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Meet the voices behind next week's , SEARCHES: SELFHOOD IN THE DIGITAL AGE 📖

VAUHINI VARA reports for The Atlantic, The New Yorker & NYT Magazine, and is the author of The Immortal King Rao & This is Salvaged.

LUCA MESSARRA, Public Humanities Fellow @internetarchive & Stanford PhD, studies literature, digital humanities & text tech.

📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
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🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/

Promotional graphic for an online book talk titled “Searches.” The design is a four-panel collage featuring two author headshots and illustrated stacks of books. At center left is a photo of Vauhini Vara; at lower right is a photo Luca Messarra. Text reads: “Searches” and “Book Talk,” with “with Vauhini Vara & Luca Messarra.”
Event announcement graphic with a dark gray textured background and illustrated books along the right edge. White text reads: “February 26th, 10 am PT / 1 pm ET, ONLINE.” Below: “Join us for a book talk with Vauhini Vara, author of Searches, in conversation with Luca Messarra, on how technology fulfills—and exploits—our human desire for understanding and connection.” Logos for the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom.

welcomes , author of : Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future—from Ancient Oracles to

"[W]e talk about how both massive and intrusive invasions of privacy at all levels of society and false claims to be able to predict the future erode democracy, are corrosive to , and undermine people’s ability to think for themselves."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2026/02/19/bullshit-and-infinity-why-ai-cannot-predict-anything-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz/

@bookstodon

Thanks to @ken_fallon for the offline translation tool on HPR.

hpr4559 :: Enkele off line vertaaltools
https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4559/index.html

I was documenting some qemu setups and came across this video that was auto-dubbed and the title auto-translated.

needs to stop that.
just sounds wrong with videos

Oh. I was looking at tools

@hpr

Virtualização KVM/QEMU com Virt-Manager: O Guia Definitivo para SysAdmins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay0mAxc90Xw

A couple of months old now, but I just came across this article about from @pluralistic, and it's well worth a read: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

I disagree with a few details -- in particular I think most tech companies would be entirely content to only fire scads of junior programmers, and keep the moderately-expensive senior ones to guide code generation -- but they're tangential to the point of this article.

He lays the groundwork for (but doesn't explicitly make) a fascinating point that hadn't occurred to me before: if you combine the growth of LLM codegen with the rulings about AI Art, you get a plausible case that generated *code* can't be copyrighted. Which should be giving corporate legal departments nightmares.

But overall, it's a fine summary of the bubble, why it's awful, and why we really need to pop it sooner rather …

Friends, it's time to embrace tech, right-to-repair and just keeping your devices as long as possible. Buying nothing isn't a protest, there will be nothing to buy. is eating everything so the rich can continue their money circle jerk.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/memory/many-consumer-electronics-manufacturers-will-go-bankrupt-or-exit-product-lines-by-the-end-of-2026-due-to-the-ai-memory-crisis-phison-ceo-reportedly-says/

Heard today: We need to use LLMs to write code faster. We need to use LLMs to generate user stories faster.

My take on this: you can do that or you can look for the underlying issues. More content and more code will not save you. Someone has to read, understand and maintain this.

To say it with the words of @pluralistic "Code is a liability". The same goes for me with content aka user stories. The longer they are, the more likely they won't be read and contain conflicting points.

I know I have ranted about this before, but: now I am running across entire websites with "folktales" that don't exist, referencing sources that also don't exist.

Why is it a problem, you ask? A story is a story?

No. Not if it is assigned to an actual existing culture. If it is claimed to represent the heritage of an indigenous tradition. Oral tradition is endangered already in many ways. We don't need AI to enshittify this.

Check your sources.

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

Observed every Feb 13 since UNESCO’s 2011 proclamation, 2026 highlights “radio and artificial intelligence” 🧠📻

DLARC College Radio brings this to life with 1980s playlists, zines, flyers, stickers, and materials from stations across the U.S. and Canada 🎶

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/Tuning_in_to_College_Radio_Materials_on_World_Radio_Day_2026

Black and white cover of ‘Static’ ‘zine from Barnard College radio station WBAR, promoting shows, reviews, and music for Spring 2000, with a collage and radio frequency details, surrounding an old-fashioned TV dinner that contains a human eye.
Cover of the Spring 1983 joint program guide produced by the Cleveland College Radio Coalition. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Mary Cipriani), featuring a black-and-white cover titled “College Radio Coalition Joint Program Guide.” It shows a small screen displaying radio frequency numbers having been sliced like a loaf of bread.
Cover of an issue of The Call Letter, a newsletter from KTSB 91.7 cable FM, the predecessor to KVRX-FM at the University of Texas, Austin. Source: DLARC College Radio (digitized from KVRX’s on-site collection) featuring cartoon aliens in spacecraft and text: "we're here.”
Airplay list from UC Berkeley’s college radio station KALX-FM from 1982. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Get Smart!) is a red sheet listing music charts and top albums from June 11, 1982.

Tech bros think using AI is fine even though it regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic, because _tech bros_ regularly make mistakes, some of them catastrophic.
Why shouldn't "Move fast and break things" apply to AIs too?
Some of us have been trying all along to preserve the early ethos that programming is fine craftsmanship and quality is key. We've been fighting the tendency toward "good enough" since decades before ChatGPT.
It's been a losing battle.

Omfg im going to lose my mind

Book YouTuber makes video about “AI authors”, it’s a 1.5 hour thing discussing the idiocy of the notion that “authors need to embrace AI because if I can churn out a hundred books until you finish one, you don’t have a chance”.

A commenter says “the real problem is when the AI interfaces become so user friendly that any reader can ask it for their own story and bypass the author altogether”, to which our genius YouTuber replies “holy shit I hadn’t even thought of that!”

JFC people! How do you not think of the most obvious, absolutely straightforward end point of the whole issue that’s threatening your very livelihood? HOW?!