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AI images are rather a kind of cartography; their insight lies in representing the cartographer.

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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · Jun 25
1976, a group of young architecture students gathered in Jericho, Oxford. They were invited to build the impossible. They held models that could not exist, in front of buildings that could not lie. What they built was not a house, but a question in the shape of a home.
found in a mock archive - #ai
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@theonion.com
Satirical Adobe ad in the Onion: "Experience the magic of buying new software, every month, forever"
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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helenbarrett.bsky.social
An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage.

www.vice.com/en/article/g...
The Magical Garbage Dump Spirits of the Congo
Though Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, is drowning in foreign waste, one subculture has found a surreal way to draw attention to this crisis.
www.vice.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Perfect photo, but … www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
Gift link for you all. Unfortunately they didn't talk to @bildoperationen.bsky.social for this, still a good summary of the embrace of AI by the White House. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Gift Article)
The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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orangesage.bsky.social
#NoKings Miami!
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
iconscreen.de
Go for it! New business trend: AI storefront wrapping
or in german: Folierte Leerstände mit KI

#Stadtentwicklung, #Digitalisierung, #AITrends
leoprints.bsky.social Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 28d
The simulation is encroaching on the high street.

This is on the Ormeau road in Belfast and I think it is part of a campaign to make the place look nicer?

#ai #aislop
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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»A dog can ‘go to church‘ but a dog cannot be Catholic. An LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation.«

mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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"…unleashed a world swathed in conspiracy and trawled by self-appointed sleuths parsing every passing signal and sign, their paths lit by the bright beam of their own righteousness. Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process."
Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Ireland just made its Basic Income for Artists permanent — while Hamburg votes this Sunday on testing a universal basic income (german= #Grundeinkommen). Two small steps against permanent austerity and for genuine social participation.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Fabian Gröger used AI to turn his own memories into images, made real photo prints from them, and showed them to his mother—he then captured this encounter on film.

fg.hs-wismar.de/en/projects/...
Memories of my Youth. - Hochschule Wismar - Faculty of Architecture and Design
Hochschule Wismar, Fakultät Gestaltung
fg.hs-wismar.de
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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alinaetc.bsky.social
Walter Abish's "How German Is it" and everything that is the case.

www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/9/28/how-german-is-it
How German is it. — alina Ştefănescu
The world is everything that is the case. — Ludwig Wittgenstein’s first statement in Tractatus What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. — Ludwig Wittgenstein’s final proposition...
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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In this fictional trailer, Roger Penrose invites his students to share first steps: sketches, models, fragile experiments. “Prospective Naiveté” resists rigid knowledge and avoids the trap of professionalism, trusting mistakes, setbacks and detours as a productive misunderstanding. #AI
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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tante.cc
I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.

The Professionalism Trap
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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nataliialaba.com
New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war;
#AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem....

#criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org
Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated images of war Abstract This study addresses how AI-generated images of war are changing the making of memory. Instead of asking how AI-generated images affect individual recall, we focus on how they communicate specific representations, recognising that such portrayals can cultivate particular assumptions and beliefs. Drawing on memory of the multitude, visual social semiotics, and cultivation/desensitisation theories, we analyse how visual generative AI mediates the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Our corpus includes 200 images of the Russia-Ukraine war generated from 23 prompts across proprietary and open-source visual generative AI systems. The findings indicate that visual generative AI tends to present a sanitised view of the war. Critical aspects, such as death, injury, and suffering of children and refugees are often excluded. Furthermore, a disproportional focus on urban areas misrepresents the full scope of the war. Visual generative AI, we argue, introduces a new dimension to memory making in that it blends documentation with speculative fiction by synthesising the multitude embedded within the visual memory of war archives, historical biases, representational limitations, and commercial risk aversion. By foregrounding the socio-technical and discursive dimensions of synthetic war content, this study contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue on collective memory at the intersection of visual communication studies, media studies, and memory studies by providing empirical insights into how generative AI mediates the visual representation of war through human-archival-mechanistic entanglements. Keywords: visual generative AI; AI-generated images; memory of the multitude; war representation
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
You’ll find lots of other materials from the summit — including keynotes from Arvind Narayanan, Kathy Pham, Anna Mills, and Maha Bali — at the Public AI Summit website: publicaisummit.com
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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youtube.com/watch?v=TbIZ...
Making Pictures With Noise: A 10-minute Introduction to How Diffusion Models Work
YouTube video by Eryk Salvaggio
youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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piccalil.li/blog/are-peo...
Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?
Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.
piccalil.li
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
ethanmarcotte.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
“Trump Poisons Democracy’s Blood” from yesterday’s Stop Trump protest in London.
#StopTrump
Man with a placard which says TRUMP POISONS DEMOCRACY'S BLOOD
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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You've still got time to visit the Independent #Self-Publishing Fair #Indiecon in #Hamburg today. The atmosphere is open and welcoming, and the discussions are thoughtful. With authoritarian tendencies on the rise, independent publishing is more important than ever. www.indiecon-festival.com
September 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer
Trump Oval Office presser 9/2/25
September 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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tobi.oetiker.ch
Claude, Gemini und ChatGPT können erklären, trösten, programmieren und sogar schlechte Witze machen. Aber wie geht das? Zeit für einen Blick unter die Haube und in die Werkzeugkiste – ohne Informatik-Studium, aber mit Tiefgang und praktischen Tricks.

open.substack.com/pub/tobioeti...
Mehr als Wortakrobatik
Grosse Sprachmodelle verstehen und nutzen
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August 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM