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Interview your applicants? Why not just have them play Civilization? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

As AI becomes infrastructural, infrastructures become intelligent. Join Antikythera for a keynote lecture with Director @benjaminbratton on Cognitive Infrastructures: Synthetic Intelligence in the Wild on Wednesday, July 3, 6pm at Central Saint Martins. link.antikythera.org/ci-wild

One of my absolute favorites by Benjamin Bratton. (I’ve read them all.)

This "relatively accurate" prediction about future telephones was made by Mark R. Sullivan, president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in 1953 [read more: buff.ly/2K0HjKy]

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

Prepping for my talk on “Auto” for the Antikythera Cognitive Infrastructures summer studio and discovered this delightful drawing based on one of my favourite books of all time

I accidentally found an all time banger of a book cover while I was procrastinating on the subway platform home-- MIT Press, 1967:

Antikythera at MIT introduces Antikythera’s work on the philosophy of planetary computation to the Cambridge community through a series of events from October 23rd-25th, 2024 at MIT Media Lab. Events include keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton Benjamin Bratton on Antikythera: A

That dot is you. That dot is Earth. A mote of dust, suspended between the rings of Saturn, photographed by the Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 1.4 billion kilometres.

Really excited for this Planetary Sapience symposium line-up MIT Media Lab. I’ll be presenting snippets of Auto, a multimedia work in progress on the prehistories and philosophy of planetary platform automation, part of Antikythera’s journal with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social (coming Spring 25).

The Fordian Slip is at very long last out in E-flux Architecture as part of The New Silk Road series, and The Syllabus made it essay of the week 🤍🌴 e-flux.com/architecture/n…

#environment-based modeling

Exhibit A: Anthropocentrism and its worst.

Delighted that my essay on planetary platform automation (including a brief interlude on the limits of natural evolution) alongside these brilliant thinkers is hitting reality

Waited over two decades for tabs on gdocs. Really glad that one is off the list.

Safe sex for pigeons, contraceptives for rats, fertility control for feral horses — these aren’t science-fiction ideas, but real methods experts in conservation & pest control are now considering to manage wild animals, John Last reports noemamag.com/lords-of-the-u…

Editorially, I’m increasingly eliminating “our” and “us” in anticipation of all the AI readers.

I probably need to write the rebuttal: "Fully Autonomous Agents Should Be Developed But Probably Cannot Be Because There is No Such Thing as Full Autonomy Even and Especially in Humans and Other Animals, But If There Was, Then 'Control' in A System is One of The First Things to

An inspiring little folio on Life (part of an incredible tome on Intelligence launching later this year) officially inaugurates the Antikythera x MIT Press book series. Thanks to Berggruen Institute for making it possible.

Azariah Yves Dittmar, who will be 25 in the year 2050, was born on April 10th. After seven years of science, his arrival feels virtual, impossible, tremendous.