This is just a short note to announce that, thanks to some generous funding at York University, I am recruiting graduate students (MA and PhD) as well as post-docs. I'd like to work with folks on alternative social media, in particular....

privateGPT, Safari 17 Profiles, styling RSS feeds, AI new UI paradigm, Richard Stallman, ChatGPT treating patients, Anti-Meta Fedi Pact, death in 7 gigabytes.

I wrote this piece after an early-career friend of mine asked some very good questions on how to be useful. Since this is a thing I struggle a bit with myself, I thought it worthwhile to write up my thoughts. Note that I fully understand...

My first weeknote. Let's see how long this lasts!

documentation in publication by Dr. El Putnam, MDPI Arts 2023, 12(3) ||| Dr. El Putnam's publication features a philosophical response to the artwork Assembly (2022) by Shane Finan as part of an evolving Irish cosmotechnics. The paper...