Phil Frana
@artificialother.bsky.social
James Madison University professor. Encyclopedia of AI (Bloomsbury, 2024), now available in paperback. https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/artificialother/
Related to Peter Thiel's lecture on the biblical Antichrist and tech, I very recently wrote about the "digital devil" as a metaphor for the hidden algorithms that are integral to modern life for the new Routledge History of the Devil www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
The Digital Devil | 27 | The Routledge History of the Devil in the Wes
Software transforms the way people work, play, communicate, and shop. It reduces uncertainty, optimises complex workflows, and is poised to eliminate all sorts
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September 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Related to Peter Thiel's lecture on the biblical Antichrist and tech, I very recently wrote about the "digital devil" as a metaphor for the hidden algorithms that are integral to modern life for the new Routledge History of the Devil www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."
-- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
-- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
June 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years."
-- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
-- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
@mikkibrock.bsky.social My copy just arrived. Fresh off the FedEx truck! Looks terrific.
June 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@mikkibrock.bsky.social My copy just arrived. Fresh off the FedEx truck! Looks terrific.
Spotted this at the Hirshhorn yesterday and thought @mikkibrock.bsky.social would enjoy. From the exhibit: hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/...
June 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Spotted this at the Hirshhorn yesterday and thought @mikkibrock.bsky.social would enjoy. From the exhibit: hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/...
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Delighted to share that The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, which I edited with my wonderful colleagues @devilprof.bsky.social & @vetur.bsky.social, is finally out in the world. We hope its nearly thirty chapters give the devil his due! 😈 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition
Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...
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May 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Delighted to share that The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition, which I edited with my wonderful colleagues @devilprof.bsky.social & @vetur.bsky.social, is finally out in the world. We hope its nearly thirty chapters give the devil his due! 😈 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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In "#AI Wars: How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash" Alex Avila breaks down the current #AI hype debate in a way that is both informative and entertaining. Really pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to the effort.
youtu.be/lRq0pESKJgg?...
youtu.be/lRq0pESKJgg?...
AI WARS: How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash
YouTube video by ALEX AVILA
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May 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In "#AI Wars: How Corporations Hijacked Anti-AI Backlash" Alex Avila breaks down the current #AI hype debate in a way that is both informative and entertaining. Really pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to the effort.
youtu.be/lRq0pESKJgg?...
youtu.be/lRq0pESKJgg?...
Welcome to Ralph Baer's electronics workshop
March 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Welcome to Ralph Baer's electronics workshop
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Deadline to apply for Santa Fe Institute's open resident faculty position is March 28.
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SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Deadline to apply for Santa Fe Institute's open resident faculty position is March 28.
santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
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Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
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it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power
March 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power
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👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
I don't disagree that the US university business model was/is fragile, but surely not for this reason?
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
March 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...
Postdoctoral Research Associate Program
Description of the postdoctoral research associate program including requirements and application process.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...
We're looking for contributors to write some unclaimed entries for the second & expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of AI. Here's the call and list: sites.lib.jmu.edu/artificialot...
Encyclopedia of AI | Philip Frana's Portfolio
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February 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We're looking for contributors to write some unclaimed entries for the second & expanded edition of the Encyclopedia of AI. Here's the call and list: sites.lib.jmu.edu/artificialot...
I still call it National Airport. Nothing more.
Public facilities should only be named after fictional characters in the public domain.
That is all.
Public facilities should only be named after fictional characters in the public domain.
That is all.
February 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I still call it National Airport. Nothing more.
Public facilities should only be named after fictional characters in the public domain.
That is all.
Public facilities should only be named after fictional characters in the public domain.
That is all.
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if our university presidents and regents were able to find an historian or two, perhaps they could ask them what forms of resistance worked in the past and if “let’s lay low, they won’t see us” was a good strategy. but where would they find historians, right?
February 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
if our university presidents and regents were able to find an historian or two, perhaps they could ask them what forms of resistance worked in the past and if “let’s lay low, they won’t see us” was a good strategy. but where would they find historians, right?
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I am not so much worried about the accountability of computers at the moment.....
January 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I am not so much worried about the accountability of computers at the moment.....
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Just gross and not going to repost it, but glad to see my university was quick about this one
January 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just gross and not going to repost it, but glad to see my university was quick about this one
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Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program.
For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history.
Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech
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For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history.
Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech
history.acm.org/wp-content/u...
history.acm.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Call for Applications--Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History & Archiving Fellowship Program.
For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history.
Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech
history.acm.org/wp-content/u...
For projects in whole or major part advancing ACM history.
Applications due 28 Feb. 2025. #histtech
history.acm.org/wp-content/u...
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Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in working alongside an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!!
#histtech
#histtech
January 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Just released cover of our book JUST CODE, out in Fall 2025. Honored to partner with Con in working alongside an absolutely stellar team of scholars for this interdisciplinary volume from Johns Hopkins University Press!!!
#histtech
#histtech
The present state of politics in this country reminds me exactly of Oliver Crangle's obsessive moral fanaticism in the Twilight Zone episode "Four O'Clock" junkyard.blog/2023/09/29/t...
The Twilight Zone: Four O’Clock
In another of Serling’s attempts at miserable people, Four O’clock introduces us to the latest lowlife, Mr. Oliver Crangle. If Cringle is the bringer of joy in the world, Crangle is the bringer of…
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January 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The present state of politics in this country reminds me exactly of Oliver Crangle's obsessive moral fanaticism in the Twilight Zone episode "Four O'Clock" junkyard.blog/2023/09/29/t...
Friend or Faux: What Do You Love When You Fall for AI? www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
www.theverge.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Friend or Faux: What Do You Love When You Fall for AI? www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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Daniel Dennett’s call to ban “counterfeit people” is still one of the keenest arguments I’ve read about how to regulate AI itself (rather than some externality of AI, like its energy use). www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
January 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Daniel Dennett’s call to ban “counterfeit people” is still one of the keenest arguments I’ve read about how to regulate AI itself (rather than some externality of AI, like its energy use). www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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We'll be developing and studying innovative digital tools, eXtended reality, and AI interfaces to enhance learning experiences.
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We'll be developing and studying innovative digital tools, eXtended reality, and AI interfaces to enhance learning experiences.
Apply by 28 Feb 2025!
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December 26, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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