Race also entered the frame. Australia (and more specifically the city of Logan) was said to be a perfect testbed because of its great racial diversity. In the words of one local council member "we know that diversity are better, to trial things in, because if it works here, it'll work elsewhere.

Attempts at community complaint were all transposed (in true cybernetic fashion) through the language of feedback

Of the many interesting things shared by my interlocutors, one worth highlighting is the way Wing actively sought out "friendly regulators" who were willing to collaborate with them to modernise the rules governing airspace

This is also true of drone delivery with Google subsidiary Wing Aviation turning Australia into the world's largest commercial drone delivery testbed

Australia, as it turns out, is a preferred location for Big Tech companies to trial new products and services. Spotify, Tinder, Facebook have all tested features in the Australian market first before releasing it elsewhere.

Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.

Online first and gloriously open access ✨

doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Singapore you delicious bastard, I'm coming for you! 🦀 🍜 ✨

Join me for a public lecture on:

Artificial Figures: gender-in-the-making in algorithmic culture

🗓️ Wed 19 November, 2 - 4pm
📍 Chinese Heritage Centre Auditorium, Nanyang Technical University

Register: blogs.ntu.edu.sg/aimeetshuman...

Literally demanding compliments from journalists

Shout out to the ANU Vice Chancellor's PR team for commissioning a puff piece so bad it tries to recuperate her public image by comparing her to corrupt millionaire Imelda Marcos and profiling her collection of designer shoes

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/900277...

💎 NETWORK ANARCHY AND UNSTABLE DIFFUSIONS 💎

7 - 8 July
Naarm/Melbourne

@blueskychris.bsky.social
@ranjodhdhaliwal.com
@eryk.bsky.social
@admscentre.org.au

Marching with students at the ANU May day student strike to demand an end to the disastrous cuts on campus and to stop job losses at ANU ✊✊✊

Happy IWD to everyone except the Vice Chancellor of ANU whose corrupt and incompetent management of the institution has meant that the “remarkable female leaders” she celebrates, including myself, wake up every day not knowing if we will even have a job in the coming weeks #VoteNoConfidence #ANU

Here at the @nteuact.bsky.social rally at ANU to protest the shameful cuts to our university! Up to 630 jobs slated to go under this manufactured crisis.

Staff say ❌NO❌ to this Vice-Chancellor and her so-called "cybernetic leadership" (read: same old liberal managerialism) 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

Happening next week! Join me online for this seminar on innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds. I'll be discussing findings from my latest research on drone delivery testbeds in Australia. Link to register ⬇️

www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...

On this last point, we offer some cursory notes on the politics of representation in a medium that is fundamentally **non-representational**

As an addendum to this🧵: I'm giving a talk (online) on drone delivery trials and the long history of science and technology testing in Australia next Jan for the Centre for Drones and Culture. Thanks to @amygaeta.bsky.social for the invite!

www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...

If you're in Canberra for #AAANZ this week, come to the Polish club for a night of poetry and pieorgi for Palestine. Feat. Snack Syndicate (Astrid Lorange & Andrew Brooks), Sarah Rodigari, and Gabriel Curtin

🇸🇩 8pm, Wednesday 4 December
🇸🇩 White Eagle Polish Club, Turner
🇸🇩 All donations to APAN

TFW you get that grant 🤌🤌🤌

Going to be spending the next few years researching algorithmic social sorting on digital platforms w absolute legends Nic Carah, Mark Andrejevic, and @smwark.bsky.social