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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 14d

NEW CRITICAL AI SERIES CLUSTER, "Gen AI and/as Religion" - edited by @johnmodern.bsky.social
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CAI SPECIAL SERIES CFP: FEEL THE AGI! GEN AI AND/AS RELIGION

Special Topic Series in Critical AIFeel the AGI! On (Generative) AI and/as ReligionSeries Editor John Modern (Franklin & Marshall College) The language of religion courses through the AI hype m…

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Sep 9

Secrets revealed

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · Sep 8

New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop

AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gemini is good for you…..

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Do not obey in advance.”

“Prioritize joy.”

“Take up space.”

“Be in solidarity.”

“Organize.”

Fantastic piece on what FreeDC is teaching us with its immediate and potent resistance to the Trump attempt to take over that city.

5 things Free DC is teaching us

In case you missed the news, Donald Trump has ordered the National Guard to head to our nation’s capital. Claiming emergency powers from the Home Rule charter due to crime, he’s taking control of the ...

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era.

AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · Aug 12

“Educators now spend a significant amount of their time detecting AI-generated work and seeking ways to assess whether students are developing essential skills.”

Yes. Everywhere.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · May 26

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say

An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · May 9

Lenny bent his knees and spread both arms wide, his mouth stretched in a rictus of gaped and grinning terror.

“We’re all gonna die!”

He loved this line so much that it was a little unnerving [] which could shatter a urinal at fifty feet.

- DD

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Kid Congo Powers @kidcongopowers.bsky.social · Apr 24

R.I.P. David Thomas of Pere Ubu . Really some of the best concerts I saw in the 70’s . Mind blowing in fact. Absolutely unique individual. Here’s one of my all time fave songs youtu.be/Leax63ullPE?...

Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact

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James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social · Apr 21

“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...

On Record Collecting, or the First Time I Encountered the Death Drive

by John Modern I have been a collector my whole life. These days mostly records, digging through crates, haggling, scanning the sites, DMing dealers from Sydney to Cleveland to Athens to Quebec, ba…

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Apr 21

Grateful for this invitation to write around my records

James Bielo @secondhandsacred.bsky.social · Apr 21

“…Collecting could be (& proudly so) reactionary to an emerging technological order. Collecting as nostalgia trip, performing the pressing claims of a time before this or that indignity…” The latest Collecting Religion essay from John Modern, is live! collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/o...

On Record Collecting, or the First Time I Encountered the Death Drive

by John Modern I have been a collector my whole life. These days mostly records, digging through crates, haggling, scanning the sites, DMing dealers from Sydney to Cleveland to Athens to Quebec, ba…

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Mar 21

friday psa: motherfuckers stole ALL of our shit #meta #libgen #thieves #scam #markfuckerberg @class200.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Mar 17

Sorry for confusion; referring to our man Kevin!

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Mar 17

A decent example of what is now sadly passing for critique of technology …. an astonishing amount of work going into ‘divesting’ one’s utterance of reflexivity and the integrity it entails. #fuckofftomars

Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · Mar 17

#Roose has perfected the art of portraying the most inane statement as if it were a weighty prophesy.

Yes. People. Will Debate. My. Guff.

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · Mar 13

read this one with first years again today: poets.org/poem/anthrop... worthwhile.

Anthropocene Pastoral

In the beginning, the ending was beautiful.

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Modern @johnmodern.bsky.social · Feb 18

Pressing play on Mixtape Metaphysics>>March 5

Institute of the Mechanical Surround @imsurround.bsky.social · Feb 18

Ever wonder . . . are we living in a simulation?

Come find out at the opening of Mixtape Metaphysics at Modern Art on March 5: 6:30-9:30pm. Featuring a discussion with philosophers David Chalmers and Grace Helton and the premiere of Processing…A Philosophy Mixtape @davidchalmers.bsky.social