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media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃‍♀️🚴‍♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · Jul 11
SOME NEWS! the folks at Anthology Editions / Mexican Summer decided to print another 1500 copies of #othernetworks (out in Oct.) because it sold out so quickly! THANK YOU to all of you for ordering a copy & helping to make this reprint possible 😍 1/2 loriemerson.net/books/other-...
Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook
Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook At long last, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook is officially available for pre-order. If you live in the U.S., you can order directly …
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d
I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News
OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 19h
one of my favorite answers to this question comes from @timnitgebru.bsky.social and Émile P. Torres: the "TESCREAL bundle" which denotes "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... #ai
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 20h
"the artificial intelligentsia is dragging us into an archaic future where intelligence is quantified, fixed, and ranked, and smartness is fetishized. We would do well to remember that IQ is, above all, a eugenic concept, concocted to sort winners from losers and to justify the rules of the game."
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 20h
some beautiful zingers in this new piece by Ruha Benjamin: "Worshipping one’s own intelligence, it seems, leads to a dangerous desire to bring the rest of humanity to its knees." #ai lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 1d
Fredric Jameson #remix:
It's easier to imagine that #LLM #AI is consciousness than it is to admit the fact that language can be produced without it.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
it was a week spent managing difficult people, big feelings, and godawful amounts of email but quite suddenly everything became clear when I got to meet a family visiting the lab from Omaha with their queer teen daughter on a quiet mission to find a safe college for their child to be 💚
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
I will check and it's ok - I've already made you do too much work!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
it's ok - thanks for checking. I used to use [xxx] but it got shut down...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
is there a paywall free version by any chance?
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
thank you!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 1d
Peter Thiel on why you need to leverage The Bible to get people to oppose govt regulation of AI: "There are a lot of rational reasons why the one-world state’s a bad idea...But I think if you strip it from the biblical context, you will never find it scary enough. You will never really resist.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d
Solar & wind met 109% of new electricity demand, globally, in the first half of 2025.

Renewables are handling all new demand & are inexorably moving beyond, to chip away at the FF foundation.
Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · Jul 3
You can PREORDER my book about the Assassin's Creed franchise NOW! Please do that. I think it is both a fun and interesting dive into what Assassin's Creed is, how it develops its ideas, and what it says about the world we live in. TOC attached, preorder at the link! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 3d
extremely cute and hard working! thank you for sharing :)
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 3d
I announced in today's faculty meeting that "I have an AI bee in my bonnet" to which @stevenfrost.bsky.social responded with this perfect portrait if you were wondering what an #AI bee in a bonnet looks like
pen drawing labeled "AI Bee" depicts a woman with a bob haircut and glasses wearing a top hat. her mouth is open. an angry-looking bee has emerged from her hat.
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 3d
we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
yes!!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
this looks perfect - thank you!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
Oh yes, this is a great point! I have been thinking about how many key principles from radio find their way into cybernetics and information theory
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
Yes I like this - I’m having my media history students read it this semester
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
I need to check it out!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
Exactly!
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
absolutely! We have that book in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social right now :)
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 4d
the class could be organized around topics like bodies, behavior, labor, mind, etc?!
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