Reposted by Rosemary LeeLow Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Libraries do not mess around. 2531940
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My 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 0123
Reposted by Rosemary LeeShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’ 212242
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I 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-TTRwyoutube.comDigital Dark Matter / Matéria Escura DigitalYouTube video by Rosemary Lee 021
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm baaaack! This week I returned to @akademiesolitude.bsky.social for the second half of my fellowship. 020
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/...silverpress.orgListening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-WelchIn 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. 173
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨ 161
Reposted by Rosemary LeeThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026Tips For Starting Your Own Business theonion.com/tips-for-starting-your… 161711267
Reposted by Rosemary LeeRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past 24670185
Reposted by Rosemary LeeCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how... 734144808555
Reposted by Rosemary Leewomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026'Williamina Fleming (standing) supervises the team of (underpaid) women “computers” at the Harvard College Observatory as they help map the universe – one star at a time' US, 1875 (via Smithsonian Insider) #WomensArt 2460101
Reposted by Rosemary LeeAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.socialdirect.mit.eduInventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AIHow the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin 25229
Reposted by Rosemary LeeDr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comWomen as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove... 311762
Reposted by Rosemary LeePenney Esq. FBPE. Easygoing, but I mind more as I get older @iidomind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026 118123
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It was an honor to chair such a rich paper session at @xcoax.org Thank you so much to the presenters and their coauthors for their thoughtful discussions. My travel was supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) as part of the COST Action CA23158 – Artistic Intelligence. 150
Reposted by Rosemary LeeFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/07/2026decided I’m going to start entering a more maximalist/baroque era of making incredibly stupid memes 91404
Reposted by Rosemary LeeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 114208735341
Reposted by Rosemary LeeHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”spectrum.ieee.orgWhat Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT 429198
Reposted by Rosemary LeeVerena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Rosemary Lee & Risk Hazekamp presenting "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care" at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week @machineagency.bsky.social frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/ 221
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 26/06/2026@verenafriedrich.bsky.social presenting at #UNLOOP 041
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 26/06/2026#UNLOOP symposium is underway!➰➿💚 @carvalhais.org @ordeposodrac.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Rosemary LeeVerena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media. I’ll present the EZ QUALITY SORTER, an installation that turns visitors into unwitting data labelers. Also, I'm looking forward to visiting Porto! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/ 021
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 24/06/2026this is such a devastating thread but so important to bear witness to the harm the psychopaths have caused 010
Reposted by Rosemary LeeHel Eline @hel.eurosky.social · 27/09/2025Do not make tribes, this will only strengthen the social order that will be imposed upon you. Do not willingly gather into mono-cultures. Do not become neatly sorted, labelled, and categorized. It will only take a single blight to wipe you out, because you will be sorted by your weaknesses. 6/7 172
Reposted by Rosemary LeeAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026"Convenience happens to be capitalist ideology. If art must take the shortest route to its effects, we've submitted to that ideology. Yet art can be enormously inconvenient! Art can luxuriate. Wander. Its distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies"nybooks.comArt for Our Sakes | Zadie SmithI wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous 212240
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Last week we had an inspiring visit from astronaut Peggy Whitson where she talked about her extraordinary life and experiences. She has been instrumental in facilitating FBAUP and FAUP joining the Axiom Space University Alliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1o...youtube.comFBAUP e FAUP passam a integrar a Axiom Space University AllianceYouTube video by Universidade do Porto 010
Reposted by Rosemary LeeRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.arxiv.orgWhy Slop MattersAI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social functi... 1213522
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 09/06/2026In "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care", Risk Hazekamp and I will share an ongoing conversation on witnessing More-Than-Human co-researchers' expressions of agency, reflecting on the forms of 'violent care' that arise from our blind spots. frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop 140
Reposted by Rosemary LeeWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 01/06/2026This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie) 98105622133
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 25/05/2026photo from my talk "neither x nor y — but another secret third thing" at IV Art at the Edge of Nature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid 📸: Marcos Burgos 040
Reposted by Rosemary LeeAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026sweet relief to wake up on a Saturday in a dying empire and find the autocrat did not execute another of his signature Friday night massacres and invade an island ladies and gentleman the weekend 1729
Reposted by Rosemary LeeSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026On the tube 71137703654
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/05/2026This week I am presenting at IV Art at the Edge of Nature. Biocreative Responsibilities and Awareness at La Trasera, Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM. May 21-2 2026 2: photo: Camila Mangueira, 2025 030
Reposted by Rosemary LeeFriends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 30/06/2025🚫 No GMOs through the back door! The EU plans to allow untested, unlabelled #newGMOs on our fields & plates. Only the EU Parliament supports traceability & labelling, but this is now at risk. Email your MEPs now to protect our safety & right to choose 👇 demeter.net/no-gmos-thro... #IChooseGMOfreedemeter.netNo GMOs through the back door! - Demeter InternationalAsk your politicians to maintain our freedom of choice by keeping new GMOs regulated and labelled. We want to know what we eat and grow! 11312
Reposted by Rosemary LeeNina Markl 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 24/04/2026if you ever think your research proposal is too ambitious or, I guess, if you think that only the latest generation of AI bros are overly optimistic, recall the original funding proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop on AI: 173
Reposted by Rosemary LeeNPR @npr.org · 24/04/2026The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. n.pr/4vOA1P6n.prEU approves a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its vetoThe European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. 16731130
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 22/04/2026As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162e-flux.come-flux Journal #162 April 2026 - e-fluxwith contributions by Elena Vogman, Matteo Pasquinelli, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Alla Vronskaya, Aleksei Gastev, Evgenii Petrov, Aleksandra Selivanova, Devin Fore, Kalindi Vora, N... 02615
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 13/04/2026On Thursday, I will give a talk titled "Calculating Images" at the arteciencIA symposium in Santiago de Compostela. The conference will be streamed, so you are welcome to join us remotely. My talk is 13:00-14:00 CEST. More info here: arteciencia.org 080
Reposted by Rosemary LeeAksioma @aksiomaorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026✦ 𝐴 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐼 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 ✦ essay by #TegaBrain & #SamLavigne for the 𝗔re 𝗬ou 𝗔 𝗦oftware 𝗨pdate? book 🔖 ✨ Preview and order here > aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update 022
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This has been in the works for more than a year, but I can finally say that today I began the contract for my research project Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence. 191
Reposted by Rosemary LeexCoAx @xcoax.org · 31/03/2026We are in our teens and we are not afraid to rebel. No cap. #xcoax2026 #torino 042
Reposted by Rosemary LeeJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/03/2026Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.finance.yahoo.comOpenAI funding fears hit memory chip pricesSpending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion. 387803205
Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 30/03/2026my last post was met with a lot of enthusiasm over on instagram, so I am going to start posting more reading recommendations. Here's the reading list for this stack: Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master (1/3) 2131
Reposted by Rosemary LeeJulia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...wired.comGrammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ FeatureThe feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. 11779592390
Reposted by Rosemary Leetante @tante.cc · 04/03/2026A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to. tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-decl…tante.ccNever received a. 510531