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Too often, AI feels like something that’s done to us, not with us or for us. It will affect every aspect of our lives. But AI is neither poison nor panacea. It is and will be what we make it. Now is the moment to shape the future of AI for people. This panel will explore how we build the ecosystem and infrastructure to ensure that people will benefit the most from AI. Experts in AI, philanthropy, and advocacy, will offer a new way of thinking about AI that moves from Silicon Valley’s mantra of “move fast and break things” to an alternative vision that centers our humanity.

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Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive, owing to Kenneth’s interest in sound poetry, an even more obscure art form. Since then he’s served as the chief, […]

Interviewed by Grady Booch on September 5, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon, X3715.2007

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John Backus led a team at IBM in 1957 that created the first successful high-level programming language, FORTRAN. It was designed to solve problems in science and engineering, and many dialects of the language are still in use throughout the world.

Describing the development of FORTRAN, Backus said, "We simply made up the language as we went along. We did not regard language design as a difficult problem, merely a simple prelude to the real problem: designing a compiler which could produce efficient programs . . . We also wanted to eliminate a lot of the bookkeeping and detailed, repetitive planning which hand coding involved."

The name FORTRAN comes from FORmula TRANslation. The language was designed for solving engineering and scientific problems. FORTRAN IV was first introduced by IBM in the early 1960s and still exists in a number of similar dialects on machines from various manufacturers.

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'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan

Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can and should be done—particularly by students and universities.

About the speaker

Dr. Dan McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical AI at Goldsmiths, University of London. After a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, Dan worked with people learning disabilities & mental health issues, created websites with asylum seekers, ran social tech camps in Kyrgyzstan and Sarajevo and worked for Amnesty International and the NHS. He is the author of 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'.

About the series

Critical AI Talks invites leading AI researchers to explore the human and societal impacts of GenAI. Join us at this and other upcoming talks and learn more about the Critical AI Talks series here: https://csma.humanities.mcmaster.ca/our-community/critical-ai/

Timeline and notes

3:15 What is AI?

7:21 How is AI political?

- AI alters the distribution of power in the world, intensifying asymmetries of power

- perceptions of AI’s “objectivity” have shifted with the rise of GenAI; its failings are more on display

- AI is individualizing and thus extends neoliberalism; AI extends the politics of scarcity

- AI excises relationships and relationality; it is individualizing and de-relationalizing

- Predictive AI was tied to austerity

- AI does statistical redlining

- the fundamental operations of AI are based on correlation, not causation; they don’t have an understanding of ‘ground truth’ and context, what is really going on; instead it can find a group or sub-group or set of identities that can be blamed for the situation; it’s an “automated stigmatization” and, as such, dangerous in the hands of institutions and forms of politics that are keen on stigmatization

21:31 How is AI “brittle” or fragile?

- AI can break down in many ways

- AI relies on a huge amount of data, missing data is a “giant game of whack-a-mole”;

- People can deal with the unexpected but AI can’t

engineers are quite open about the fact that they don’t know what’s going on “under the hood”; we’re part of a giant social experiment

- Artificial General Intelligence is the goal of AI companies—an idea based in eugenics, white and masculine supremacy, and engenders a “closed loop” that fuses with global extractivism to keep itself going.

30:55 The usual remedies proposed to solve the problems of AI are inadequate:

- technosolutionism; efforts to de-bias AI, the data and number of parameters is too vast and - the world is too complex to “debias” without creating new distortions

- the problems with explainability and laws that require an explanation for decisions made by AI

- the inadequacy of having a “human in the loop”

- the inadequacy of legislation

- the problem with the false citations tied to AI search results

40:30 What should be done?

- Councils, solidarity, mutual aid, collective care, decomputing, and degrowth

- AI forms a feedback loop with current trajectories of society; it will make people’s jobs more vulnerable to the threat of replacement with AI

- AI only functions with vast quantities of data; social media made this available

- Ai requires extreme centralization;

- a cottage or community version can’t really exist; AI intensifies concentrations of power

- AI isn’t new; it intensifies problems that already exist, so changing AI requires changing underlying structural issues

- the opposite of AI’s decontextualization is life and interdependency, which is messy

- decomputing is how to bring about ecological sustainability from the bottom up

- councils – assemblies – are people coming together in a horizontal peer-to-peer way to tackle the problems of their life

- this deals with 1) the material conditions, and 2) the subjectivities that AI creates; this way we can come together to empower and transform ourselves and develop counter-power

49:27 What should universities do?

- Universities are about imagining possibilities

- Universities are fundamentally social, and can be a cradle of politics

- McQuillan’s lecture “The Role of the University is to Resist AI” discussed (https://www.danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html)

- Universities are being treated as having measurable outputs;

- the defence against AI is a defence of education

- teaching staff are targeted for staffing reductions

- Use of AI for teaching and research is degrading to cognition

- Decomputing involves degrowth

- AI is giving up independent thought

- Ivan Illich’s ideas of conviviality and tools

- “in the increasingly authoritarian world that we’re slipping into, the idea of education itself, definitely the idea of critical thought, is seen as unwelcome”

- AI is dependent on energy, and the geopolitics of AI centres on this; universities can reveal this and the previous ways people have failed to make change

1:08:45 Closing

How would you stay in touch if the Internet went down? Can you set up your own long-range communication network with mates? In this video, tech workers Mar, Liam, and Marissa cover what mesh network communication is, when it’s useful, and how to get started with a LoRa board and Meshcore.

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00:00 Welcome

01:10 Why you should set up your own communication infrastructure

05:46 Options considered and dismissed

08:57 Techwerkers use case

10:41 Centralised vs distributed networks

12:03 Mesh network communication

14:44 Intro to LoRa

18:15 Intro to Meshcore

20:00 Companion and repeater nodes in Meshcore

23:57 Live demo: send and receive messages

29:43 Questions & answers

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This live feed from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida will provide continuous views of the Artemis II Moon rocket beginning on Saturday, Jan. 17 with rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B.

In the coming weeks, NASA will complete final preparations of the rocket and, if needed, rollback SLS and Orion to the Vehicle Assembly Building for additional work. While the Artemis II launch window opens as early as Friday, Feb. 6, the mission management team will assess flight readiness after the wet dress rehearsal across the spacecraft, launch infrastructure, and the crew and operations teams before selecting a launch date.

Through Artemis, NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.

Learn more about Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

Credit: NASA

In this episode of The Weekly Wrap, Steve Eisman breaks down the five long-term structural themes he thinks are crucial to understanding the market in 2026. He explains how tech has come to dominate the stock market and why consumer sectors matter less than ever. He also takes a look at the impact of Index Investing and answers a mailbag question on PayPal’s collapse.

00:00 - Intro

01:15 - Venezuela & Market Ramifications

02:00 - 5 Long-Term Structural Themes To Understand the Market

05:08 - Tech & Tech Related Stocks Dominate the Market

12:18 - Consumer Stocks, Consumers' Impact on Movement & Every Day Life

15:31 - The Impact of Index Investing

18:59 - Mailbag: PayPal's Recent Performance

22:14 - Outro

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In this intimate conversation, visionary Jefferson Hack meets with icon Tilda Swinton to reflect on her ever-expanding artistic legacy, shaped by creative relationships that continue to redefine the boundaries of cinema.

Swinton meditates on the alchemy forged when singular minds dance together – from her earliest work with avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman, filming the un-filmable with Sally Potter, and channeling her grandmother's makeup routine for Wes Anderson.

Hack’s curiosity amplifies Swinton’s poetic disposition during a lively exchange about creative process and identity – and how the boundaries between art and life dissolve across friendship and collaboration.

This is the latest episode of Hack’s podcast, Where It’s At, and he caught up with Swinton just as a dedicated exhibition ‘Tilda Swinton – Ongoing’ opened at Amsterdam’s @eyefilmNL (until 8th February 2026). In her curation of the exhibition, Swinton pays homage to her pioneering collaborators across art, film, and fashion.

Featuring: Jefferson Hack & Tilda Swinton

Producer: Noor Miah

Commissioning Director: Katie Metcalfe

DOP: Harold Williams

Camera Assistant: Nick Chandler

Audio Engineer: Craig Heptinstall

Studio Assistant: Andres Albert

Audio Engineer: James Nicolau

Editor: Cayetano García Sahurie, Panos Agamemnos

Set Designer: Ellen Wilson

Florist: Hamish Powell

Hair Stylist: Declan Sheils

Makeup Artist: Sam Bryant

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The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software d...

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