Coco Picard
@cocolarolo.bsky.social
books + comics / often in the vicinity of art / recently The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press) she/her/hers
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hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat.
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series!
More coming soon...
@uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
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And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end
Save the Chicago Reader - Salem Collo-Julin's Fundraiser on Donorbox
Imagine a teenager in a study carrel at a Chicago Public Library branch. It’s the late end of the 1980s, and a stack of newspapers is on a table nearby. Standing up to stretch after an hour of pretend...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end
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Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/
Failing up - Chicago Reader
True Failure, the latest novel from Alex Higley, follows the deceptions of characters failing upward in their bid for the American dream.
chicagoreader.com
February 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/
Hopefully yielding a late winter success!
February 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hopefully yielding a late winter success!
“Seeing humans and computers as interchangeable also meant that humans had begun to conceive of themselves as computers, and so to act like them. They mechanised their rational faculties by abandoning judgment for calculation, mirroring the machine in whose reflection they saw themselves.“
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Seeing humans and computers as interchangeable also meant that humans had begun to conceive of themselves as computers, and so to act like them. They mechanised their rational faculties by abandoning judgment for calculation, mirroring the machine in whose reflection they saw themselves.“
“As a result, computers had been given authority over matters in which they had no competence. (It would be a “monstrous obscenity”, Weizenbaum wrote, to let a computer perform the functions of a judge in a legal setting or a psychiatrist in a clinical one.) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“As a result, computers had been given authority over matters in which they had no competence. (It would be a “monstrous obscenity”, Weizenbaum wrote, to let a computer perform the functions of a judge in a legal setting or a psychiatrist in a clinical one.) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Armchair painter bots have robust followings of other bots with separate but generic art techniques—e.g. the eye sketching bot, the color pencil puppy bot, the alpine landscape pointillist bot etc
January 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Armchair painter bots have robust followings of other bots with separate but generic art techniques—e.g. the eye sketching bot, the color pencil puppy bot, the alpine landscape pointillist bot etc