Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
@ranjodhd
Media Theory+STS+Literature+CS. Assoc. Prof. of DH, AI, and Media somewhere. VP2, @SocLitSciArts. 📚:🖥️+📝+🗄️+🎮+🧫+🔬+🧠+🏭+🌏. ☭. Not a professional account
Just Published: Fabian Offert and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we need better methodological approaches to/in Critical AI Studies than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Famously, the standardization of the workweek by early industrialists was vociferously resisted by workers, who often attempted to recreate an earlier era's work tempo by intermittently getting too drunk to work – especially on, you guessed it, Mondays
People are so anti-intellectual these days. The content of someone's day under feudalism probably had more to do with when in the year it was than which day of the week.
extremely funny to me that jeanne gang and diller scofidio and refro are indirectly responsible for destroying the humanities at u chicago. all timer for the 'starchitecture is bad' folder
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
America's collapse is unsurprisingly garish and hideous while Britain is really nailing the more classic, refined dystopia aesthetic
"You’re going to be a lot less reticent about your country bombing the open desert than you would be about shelling people sitting on terraces chatting over lunch, or families milling about markets, movie theaters, ornately decorated mosques, department stores, or schools."
for @thenation i wrote about the beauty (and virality) of Iranian brickwork thenation.com/article/cultur…
you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt
the fact that quotation marks to denote exact strings doesn't work in Gmail anymore is one of those things that makes me want to throw a bottle against a wall
It is amazing how bad it's become. Just full of slop, Boolean operators ignored, sponsored rubbish everywhere, image search nuked, 'corrected' spellings which aren't, etc etc etc.
most ethical and eco-friendly AI data centers? preferably run by women and/or POC??
the lion does not concern himself with his DSM-5 diagnosis
An inspiring and beautiful place to write the next great doordash social media campaign
Americans returning home after surviving a few hours without AC in Europe.
I worked at NATO on a long-term project in Germany during the summer. When it got unbearably hot, they told us to…wear fewer clothes. You can brag about universal health care all you want, but if you have zero A/C I’m not interested. You can’t gaslight me. I sweated through it.
ChatGPT to Macbeth: Of course, murder is wrong, but in that moment, you were hurting. Your wife told you when you durst do it, then you were a man. You weren't trying to take the throne; you were trying to feel seen. It wasn't the right choice, but it came from a very real place.
Lawyers are expensive, but *looking* like you have a lawyer is free. Today, I'm happy to announce my latest project, Heavyweight! Heavyweight lets you take any complaint you have, and make it look like a scary legal document without ever actually claiming to be from a lawyer.
To be clear, there are US military & legal thinkers who are quite explicitly trying to give themselves more "legal" leeway to carry out crimes in a future US-China war - and they are explicitly playing down Israel's own crimes now to prepare for that. (See next tweet)
“Gaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian President @petrogustavo at The Hague Group Summit
I prefer it if my students don't read the primary texts. It allows us to focus on what really matters, which is literary theory
I like how everything in the United States eventually gets turned over to a parasitical hedge fund you've never heard of bilking the entirety of society for 2 extra cents on the dollar and destroying some pillar of society in a way that's incomprehensible anywhere else
"What is the worst-case scenario if one country decided to break the blockade on Gaza?" is a very good question
In 1948, the Soviet Union cut off all land and air routes leading to West Berlin, placing over two million people under siege. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift—a massive air supply operation for the besieged population of West Berlin. They delivered food, medicine,…
In 1948, the Soviet Union cut off all land and air routes leading to West Berlin, placing over two million people under siege. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift—a massive air supply operation for the besieged population of West Berlin. They delivered food, medicine,…