*Your "smart TV" is a burglar crowbar for the slop racket
*I'm not sure how AI-refuseniks can even get properly indignant about this situation. Seems like this will need some real framing-work
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"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
Call for Abstracts: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 50th Anniversary Issues
1st issue "Reflections On Computing History" is guest edited by David Hemmendinger.
2nd issue "New Perspectives On Computing History" is guest edited by LaborTech member Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social.
that KH Switch collection pack thing sure has some interesting cover art
interesting choice to give Donald a mismatched number of fingers on each hand, and a beak that absorbs into itself
have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off
Join us in the resistance!
This autumn, we're organizing this exciting hybrid #PhD course on resisting #anti-gender politics together with the consortium InterGender!
Time: 24-26 August
Location: University of Bergen & online
Deadline for Application: 28 June 2026
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This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center
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Lin Prøitz introduces the final speaker, Daniella Gáti. LLMs use statistics to generate “likeliness”, the likely answer. Which we queer people recognise as being normative - reasserting average language. You can ask for a story from a non-heteronormative view, you’ll get the average version.
One thing a lot of 20th Century sci-fi got wrong was that the personal technology of the future would become increasingly unobtrusive and frictionless. In fact, as such technology has mostly turned out to be a vector for advertising, making it deliberately difficult to use has become the point.
Here is Oliver’s Instagram where he documents trans technologies: www.instagram.com/transtechnol...