Happening now 💫🔥👀 #ai #labor
@alexsaum
reader, writer, poet, editor, professor. Doing digital things in and out of UC Berkeley. En inglés y en español. Spain and LatAm, but also English comparative stuff <3 (she/her) http://www.alexsaum.com/ // not sure if she can do this all over again //
Happening now 💫🔥👀 #ai #labor
Mañana por la mañana estaré participando irl en las jornadas organizadas por el Ministerio de Trabajo "El poder del trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos: reinventando el empleo digno" --Amigues, únanse, que estará en streaming! ✨
www.youtube.com/@Empleogob
Mañana por la mañana estaré participando irl en las jornadas organizadas por el Ministerio de Trabajo "El poder del trabajo en tiempos de algoritmos: reinventando el empleo digno" --Amigues, únanse, que estará en streaming! ✨
www.youtube.com/@Empleogob
So thrilled to be talking about "Resistance to" at the AWP conference this week, together with the wonderful folks at The Los Angeles Review behind the latest Latinx Digital Poetics issue <3
conference.awpwriter.org/virtual_even...
Funniest thing I've seen in a while, enjoy #enshittification
VOTE for ME!
(or for any other of the wonderful entries, yay, but mostly, for me)
"Resistance to" by Alex Saum <3
newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...
via @alexsaum.bsky.social: another spectacular live performance to restore our souls barely three weeks after the last one.
Thinking about #MLA27? The @eliterature.bsky.social has a CPF!! Please consider submitting!!!
mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
2 more days to submit to present or to the gallery of ELO26! Don't miss out!
anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/
“I can’t really remember a boom with such active hostility to it”
Why oh why
#ohmyAI 🤦🏻♀️
futurism.com/future-socie...
Several strengths and plenty of weaknesses. From the new series #ohmyAI
It's so cool, isn't it?! So thrilled we could make it happen!
The JSCS is excited to announce the Jo Labanyi Essay Prize, an annual award (of $750) for the best article published in the journal each year. The first winner will be named in early 2027 for articles published in 2026! More info at the link:
think.taylorandfrancis.com/jo-labanyi-e...
JSCS is hiring an Assistant Managing Editor! Applications due March 1, 2026! Share with anyone who might be interested – details at link: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Gentle reminder about this!
In just a couple of weeks @bcnm.bsky.social will be hosting our Native Seas series, a week-long educational program with several traditional navigators, including students and relatives of Papa Mau Piailug, from the Northern Mariana Islands!!
Check it out!
bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/13/ar...
The more I think about LLMs, the more I think it's important for students to know how word embeddings work. I wonder if there's a way to use something like this to get (non-CS) students thinking about what embeddings represent. apple.github.io/embedding-at...
Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
Si no asusto, no hay movimiento. Te lo digo como la madre que soy.
👀 Last Call for ELO26, folks! ✨
Share your research and your digital creations with us!!
>>hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026<<
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/
Please circulate widely 🙏
#ai #elit #dh #allthehashtags
Authors Hannes Bajohr, Quifan Chen, Ted Chiang, Joseph Dumit, Gerardo Con Diaz, Jasmin B. Frelih, Annelyse Gelman, Katy Ilonka Gero, Sheila Heti, Ken Liu, Nicholas Nardini, Allison Parrish, Alex Saum-Pascual, Sasha Stiles, Iain S. Thomas, James Yu
& Agnieszka Kurant's cover
2026 will be the year for our new book, 'First Encounters with AI!'
What do writers make of a machine coming after words?
With the entry of AI into the space of writing, longstanding human questions about intention, desire, authorship, labor, and value gain new urgency.
The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.
Last year's shutdown of @glitch.com was a huge blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.
So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.
It’s a category mistake nobody really talks about: most AI companies are not trying to sell creative tools, they are trying to sell content streams.
We all intuited this, now we know it:
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
Is anyone really surprised about this, though?
Essentially this; a stupid waste of (real) resources
www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...
About a year ago I wrote a poetic essay on *this* precise scenario [coming out soon in U of Michigan Press>>https://press.umich.edu/Books/F/First-Encounters-with-AI2] and all I can say now is that it is finally...
time to jump off the internet, friends.
#moltbook #ai
I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...