God’s Eye View Redux: Young Men Incentivized To Play "War" in the Real World
God's-Eye-View blew up and hit #1 repo on Github in the last week of August. It is an open-source, browser-based "spy satellite simulator" built on real public data feeds. It integrates flight...
The Informatics Of Domination
I first encountered Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto” in a feminist epistemologies seminar in the early 1990s. At that time, we felt that we were on the cusp of something new, and her writing...
Everything All At Once
In our subscriber chat, many of you shared some significant challenges of being human right now: feelings of isolation; information overload; difficulties in building community; and misanthropic...
AI as an Extension and Intensification of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fear, Fantasy, and the Real Material Conditions The public conversation about Large Language Models (LLMs, collectively referred to as AI) has revolved around fears and fantasies as depicted in...