Delighted to see Widdicombe’s (NCM Senior Curator) new conversation piece on the #environmental impacts of #technology systems like #AI and the #telegraph. It draws from our research at the School of #Cybernetics on the telegraph as an important historical system!

https://theconversation.com/from-the-telegraph-to-ai-our-communications-systems-have-always-had-hidden-environmental-costs-263811

The other day I paid a visit to the “Robotron – Code und Utopie” exhibition at the GfZK in Leipzig. It’s really a great show about technology, industry, politics, socialism, capitalism, and art. If you can, check it out (until February)

I can't really believe it, but I've gotten an email saying that my #talk on #fascism for the #39C3 got accepted!

So, “All Sorted by Machines of Loving Grace? "AI", Cybernetics, and Fascism and how to Intervene” will be happening at the #ccc #congress in #Hamburg

I am so excited! Well switching in between feeling excited and feeling the pressure

Looking forward to the discussion with you guys!

Hundreds of Public Figures, Including Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson Urge AI Superintelligence Ban https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/10/22/ai-superintelligence-ban/
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#Superintelligence #AI #artificialintelligence #futuretech #machinelearning #innovation #technology #SmartMachines #DigitalRevolution #Cybernetics #neuralnetworks #robotics #TechTrends #deeplearning #futureofwork #HumanPlusAI #datascience #automation #TechTalk #EthicsInAI

Fresh from the oven, a new book I co-edited with my colleagues and friends Jordi Vallverdú and Vicent Costa.

“There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death (1965)

In the digital age, death feels increasingly strange to us — as if were moving farther away, abstracted, outsourced.

"SecondDeath. Experiences of Death Across Technologies" explores how artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital systems are reshaping our experience of mortality.

In a world mediated by algorithms and cybernetic agents, death is no longer only biological. It becomes symbolic, synthetic, sometimes programmable.

The question is no longer if machines can die, but what their death reveals about our own: about grief, identity, continuity, and the boundaries of consciousness.

This volume gathers philosophical, cultural, scientific, ethical, psychological, and technological perspectives to rethink one of humanity’s most ancient enigmas — through the lens of our most recent inventions.

To confront death is, once again, to rethink life, our reality itself.

https://link.springer.com/book/9783031988073

#CFP

Special Issue: Feedback Musicianship
Journal of New Music Research (Taylor & Francis)

Seeking articles on the theory, practice & design of feedback instruments and systems. Topics include #composition, #performance, #cognition, #HCI, #cybernetics, #history, #pedagogy & more.

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/feedback-musicianship/

Ah, yes, the classic "Houston and #Dallas, saviors of the West Coast" narrative . #California can't possibly figure out #homelessness without a Texas-sized intervention, because who needs sunshine when you have #cybernetics and governance buzzwords?
https://www.governance.fyi/p/california-needs-to-learn-from-houston #Houston #HackerNews #ngated

Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka – Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media

https://neural.it/2025/09/abelardo-gil-fournier-and-jussi-parikka-living-surfaces-images-plants-and-environments-of-media/

#livingsurfaces. #cybernetics #remotesensing #photography #photochemistry #postphotography #ecomedia #mediaecology #postnatural #posthuman #artsci #artscience #bioart #bioarte #bioartist #climateart #climateartist #ecoart #anthropoceneart #interspeciesart #postnatural #biopolitics #datavisualization #criticaltheory #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #digitalstudies #neuralarchive #neuralmag

Back to Mastodon and back to babbling to myself.
Today's babbling:
1) Remember the Homeostat as a linear #RNN that can change its weights between a given set, and does so whenever it fails to stabilize a unit's output in less than a tolerated time.
It's enough to simulate learning (habituation) but has no guarantee of remembering what's been learnt.
#cybernetics

2) A GLU variant with weights, biases and Heaviside nonlinearity has a linear+ReLU layer as a special case (in a predefined domain).
But the GLU can't learn the nonlinear path weights.
The classic GLU can only approximate the ReLU but has no "dead" neurons, so does it make sense as a new default?
#deeplearning

Can anyone see the connections?

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Bald sind die @datenspuren & ich freue mich, mit zwei Beiträgen dabei zu sein! Einer mit @HonkHase

https://katika-kuehnreich.com/blog/2025/09/11/vortraege-auf-den-datenspuren/

Packt euren Humor + all eure Fragen und Lösungen ein & wir sehen uns!
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Soon the #Datenspuren in #Dresden will start

I'm excited to be there with two talks, one in English

So - grab your humour & all your ideas for an #antifascist future & let us meet!

https://katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2025/09/11/two-talks-at-datenspuren-conference-in-dresden/

(1/3) What do #reflexive practices look like on #cybernetic fieldwork?

For our research team, we use a combination of #embodied methods and second-order #cybernetics to inspire fresh perspectives on historical #technologies, the natural #environment, and past identities in #Australia We “explore the emotions, sensations, and lived experiences of us as researchers and the researched (telegraph workers, surveyors, repeater stations, railway lines etc.).”

But how do we do this? …