipkin @mlipkin.bsky.social at the Sem Coop on Dec 12
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
Leif Weatherby - "Language Machines" - Anna Kornbluh, Mike Lipkin | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
www.semcoop.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I’ll be discussing Language Machines with Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social and Mike Lipkin @mlipkin.bsky.social at the Sem Coop on Dec 12
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
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“Structuralism is back baby, it’s good again!”
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
38. Natural Language (w/ Leif Weatherby)
Podcast Episode · Disintegrator · 24/09/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Structuralism is back baby, it’s good again!”
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
This interview with Leif Weatherby on LLMs is one of the best theoretically-informed discussions I’ve heard on the topic. Well worth your time if you’re a literary theorist or linguist.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
Categorical imperative for the 21st century: act in such a way that you can start class without discussion of a public statement of regret you had to issue
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Categorical imperative for the 21st century: act in such a way that you can start class without discussion of a public statement of regret you had to issue
my interview for the Digital Theory Lab with Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
Karen Hao on Empire of AI
YouTube video by Remarque NYU
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
my interview for the Digital Theory Lab with Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social at the Remarque Institute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpH...
if you're in NYC, come see Stephen and Hannes talk about their LLM novels
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
AI and the Novel, with Hannes Bajohr and Stephen Marche
Hannes Bajohr and Stephen Marche in conversation on "AI and the Novel."
as.nyu.edu
November 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
if you're in NYC, come see Stephen and Hannes talk about their LLM novels
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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Large language models are language machines, and we need to think about what they do with language as more than just "mathy math."
Language Machines as Antimeme
www.ailog.blog/p/language-m...
Language Machines as Antimeme
www.ailog.blog/p/language-m...
Language Machines as Antimeme
AI Log reviews Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism
www.ailog.blog
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Large language models are language machines, and we need to think about what they do with language as more than just "mathy math."
Language Machines as Antimeme
www.ailog.blog/p/language-m...
Language Machines as Antimeme
www.ailog.blog/p/language-m...
Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Let him who has not parroted stochastically cast the first stone
Recruiter: holy shit, this applicant is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Recruiter: holy shit, this applicant is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This market is “stuff that will happen before GTA VI”
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This market is “stuff that will happen before GTA VI”
Some are saying it’s a match made in heaven
Boning up for this conversation of the titans @leifw.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social on Friday 12/12 at the Sem Coop.
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
LFG!
www.semcoop.com/event/leif-w...
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Some are saying it’s a match made in heaven
If you’re local stop by!
October 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
If you’re local stop by!
Ben continues to derive actionable insights from unstructured data
Also very important to have the opposing coach call a run on 2nd and 10 from their own 44 with 42 seconds remaining.
This all goes into the model.
This all goes into the model.
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ben continues to derive actionable insights from unstructured data
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SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
SUNY Binghamton just substantially increased stipends for grad students and we have several fully-funded PhD spots in art history. Pretty sure our endowment is smaller more our placement record is great
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
SOTA
This recording captures my talk on “Genre and GenAI” at Sciences Po last week. This is work toward a formal and material critique of instruction-fine tuned models that present what I call the “instructional-conversational” genre. [INST]
La vidéo de la présentation de @jeddobson.bsky.social lors du séminaire du médialab est en ligne !
Une discussion autour des normes, idéologies et attentes intégrées dans les architectures linguistiques contemporaines.
A regarder dès maintenant sur Vimeo 👇
Une discussion autour des normes, idéologies et attentes intégrées dans les architectures linguistiques contemporaines.
A regarder dès maintenant sur Vimeo 👇
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
SOTA