I didn’t think I could like Marvin anymore than I already did. “The history of media is never more or less than the history of their uses, which always lead us away from them to the social practices & conflicts they illuminate.” (p 8, When Old Technologies Were New) monoskop.org/images/c/c7/...

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"Whatever we build will one day come to dust. Yet we build. Because it’s also in us to make something handsome to behold."

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I know an essay on the personal and intellectual journey of a writer who learned to build stone walls is not going to compete well on Bluesky with whatever new new indignity is coming out of national capitals, but it's well worth reading on a Sunday evening.

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Quand un petit "robot compagnon IA" vendu 80 euros sur Amazon se transforme en sadique antivax parce que son fabricant a laissé des dizaines de failles de sécurité dans son infrastructure. On vous en conjure, faites gaffe quand vous confiez des objets IA connectés à vos enfants

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'Are EU Kidding Me?', my critique of the EU KIDS Act, the EC's chaotic social media ban, is now forthcoming in the excellent Georgetown Law Technology Review. It's updated w/ some extra bits here files.michae.lv/papers/veale... (You can also respond to the consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...)

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