Adriana Knouf, PhD

Dispatches from Radiotopia: Hamburg Rehearsal, by Selestra 4 track album

"Dispatches from Radiotopia: Hamburg Rehearsal": https://selestra.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-radiotopia-hamburg-rehearsal

Red lights of tower cranes in Bijlmer making the shape of a combined big dipper and Cassiopeia constellation.

The combined Big Dipper + Cassiopeia in their form as Tower Cranes

The dot of Venus just above a tall apartment building in Bijlmer, wispy post-sunset clouds partially obscuring the view

Good to see Venus again

We would perhaps not draw from hermeneutics today (and would instead reference new materialism, infrastructure studies, etc etc), but Agre's method of analysis is, I think, still quite valid.

I think a lot of our contemporary discourse around AI would be improved if we remembered that others have questioned the basic assumptions long ago, including in Phil Agre's classic text on critical technical practice from 1997: https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/critical.html

Lift yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.

Although I've found that I'm more partial to ASMZ these days.

This is real. This is happening.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

In case you're wondering how things are going in the US, the state of Kansas just invalidated the IDs of all of their trans residents who had changed their gender markers: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

Is this database shared with the TSA? Does a suspended license prevent someone from passing through airport security? Would this potentually strand someone on the other side of the country? Because if so...wtf.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.

Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.

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This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

What I find frustrsting about all of this is that we have 40-50 years of results showing that if an AI program is not embodied in some way (besides existing on a computer) it's going to have a hard time "understanding" the world. So yeah, probably hard to skip that 20 years of development "cost".

Yup, sad :(

New CV category: "Articles that I did not write".

It's getting harder and harder to figure out how to relate to this majority timestream (not that it's ever been easy, but now...oooof).

Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anthropic will "pay a price" as feud escalates The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

I really don't know how so many programmers I follow are okay using Claude when, ahem, it is the only LLM allowed to be used within the US military and, in fact, was used to depose a leader of another country: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth .

Just gonna leave this here...there's a lot more in the files: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

MS Stubnitz is such a treasure from a different time...it's so necessary to try and keep it going as a reminder that our cultural world can be emancipatory, transformative, and radical.

Dispatches from Radiotopia: Hamburg Rehearsal, by Selestra 4 track album

I spent a week on the ship in 2022 as part of the RADIOTOPIA event...an incredible time with other radio artists. I even composed an EP during that week! Which you can listen to and/or purchase here: https://selestra.bandcamp.com/album/dispatches-from-radiotopia-hamburg-rehearsal

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Great tour around the MS Stubnitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-hV8dQOCw

Want to re-emphasize what this bill does. It implements a $1,000 bounty for anyone to sue someone they suspect is trans and using the bathroom.

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Nonfiction, and perhaps too academic for what you need, but I wrote about it and how it warped my sense of time in this essay: drive.proton.me/urls/YWQADAD...

This curmudgeon will return back to her hovel now :)

Fluid Nexus Concept Mobile messaging without centralized networks

In can you want to see a blast from the past, look at my old Fluid Nexus website, coded in Pyramid (ha!) and thus never to be resurrected again, thus this Wayback Machine archive will have to do: https://web.archive.org/web/20131110035307/https://fluidnexus.net/infos/concept .

How Noise Matters to Finance | Manifold@UMinnPress N. Adriana Knouf draws on historical and contemporary documents to show how noise—sonic, informatic, or otherwise—affects the ways in which financial markets function. _How Noise Matters to Finance_ draws on different forms of financial noise, paying attention to how materiality and the interference of humans and machines causes the meanings of noise to shift over space and time.

I *did* however write a book on noise and finance, which you can read (for free!) here: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/how-noise-matters-to-finance

Sigh. Evidently I wrote a paper on cryptocurrency according to this citation: https://ijaar.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/100373.pdf

(I have done no such thing.)

Even I'm getting fake articles ascribed to me, and I'm not even that prolific of an author.

Important info for those of you (or those you know) who need it: https://transworldexpress.org

Cool but I'd love to hear some audio or video or other information about the setup. I've gotten suspicious of radio-based projects that don't provide that, as it's all-too-easy to write something but much more difficult to make it work in practice. Just a couple of audio clips would be enough.

Huh, okay. Our handbook doesn't list the actual names of the graders, but does list the specific procedures and composition of the assessment team.