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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6h

Gentle note that this is not what it seems... (though it says something about shifts in attitudes towards what counts as publishing in science/technology circles, and I wonder if such will be seen in more humanities contexts over time, as over-publishing & staffing pressures / AI 'reviewing' bites).

Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 9h

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 17h

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

eliterature.github.io

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 18h

(I'm sorry I'm not able to say hello there, they couldn't fit me in the line-up!)

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a month since the DARCI Conference on Disability, Accessibility and Representation in the Creative Industries. I've put together a personal reflection on the event which I hope some of you enjoy reading or at least find mildly interesting enhancingaudiodescription.com/darci-confer...

Mariana presenting holding a microphone and a clicker

Gavin presenting holding a microphone and a clicker

Chaimae presenting, behind her a screen that says 'Making Cinema and TV Accessible: Exploring Audio Description in Morocco'

Krisztián speaking at the front of a room

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

join me and fellow wind aficionado @richardacarter.bsky.social for discussion on our recent digital poetry projects exploring wind, sound, flight, and phantom islands as weather phenomena. hosted by @rmets.org in Leeds.
Wednesday 19 November 2025
18:00 - 19:30 FREE www.rmets.org/event/toward...

Towards a Wind Humanities

IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...

www.rmets.org

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 1d

I put together a fun weather app last year that I recently updated with a small astro-tracker, mainly to accurately account for shifts in daylight and lunar movements. However, it is fully capable of following planetary movements, and so is now mainly how I know what is going on in the night sky!

A screenshot of a weather application - it shows a cheerful cartoon frog frolicking among fireflies in a dark field. Basic weather data is visible along with information concerning sunrise, sunset, the moon, and the fact that Jupiter and the Moon are less than 1* apart in the sky

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 3d

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 2d

This is a new one for the spam folder - stands out among the usual: "Baby Yamaha Piano giveaway", "SkyNet AI: New AI for Students Demo, Reply Yes or No", "Attn. Dear Dr Prof Carter Richard A: We Invite you as Esteemed Keynote for World Agriculture and Fisheries 2026" and "One Article Short: Submit!"

Spam Email sender "Spaceship". Subject line: "The Earth is about to enter a major purification cycle, involving all members of humanity".

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 3d

River walk

#autumn #coding #pixelart #indieDev #gameDev

A top down tile based pixel art forest scene, distinctly autumnal palette, with a large river running down the middle.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 4d

📜 Dunno if I’ll have time to nip into this while I’m in London in a few weeks but this looks amazing.

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 4d

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.

A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.

A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 4d

The conference looks rather interesting! And the fact it is next door too - I might think about sending something off...

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 12d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 14d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

One more share for 'long tail' traffic - "Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social. Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece align into different visual and semantic structures ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

One more share for 'long tail' traffic - "Boid Poems" has now been published via the @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social. Combining swarming a-life algorithms with language attractors, the words of this interactive piece align into different visual and semantic structures ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue06

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 6d

That's generous of you to say, thank you! I do actually use it most days, and it really is extremely close to what occurred to me in that dream.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Haha, thank you - that's generous of you to say! A colleague once characterised my work as a form of 'lonely art-making', and I think that's the best description of what I do online 😅

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Celebrating the late Harvest moon in the Haiku Garden racarter.itch.io/haiku-garden

#bitsy #pixelart #games #gameDev #indieDev #harvestMoon

A pixel art garden. Spirits dance in the moonlight. A haiku on screen reads "harvest moon: / building up the fire: / autumn foliage".

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Irony is that I probably don't appear on there myself as I post quite a lot!Undoubtedly to its benefit! 😅

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 8d

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 7d

Officially determined that 'Quiet Posters' feed is my main channel on here. A sudden burst of colour and poetry and art that I worried was vanishing entirely.

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 8d

It's the "games" week on Digital Methods, which means it's that time of the year where I give my lecture with controller in hand, trying to be all composed and cool as I discuss a game as I play it on the big screen...

(You can imagine how well that works, but I persist nonetheless 🎮)

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 8d

Still at it

A photograph of clouds with generated poetry overlaid

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 9d

I have a small quote in the Guardian in this article about drone incidents across Europe, in connection with my work with the Centre for Drones and Culture at Cambridge, working with lead Beryl Pong.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#drone #drones

‘A collective anxiety attack’: the psychology of unexplained drone sightings across Europe

Incursions have so far caused few physical effects but experts say such incidents can leave people feeling more vulnerable

www.theguardian.com

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 10d

Almost looks like De Bruijn lambda notation

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 10d

Best wishes for a great start! I find myself visiting Cambridge on a semi-regular basis these days - would love to say hello if you're ever around.

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