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net artist, garden pest
scraper/scholar of media, metadata,
oversight &counterintelligibility
i teach "new" media histories, theories, and practices at uc santa cruz
they/he
findings (as image, sound, and text) aphid.org/css/1/findin...
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The piece was made as part of Leonardo's CripTech AI Lab incubator, where I was one of several disabled artists working with and against AI. Check out "Slow AI", a virtual exhibition of the culminating work of my fellow lab artists, cripping time and cripping tech. leonardo.info/d10/slow-ai
Slow AI | CripTech Incubator | Leonardo/ISAST
Slow AI is the culminating virtual exhibition for the 2025 CripTech AI Lab. In a landscape often snarled by extraction and speed, we chose a different path. We used our crip bodyminds as living instru...
leonardo.info
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
received images are analyzed using some slow, locally run, open image models to look at "enhanced" CT and MRI scans (it habitually finds faces in my liver) before being looped through transmission again, iteratively coding and decoding scanxiety...
December 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Here’s a folder with the key assignments I use to get my students using Zotero. Along with this, they produce an annotated bibliography for a research prospectus and have to put all the annotations in Zotero. I introduce the platform in an in class workshop. drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Zotero Assignments - Google Drive
drive.google.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
this calls for adversarial PDFs
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I refused to upload to proquest. it's probably been scraped because it's on the uc open access repository though, no regrets on that one.
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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There is a lot going on in this sentence:

"On 17 October, Gelsinger delivered his “Gutenberg moment” stump speech at Liberty University’s CEO Summit, which also featured Liz Truss, Michael Flynn and Dan T Cathy, the Chick-fil-A chairman, as keynote speakers."

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've been waiting for deets about their new Linux based OS to take the plunge. mostly because it might mean better zotero support
October 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Something I write about in The Celluloid Specimen is that eugenics has always had a futurist bent, one that often involves replacing human workers. I feel as though this aspect isn't discussed as much in how the general public uses of the term.
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM