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Instead of withdrawing, I encourage my students to dive deeper, engaging with platforms as if they were close reading a work of literature. In doing so, I believe that we can not only better understand a platform's ideological premises, but also the inevitable cracks in a rigid software logic that enables the surprising, delightful messiness of... See more
Elan Ullendorff • So you want to escape the algorithm
In her book, The Politics of Possibility, sociologist Louise Amoore argues for designing algorithms as tools that can present decision-makers and community stakeholders with multiple possibilities for identifying and addressing social problems, rather than seeing algorithms as the solver of problems. This means agency stays with people, not... See more
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
Six Questions for Algorithmic Resistance
- What autonomous system would you like to steer?
- What “weight” pulls that algorithm toward the goals of its creators?
- Where does information come into the system — what are the sensors, inputs, and how does it interpret them?
- How can you push or pull those weights (data)? What data can you add or subtract?
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Creative Strategies for Algorithmic Resistance! — Cybernetic Forests.
This connects to the importance i am putting on chasing the provenance to every llm response in my ai literacy instruction. It is important to consider, however, that even when we instruct the llm to surface the provenance of its response, the llm is only reconstructing a plausible provenance for us that is disconnected from the documentation of the knowledge and how it came to be, or the actual provenance. It is getting rid of a huge part of the value, the work, of documentation over history. The problem is that without legitimate provenance, these llm responses are not actual knowledge they are only gesturing to knowledge. This entire blog post by Talisman is fascinating an worth a read.
From Nick Milo. Thinking about how much more useful all of these collected notes in Sublime would be if I had added a note to each saying this is interesting to me because… Then they wouldn't be this random grouping of links I can barely remember looking at and would instead be a history of my thinking. I'm guessing that the accompanying notes would also function as memory triggers for what was in the links and their context.
“But I think that consciousness is at stake in a lot of what’s going on. One of the things Trump has done is occupy a significant chunk of our attention every single day. Our consciousness is being polluted, and protecting ourselves against that at the same time we preserve the ability to act politically is a difficult balancing act. Consciousness
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