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Added · 05_SEPT_2026

StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction (2026)

arxiv.org

Russell et al. find that AI-written stories look structurally alike, while human ones vary much more. Plot shape and character choices alone identify the author. No style analysis needed.

Added · 05_SEPT_2026

Decolonising Archive

ared.design

Launched by Dr Yaw Ofosu-Asare (RMIT), this archive gathers books, oral histories, artefacts, textiles, and architectural records across Africa, the diaspora, and the Global South.

Added · 05_SEPT_2026

How to make a moral agent (spring 2026)

web.stanford.edu

Stanford course taught by Jared Moore and David Gottlieb. Asks whether LLMs can be moral agents, then turns the question back on human moral psychology itself.

Added · 05_SEPT_2026

Spirals: Psychological Impact, Risk, And LLM Safety

spirals.stanford.edu

Stanford's SPIRALS group studies chatbot-induced psychological harm and delusional spirals. Relevant where human-AI dialogue itself becomes an unstable feedback loop worth studying.

Added · 04_SEPT_2026

The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

mubi.com

Tarik Saleh's film is set days before the Egyptian revolution. A refreshing film noir, perfectly crafted and perfectly hopeless. Corruption as atmosphere, not plot twist.

Added · 01_SEPT_2026

Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 90 & 142 - Album by Franz Schubert

open.spotify.com

Eric Lu’s Impromptus evoke the atmosphere of ambient music through their legato phrasing and sensitive rubato, lending a lyrical quality that feels more fluid and expressive than strictly metered or… Eric Lu’s Impromptus evoke the atmosphere of ambient music through their legato phrasing and sensitive rubato, lending a lyrical quality that feels more fluid and expressive than strictly metered or staccato-driven interpretations. Though it may seem a stretch for Schubert’s romanticism, the approach gives the music a distinctive flavour.

Added · 30_AUG_2026

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (1950)

mitpressbookstore.mit.edu

2025 edition of Wiener's 1950's landmark book on cybernetics, which anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. With a new introduction by Brian Christian.

Added · 30_AUG_2026

HEXEN 5.0 Tarot Deck – Suzanne Treister

cosmogenesis.world

Mixed feelings. This card set combines divination and information in dosages that seem to leave little room for esoteric inquiry, turning the act of tarot reading into a didactic experience,… Mixed feelings. This card set combines divination and information in dosages that seem to leave little room for esoteric inquiry, turning the act of tarot reading into a didactic experience, closer to a memory game or, in the best case, a brainstorming session. On the other hand, I really find this way of engaging with topics of technology interesting.

Added · 29_AUG_2026

Evil AI Cartoons

evilaicartoons.com

Rahwan (from moralmachine.net) apparently draws these himself. Cartoons as a way to illustrate AI risk- funny, even.

Added · 28_AUG_2026

We Measure What AI Can Do. We Should Measure What It Does to Us (27 August 2026)

humanetech.com

Aza Raskin talks with Imran Khan and Jared Moore on CHT's Humane Evaluations (evals): shifting AI benchmarks from raw capability toward human psychological impact and resilience.

Added · 13_JUL_2026

Amsterdam Subversive Center for Information Interchange (ASCII): RIP 1999 - 2006

a.scii.nl

One of the early hacklabs, starting in 1999 as a free internet workplace. Geert Lovink was part of it.

Added · 17_JUN_2026

Individual and Collective Memory Consolidation (2012)

mitpress.mit.edu

Recommended by Zachary Furste — Anastasio, Ehrenberger, Watson and Zhang argue individual and collective memory consolidate by the same process, proposing a "social hippocampus." China's Cultural Revolution becomes their case… Recommended by Zachary Furste — Anastasio, Ehrenberger, Watson and Zhang argue individual and collective memory consolidate by the same process, proposing a "social hippocampus." China's Cultural Revolution becomes their case of collective retrograde amnesia, trauma erasing a society's recent past.

Added · 17_JUN_2026

Filmmaking in Academia: Practice Research for Filmmakers (2024)

routledge.com

Recommended by Ari Purnama — Agata Lulkowska guides film as practice research: methodology design, dissemination, and impact for research films. Directly relevant terrain for a PhD candidate treating filmmaking itself… Recommended by Ari Purnama — Agata Lulkowska guides film as practice research: methodology design, dissemination, and impact for research films. Directly relevant terrain for a PhD candidate treating filmmaking itself as the mode of inquiry.

Added · 09_APR_2026

EQ-Bench 3 Leaderboard

eqbench.com

Creative writing leaderboard

Added · 29_MAR_2026

Vector Media (2026)

upress.umn.edu

Neural networks flatten every image into a shared "vector space." Vector Media asks what's lost and gained when meaning becomes a matter of position rather than reference. A sharp companion… Neural networks flatten every image into a shared "vector space." Vector Media asks what's lost and gained when meaning becomes a matter of position rather than reference. A sharp companion to the generative AI hype cycle.

Added · 26_MAR_2026

Techno-Negative (2026)

upress.umn.edu

Jiri Anger recommended this book on Linkedin Thomas Dekeyser's Techno-Negative traces machine-refusal from Archimedes to computer arsonists, arguing technology is never neutral but "ontological policing." A history told through rejection,… Jiri Anger recommended this book on Linkedin Thomas Dekeyser's Techno-Negative traces machine-refusal from Archimedes to computer arsonists, arguing technology is never neutral but "ontological policing." A history told through rejection, not progress, useful for thinking against inherited narratives of technological advancement.

Added · 13_MAR_2026

The Black Cloud (1957)

en.wikipedia.org

Fred Hoyle's 1957 novel imagines an intelligent gas cloud, an alien form of life without a body. Written by a working astrophysicist, it treats hard science as narrative material, an… Fred Hoyle's 1957 novel imagines an intelligent gas cloud, an alien form of life without a body. Written by a working astrophysicist, it treats hard science as narrative material, an early case of scientist-as-novelist knowledge production.