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computers can make up worlds and sometimes we believe they're real

Pierre Depaz, computer simulations as political manifestos

the same tech applied to different things is not the same tech

Pierre Depaz, Critiques protocolaires d'Internet: comparaison des projets IPFS et SecureScuttleButt

we can argue about something but technology does the thing (and makes the argument pointless)

Pierre Depaz, Discursive Strategies in Style Guides Negotiation on GitHub

programmers are like architects except they have nothing to refer to

Pierre Depaz, The craft of code

online political videos really work when you bring them offline

Pierre Depaz, Pauline Donizeau, L'agit-prop à l'ère 2.0: les campagnes du collectif Kazeboon dans l’Égypte en Révolution

Chinese tech companies portray machine vision through aesthetics that are terribly silly buy also visually consistent

Gabriele de Seta and Anya Shchetvina, Imagining machine vision: Four visual registers from the Chinese AI industry

it is nice to organise memories online, but internet is not an archive

Anya Shchetvina, The internet will not remember you: curation of autobiographical online materials in Russia in Spring 2022

memes help make sense of crisis events, and it is geographically more consistent than we might think

Andrea Marsili and Anya Shchetvina , Laugh in Case of Emergency: Framing the Pandemic Through Memes in Italy and Russia

spotify is doing to music what supermarkets did to food

David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Zhongwei Li, Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music-Streaming Platforms Frame Musical Experience

When you say anything goes, it benefits the market

Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Turns out, if you train and fine-tune a model on weird people, the model behaves weirdly

Atari, Mohammad, Mona J. Xue, Peter S. Park, Damián E. Blasi, and Joseph Henrich, Which Humans?