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  • Feeding the stars with questions

    Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry; in secret chambers withered men compounded strong elixirs, or in high cold towers asked questions of the stars. (The Lord…

  • Is that how the non player characters remember me?

    I freely confess that on such occasions the recollection of that long-ago night, the magnificent ballroom, the splendid profusion of the dancers and the breath-arresting presence of the Doctor seemed like a capstan of ache and longing attached by the ropes of memory to my heart, squeezing and tightening and compressing it until it seemed…

  • Clone monologues 20

    Hello, me. When I awoke, I was told that many of my crew had settled, somewhere, married and retired. The majority, however, seemed content to wait for my return from deep sleep. Yes, my slumber has come to an end, though the nagging threat of existential doubt still lingers on. Should I walk again, pilot…

  • Europe: subject or object in the geopolitics of data?

    I took these notes at the international workshop held on the 15th November 2018 by the Ifri think-tank in Paris. Participant #1 geopolitical approach to data (as opposed to a GDPR-focused approach) Ifri has published doctrinal research about the topic Participant #2 Everybody is going for the “full stack”, from the infrastructure to the systems…

  • The content society 5: the stakes of deepfakes

    EN Deepfakes (‘deep learning‘-generated ‘fake‘ pictures) are videos where the face of individuals are replaced with other faces, using plug-and-play artificial intelligence software. There are porn videos where the face of the performer has been replaced by the face of a celebrity. This is yet another expression of the way the digital environment struggles with…