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Alex Saum

@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 //

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Happening now 💫🔥👀 #ai #labor

05.03.2026 09:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ministerio Trabajo y Economía Social Canal del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social - Gobierno de España

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

04.03.2026 20:18 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Ministerio Trabajo y Economía Social Canal del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social - Gobierno de España

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

04.03.2026 20:18 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Virtual Events These virtual #AWP26 events will be prerecorded and made available for registered conference attendees to watch on-demand online during the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair in March 2026, and for one mo...

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...

04.03.2026 20:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Funniest thing I've seen in a while, enjoy #enshittification

02.03.2026 18:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opening Up 2025 - New Media Writing Prize Opening Up 2025The Opening Up Competition celebrates all entries that are eligible that have been submitted to the Main and Student Prizes - it does not affect the forthcoming shortlist/winners in tho...

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...

02.03.2026 16:55 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk
ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

via @alexsaum.bsky.social: another spectacular live performance to restore our souls barely three weeks after the last one.

01.03.2026 21:57 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Call for Papers: Creative Responses to Coding and AI: from Infrastructure to Output (2027 MLA Annual Convention)

Thinking about #MLA27? The @eliterature.bsky.social has a CPF!! Please consider submitting!!!

mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...

27.02.2026 17:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
ELO 2026 - University of Central Florida

2 more days to submit to present or to the gallery of ELO26! Don't miss out!

anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/

26.02.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

“I can’t really remember a boom with such active hostility to it”

Why oh why

#ohmyAI 🤦🏻‍♀️

futurism.com/future-socie...

25.02.2026 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Several strengths and plenty of weaknesses. From the new series #ohmyAI

25.02.2026 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's so cool, isn't it?! So thrilled we could make it happen!

24.02.2026 00:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Jo Labanyi Essay Prize

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...

29.01.2026 19:15 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Assistant Managing Editor needed for Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies

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...

09.02.2026 14:51 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Gentle reminder about this!

23.02.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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...

23.02.2026 22:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Embedding Atlas Interactive visualizations for large-scale embeddings. Effortlessly explore, filter, and search through rich metadata.

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...

20.02.2026 21:27 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 0
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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...

18.02.2026 17:01 👍 268 🔁 128 💬 3 📌 24
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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... + 📼+🧵>

17.02.2026 06:48 👍 650 🔁 321 💬 17 📌 31

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.

16.02.2026 20:45 👍 1012 🔁 347 💬 8 📌 22

Si no asusto, no hay movimiento. Te lo digo como la madre que soy.

13.02.2026 19:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ELO (un)supervised 2026 | University of Central Florida

👀 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

13.02.2026 19:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

09.12.2025 18:52 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

09.12.2025 18:52 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
The workbench of Glitchlet, showing a file panel, a code panel, and a preview panel.

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.

11.02.2026 17:27 👍 131 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 3

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.

10.02.2026 22:39 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 2
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

We all intuited this, now we know it:

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Is anyone really surprised about this, though?

09.02.2026 18:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Moltbook was peak AI theater The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.

Essentially this; a stupid waste of (real) resources

www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1...

08.02.2026 04:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

04.02.2026 17:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I said some words about labs and the importance of old tech - hopefully the words I spoke align with what I actually think...

02.02.2026 19:56 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0