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The lie of the tech sector is that it is up to much of anything new at all. "Technology" discourse has always mostly been the re...

Adapted and Upgraded from a comment in the Moot: Robot Gods, genetic enhancement and longevity, artificial meat, immersive virtuality, techn...

Pro-tip: Don't let the toxic mixture of fear and laziness fuck with your goals, ambition and productivity. — Katya (@katya_zamo) July 14...

Nothing that is being called "AI" these days is actual AI -- which is not to deny how dangerous what passes for AI these days ha...

Fifty-two today.

HUMN-237-01 | Fall 2017 Peace in Pieces: Histories, Theories, and Practices of Nonviolent Politics Instructor: Dale Carrico; e-mail: ...

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

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

"[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...

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

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

No computer has ever even played a game of chess. No computer has ever played anything. No computer has ever played.

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

Never doubt for a second these guys can ALWAYS get worse -->

Being on brand is not the same as being a person.

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

I can be an avalanche.

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

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...