Rob Collins
@robbyc23.bsky.social
Antidefuturist / PhD Researcher / Agonistic Designer
Assembler of Critical Things
http://www.robbycollins.com
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http://www.robbycollins.com
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Rob Collins
@robbyc23.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Disrupting Algorithmic Decision Systems
agonisticdesign.com
Made a basic web page that gives 100 suggestions on how to disrupt Algorithmic Decision Systems, based on levels of effort. Mostly written and suggested by my own local AI server:
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
Made a basic web page that gives 100 suggestions on how to disrupt Algorithmic Decision Systems, based on levels of effort. Mostly written and suggested by my own local AI server:
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
Disrupting Algorithmic Decision Systems
agonisticdesign.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Made a basic web page that gives 100 suggestions on how to disrupt Algorithmic Decision Systems, based on levels of effort. Mostly written and suggested by my own local AI server:
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
agonisticdesign.com/disrupt/
#agonisticdesign
#antidefuturing
#algorithms
#ollama
The first #AGON event was held on Whiddy Island last weekend. A bunch of amazing folk gathered to talk, eat and walk under the theme of #antidefuturing. As a prototype for this kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration, it was a big success. Planning our next iteration already. agonisticdesign.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The first #AGON event was held on Whiddy Island last weekend. A bunch of amazing folk gathered to talk, eat and walk under the theme of #antidefuturing. As a prototype for this kind of cross-disciplinary collaboration, it was a big success. Planning our next iteration already. agonisticdesign.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Rob Collins
if you've been wondering how you YES YOU might go about building small networks outside of the internet or if you've been wondering abt good ol' fashioned amateur radio, check out our pamphlet Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/b... @rose-alibi.bsky.social #othernetworks
Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter
Our other networks for everyone booklet “Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter” has been printed and we will be sending out hard copies to those who requested them very soon! If you were u…
othernetworks.net
January 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
if you've been wondering how you YES YOU might go about building small networks outside of the internet or if you've been wondering abt good ol' fashioned amateur radio, check out our pamphlet Build Your Own Mini FM Transmitter othernetworks.net/2024/08/20/b... @rose-alibi.bsky.social #othernetworks
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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Rob Collins
Secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent. We reveal with @SvD how Sweden built this system then stonewalled journalists
November 27, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent. We reveal with @SvD how Sweden built this system then stonewalled journalists
Reposted by Rob Collins
Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
Documentation is finally emerging from my Contestation Café events at Ars Electronica in September. Hosted by the amazing folk at Stadtwerkstatt in Linz.
#arselectronica #stadtwerkstatt #servus.at #contestation #aicounterism #antidefuturism
#arselectronica #stadtwerkstatt #servus.at #contestation #aicounterism #antidefuturism
November 22, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Documentation is finally emerging from my Contestation Café events at Ars Electronica in September. Hosted by the amazing folk at Stadtwerkstatt in Linz.
#arselectronica #stadtwerkstatt #servus.at #contestation #aicounterism #antidefuturism
#arselectronica #stadtwerkstatt #servus.at #contestation #aicounterism #antidefuturism
On-the-nose response by Prof. Eileen Culloty from DCU School of Communications on my Conspiracy Capitaliser. Honoured. www.adaptcentre.ie/eileen-cullo...
Check out her book on disinformation here: www.routledge.com/Disinformati...
#conspiracycapitaliser #posttruth #disinformation
Check out her book on disinformation here: www.routledge.com/Disinformati...
#conspiracycapitaliser #posttruth #disinformation
November 18, 2024 at 10:28 AM
On-the-nose response by Prof. Eileen Culloty from DCU School of Communications on my Conspiracy Capitaliser. Honoured. www.adaptcentre.ie/eileen-cullo...
Check out her book on disinformation here: www.routledge.com/Disinformati...
#conspiracycapitaliser #posttruth #disinformation
Check out her book on disinformation here: www.routledge.com/Disinformati...
#conspiracycapitaliser #posttruth #disinformation