iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Some download codes for Diogo Alvim’s wonderful “Música para Mysterious Heart”: w5uw-xx42 e85q-j5ec rn76-grrw dw5u-34x4 sp8a-hmaa 6ffs-xmuh uwdc-egav ljqe-33f8 q9rf-cxjn 92lx-cp8e Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum

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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes

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andres isaza @aisaza.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recently I presented alongside @carvalhais.org a bit of research about this in @xcoax.org . I explored the history of spatiotemporal video visualizations, speacially those used for media analysis incluiding the work of many others. Have a look!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

There's lots of reasons to believe AI "hyperscalers" can never be profitable, and not just the gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics (the companies lose money on new customers and every use, and they lose more with each generation of their products): pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Tenniel's 'Red Queen's Race' engraving from Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass.' It has been altered so that the Red Queen and Alice now have the heads of 1940s pulp robots. The image has been hand-tinted.

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026

This album is part of the Textuur Project, a series exploring methods of stripping sounds from their original context and fragmenting them into ever-smaller particles and questioning where representation gives way to abstraction.

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026

This album was inspired by the poetry of Greta Monach (1928–2018), a pioneering Dutch artist who forged her own path in the fields of computer-generated composition, microtonal singing, and sound poetry.

Photo of the packaging of the Textuur 5 CD on a brown table-top

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 15/09/2026

We're very happy to announce that the new album by Jos Smolders, Textuur 5 [ Automatergon ] is now available to preorder from cronica.bandcamp.com/album/textuu... @earlabs.bsky.social

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Textuur 5 [ Automatergon ], by Jos Smolders

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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I recently sat down with Andrés Isaza for a studio visit and conversation about the material and conceptual research for my upcoming show Matéria Escura Digital at @gnration The exhibition will run from 9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027. youtube.com/watch?v=BJu2jn-TTRw

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Digital Dark Matter / Matéria Escura Digital

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“To be gripped by another person’s inner life is old equipment built into us. … AI slop feels like betrayal. There is this haunting feeling when you lean toward a face and then find only a mask, with no person behind it.” www.noemamag.com/a-new-kind-o...

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A New Kind Of Creative Poverty | NOEMA

The Simplified Chinese Internet ran on reward and punishment. LLM training feels uncomfortably familiar.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 10/09/2026

> I don’t care about your credentials, I don’t care about your experience. With a couple of words, you gladly announced that you are obliterating them and refusing all forms of free will. Goodbye!

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visiophone @visiophone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Video recap from 30xN AV Live performance at ARCA - Dias Abertos, 2026, at ossocoletivo Video: irinasofiaoliveira _ @ptudela.bsky.social & @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.

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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Listening Glossary explores the many meanings and practices of listening. In an era shaped by climate crisis, war and deepening social inequalities,listening is increasingly called upon to bear witness – to melting glaciers, disappearing species, militarised borders, extractive infrastructures and

cover art of Listening Glossary
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@carvalhais.org and I have an entry on Algorithmic Listening in Listening Glossary The book is edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and comes out 8 October. You can already preorder it here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...

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Listening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch

In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 08/09/2026

We're super happy to present the new album by Roel Meelkop, “Antithesis”, now out in Crónica and available as a limited-release CD and as a download (featuring an extra, one-hour long track). Get it now from www.cronicaelectronica.org/253/

Cover of the album “Antithesis” by Roel Meelkop. An abstract, metallic pink composition with typography.

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visiophone @visiophone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Some shots from 30xN AV Live performance last June at ARCA2026 - OSSO. . @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org : computers, sound; @visiophone.bsky.social : computer, lights, visuals.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 31/08/2026

Still on break, but timely reminder since it's September again (almost)

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 25/08/2026

Reminder: “30×N — VRM1” is now out and available at name your price as a download. This is a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @ptudela.bsky.social @carvalhais.org

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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨

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Lauren Thoman @laurenthomanwrites.com · 15/08/2026

I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it. I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.

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Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · 22/10/2024

I also crafted a little Starter Pack, that needs to get much bigger. A tonne more people ought to be on this list, do tag them here and I'll add. "Writers / Critics / Activists / Devs / Cultural Actors interested in the intersection of videogames & real-life politics & culture." go.bsky.app/RzmV6GM

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

No one interested in education, in humanities, in what constitutes knowledge, in true collective learning in societies and critical (as in critical thinking critical) of LLM AI in those systems and its impact should skip this article by Ishani Ray and @olivia.science Really. It's that important! 1/

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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy

Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal that invokes some form of the stochastic parrot metaphor to puncture hype, and pragmatic accommodation tha...

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 01/08/2026

New essay out, "As peças que não se encontram" (the pieces that can't be found), commissioned by Óscar Silva and André Barata for the book “As Peças Que — Ensaios Sobre”, part of a project inspired on Henri Lefebvre's book. The book is published by www.terceirapessoa.pt

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Yan Basque @yanbasque.com · 26/07/2026

Love this new metaphor for AI. It’s basically a katamari. 😅 (Read the full thread)

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Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

Alt: Katamari Damacy: Rolling Up the City

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 23/07/2026

We have a new piece out, commissioned by Fernando José Pereira and published by Umbigo, “AZL2 (Several Species of)”. This is part of an ongoing series of performances and (audio and video) compositions created with @visiophone.bsky.social . umbigo.space/post-digital... @ptudela.bsky.social

Screenshot from https://umbigo.space//post-digital/soundscape__c-ebj9rt-6a60b32703b4190eba8bd8f1 with the header SOUNDSCAPE | @C, Essay by @c and a photo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais sitting on a stage with backlight

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 21/07/2026

Out now: “30×N — VRM1”, a new release by @c + Visiophone, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 20/07/2026

Coming tomorrow, “30×N — VRM1”, new release in the series, with remixes by AGF and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha. Stay tuned! www.cronicaelectronica.org/252/ @visiophone.bsky.social @carvalhais.org @ptudela.bsky.social @poemproducer.bsky.social

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Can we start adding declarations of “no AI use” to published articles. I would want to know if what I am reading is slop, in part or in whole. Just saw a new paper cite me in odd ways that make no sense, unless some LLM use. But how can I distinguish sloppiness & misunderstanding from AI slop?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/07/2026

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it a modest 10% productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1000% productivity gain." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...

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AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 16/07/2026

The Resonant Computing Manifesto. “We can now build technology that adaptively shapes itself in service of our individual and collective aspirations. We can build resonant environments that bring out the best in every human who inhabits them.” [resonantcomputing.org]

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto

Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A reminder that the annual proposal window of mediastudies.presss, the scholar-led and nonprofit OA publisher, will close on July 31, 2026. mediastudies.press welcomes submissions from scholars across media, communication, and film studies. www.mediastudies.press/proposal-form

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 06/07/2026

Jérôme Noetinger is back to Crónica, this time with Christian Malfray, aka Les Persécutions de Strasbourg, with the wonderful “Instantanés Détériorés” now available to download or stream from www.cronicaelectronica.org/251/

Cover of the album “Instantanés Détériorés” by Jérôme Noetinger and Les Persécutions de Strasbourg

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 29/06/2026

come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 28/06/2026

Here are a few download codes for Simon Whetham‘s great album “Successive Actions”, now sold out as a CD. Download from cronica.bandcamp.com/yum with the codes: jcnw-5zne 7sdq-7tvu m449-576p fesu-b59n 574x-xugj bmcs-vpfk 5rjc-gr59 8vbc-3lnt tbv4-cm57 tabq-wg25 Enjoy!

Cover of Simon Whetham’s album “Successive Actions”

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xCoAx @xcoax.org · 23/06/2026

Indeed. xcoax.org#registration #xcoax2026 #torino

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 23/06/2026

It's new release day! Marla Hlady and Christof Migone’s “On And On And Off” is now available as a limited-release CD or download from www.cronicaelectronica.org/250/ @christofmigone.bsky.social

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Crónica: Marla Hlady & Christof Migone: On And On And Off

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Miguel Carvalhais @carvalhais.org · 21/06/2026

Last Friday I was invited to talk at the Breaking the Code conference in Porto. My talk, “Searching the Unpredictable, Coding the Break: Art, Computation, the Rift” was illustrated with some works from recent years such as these videos with @visiophone.bsky.social (whom I also thank for the photos).

Miguel Carvalhais talking on a conference in front of an LCD screen displaying a video of a live performance with Pedro Tudela and Rodrigo Carvalho

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 18/06/2026

We're elated to announce that the next album by Roel Meelkop, “Antithesis” is now available to preorder from Crónica. A full-length CD + an hour-long extra track included in the download version. Out in September, now available at www.cronicaelectronica.org/253/

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Crónica: Roel Meelkop: Antithesis

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/06/2026

> frictionless technology blocks the user from learning [e.g.] mentally modelling what the teacher may be asking [&] reading materials and digesting them. And worse still, the design of these technologies is addictive through weaponisation of the Eliza [&] Barnum-Forer effect[s]

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Models

Extract:Models in cognitive and related sciences are part of an overarching methodology, computational or broadly formal modelling, that aims to test, refine, and showcase our understandings of brain,...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/06/2026

> This becomes utterly damaging pedagogically when we assume the ‘output’ of an assignment, the essay or horrifically the grade, is the essence. The point is for students to engage with the subject matter and sharpen their writing skills... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/06/2026

I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too. "Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.

Models in cognitive and related sciences are part of an overarching methodology, computational
or broadly formal modelling, that aims to test, refine, and showcase our understandings of
brain, cognition, and behaviour.1 In their foundational book Models as Mediators, Mary S.
Morgan and Margaret Morrison (1999)2 make the case that models play a mediatory role in
science between what we observe and what we want to build to house our understandings,
theories. Under this conception of models, known as the pragmatic view,3 we can carve out
not only their unique role, but also why and how they must be protected from forces that
do not prize understanding. Taking a broad perspective that sees all human activity that
strives towards understanding as scientific or as under our purview as modellers, allows for
this characterisation of models as mediators to be more generally fruitful.4 In the context of
human-centred design, for example, our theories may be anything from our understanding of
users’ behaviours in a specific context to our understanding of what a user expects from a
product or system a priori.
Importantly, scientific modelling is apart from other scientific praxis, such as concocting
a verbal or formal theory or designing and running experiments.5 Models, as described by
Morrison and Morgan,6 have the following characteristics:
a. construction — models are neither directly derived from theory nor from data, but
through an effortful friction between the modeller and the medium (e.g. their favourite
programming language, mathematics, natural language) through which they are building
their model;7

In the contemporary entanglements with industry that scholarly fields find themselves —
such as with the imposition of gargantuan statistical models, which consume breathtaking
amounts of energy, and which require the building of evermore data-centres to house the glut of
data unavoidably required for their so-called human-like abilities9 — the idea of using models
in such slow10 ways is seemingly out the window. What is worthy of perseverating on in our
specific context is not so much that so-called artificial intelligence (AI) models may harm our
individual practice or displace our labour. They certainly may.11 However, the threat from AI
worthy of highlighting here is that a culture of frictionless practice, which such models (in
name only) promote, is not only harmful to people’s mental health and skils, but also directly
undermines scholarly praxis.12
Avoiding the effortful and difficult process of building, testing, and throwing away models
— be they written in well-crafted code, be they not-yet-fully-formal models, or be they mock-ups
of potential final products — with the goal of deeply understanding our theories about the world
is anti-scientific and anti-scholarly. This spills over into an anti-intellectual stance for a designer
or user of models. Such avoidance is normalised by the addictive convenience culture facilitated
and entrenched by contemporary AI. A culture in which so-called prompting a machine for a
seemingly polished output requires none of the above characteristics of modelling as a process.
Furthermore, presenting anti- or non-scientific modelling endeavours as something other than
what they are, may even veer into pseudo-science and pseudo-technology.13 To add insult
to injury, if junior modellers are not trained to perform this praxis, the end of skills being
inherited by future generations is nigh.
To subvert this, we must preserve the special status of crafting models. I propose this
can be done in a two-pronged manoeuvre: a) rejection …

quantitative predictions of the tides, which have been being refined over the millennia,24 to the
qualitative shift in explanation produced by carving out the concept of gravity. Quantitative
predictions did not pile up to produce our contemporary understanding of gravity.
Protecting modelling praxis may be difficult, but needs must when the devil drives. The
alternative is stifling our knowledge about (our understandings of) the world. And so to
avoid making theorising and modelling seem superfluous, we must remember that scientific
models do not operate like inferential statistical models wherein prediction is the goal. As
expounded on above, models are the instrument through which we perform fully-fledged
scientific reasoning on our theories, and which mediate between theory, formal or otherwise,
connecting it to observations, data, and phenomena, and back again. A model (in name only)
that is built through applying statistics over a dataset, which all contemporary artificial neural
network-based AI models are, will neither function as mediator between data and theory —
it has been contaminated — nor provide qualitative predictions.25 Nor will it serve any user
who seeks to gain insight and skills, nor any designer of systems who wishes for a society
comprising such fellow humans.
Ultimately, “all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of
things directly coincided.”26 If we merge essences and appearances in our reasoning, we risk
our understandings of the world. All modelling, all metaphorical, theoretical, and mediatory
thinking, enrich us and our societies and make possible not only valuable understandings of
our own humanity, but constitute our humanity as such

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Crónica @cronicaelectronica.org · 05/06/2026

Download codes for the wonderful album “Withering Field” by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay. Redeem at cronica.bandcamp.com/yum mrae-7z5f gmfg-56na 3ban-bgv7 avfm-xuz5 r9a7-vp9f a27a-grgm xuga-yafg j5kb-7neu 6ry5-5jnp nlu9-7g5n

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026

"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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xCoAx @xcoax.org · 03/06/2026

Be part of this: register at xcoax.org#registration ! #xcoax2026 #torino

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