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Dave Murray-Rust

@davemurrayrust.bsky.social
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associate prof TU Delft; design+ai; relational prototyping; positive and critical; art+science; laptop musicking. dave.murray-rust.org

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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
That tracks, doesn't it. This is quite a balanced write up on the coding end of things: taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How does this sit with your (lovely) paper arguing about reverse centaurs? It seems at least some of these people are happy to play that role. I'm super curious about the idea that we end up with different meanings for what used to be commonly understood concepts once the models get hold of them.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!
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Resonance | University of California Press
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ali maloney @alimaloney.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I made a @weefuzzy.bsky.social themed plunderphonics album. Great news for people with ears and short attention spans who love copyright infringement. harlequinade.bandcamp.com/album/plunde...
White text on pink square: PLUNDERPHOWENICS
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/03/2026
Or: Grok's climate impact is about 20 Pornhubs (I should make this a standard metric)
The environmental impact of digital streaming
The carbon footprint of streaming - whether music or video - adds up significantly on a global scale. While video streaming is more energy-intensive per hour, music streaming’s widespread and continuous use means its overall emissions remain substantial.

A look at the total streaming hours and emissions across platforms reveals the scale of digital entertainment’s environmental impact:

Netflix (2024)	Disney+ (2024)	Amazon Prime Video (2024)	YouTube (2024)	Pornhub (2024)	Spotify (2024)
Total streaming hours (billion)	94	5.3	49.1 (estimated)	365	10.63	170
Total emissions from streaming (million metric tons CO₂e)	5.17	2.9	2.7	20.08	0.585	0.17655
Emissions per membership/user (kg CO₂e per year)	17	12.8	13.5	-	-	0.276
Equivalent to (million one-way flights Paris–NYC)	8.36	4.69	4.37	32.5	0.946	0.288
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Edinburgh (and nearby) sound people, acclaimed sound recordist & sound artist Chris Watson will present a sonic journey from the Firth of Forth to Antarctica & talk about Planet Ocean at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social next Friday eve, 27.03.26. Free, but ticketed: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chris-wats...
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Chris Watson - Planet Ocean
A sonic journey from the Firth of Forth to Antarctica presented by Chris Watson, one of the world's leading sound recordists of wildlife
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Last shout-out for my post on #AI, #metaphor and #magic! makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...
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Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic
Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...
makingsciencepublic.com
Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic
Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus …
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Agreed! I can’t take credit for it, but it’s lovely. A slightly hard one to explain, though!
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Hi Brigitte, I'd love to be in your metaphors starter pack - I've been exploring metaphors around AI for a couple of years with some other great people, both exploring challenging some descriptions (dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conferen...) and thinking speculatively (dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....)
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Metaphors for designers working with AI
In this paper, we explore the use of metaphors for people working with artificial intelligence, in particular those that support designers in thinking about the creation of AI systems. Metaphors both ...
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Looks great! Thanks for sharing the testing list. We wrote a paper on design tactics around AI and enchantment that could be of interest: dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml...
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(Un)making AI Magic: A Design Taxonomy
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@mlucel.bsky.social
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Raw Green Rust (me, @weefuzzy.bsky.social & @davemurrayrust.bsky.social) on this date in 2019 performing our improvised abstract glitch dub at Experimenta, Heilbronn. It's a science dome, so at one point the stage and seating began to rotate, was very odd. Full performance linked in next post.
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Get your glitch on with Raw Rust Remote 250901 by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing (any two of Raw Green Rust, me and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social on this occasion). An edit of an online laptop improv session! Free / NYP #computermusic #noise rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/track/raw-ru...
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Raw Rust Remote 250901, by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing
track by Two-Thirds Of A Good Thing
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Raw Green Rust on this date three years ago! #computermusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkXn...
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Wavetable #9 - Raw Green Rust
YouTube video by Wavetable Edinburgh
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Raw Green Rust on this date three years ago, now on Bandcamp. Get your improvised abstract glitch-dub #computermusic for free / nyp here: rawgreenrust.bandcamp.com/track/wt9
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WT9, by Raw Green Rust
track by Raw Green Rust
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Jules Rawlinson @julesrawlinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Sound On! Raw Green Rust (laptop improv trio with @weefuzzy.bsky.social and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social) have been rehearsing online more regularly recently using Sonobus. Some of our glitch dub hijinks have been getting quite amusingly noisy. Here's an extract called Low Slink #computermusic #noise
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We ( @mlucel.bsky.social ‬, Elena Cavallin and I) tried to capture some of this in a paper about taking stances on genAI, to support discourse. There's a preprint up here in case it's useful: arxiv.org/abs/2501.16061
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The Unbearable Lightness of Prompting: A Critical Reflection on the Environmental Impact of genAI use in Design Education
Design educators are finding ways to support students in skillfully using GenAI tools in their practices while encouraging the critical scrutiny of the ethical and social issues around these technolog...
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Good luck, I really hope you can have a productive chat. It's hard to hold both sides of this, but I think really necessary!
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
@chrisspeed.bsky.social - time to decentralise the toilet roll?
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Andrew McPherson @apmcpherson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
PhD opportunity: I'm recruiting a PhD student in digital musical instrument design at Imperial College London. Applications now, start date in the autumn. Funding is limited to UK home students. More topic details to follow. Interested? Email me with a CV! andrew.mcpherson@imperial.ac.uk
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
But if you look at the words surrounding it in text scraped off the internet maybe that's the meaning you would guess it had...
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roy bendor @roybendor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Looking forward to talking about design and AI on the second day, with @kars.leapfrog.nl, Dasha Simons, and @davemurrayrust.bsky.social
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Oh, I miss that!
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When twitter was working for me, one of the things I loved was getting high theory mixed in with ridiculous shitposting. Somehow it made them both make more sense 😆
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Was great to meet you at the symposium! Loved the magically crosslinked book!
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Both lovely examples of using one language to talk about something else
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
SubPlan from the Architectural Association in 2009 explores the absurdist limits of possible development to speculate about planning laws
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Many thanks to Johan Redström, Case Milanesissime uses the language of floor plans to critique the housing market in Milan through plausible but awful things to rent
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Dave Murray-Rust @davemurrayrust.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Two lovely books on my table right now
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