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800 people are going to watch Dr. Adam Yeo speak TODAY at Face/Interface 2025 SILICON @Stanford face-interface.com

Ange Mlinko’s poems are kaleidoscopes of sensory detail, rich in wit and dazzlingly dextrous. We feel very lucky to have two of them, including this one, in the latest Nimrod Journal—and we can’t wait to host her at The University of Tulsa on 1/30!

Sad to hear that Ruth Leavitt passed away yesterday. She was ahead of her time, writing the seminal work on computer art in the 1970s. Time and time again I've returned to her book "Artist and Computer" for research and enjoyment. And she was the first historical artist I

The AI boom rested on the religious belief that while today's digital capitalism is irrational & destructive, its purer, perfected, hyper-competitive form - powered by AGI! - would atone for such sins. It took socialist China to show that rationality can arrive well *before* AGI.

In 2023, a leaked Google document bluntly stated "“We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” and claimed open source AI would outcompete incumbents DeepSeek reups that the hard way. Takes on why this is being hammered home from China, not EU, are welcome simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-…

UTulsa's Board of Trustees earned the 2025 John W. Nason Award for Board Leadership, awarded by the AGB. With their leadership, UTulsa is seeing increased academic standards, financial sustainability, and historic retention rates: utulsa.edu/news/utulsa-re…

Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical & empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work jeremygilbertwriting.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/cal…

Boethius after 1500 years conference ⁦The University of Tulsa⁩ !

🧵Why does the US academy invest so much capital in the flawed scientistic search for biological roots of violence? logicmag.io/out-of-place/p…

New in Science Magazine: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" Working with brilliant colleagues Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, and Cosma Shalizi, we challenge the prevailing narrative about AI models as autonomous agents. science.org/stoken/author-…

Now in Russian Simon Shuster

Behavioral science is all about optimizing yourself—to improve economic outcomes. maybe: leif weatherby takes aim at the field. thebaffler.com/latest/fashion…

Just Published, Early and Open Access: "The Legality of Logistics: On Techno-Orientalism and Geopolitics in Semiconductor Production" in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Abstract here.

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I'm delighted and humbled to author the foreword to /Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations/, eds. Phillip H. Roth et. al. (Routledge 2025). A brilliant, timely, & evergreen collection: check it out, from your library? routledge.com/Making-Media-F…

A descendant of Polish rebels and Buryat hunters, raised in the Russian Far East and Korea, Viktoria Yankovskaya (1909-96) lost her father to the Gulag and fled first to Chile, then to California, where she ended her days. Here is one of her last poems. bdralyuk.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/i-s…

June 1 is recognized as the official day of observance for the Tulsa Race Massacre. When teaching students about the deadly attack, Professor Quraysh Ali Lansana, UTulsa’s director of African American Studies, focuses on how Greenwood became an economically thriving community.

Help Tom Out this Weekend! I just learned that the MingKwai story is the *cover* article of the tomorrows Sunday New York Times Metro section! I’m not able to get a copy of my own tomorrow, so I need to Crowdsource this. /1

Professor goes "Beyond the Gates" of Jurassic Park motion comic - The University of Tulsa - When Applied Assistant Professor of Digital Art Jason Yang isn't teaching students the ins and outs of motion and graphic design, he can be found ... - ift.tt/okrgdxq