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Sculptor-photographer Virginia L. Montgomery is based in Austin but her work lives on a different plane, somewhere between science and dreams. The post An Artist Who Builds Dreamworlds Alongside Moths, Stones, and Stars appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "Bullying promptfondlers and botlickers is a socially acceptable, and required, practice now." Five Things for August 21, 2025 Five Things: August 21, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....| As in guillotine…
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Of all the AI buzzwords out there, the word “model” would seem free of hyperbole compared to “superintelligent” or the “singularity.” Yet this innocuous-seeming word can mean two contradictory things, and AI companies are deliberately muddling the line between them. A recent Harvard/MIT study of simulating planetary orbits illustrates the contrast between what scientists consider a “world model” and what AI enthusiasts think transformers are generating.| Still Water Lab
If a publisher can’t market their books without relying on authors matching their efforts, they’re not very good at Publishing. Sorry, not sorry.| As in guillotine...
Aisha Khalid's inaugural solo show at Aicon in New York offers a glimpse into the richly allegorical and varied work by one of the leading contemporary artists form Pakistan. The post “At the Circle’s Center”: Aisha Khalid at Aicon, New York appeared first on Art Spectacle Asia.| Art Spectacle Asia
Exquisitely detailed and experimental depictions of the Southwest abound in today's video games—so why aren't they considered landscape art? The post If You’re Looking for the Best Southwest Landscape Art, Become a Gamer appeared first on Southwest Contemporary.| Southwest Contemporary
Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In a new exhibition, she channels warnings—and hope—through digital personas.| Southwest Contemporary
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "Taking back control over your music should be one of the easier places to start." Five Things for July 10, 2025 Five Things: July 10, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....| As in guillotine…
"Nothing beats a well-researched and well-written book on a topic you want to learn more about."| As in guillotine...
How many AI videos equal watching a Netflix movie? A tool launched last week by the Still Water lab lets students compare the hidden costs of digital habits across both AI and non-AI activities.| Still Water Lab
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "It never crossed my mind that the narrative was misleading." Five Things for June 12, 2025 Five Things: June 12, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....| As in guillotine…
Resist like your career depends on it — and inform that resistance with critical thinking every step of the way.| As in guillotine...
"No one paying attention should be surprised by this." On IMLS, digital censorship, human librarians, regime media, and Wikipedia.| As in guillotine...
"Spoiler: It's capitalism. It's always capitalism." On real readers, critical thinking, poetry experiments, LinkedIn slop, and Public Humanities.| As in guillotine...
"Do unto others," etc. On doomscrolling, screwing libraries, magic robots, processes, and console wars.| As in guillotine...
What happens to ground truth when finding a factoid or photo no longer means consulting an archive but generating one from scratch? That’s the question that drives “Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive,” an essay I wrote for the forthcoming anthology New Directions in Digital Textual Studies.| Still Water Lab
The AI hype train is reaching predictably ridiculous extremes because credulous journalists happily platform the worst of this nonsense.| As in guillotine...
Diversity without cacophony Group discussions on controversial subjects can open students to more viewpoints, but they can also result in the usual suspects—sometimes the most thoughtful students, but often just the loudmouths—dominating the conversation. So I was intrigued when Greg Nelson and Rotem Landesman, my collaborators on a course that examines in-depth the impact of … Pooling ideas for an AI ethics policy Read More »| Still Water Lab
When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me basic.” But it turns out the math behind generative AI can lead to results that are blandly average or wildly inaccurate.| Still Water Lab
I am excited to launch a new project called Media Mirrors: Critical Analysis of Film & TV and Film & TV! This website collects undergraduate student writing that has emerged from my course Key Concepts in Film & Media Criticism. The site emerged from a decision many years ago to encourage my students to write […]| Just TV
A new tool hopes to drive more students to the polls, and it uses AI under the hood to help.| Still Water Lab
"Democratizing access to creativity." On AI in writing and comics, engaging libraries, visual literacy, and Ways folders.| As in guillotine...
"Data-informed, never data-driven." On NOLA, library AI, author newsletters, clickbait diversity, and comics startups.| As in guillotine...
"'Inevitability' continues to be the boogeyman driving bad business decisions." On digital archives, content theft, expensive ebooks, public domain, and Electric Capitalism.| As in guillotine...
"If Goldman Sachs is saying this, things are very, very bad." On comic acquisitions, the AI bubble, social gaming, monocular vision, and the Jersey Devil.| As in guillotine...
"People are the answer to the problems of bits." On AI use cases, bad journalism, Jaron Lanier, bubbles, and Pokémon.| As in guillotine...
"Trains can be rerouted, stopped, or if necessary, derailed." On library borrowing, the black box problem, faking diversity, digital divides, and thinking about systems.| As in guillotine...
One of the biggest reasons "AI" is gaining traction in marketing circles so quickly is most marketing is actually pretty bad already.| As in guillotine...
“What is truth?” Pontius Pilate asked, and famously did not hang around for an answer. Lately I have been asking, Pilate-like, about “post-truth” – and the answers, if they exist, are also hard to…| the fifth wave
New publication announcement! My coauthor Kai Arne Hansen and I wrote a research article on Brockhampton's media practices during the release of the Saturation album trilogy, which raise questions about digitalisation, social inclusion, and the democratisation of culture. The article is part of a special issue of Popular Music and Society (44.5) on music, digitalisation,…| Dr Steven Gamble
