Luke Munn
@lukemunn
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Researcher in Digital Cultures & Societies @ UQ, author of Unmaking the Algorithm (2018), Logic of Feeling (2020), and Automation is a Myth (2022), he/him.
Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia
Joined August 2007
OpenAI: promises to unearth the Machine God™, releases another product feature you’ll forget exists in a week Anthropic: "here's an alignment blogpost and oh, our model is 0.1% better at coding now!" DeepMind: models can solve protein folding and generate new realities, but
🏆 We're thrilled to announce that Meta FAIR’s Brain & AI team won 1st place at the prestigious Algonauts 2025 brain modeling competition. Their 1B parameter model, TRIBE (Trimodal Brain Encoder), is the first deep neural network trained to predict brain responses to stimuli
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New article up! 🙂 In this new article for the New Media and Society, @LukeMunn and I ask: how is the culture made computational? Read here: https://t.co/vYi1HvqueL
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"From Dreary to Theory": EOI for our workshop on creative theorizing is now open. Learn, get inspired, and get feedback on your own projects with us at UQ City.
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Using AI to simulate its architects and generate alternate histories, our hidden gem of the week revisits Chile’s Cybersyn project as a means to counter neoliberal capitalist realism and expand economic imagination. By @lukemunn & @liam_magee
https://t.co/tIIVpb8tn5
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It's 'the intelligence age', say tech titans – but information will not save us. Luke Munn explains, in his timely Friday essay @lukemunn @UQ_News
https://t.co/UlVJCxcXux
theconversation.com
It’s claimed that more information can solve our crises, from climate change to Gaza. But the world today shows how this vision of reason has tipped over into unreason, anger, and barbarism.
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First as tragedy, then as farce.
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1 million downloads, includes my chapter on 'Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI'
link.springer.com
This chapter examines the role that platform labor plays in the development of contemporary AI systems. While such systems are often touted as magical innovations, they are typically propped up by...
Our two books on #DigitalHumanism have been downloaded 1 mio times what a success. Huge thanks to all the authors, my co-editors Carlo Ghezzi Jeff Kramer @LeeEdwardA @BNuseibeh @Nida_Ruemelin @ErichPrem @AKStanger and to all those who participated https://t.co/aqe7tkXLpp
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Will be in central Tokyo from 13-20 November. Scholars or orgs doing work on critical AI, environmental media, digital labour feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to connect.
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Jason Hickel explains how we can easily solve the climate crisis 🌍 Full video: https://t.co/cM5kxMk56Y
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Thinking about how “climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it” as @PerthshireMags said.
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platforms are "optimizing" work for a world that no longer exists. #climatechange
Dear @deepigoyal, please look into this A @zomato delivery boy had to wade through knee-deep water in Ahmedabad during a heavy downpour to complete an order. For their safety, should #Zomato suspend orders in flooded areas❓ CC:@mansukhmandviya @LabourMinistry @SumitaDawra @ilo
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Looking forward to this super interesting and timely workshop by @richardson_m_a tracing the longer arc of synthetic media and its epistemic implications. Join us next Thursday if you're in Meanjin.
events.humanitix.com
Get tickets on Humanitix - Interrogating Synthetic Data: A Workshop on Politics, Epistemologies, and Synthesis. Find event information.
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Wonderful #COMU7304 Digital Media lecture and workshops today. Thank you @lukemunn for a super interesting and provoking talk on AI. Fantastic case studies. Engaged students, great questions. Ta @hannanlibrarian for showing students how they can use our @UQ_Library for assessment
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The Hajj is about 1,600 years old. But the globe is hotter now than any time in the last 125,000 years. This news is so sad--people at a peak lifetime experience just falling down dead. https://t.co/6UPH7gELcA
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At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress
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“The heart has to sometimes pump two to four times more blood each minute than it would on a cooler day.” Why heat waves are hard, especially on older people https://t.co/NJSoJ2hUJi by @Zhirji28
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As we get older, our bodies become less adept at responding to high temperatures. On a warming planet with an aging population, that’s a problem.
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🚨 Great response to this workshop on journal writing so far, with ~30 registered: sign up ASAP if you want to attend. https://t.co/Mcg3naO6S8
@UQ_News @DGTL_CulturesUQ
events.humanitix.com
Get tickets on Humanitix - The Write Stuff: How to Craft a 🔥 Journal Article. Find event information.
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Revisit this article by Luke Munn (@lukemunn) which explores how 'hate is stratified into layers of different intensity, moving from moderate, public-facing material to deeper and more virulent vitriol'. For more: https://t.co/oFJFMaWmx9
#platforms #alttech #radicalright
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Making More of "Us" - my latest article for the Conversation is on the rise of pronatalism.
theconversation.com
Pronatalism is inextricably tied to nationalism alongside race, class and ethnicity. Such a framing can quickly become xenophobic.
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