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
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Funded PhD opportunity as part of my new project, "After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia" - email if interested study.uq.edu.au/study-option…
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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 still no one uses Gemini
Meta: simulating whole human brains for better Insta Reels recommendations
🏆 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 across multiple modalities, cortical areas, and individuals. The approach combines pretrained representations of several foundational models from Meta – text (Llama 3.2), audio (Wav2Vec2-BERT from Seamless) and video (V-JEPA 2) – to predict a very large amount (80 hours per subject) of spatio-temporal fMRI brain responses to movies acquired by the Courtois NeuroMod project
Download the code: github.com/facebookresearch/…
Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.22229
Learn about the challenge: algonautsproject.com/index.h…
Download the data: cneuromod.ca/
"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. hass.uq.edu.au/event/session…
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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
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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
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1 million downloads, includes my chapter on 'Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI' link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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
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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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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.
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
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/interro…
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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.
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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 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by @Zhirji28
🚨 Great response to this workshop on journal writing so far, with ~30 registered: sign up ASAP if you want to attend. events.humanitix.com/the-wri… @UQ_News @DGTL_CulturesUQ
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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: buff.ly/3XQmAwk #platforms #alttech #radicalright
Making More of "Us" - my latest article for the Conversation is on the rise of pronatalism. theconversation.com/pronatal…
"The Missing Human in Misinformation Fixes", my new article in Scientific American 🆕🗞️: scientificamerican.com/artic… @DGTL_CulturesUQ @AdmsCentre @UQ_News #disinformation #misinformation
