Scott Richmond
@scottrichmond.me
Director, Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Experimental media aesthetics, history of computing, theory and technology geekery of various kinds.
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
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[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
[Starship Troopers voice] Would you like to know less?
In 2009, I had two hotel room interviews at MLA. In 2013 I applied for a job that advertised MLA interviews. (I bought a plane ticket. I do not go to MLA. They cancelled interviews, moving straight to campus visits. The search failed. I used the airfare to vacation in San Juan.)
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
In 2009, I had two hotel room interviews at MLA. In 2013 I applied for a job that advertised MLA interviews. (I bought a plane ticket. I do not go to MLA. They cancelled interviews, moving straight to campus visits. The search failed. I used the airfare to vacation in San Juan.)
I don't expect much aurora in downtown Toronto. But I want to be disappointed because of light pollution, and not disappointed because it's goddamn cloudy every time there's an aurora.
(Don't get me started about the eclipse. 😭)
(Don't get me started about the eclipse. 😭)
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't expect much aurora in downtown Toronto. But I want to be disappointed because of light pollution, and not disappointed because it's goddamn cloudy every time there's an aurora.
(Don't get me started about the eclipse. 😭)
(Don't get me started about the eclipse. 😭)
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
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“Nobody knows what magnets are”
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“Nobody knows what magnets are”
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
July 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.
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More than 160 civil society and human rights organizations, academics, field experts, and privacy and equality advocates, myself included, have boycotted AI Minister Solomon's AI consultation process, and call on ISED to shake up the AI Strategy Task Force: bccla.org/policy-submi...
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
More than 160 civil society and human rights organizations, academics, field experts, and privacy and equality advocates, myself included, have boycotted AI Minister Solomon's AI consultation process, and call on ISED to shake up the AI Strategy Task Force: bccla.org/policy-submi...
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if you can, offer people some grace today, some have not been rehearsing this moment since livejournal
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
if you can, offer people some grace today, some have not been rehearsing this moment since livejournal
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there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
there was a time i never thought i could hate a politician more than i hated that guy. in retrospect, very naive of me
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Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
In which a straight woman highlights a bunch of known anti trans activists and claims there's a divide in the queer community.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
It's pure propaganda and gaslighting.
November 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
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A great panel, fizzing with militant ideas.
My questions for a Critical AI Centre included:
- Is critical AI a bubble?
- How do you deal with institutional capture?
- How Butlerian is your Jihad?
- Can critical AI save lives?
My questions for a Critical AI Centre included:
- Is critical AI a bubble?
- How do you deal with institutional capture?
- How Butlerian is your Jihad?
- Can critical AI save lives?
Brett Zehner chaired our third panel, Critical Thought After the AI Turn. Deep conversation was held on themes of labour, life, and the body from speakers @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social, @smwark.bsky.social, @hannems.bsky.social, and @danmcquillan.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A great panel, fizzing with militant ideas.
My questions for a Critical AI Centre included:
- Is critical AI a bubble?
- How do you deal with institutional capture?
- How Butlerian is your Jihad?
- Can critical AI save lives?
My questions for a Critical AI Centre included:
- Is critical AI a bubble?
- How do you deal with institutional capture?
- How Butlerian is your Jihad?
- Can critical AI save lives?
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All I'm saying is that when you write "I am alive" on some paper and put it in a photocopier, judging by the output we don't know that there's *not* a very small man in there. And maybe he deserves rights
October 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
All I'm saying is that when you write "I am alive" on some paper and put it in a photocopier, judging by the output we don't know that there's *not* a very small man in there. And maybe he deserves rights
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"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
October 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
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This meeting could have been a NO FATS NO FEMS Grindr profile
September 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
This meeting could have been a NO FATS NO FEMS Grindr profile