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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Weird paradox: I think hyperstructures are cool and I think the superdark factory is an abomination.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I never launch a website again it will be too soon. 🫩

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Mark Webster @markwebster01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I gave a talk about my personal research into computer art history for teaching. It was organised by the Computer Arts Society in the UK and can be watched here »> www.youtube.com/watch?v=06di...

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Mark Webster: The Recode Project

YouTube video by Computer Arts Society

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Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First time showing FatFinger — a dialect of JS that guesses at what you meant with your terrible, typo-filled code — as an installation. Four panels of frantically-written garbage code in various color schemes (top left inspired by Window 3.1’s legendary Hot Dog Stand)

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 26/09/2026

Spent a week thinking about creative coding as a process being different than the coding artists do to achieve tool for a larger artwork and the space in between these since the “utility” coding is “solvable” with AI. 1/?

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ladies and Gentleman: Behold Superintelligence! Was cleaning up this image in Photoshop and prompted ‘match the background’ for a generative fill and...

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Hand-coded software art created without generative AI." *Hahaha, take that, Walter Benjamin *The aura of hand-crafted code in the Age of Platform Generation #digitalart #critics

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“This is a complicated sentence that trails off into opaque machine-generated prose.” Today and tomorrow are my dark night of the soul—the weekend of a thousand ChatGPTs—which I will crawl through unscathed, like that scene in “The Shawshank Redemption.”

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I *can’t wait* to quit endlessly complaining about students and AI. I only have to read 80K words of ChatGPT written/edited assignments this weekend and then I get a much needed breather till (at least) 2027.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The infographics students are churning out (in lieu of doing their own design or thinking through diagramming) are not much better.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am finally watching "Backrooms" and the opening scene immediately reminded me of "Spacy." If you get this reference, we need to talk.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Spotify algorithm is serving me an abundance of songs featuring the Roland CR-78. 🥁

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Been here for a few months now. Is the whole @bsky.app schtick that we live in a vaguely just universe?

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I bought a hardcover version of "Neuromancer"... I haven't read any Gibson for more than 15 years and am primed to return to 'the source.'

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So much recent press coverage of Loudon County, Data Center Central. I'd like to point out @lifewinning.com's research on this region from a decade ago! creativetimereports.org/2014/05/20/i... www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country

The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

💃 summer semester is almost over 💃

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

As a perennial ‘disposable worker’ I have two questions about this article. 1) By what logic is the social value of adjunct professors par with potato chip tasters? 2) How do I get into potato chip tasting? It sounds like a good gig.

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Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers

About 1 in 3 US workers are in this predicament.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Showing "Videodrome" in my (4th year undergrad) theory seminar this fall and I have to prep a content warning. Haven't done that before.

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netnet.studio @netnet.studio · 25/08/2026

the web is a "metamedia", that means it contains all previously invented forms of media like <text>, <img>, <video>, <audio> etc, but also all "not yet invented" forms of media. How is that even possible!? Nick explains! youtu.be/mIxhJeWd0qs

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HTML Media Elements: interactive demos on netnet.studio

YouTube video by Nick Briz

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Ben Grosser @bengrosser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New project: Zuckerberg's The Future is for Everyone as Redaction Poetry -- Excavating how he acts from the rhetoric of what he says. Number 3 in a trilogy of big tech manifesto redaction poems, including Marc Andreessen and Sam Altman. bengrosser.com/projects/zuc...

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Zuckerberg’s The Future is for Everyone as Redaction Poetry

Excavating how Zuck acts from the rhetoric of what he says.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Opus is kind of garbage and Fable token subsidies make getting reliant on it dangerous. I have been feeling increasing 'AI fatigue' over the last six months and it's loopiness has pushed me to a breaking point. A lot of folks are leaving Anthropic right now.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have been a loyal Claude user for a few years now but have about had it with Opus. Realizing that using frontier models to do many things is wasteful and expensive (and dumb) so now looking into open-weight Chinese models. Noodling with Qwen (running on my 5090) and trying to build things with it.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Would not mind a neural implant that outsources my small talk TBH. Just pull me out of my rich inner life when it is time to talk about politics or ethics, will happily hang out behind a chatty smiley veneer in the mean time.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Waiting to hear someone say "I'll have my agents get in touch with your agents"... which might not actually be that dystopian of a future given how hard it is to triangulate a few schedules.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

NFT platforms keep shuttering. Not with a bang but a whimper. It’s almost like... building a sustainable culture around art is hard and no amount of venture capital you throw at it will change that.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It is really hard to tell the difference between a hallucinated citation, a fabricated citation, and an incorrect citation because what is truth (and who is human) anymore? 🤖

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This one was a doozy to report; I visited clean rooms and wet labs, played Pong against brain cells, and talked with bioethicists, neuroscientists, toxicologists, and computer scientists about where consciousness begins and ends. It changed how I think about life, intelligence, and computing:

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have had an article on Autechre and format obsolescence in pre-publication purgatory for like 15 months. It's about to see the light of day (in a German popular music studies journal). I don't know how anybody puts up with this process but I probably have ADHD so maybe It's a me problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In 2350, his Exegesis will be pulled from the rubble of what was once Orange County and become the founding text of one.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just saw a ReelShort vertical drama that I was convinced it was the first 'good slop' I have seen only to be disappointed to find out it is 'real humans' cast in it. So directors are filming shorts (microdrama) using slop vernacular? 🤯

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They call them 'opinion writers' and their moral ineptitude is usually directly proportional to the size of their audience.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Another piece of evidence that I am currently residing in hell: I keep having to read Stuart Hall cited as justification for digital marketing campaign strategies.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

One day I will write a memoir about my misadventures as a crypto investor/DeFi nerd. There are actually pretty few IRL people I can talk to about this stuff (because depravity).

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This interview with Trevor Paglen is excellent and it makes me excited to dive into his book. Really dug the bit when he talked about "the aesthetics of writing have been contaminated [by GenAi]"... he also talks about Phan Thi Kim Phuc ('Napalm Girl') and eroding truth of images.

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Welcome to the Society of the Psyop

It is a time of disorienting, sometimes surreal shifts in the worlds of politics and technology. There aren’t too many artists who you might trust as a guide, but Trevor Paglen is one of them. Paglen…

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't want to be the 'whither the adjuncts' guy either. I am very lucky to constantly be booked up—many scrape by. It just sometimes feels like we are the only ones incentivized to call out the bullshit. Tenured folks and admin are 'comfortable'... they kind of are fine despite the kitchen fire.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Everything is risograph and cyanotype and fermentation. It's clear that AI slop and accelerationist destruction are prompting the seemingly ubiquitous resurgence of interest in these slow, organic, manual processes.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I deeply identify with this. I never loved marking but in the last 1.5 years I have gone from 'net positive love of teaching with some serious caveats' to ... some new normal that is barely tolerable.

theglobeandmail.com

AI causing ‘moral injury’ to lecturers trying to police its use, Trent University research shows

Some in writing faculty are overwhelmed by task of spotting AI in students’ work, paper says

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In positive news we are talking to and working wirh like 2-3 dozen artists, curators, and cultural workers for a new editorial project as part of HOLO's imminent relaunch.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What if every time you retired a replicant... a little bit of you died too? Yes, Greg the ChatGPT spotter is marking again and contemplating gouging his eyes out to force an abrupt career change.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Still not sure what shape my fall theory seminar will take but these will all be in it.

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gr3gjsmith.bsky.social @gr3gjsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I have a parrot print shirt that I call my 'stochastic parrot shirt.' It is loud and colourful and dumb. I love it. 🦜 I am wearing it today and my wife said I have 'Joey from Full House energy' and I may have to burn the shirt or find a new (possibly colour blind) wife. Which path to pursue?

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 22/07/2026

Can we just have a ‘Rivals’ style Canadian miniseries with actors playing Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye as its protagonists? It will have a lot of Victorian spires of academia, Catholic guilt, groundbreaking ideas, and sex? I think this could sell.

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