Daniel C Howe (@danielchowe.bsky.social)

Lewis Mumford, writing about AI (more or less) in 1964

Under the pretext of saving labor, the ultimate end of this technics is to displace life, or rather, to transfer the attributes of life to the machine and the mechanical collective, allowing only so much of the organism to remain as may be controlled and manipulated.

The center of authority in this new system is no longer a visible personality, an all-powerful king: even in totalitarian dictatorships the center now lies in the system itself, invisible but omnipresent: all its human components, even the technical and managerial elite,

Rest in peace, Bob. You were a giant nytimes.com/2024/10/06/boo…

@golan lovely

2nd-year BFA student Anastasia Jungle has a keen interest in rule-based poetry and a material obsession with sandbags. They used PEmbroider and @danielchowe's RiTa.js to create a series of satirical barricades, with text generated from OSHA manuals and employment contracts.

Friends, a 🧵— projects from my Spring 2024 #generativeArt #plotterTwitter course at CMU, "Drawing with Machines"! I'm privileged to work with brilliant students from @CMU_CFA @CMU_BXA @CMUIDeATe—and generous support from @bantamtools, makers of the world's best plotters😊

@StudioMilitary still?

The Nous World Simulator is Under Construction.

@_yusepf pls message me (re: bodach) when you have a moment, thanks

@mushon @rushkoff @teamhumanshow @2states1homelan don't let the bastards grind you down, mushon... thinking of you

Hope was in an extremely dark place when @rushkoff interviewed me for his @teamhumanshow podcast. When the episode came out I didn’t know what to make of it. I sound as broken as I feel. At some point I break. I’m really afraid. It is hard to walk in the darkness for so long…

@kcimc word

how am i still writing this email in 2024

It is almost impossible for me to read Computer Scientists who, instead of saying “Petya washed his hands,” write:

If you work with computer tech you should read this (every single day) - 'Not without us' by Joseph Weizenbaum dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

Eu não sei o que eu seria sem o adnauseam

Finding resources for aging/sick parents is hard enough without companies that try to take advantage. For others going through this, here's a few TO AVOID: 1. Mabey's Moving and Storage (mabeys.com) 2. Live in Place Designs (liveinplacedesigns.com) Others ?

Rest in peace, brother Harry

Hong Kong’s Last Gasp(s) nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opi…

Rest in peace youtube.com/watch?v=L34b0u…

Choose Your Weapon: Survival Strategies for Depressed AI Academics arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035