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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 1d

Es war ein beeindruckender Abend, und eine intellektuell unglaublich belebende Konferenz. Danke an alle, die mit uns in Basel die letzten Tage zusammen gekommen sind!

Daniel Faulhaber @danfaulhaber.bsky.social · 1d

Klaus Theweleit sagt 50 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von „Männerphantasien“:

„Ich hätte damals nicht gedacht, dass wir uns nochmal derart konkret mit Faschismus und Männerpanzer befassen müssen.“

Interessantes Gespräch mit @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social @unibas.ch.

Gespräch im Kontext der Konferenz Gegen/Moderne an der Uni Basel zwischen den Soziolog:innen Caroline Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey und dem Kulturwissenschaftler Klaus Theweleit.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 4h

Bild 1 AfD kandidat Maik Diepold läuft am Plakat für Hüttenstadt Elegie vorbei

Bild 2 AfD Kandidat Maik Diepold läuft an der Generalprobe von Hüttenstadt Elegie vorbei

Bild 3 AfD Kandidat Maik Diepold verliert die OB Stichwahl in Hüttenstadt

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 7h

"Auf der Konferenz wurde vor diesem Hintergrund die Frage intensiv diskutiert, warum ... sich [viele] vom 'Möglichen' abwenden. Und sich für eine Politik entscheiden, die teils gar nicht ihren eigenen Interessen entspricht, ja ihnen sogar oft entgegensteht."

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Soziologie-Kongress in Basel: Was hat Trumps Aufstieg ermöglicht?

In Basel versucht die Prominenz der Kritischen Theorie drei Tage, sich den Aufstieg autoritärer Tendenzen zu erklären. Ihre Debatte zeigt aber auch: Ideen, wie dem Backlash begegnet werden kann, sind ...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Momo Rulez 🏳️‍🌈 @momorulez.bsky.social · 6h

Totalitarismus mündet immer in die Errichtung irgendeiner Form von Lagern:

www.deutschlandfunk.de/spd-kritik-a...

Migration - SPD-Kritik an Dobrindts Vorschlag unbefristeter Abschiebehaft

Die Vorschläge von Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt zu einer unbefristeten Abschiebehaft für ausreisepflichtige Straftäter und Gefährder stoßen in SPD-geführten Ländern auf Ablehnung.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11h

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 15h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 1d

NIUS macht Kampagne gegen @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social. Diese ist absurd, auch wenn sich der Verlag für diese Werbung nur bedanken kann.
Aber der zweite Skandal scheint mir zu sein, das Kulturstaatsminister Weimer NIUS Rede und Antwort steht, er sich auf die Logik der Denunziation einlässt.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 16h

*People don't actually like truth all that much, even scientists and philosophers find truth kind of annoying

*When your pet beautiful theory is slain by some ugly fact, you don't jump up and down exulting, "yay, triumph of Truth"

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 2d

HÜTTENSTADT ELEGIE
noch heute und morgen
PANZERKREUZER ROTKÄPPCHEN

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe one could say that we only became truly postmodern in the last decade or so – not only in terms of theory and cultural production, but as an everyday experience? Lyotard's «Postmodern Condition» was about the future of knowledge in age of digital databases – that's where we're living in now

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15h

If you say something is fundamentally new, there's always a reason to be suspicious. Both @rawx.bsky.social & @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social have made good arguments in the comments. I don't think they necessarily contradict each other: We witness a massive acceleration of processes long in the making

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

«… if it‘s AI, it’s at least true.» I‘ve been saying this for quite a while: there‘s a fundamental shift going on in people‘s understanding of visual truth

Herr Kryptocommunist 🟥 @kryptocommunist.bsky.social · 1d

cc @bildoperationen.bsky.social Proves your point of earlier today. We have all become Platonists.

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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.bsky.social · 1d

„Mutter Germania gebar in legitimer Ehe mit dem Geiste der Zeit drei Söhne: den Konfektionsreisenden, den Oberlehrer und den Radfahrer.“
Erich Mühsam, verlegt bei @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social, ermordet von von Faschisten im KZ Oranienburg

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Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 1d

antichrist hin oder her – am ende geht es vor allem darum:

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale.

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AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

«… if it‘s AI, it’s at least true.» I‘ve been saying this for quite a while: there‘s a fundamental shift going on in people‘s understanding of visual truth

Herr Kryptocommunist 🟥 @kryptocommunist.bsky.social · 1d

cc @bildoperationen.bsky.social Proves your point of earlier today. We have all become Platonists.

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

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Herr Kryptocommunist 🟥 @kryptocommunist.bsky.social · 1d

cc @bildoperationen.bsky.social Proves your point of earlier today. We have all become Platonists.

The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 1d

Contains Al-generated media
• new jersey news reporter

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Everything is Al generated these days. It doesn't mean it's fake. I'm still not convinced.

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wikihowtologout.bsky.social @wikihowtol... • 6h
Get a grip. Three arms and a watermark telling you it's Al and you are still doubling down?

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Elizabeth Edgett @elizabethedgett.bsky.so... • 6h
Well if it's Al, it's at least true. They ARE arresting journalists. Compare that to Trump's lying record. This doesn't hold a candle to that.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

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Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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DIZH @dizh.bsky.social · Sep 1

17 digitale Experimente machen das Museum für Gestaltung interaktiv & immersiv. Jetzt die Ausstellung "Museum of the Future" besuchen.
museum-gestaltung.ch/de/ausstellu...

@zhawdigital.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social
Video: Johanna Seiwald, Musik: Name the places provided by mobygratis.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1d

“Synthetic hypervisualization”, while not as pithy as “deep fakes”, is a much more accurate term speaking to the actual pathway of influence and harm of generated content (affective desire fulfillment >>> confusion over false evidence)

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 1d

Der Verbrecher Verlag wird zur Zielscheibe einer rechten Kampagne. Zeigt Solidarität, indem ihr die Bücher kauft!

Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 1d

Die Extremisten von NIUS greifen einen der markantesten und innovativsten deutschen Kleinverlage an. @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

However, the obvious glitches reveal how genAI works. Rather than simulating a world, it visualizes concepts based on patterns found in existing content: a reporter is a person with a mic & a detainee is a person with their hands cuffed behind their back. Combine the two, and you get three arms
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Her three arms/hands are the big tell in this case...

Screenshot from a TikTok video with red circles around the person's three hands and arms

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

Over the past decades, the rise of smartphones & social media has conditioned us to expect images of any event to be available in real time. If something was happening, you could be sure to see it online. Now, AI slop exploits this expectation by feeding us images that feel more real than reality
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

It’s also interesting that I haven’t heard about these videos being taken down—are they being removed? Because the /actual/ video report that sparked this swell of slop was.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

@adriandaub.bsky.social expertly dissects Thiel‘s obsession with the antichrist, Armageddon and scapegoats - and Thiel‘s own unreality: „Overall, the picture of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is someone desperately trying to disidentify from their own power.“

Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon

Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 5d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 6d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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