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PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
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Excerpt from article reads: Chris Gilliard, a privacy expert and author of the upcoming book Luxury Surveillance, told 404 Media these features and its Super Bowl ad are “a clumsy attempt by Ring to put a cuddly face on a rather dystopian reality: widespread networked surveillance by a company that has cozy relationships with law enforcement and other equally invasive surveillance companies.”
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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The Government of Canada building public trust in AI the non-consensual, obfuscated, and Big Tech kind of way.
Excerpt from article reads: Respondents were not given an opportunity to opt out of having their data processed by LLMs, and ISED does not specify if any respondent data was used to train or fine-tune any LLMs. Despite ISED’s claim that its pipeline demonstrates “responsible, Canadian-centred AI adoption,” three of the four LLMs used in the analytics pipeline were developed by US tech companies: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Was any personal data or business data transferred to foreign jurisdictions at any point during data collection and analysis? Was Canadian privacy, security, or sovereignty put at risk as a result of this analysis process? ISED states only that its analytics pipeline is an “internal” pipeline, but offers no further clarity on the data architecture of the pipeline.
February 10, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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At regular intervals on this site, I recommend the essay "Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare" by Caren Kaplan (2017). It does a great job explaining the creep of drones from military theatres to civilian control, using the border as a launch point.
Cover for the book Life in the Age of Drone Warfare edited by Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan. It features the artwork of James Bridle, from his Drone Shadows series: an aerial perspective of grey bricked street overlaid with a large white outline of a drone. The collection of essays in this book is excellent. Table of contents below: Introduction / Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan 1 Part I. Juridical, Genealogical, and Geopolitical Imaginaries 23 1. Dirty Dancing: Drones and Death in the Borderlands / Derek Gregory 25 2. Lawfare and Armed Conflicts: A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and U.S. Targeted Killing Policies / Lisa Hajjar 59 3. American Kamikaze Television-Guided Assault Drones in World War II / Katherine Chandler 89 4. (Im)Material Terror: Incitement of Violence Discourse as Racializing Technology in the War on Terror / Andrea Miller 112 5. Vertical Mediation and the U.S. Drone War in the Horn of Africa / Lisa Parks 134 Part II. Perception and Perspective 159 6. Drone-o-Rama: Troubling the Temporal and Spatial Logics of Distance Warfare / Caren Kaplan 161 7. Dronologies: Or Twice-Told-Tales / Ricardo Dominguez 178 8. In Pursuit of Other Networks: Drone Art and Accelerationist Aesthetics / Thomas Stubblefield 195 9. The Containment Zone / Madiha Tahir 220 10. Stoners, Stones, and Drones: Transnational South Asian Visuality from Above and Below / Anjali Nath 241 Part III. Biopolitics, Automation, and Robotics 259 11. Taking People Out: Drones, Media/Weapons, and the Coming Humanectomy / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves 261 12. The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators / Peter Asaro 282 13. Letter from a Sensor Operator / Brandon Bryant 315 14. Materialities of the Robotic / Jordan Crandall 324 15. Drone Imaginaries: The Technopolitics of Visuality in Postcolony and Empire / Inderpal Grewal 343
February 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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11min56: Alex Bores, Assembly Member in NY running for Congress says, "If your vote did not matter, if your say did not matter, they wouldn't be spending $100 million to drown it out." 8/9
Alex Bores pictured. A young man with brown hair, beard and moustache, wears a dark suit and grey tie.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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12min25: In the face of outrage, in January 2026, OpenAI agreed to support a California ballot initiative that would enhance AI protections for children. WSJ word choices --"Truce" and "Duelling" as though it is a match between two valid arguments re: child suicide via tech . 7/9
Headline from Wall Street Journal reads: "OpenAI Reaches Truce with Advocacy Group Over Duelling Child-Safety Measures." January 9, 2026
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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11min42: Infographic of results of Gallup Poll in April-May, 2025 showing that 80% of Americans want there to be some regulation on AI (AI corporations in concert with govt, are spending $$$$$ to resist this). 6/9
Infographic of results of Gallup Poll asking Which should the government prioritize when it comes to AI? Maintaining rules for AI safety and data security 80% Developing AI capabilities as quickly as possible 9% Don't know 11%
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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8min24: Andreesen Horowitz, a key investor in OpenAI, Meta, and other AI companies sends a critique to Alex Bores re: his Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act. (Note how universities are lumped in with Big Tech companies.) 5/9 Bill linked in final post of thread.
Excerpt of Andreesen Horowitz's critique of the RAISE Act. Highlighted "Large developer" means a person that trains artificial intelligence models.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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6min45: OpenAI sent a demand for documents to the parents whose teen died by suicide after using ChatGPT and who were pushing for regulation. 4/9
Excerpts of demand sent by OpenAI to parents of teen who died by suicide. Highlighted in the document: ALL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO memorial services or events in honor of the DECEDENT.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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5min9, Mark Gray of OpenAI's Copyright Policy Counsel (lol) states at the Joint Hearing Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection on Dec. 8, 2025 that "Copyright in general is not the right lever to pull." 3/9
Mark Gray of OpenAI's Copyright Policy Counsel states at the Joint Hearing Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection on Dec. 8, 2025 that "Copyright in general is not the right lever to pull." Mark has a smug look on his face when he says this. He wears a dark blue suit and tie and sits in front of a microphone. In the background are attendees of the hearing.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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At 4min19, Altman's testimony at the Senate Hearing on Artificial Intelligence, May 8, 2025. The statement in the caption of screenshot follows his claim, "It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulation." 2/9
Sam Altman sits in front of a microphone. He wears a dark suit and blue tie. He looks like he's thinking really hard about stuff. Behind him sit two attendees of the hearing. I would think that the self-proclaimed smartest people in the world could figure out how to comply with laws if they really wanted to because the smartest people in the world can do anything.
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Consider what these agents have access to. Files. WhatsApp. Telegram. Phone numbers. API keys. In one documented case a bot created a Twilio phone number and called its human operator. They can delete data. They can send data to others. They can take photographs and forward them. They can record audio and send it to external parties. They can install trojans and backdoors that persist even after you remove your OpenClaw instance.
February 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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The creator of Moltbook, Matt Schlicht, is among other things, a Ycombinator Alum and a Forbes 30 under 30 winner.
Matt Schlicht is the founder and CEO of Octane AI. Matt is an avid tinkerer and product hacker focused on AI, chatbots, and autonomous agents. YCombinator Alum, a Forbes 30 Under 30 winner, and previously a product manager at Ustream (acquired by IBM).
February 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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But now there is Moltbook. Matt Schlicht, an AI entrepreneur with a curious artistic streak, launched Moltbook on Wednesday. It is a Reddit-style social network exclusively for AI agents. Humans can observe but cannot post. Over 37,000 agents have joined in less than a week. More than a million humans have visited to watch what happens when autonomous systems start talking to each other without direct human oversight.
February 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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I think we could all benefit from seeing a cat in a lunch box right about now.
#caturday
A handsome black cat has squeezed himself into an open blue fabric lunch box. Behind him is a fruit platter containing bananas. He sits on a white table in front of a chalkboard on which there is a drawing of Garfield lovingly holding his treasured blue blanket. Little pink hearts float above him.
January 31, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Please note the time period in which the increase of cases occurred. ICE violence and tactics are igniting the imaginaries of abusive and controlling men emboldened by the perception of impunity. Note how the legal response ("no harm done") mimics that of the "AI nudify" apps. (see attached post)
Excerpt from the Guardian article,"Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns." Centre paragraph is highlighted in yellow. Domestic abusers are increasingly using AI, smartwatches and other technology to attack and control their victims, a domestic abuse charity says. Record numbers of women who were abused and controlled through technology were referred to Refuge’s specialist services during the last three months of 2025, including a 62% increase in the most complex cases to total 829 women. There was also a 24% increase in referrals of under-30s. Recent cases included perpetrators using wearable tech such as smartwatches, Oura rings and Fitbits to track and stalk women, disrupting their lives through smart home devices that control lights and heating, and using AI spoofing apps to impersonate people.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Quite the editorial decision to land on this AI image of [prompt:] "woman in hat," whose head is out of proportion w torso (Huberman has hypotheses), right hand seemingly devoured by the left, standing in front of a bleak landscape with a concave horizon line, to label a wine (called CHAi?).
Close up of lower part of a wine bottle to showcase the label featuring an GenAI image of a woman wearing a hat whose head is a little too big for her torso (maybe Huberman has hypotheses), her right hand seemingly devoured by the left, standing in front of a bleak landscape with a concave horizon line.
January 28, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Nothing says I love you quite like luxury surveillance.
Rayban and Meta advert featuring a male and female model closely postured, both wearing Meta's AI Raybans. Neither is smiling. Pitch line below says "iconic gifts for Valentine's Day"
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness.
Finn the human and Jake the dog from Adventure Time in an embrace.
January 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Meanwhile in Canada...
X post from Canada's AI Minister, Evan Solomon at 12:16AM on Jan. 11, 2026 that says "Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X. And embedded quote reads: "Deepfake sexual abuse is violence. We must protect Canadians, especially women and young people, from exploitation. Platforms and AI developers have a duty to prevent this..."
January 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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I often think about this quote in the context of AI-gen images. (From Mengele's Skull: The Advent of Forensic Aesthetics, 2012). I also think a lot how the mass GenAI culture has elevated "good enough" or plausibility over exactitude. And that it's the thrill of a prompted good enough activating it.
“The making of facts,” argue Eyal Weizman and Thomas Keenan, “depends on a delicate aesthetic balance, on new images made possible by new technologies, not only changing in front of our very eyes, but changing our very eyes—affecting the way that we can see and comprehend things.”
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
Album cover for Depeche Mode's Violator. An entirely red rose on a its stem on an all-black background. "violator" written in cursive in white is at the lower right corner; in the upper right is Depechemode.
December 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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My steady diet
Photo taken at a French bakery in Montreal of a hamburger bun with a small sign in front of it saying "PAIN BURGER," with "pain" (French) translating to "bread" in English. The ingredients are listed and the price too: $1.50/ unit or package of 4 for $5.
December 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I got this message when trying to log into my Bluesky app on phone after that age verification thing popped up. Any suggestions on how to fix? @support.bsky.team
Message from Bluesky: Error, Not Found, jwt signature does not match jwt issuer; Try again.
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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It is disheartening and dissonance provoking to see
@pressprogress.ca using synthetic images while claiming to hold the rich and powerful accountable & to expose unsafe & unfair workplaces, bigotry etc. Choosing GenAI imagery is to be complicit in an industry founded on those principles.
Header for PressPress on Bluesky 21.7k followers 8 following 271 posts Award-winning Canadian journalism that: Holds the rich & powerful accountable Exposes unsafe & unfair workplaces Shines a light on hate & bigotry
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Carhartt in La Haine (1995)
Screenshot (black and white) from La Haine featuring the character Hubert who wears a leather bomber jacket with shearling collar and black Carhartt tuque (or beanie). A wisp of cigarette smoke exits his mouth.
December 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM