LETHE MACHINA via @dif_fractions A series curated with C.I.P.H.E.R. on the fragile arts of forgetting: opacity, camouflage, disappearance, deletion, anti-detection, model memory We invite essays, artworks, experiments, fragments Opening w/@harryhalpin diffractionscollective.com/2…

This piece of art never gets old, I know it has spawned so much commentary, articles, and reflections, but it continuously remains one of the most relevant pieces in the 21st century: youtube.com/watch?v=yucoGrSu…

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guattari wrote about the image machine before the image learned to generate itself >every feed is a small cinema of desire: optimized, looped, hallucinated back to us by AI feels prophetic e-flux.com/notes/6783490/the…

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the dude who compiled and edited Genesis P-Orridge’s “Thee Psychick Bible” (Feral House) also worked with Google “to shape the future of artificial intelligence”….

every prediction market eventually rediscovers metaphysics in procedural form

In the 70s, Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser warned that the bewitching images and screens around us could lead to a centrally programmed, totalitarian society—or to a better one shaped by dialogue and collaboration and new forms of intelligence. mitpress.mit.edu/97802620512…

governance gets more interesting when each vote maps to an actual human

Check out our new publication (link below) Recently, we published the first part of @sshshln “On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation,” which argued that AI should be understood less as frictionless interface intelligence than as a planetary regime of expenditure—one that consumes water, electricity, labor, extraction, and attention while aestheticizing those costs through the language of optimization. Drawing on Bataille, Shilina introduced “acephalic intelligence” to describe AI as a headless assemblage of infrastructures, institutions, standards, and compute flows that concentrates power without a single sovereign subject. Part two carries that argument forward by examining the regimes of surplus, sacrifice, sovereignty, and waste that structure contemporary AI more deeply. It tracks how training converts cultural and social traces into model-capacity through a logic of sacrificial destruction, how governance migrates into platforms, protocols, and pipelines, and how hallucination, overproduction, and synthetic plausibility reveal a broader economy of excess rather than isolated technical defects. In doing so, Shilina shifts the terms of analysis beyond familiar debates around bias, transparency, or explainability, toward the more fundamental question of how computational systems organize expenditure, distribute loss, and render those losses politically legible or invisible. The result is a more exact account of AI as a headless but highly operative order of power, and of the narrowing but still possible space for refusal, counter-ritual, and constraint within it.

Ever wonder what a nervous system would look like if it self-assembled inside a novel being that hadn't faced a history of selection for its organism-level form and function? Or, perhaps you wondered how #Xenobots would look and act, or what their transcriptome would be like, if they had nervous systems? Well, here's the first step: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley… "Engineered Living Systems With Self-Organizing NeuralNetworks: From Anatomy to Behavior and Gene Expression" Our awesome team: led by @halehf: @LaurieONeill99, @mmsperry, @LPiolopez, @DrPatrickE, and Tiffany Lin. The @TuftsUniversity and @wyssinstitute press releases are here, for summaries: now.tufts.edu/2026/03/16/sci… wyss.harvard.edu/news/toward…

"Agentic AI and the Next Intelligence Explosion" is a new paper just out in Science I co-authored with @blaiseaguera and @profjamesevans as part of Google's Paradigms of Intelligence research group. "For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike intelligence, consolidating all cognition into a cold silicon point. But this vision is almost certainly wrong in its most fundamental assumption. If AI development follows the path of previous major evolutionary transitions or “intelligence explosions,” our current step-change in computational intelligence will be plural, social, and deeply entangled with its forebears (us!)." It builds on my talk "The Singularity Will Not Be Singular" that I gave at @PrimeIntellect day last week. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Btw, in case you are wondering, the graphics were actually mostly vector graphics which were then directly digital laser printed on the 35mm film, which is why we don't have surviving animation cells of those interfaces. The warm glow you see in all the old interfaces comes from the exposure on the 35mm film.

Recorded a podcast with my favourite economist @ProfSteveKeen If you do not know who he is get the best insights from his studies in 30 min! How fiat money actually works, how to fix proverty, and remake the economy without using false theories of textbooks.

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Shilina :: “Lethe Machina” names the paradox that follows. We built machines that should have made forgetting easier – frictionless deletion, graceful disappearance, the option of silence. :: @sshshln diffractionscollective.com/2…

Lethe Machina: a river engineered against flow. memory doesn’t recede; it gets re-served. an ethics of endings: thresholds, fading, mercy. via @dif_fractions diffractionscollective.com/2…

Check out Kim Gordon's extremely cool new single "Dirty Tech" stereogum.com/2488904/kim-go…

On Acephalic Intelligence and the General Economy of Computation (Part I) @sshshln for @bianjie_systems bianjie.systems/bat{ai}l…