Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 15hlearned that @sthv.bsky.social uses a serial comma before the ampersand in its name today, very unsettling 270
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 16h"Were there any perverts before the latter part of the nineteenth century?" is a great essay-starter 150
Reposted by Nick SeaverMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 17hNew interactive/listenable blog post from me, exploring the expressive range of cat vocalizations in text-to-audio models. www.kmjn.org/notes/text_t...kmjn.orgText-to-meowdio modelsExpressive range of AI cats 293
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 18ha goat carcass is the ball in this centuries-old sport www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/s...cnn.comA goat carcass is the ball in this centuries-old sport | CNNFor centuries, Kok-Boru has tested the courage, horsemanship, and endurance of players across Central Asia. At the World Nomad Games, CNN explores this ancient game through the eyes of Kyrgyz champion... 020
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22hre-reading some of IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE for class prep, and this is so much more useful than the surveillance capitalism book 3263
Reposted by Nick SeaverKate Franklin @melucene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Asian Art History at the rank of Assistant Professor, with a start date of September 1, 2027. All applications are submitted via Interfolio, at apply.interfolio.com/194232apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 012
Reposted by Nick SeaverMark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Rice University's history department hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in the History of Artificial Intelligence!apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 2126
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 26/09/2026really don’t see Seavers in the news that often (no relation, I’m pretty sure) 350
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 24/09/2026fulfilling the university mission by getting advanced onto the ground by a car (I’m okay) 5120
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 24/09/2026using the wayback machine to figure out when exactly “fueled by evolving technological advancements” got added to my university’s mission statement 1150
Reposted by Nick Seaverilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...intermedialites.comCALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités 11311
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/09/2026really the end of an era for one of the sweetest gigs going in my corner of academia socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...socialmediacollective.orgThe Social Media Collective Comes to a CloseIt is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi… 2181
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/09/2026was reminded today that tufts apparently has the only collegiate mime troupe in the US? 180
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/09/2026okay, so if the past several decades have involved companies shunting job training onto universities instead of doing it themselves, maybe a fake school where they take it back is actually okay www.theacademysf.comtheacademysf.comThe Horowitz Andreessen AcademyAn Academy for unusually ambitious young people. Build your own projects in San Francisco, learn from the people shaping the future, and work inside leading companies. 181
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 22/09/2026ngl I kind of want to teach a whole anthro of tech intro exclusively through work about elevators 3121
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 21/09/2026when someone in the university meeting about AI principles suggests that the principles need to change fast because AI changes fast: the nice thing about principles is their durability and generality, such that having AI-specific principles may be at odds with the idea of "principles" 26310
Reposted by Nick Seaverjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.nytimes.comOpinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.How can the government reel in the technology? Here are six ideas. 372170269
Reposted by Nick SeaverStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 21/09/2026 125655
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 19/09/2026my child birthday present scavenger hunts are getting elaborate enough that I think I need to start using project management tools 2100
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 19/09/2026AI assistant in the form of the dictabird from the live-action Flintstones movie 220
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 18/09/2026Nick Covaleski talking about how everything got so fronty 0180
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 16/09/2026big opportunity for a whole anthology series of “reality tv adaptations of studies you have to read about in IRB training” 1215
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 15/09/2026I am feeling this in my 90s child habitus as I print a gajillion pages out for my students in seminar this term. Sorry, trees! 050
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 15/09/2026student bought me another tesla FSD camera head from the chinese internet, which, incidentally, is from a ronaldo doll, it appears 140
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11/09/2026oh my god www.etsy.com/listing/4515...etsy.comCustom Annotated Books!--tabs, Highlights, Handwritten Notes - EtsyThis Book Sets & Collections item by AnnotationsWithSyd has 94 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Nashotah, WI. Listed on Aug 28, 2026 114613
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026Got the student paper to quote my line that university AI initiatives are like kindergartners playing soccer, all swarming after the ball in the least effective possible form of coordination: www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2026...tuftsdaily.comHey Claude, how is Tufts handling this AI thing? - The Tufts DailyLike many others, I spent the first few weeks of this summer searching "internship" on LinkedIn jobs and Handshake, praying that there would be any position that required zero experience, or whatever ... 0123
Reposted by Nick SeaverAlex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...theverge.comLG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standbyGamers Nexus comes for LG again. 14540461757
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026First class of the semester is completed. Running iteration 9 of my seminar, How to Pay Attention. Doing it fully on paper this year, but the web copy of the syllabus is here: classes.nickseaver.net/HTPA/classes.nickseaver.netHow to Pay AttentionUndergraduate seminar critically examining attention: how it is measured, valued, and managed in social, cultural, and technical contexts, from driver monitoring to AI. 77511
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 07/09/2026printing approximately a trillion pages for the analog version of my attention seminar this term. Let’s find out if it’s worth it. 5532
Reposted by Nick Seavercaroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️ 70149113710
Reposted by Nick SeaverAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this. 11916243
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 05/09/2026newest addition to my collection of synthetic attention: the “drive man,” who sits in front of a car’s in-cabin camera and appears to be watching the road for you 2170
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 04/09/2026not that we want to be playing in the "threatening universities' accreditation" game right now, but is anyone aware of any efforts to come after universities on the grounds that students aren't actually meeting credit hour requirements thanks to AI use? 260
Reposted by Nick SeaverDan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Next week! Hosting an @aaup.org webinar with Britt Paris on our new Toolkit for Activism in AI. 9/9 3 PM. Presentation portion recorded. More events and demos through the fall. What your dues fund! www.aaup.org/event/introd...aaup.orgIntroducing the New Toolkit for Activism on AIThe new toolkit for activism on AI shares best practices on technology procurement, auditing, bargaining, conducting information requests, and developing campaigns around technology demands for chapte... 02213
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 04/09/2026love doing these, even if the questions are basically always the same. (no option given for “I want to say freeway but internally correct myself every time to say highway instead”) 2120