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Epic Forgetting
Below is a paper I wrote for (remote) presentation at this conference on the “Aesthetics of Democratic Life-forms” earlier this week. It’s probably not…
Sep 22
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What a fool believes
Like many other kids in the 1970s, I learned important lessons about the perils of bootlegging and the meaning of authenticity from a two-part episode…
Sep 15
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A huge garbage pit
Rae Armantrout’s short poem “The Craft Talk,” from her 2018 collection Wobble, launches in medias res into this one-sentence stanza: So that the best…
Sep 8
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Personal servings
CVS Bangers This well-wrought appreciation of the in-store music at CVS by Mitch Therieau makes an interesting point about how the “existential…
Sep 2
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August 2023
The preponderance of the object
Platform Realism This thread by Roland Meyer proposes the concept of “platform realism” to describe the quasi-photorealistic output of generative…
Aug 25
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Odds and ends
This is another round-up post of various notes and fragments, prefaced again with apologies for not having written something more substantial…
Aug 18
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The elementary ideological effect
It has always perplexed me that Venmo — an app that facilitates splitting restaurant bills or making cashless purchases from vendors who don’t take…
Aug 11
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Look at a stone
One of the main assumptions behind large language models is that words are no different than numbers. All words can be reduced to numbers; all meanings…
Aug 4
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July 2023
Harmful strings
A paper from computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for AI safety offers “a simple and effective attack method that causes…
Jul 28
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Might as well go for a soda
Sorry for the extended absence, but I have been on a road trip for the past few weeks through the Maritime Provinces. Heard on Canadian radio: Triumph…
Jul 20
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June 2023
Summer's almost gone
For me, the “song of summer” is the same every year: “My War” by Black Flag. Just kidding. I don’t have a personal song of summer, and I typically have…
Jun 30
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Endless feedback
In 2013, Facebook data scientist Adam Kremer and intern Sauvik Das published “Self-Censorship on Facebook,” a paper which was to spark some controversy…
Jun 23
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