Big Data Florida

10/13/2026

Re: BDFL: "Authenticity and Illusion: S*x, Money, and the Simulation of Love" -- Friday, Oct. 9 at 2:00pm -

10/09/2026

📌 REMINDER - BDFL: "Authenticity and Illusion: S*x, Money, and the Simulation of Love" -- Friday, Oct. 9 at 2:00pm -

10/05/2026

BDFL: "Authenticity and Illusion: S*x, Money, and the Simulation of Love" -- Friday, Oct. 9 at 2:00pm -

10/01/2026

BDFL: 🤖 Our September session, "Robots in the Home," now on Medium -

09/27/2026

📚 Big Data Florida at the NEFLIN 2026 Annual Meeting -

On Thursday, 24 September, I spoke on behalf of Big Data Florida at the NEFLIN Annual Meeting at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. NEFLIN, the Northeast Florida Library Information Network, invited us, and the audience was public and academic library staff from across the region. I g...

09/10/2026

BDFL: Sept. 11 meeting NOT in person -- "Robots in the Home" -- details to follow -

I hope you've had a great summer. If you've been following along, there have been "a few" developments in the AI world over the past three months. So many, in fact, that it's hard to know where to begin. Nevertheless, it's been a fascinating summer of experimentation, exploration, and immersion in t...

05/09/2026

Re: BDFL: "Our Children and the Synthetic Other: Growing Up with AI" -- Friday, May 8 at 2:00pm -

05/05/2026

BDFL: "Our Children and the Synthetic Other: Growing Up with AI" -- Friday, May 8 at 2:00pm -

04/28/2026

Re: BDFL: "Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Afterlife and the Grief Economy" -- Friday, April 10 at 2:00pm -

04/09/2026

BDFL: "Ghosts in the Machine: Digital Afterlife and the Grief Economy" -- Friday, April 10 at 2:00pm -