Ulysses Pascal

Im sorry i know this is an important topic but this article feels like ai slop

Im surprised another easy target doesn’t get more attention: AI in war.

I think AI having mostly (not entirely) very bad critics is a real problem because it means we’ll get political action focused on things that probably don’t matter that much in deferring it’s very real harms.

This!

His goal is not to exclude certain people from voting, it is to question the legitimacy of voting itself in order to deny the results of the election.

Decentering tech oligarchy Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Is tech oligarchy a proper term to describe the conditions of current-day political economies?

In our latest forum contribution, @ulyssespascal.bsky.social, Cheng Fang, and David Bassens see merit in deploying the concept, but also consider its empirical limits.

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Are you building software together or theoretically/critically analyzing computation? What are you working on?

Having another person on the team that can speak both computer science and media studies helps.

Isn’t the AI boom about reducing spending on software? If your team of 2000 can be replaced by a team of 50 + a subscription to an AI coding agent? Doesnt that drive down what you are willing to outsource or pay for software?

I created a remote zotero MCP server that lets you talk to your library from anywhere through claude

You should vibe code AGI

Screenshot of the token decision tree that visualizes LLM output

To visualize the narrative ‘choices’ that LLMs do make we built a tool to aggregate and display the log probabilities of tokens across 1000 completions to the same prompt: ai-cultural-heritage-lab.github.io/Uncritical-F...

We must question not only how factual AI output is, but how does AI emplot history? What is included, excluded, and what processes inform these narrative framings?

Attention to the unsaid, the suppressed, and the un or under recorded is just as — if not more — important for understanding history and power.

This makes LLMs architecturally unsuited for “listening for the unsaid” — an essential element of what Saidya Hartman terms “Critical Fabulation”

Even when LLMs are factual, they mindlessly amplify tropes from what has been most frequently and intensively inscribed in the digitized record.

We argue that we need to pay more attention to the narrative fabula that LLMs impose on history.

Screen shot of the essay with definitions of critical and uncritical fabulation highlighted

Our new article on AI and “Uncritical Fabulation” just got published in digital memory dialogues digitalmemorydialogues.com/editions/dia...

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures

You might be interested in this other map experiment where someone asked LLMs to decide if a particular gps coordinant was over land or water: open.substack.com/pub/outsidet...

Honestly surprised that chatgpt was okay. Last time i asked it for historical maps it got things so bad

Can someone explain why ice agents are playing riot police? They aren’t even pretending to do their job anymore

How can we make social media without bots?

Kinda like he told congress he wont invade Venezuela

… wont the ensuing unemployment trigger more mass migration?

Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities

"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee"

Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities

This sounds like alcohol withdrawal induced mania/psychosis. Especially common for people using alcohol to mask bipolar disorder. It’s unfortunate his family didn’t intervene before he made irreversible life choices.

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation

Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures".

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What’s worse is this is written by chatgpt

I thought Bari Weiss was supposed to be a prominent critic of "cancel culture”

It's worth watching for yourself.

I feel like outsiders understand what the contribution of geographers is better than insiders