The Tower Keeps Rising

Collapse — Oakland Public Library

Collapse — Dallett, Cassandra, — <p>COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politics and anarchy, connection for the broken.</p><p>Poetry. California Interest.</p>

Jailbreaking Large Language Models: If You Torture the Model Long Enough, It Will Confess!

A Cautionary Tale…

Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism

A few days ago, I had to deal with the first "vibe coded" PR to my software. In this article, I reflect on this encounter, and analyze the social …

Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?

Four different perspectives

Critical Signals

Critical Signals explores practical and visionary responses to an era of collapses.

Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures

Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

Appropriating Technology | Public Sphere Project — Liberating Voices Pattern Language

Dematerialization, Participatory Design, Techno-Criticism, Intermediate Technologies, Users' IT Quality Network, Wholesome Design for Wicked Problems, Labor Visions, Community Inquiry, Tactical Media

Libra Season: iPhone Modernism by Travis Diehl

The shock-of-the-new is back in literature, rebooted for screen time – and with it, the question: To what end should writing reflect our networked selves?

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power - The Algo Rhythm by Blacksky

[This document serves as a memo for investors]

New Design Congress (@newdesigncongress@mastodon.world)

4 Posts, 7 Following, 128 Followers · An independent research group confronting the gap between what is said to be happening and what is actually happening in digitised societies.

SplinterCon Taipei

Presentations recorded at the SplinterCon conference, 24.02.2025 The rise of network shutdowns and the proliferation of so-called “splinternets” pose significant challenges to the free flow of info...

poetic web: unfolding spiral

'poetic web: unfolding spiral' is a non-linear text I wrote as part of my bachelor thesis at the HFBK Hamburg. Driven by curiosity about the poetic web, the object of the text rather became the opening of a reflective space, where I could touch on the constraints and possibilities of language, words, worlds, and their artifacts, relation and meaning-making, smoothness, attention, and agency, and see how subtle shifts in understanding allowed for words to restructure and new meanings to grow.

Awni Hannun on Twitter / X

I love this line of research from my colleagues at Apple:Augmenting a language model with a hierarchical memory makes perfect sense for several reasons:- Intuitively the memory parameters should be accessed much less frequently than the weights responsible for reasoning. You… https://t.co/q7HQnYmdR4 pic.twitter.com/38b9q7YKCe— Awni Hannun (@awnihannun) October 6, 2025

The secretive plan for a Maine data center collapsed in 6 days

A proposed data center in an old Lewiston mill building began to unravel before the public even got wind of it.

Mysteries of mode collapse — LessWrong

Thanks to Ian McKenzie and Nicholas Dupuis, collaborators on a related project, for contributing to the ideas and experiments discussed in this post…