David Benqué @davidbenque@mastodon.social

☄️📃 Cosmic Spreadsheets now up as a PDF
http://suprasystems.studio/downloads/book-chapters/Supra%20Systems%20Book_Chapter%2010_Benque.pdf

The full Supra Systems book is at http://suprasystems.studio/

In awe at the size of this lad, absolute unit.

🍗Deep Fried Data🍗
Maciej Ceglowski at the Collections as Data event, Library of Congress, September 27 2016.

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gcu2GQf7PI&feature=youtu.be&t=19909
📄 http://idlewords.com/talks/deep_fried_data.htm

📢🌏 Open Call: Earth Water Sky

2 month fully funded residency in Venice for artists interested in the environment and the latest in cutting edge environmental knowledge.

https://mailchi.mp/e94c10c3bfde/submit-your-ideas-for-in-case-of-emergency-2809649?e=c2581b3248

📄🏆 Paper of the week, for the link between the geometry of 'feature space' and governmentality:

Aradau, C. and Blanke, T. (2017) ‘Politics of prediction: Security and the time/space of governmentality in the age of big data’, European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 373–391

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1368431016667623

📻 🎧 Mar Hicks (historian of computing and author of: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing) on the Stayin' Alive In Technology podcast.

https://www.stayinaliveintech.com/podcast/2018/10/s2-e4-mar-hicks-we-belong

📅🎙️ Looking forward to taking part in 'Fields of Communication Nature · Culture · Technology' RCA Comms research symposium.

The Westworks, 195 Wood Lane, White City, London, W12 7FQ
30 October 2018

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fields-of-communication-nature-culture-and-technology-tickets-50435459818

🍎➡️🐧 The Big Move: day 1
Installed Ubuntu in a virtualbox on my mac to start testing software, workflows, etc... Overall feels are good! Full switch might happen before year's end 🤓😱
🦑💫 They had me at "Cosmic Cuttlefish"

current story of my life

Petition to DDoS James Veitch until he stops doing "I spammed the spammers" TED talks. 🙌

📰 Rethinking AI through the politics of 1968
Dan McQuillan

"All the initiatives that want to make AI ethical seem to think it's about adding something i.e. ethics, instead of about revealing the value-laden-ness at every level of computation, right down to the mathematics."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/dan-mcquillan/rethinking-ai-through-politics-of-1968

« Mettre en place toujours plus d’évaluation à l’école n’est pas une solution »

Le professeur de philosophie Thomas Schauder, s’appuyant sur des écrits de sa consœur Angélique del Rey, revient sur les annonces du ministre de l’éducation et sur leur compatibilité avec son projet d’« école de la bienveillance ».

https://mobile.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2018/09/19/mettre-en-place-toujours-plus-d-evaluation-a-l-ecole-n-est-pas-une-solution_5357454_4401467.html?xtref=

The Automation Charade

The rise of the robots has been greatly exaggerated. Whose interests does that serve?

https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/

☄️📃 Cosmic Spreadsheets now up as a PDF
http://suprasystems.studio/downloads/book-chapters/Supra%20Systems%20Book_Chapter%2010_Benque.pdf

The full Supra Systems book is at http://suprasystems.studio/

📖✍️ Dan Harmon's advice on writing

https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/5b2w4c/dan_harmons_advice_on_writing_and_writers_block/

☄️ Cosmic Spreadhseets 📖 I have an essay about almanacs in the Supra Systems #1 book which launches tomorrow at LCC: https://www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/supra-systems-symposium-and-publication-launch