Thursday, June 29, 2017

Thinking What We Are Doing

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The following is excerpted from a history of teaching and statement of teaching philosophy requested as part of a dossier summarizing my po...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Digi Demos This Summer at Berkeley

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Summer 2017  Rhet 166: DIGITAL DEMOCRATIZATION & ANTIDEMOCRATIZATION UNDER THE LAW Instructor: Dale Carrico: dcarrico@sfai.edu,...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Queer Resistances and Abolition Democracy

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"[T]he point is to call for an equally livable life that is also enacted by those who make the call, and that requires the egalitaria...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Final Thoughts From My Class This Term: For Futurity

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1 NO MONOLITH There is no such thing as technology in general. There are a plurality of artifacts, techniques, performances, research pro...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Contract Ratified!

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Our first union negotiated contract was overwhelmingly ratified by the membership yesterday. Come what may, I have acquired a host of ben...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

No computer has ever won a game of chess.

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No computer has ever even played a game of chess. No computer has ever played anything. No computer has ever played.
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Memories

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This is the first CD I ever bought. I still own it -- and listen to it! Something magical happens during her rendition of "Fascinating ...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

McCarthy --> Nixon --> Reagan --> Quayle --> Gingrich --> W --> Palin --> Trump -->

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Never doubt for a second these guys can ALWAYS get worse -->
Thursday, March 02, 2017

LOGO NO EGO

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Being on brand is not the same as being a person.
Saturday, February 04, 2017

...And We're Back! Last Time I Posted This Tune Here Was In The Last Year of the Administration of the Incompetent War Criminal George W. Bush

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Sunday, January 29, 2017

When will it end with the "so it begins" tweets?

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We lost an election we shouldn't have lost -- that was the beginning -- and now we confront a series of increasingly terrible battles w...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

I am a snowflake.

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I can be an avalanche.
Saturday, January 21, 2017

How "AI" Doesn't Matter

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Thinking about the world is the world mattering to the thinker. So long as nothing matters to robots and algorithms, to speak of "AI...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Trek Prefs

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Given how much I loved Next Generation when it came out and hated Enterprise when it came out I must say, in retrospect, with a longer ru...
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Me, Included

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Doing your politics on twitter is as hilarious as bringing a mirror to a knife fight.
Monday, January 09, 2017

From Philosophy to Futurology

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Philosophy, originating in bad-faith denials of its rhetoricity, has always been an alientaed pseudo-science. But philosophy pressured by ...
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Monday, January 02, 2017

Wringing In The New Year (My Best Posts and Tweets of 2016, I Guess)

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The following are the posts from 2016 that people liked most and which, for the most part, I liked as well: Politics Is , November 16, 20...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

ABBA New Year To You All!

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

A Handy Tech-Talk Translator:

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"Acceleration" = Precarization "Artificial Intelligence" = Denial of Responsibility "Automation" = Dismant...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Lies, Damn Lies, and Futurism

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I think most of what passes for "Tech" design should be disregarded and most of what is accepted as "Tech" promotion sho...