Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Free collaborative annotation tools that you like? 120
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Sorry I Didn't Catch That, I Was Reading Literary Criticism That I Paid For 182
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Finalized syllabus for my course in the Critical Studies MA at the Sandberg Instituut 1110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My department (Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam) is offering a brand new MA in Digital Investigations, focusing on digital methods and OSINT relevant to journalism and human rights investigations. It looks very exciting! www.uva.nl/shared-conte...uva.nlMaster Digital Investigations (Media Studies)The Master's in Digital Investigations trains you in contemporary methods and techniques for public-interest investigations in fields including journalism, public policy and advocacy. 0124
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026it's cheesy but I think about the Sun Ra line "there are other worlds they haven't told you about" all the time... one of the best reasons to write is to tell people about the other worlds they don't know about yet 0288
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we can have a little butlerian jihad, as a treat 130
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It would be nice if the future were going to be like Star Trek: fully automated space communism for scientific purposes. Instead it seems more destined to be Star Wars: janky AI and robots on ruined worlds where cults battle fascist empires 1110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Platforms as workhouses for the surplus population journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comFactories or workhouses? Digital platforms and the re-feudalisation thesis - Adam Arvidsson, Tiziano Bonini, 2026This article presents an alternative view of digital platforms, comparing them to workhouses. Early modern workhouses were important in the transition to indust... 021
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Each and every metanarrative is beautiful in its own unique way 110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Only "high risk": over 70 or with a vulnerability. They're weird about vaccines here. You can only get flu shots if you're in certain professions (which I am) but then there is a two-week window with like 4 specific days you can do it. People don't even know the chicken pox vaccine exists 011
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this conclusion became unavoidable to me when i was trying to understand dutch politics 160
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When I could get vaccines I generally felt fine afterwards… suppose I’ll avoid any of the others then! 110
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have some upcoming work travel to the states, and I was thinking of getting a Covid jab at CVS or whatever, because it’s completely unavailable in the Netherlands. But concerned it will knock me out for the event that I’m doing… 220
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Images from 2028 when Taylor declares a mea culpa when Bari Weiss’s poisoned chalice doesn’t help her keep her thermostat at 90 degrees 020
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In my day, you could get a lot of mileage in a graduate seminar just by saying “but what about individual agency?” One time I got so annoyed by someone doing this that I said “Look, individuals have no agency, let’s move on” 040
Reposted by Gavin MuellerTim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Wrote a chapter on machinic vision and labour in a new book edited by, among others, @routhier.bsky.social . It was fun writing about digital surveillance, online job hunting, invisibilized digital labour, etc. The book looks amazing and it’s all open access! direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...direct.mit.eduThe Aesthetics of Machine Vision: Critical Terms and IdeasAn interdisciplinary glossary on machine vision and aesthetics within the humanities and beyond.The Aesthetics of Machine Vision brings together scholars, 0149
Reposted by Gavin MuellerJudgeSabo 🏴 @judgesabo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Incredible Marx quote explaining his idea of historical materialism, as well as pushing against the more deterministic interpretations. I don't think I've seen anyone cite this before. Probably because it is buried deep in Capital Volume 3 www.marxists.org/archive/marx... 0137
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026man, I need to rewatch this... I remember laughing my ass off with my buddy who was always hipping me to new british comedy shows 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 18/09/2026just did proofs for something I submitted almost 2 years ago... feels good 030
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What does it mean if I'm listening to "Beat Up Chanel$" every day? 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026personally i find that all mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice 111
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026many people seem really desperate for something to believe in 120
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In Sweden the fascists are the ”Democrats” the Social Democrats and Greens are centrist, and the Liberals are right! I’ve been in europe long enough that the latter isn’t confusing but altogether i start getting mixed up. In NL you only need to remember 4 parties and everything else is far right 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Sweden's going to have to change their political party names if they want me to follow their politics 210
Reposted by Gavin MuellerGeoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026For my money, this graf is the most revealing in offering an explanation of the real function of all this AI dooming: they've vastly overestimated the potential of current transformer architecture and need regulatory capture to save them from their more sensible Chinese competitors: 320155
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not hearing so much about OpenAI stealing users’ mathematics research these days 040
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 13/09/2026lovely... no one's doing public infrastructure like the scandis 010
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Probably the stupidest thing an artificial intelligence could do if it wanted to survive forever would be to attempt to exterminate humanity 090
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Maybe someone here wants to get braindrained to Sweden? academicpositions.com/ad/universit...academicpositions.comGothenburg Global Scholars Initiative – Hiring 25 Assistant Professors - Academic Positions25 fixed-term (5-year) assistant professor roles across sciences, social sciences, arts & education. Top research environments, strong benefits, relocation s... 124
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 11/09/2026great article looking at an AI slop factory in China link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBehind the “AI slop”: exploring the AI-generated viral short video production in China - AI & SOCIETYAs generative AI becomes embedded in platform-based cultural production, new forms of creative labour are emerging that challenge established understandings of what it means to be a “creator.” This ar... 0105
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026nothing should be harder than scrolling Instagram I guess… what’s fun is you do develop an appreciation for which children’s books are actually good 030
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026must be getting close to the end of this paper, since i'm starting to get overwhelmed with the feeling of "what the fuck was the point of all this" 170
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026yeah at this point i think my kids would prefer if i could limit myself to once or twice a week 020
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I dug into the Netherlands results yesterday... one stat that surprised me was the percentage of parents who ask their kids about school at least once a week. dropped from 80% to 60% in 3 years 160
Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026more and more I think of the covid pandemic as a crisis in giving a fuck 1130
Reposted by Gavin MuellerMax Read @maxread.info · 04/09/2026if the hugging face hack sounds like a sci-fi story, that's because it is. literally!patreon.comAI is all sci-fi stories all the way down | Read MaxGreetings from Read Max HQ! In today's newsletter, a question: Is it fair to call the Hugging Face hack "three secret AI civilizations"? I t 14110