Alexithymia
@ale2x72.bsky.social
I convert coffee into research, mostly architecture-oriented. Sci-fi is my catnip.
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Our Italian train company translates their website in English announcements as “Trenitalia poontoh com”. 🤦♂️
December 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our Italian train company translates their website in English announcements as “Trenitalia poontoh com”. 🤦♂️
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As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
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In order for this wave of ai stuffed surveillance to gain a foothold, it must be seen as aspirational.
Meta opens flagship store in West Hollywood to showcase AI glasses, VR headsets
The new flagship store in West Hollywood highlights Los Angeles skate culture and allows people to try out Meta's smart glasses and VR headsets.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
In order for this wave of ai stuffed surveillance to gain a foothold, it must be seen as aspirational.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
“AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image”
There’s a growing & deeply problematic tendency to use #genAI for political and historical education Take this example from Germany, which translates as: «Hey AI, who should I vote for.» What’s typical here is that AI is not only addressed as pseudo-person but also as a kind of impartial judge
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Landtagswahl.ai
KI-generierte Bilder aus den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien zur Landtagswahl - Ausstellung und Podiumsdiskussion; Materialien für Schulklassen
www.landtagswahl.ai
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
“AI is the perfect tool for propaganda. Every slogan can become an image”
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Lots to ponder upon here. I’d add my two bits: once upon a time there were design-centric movies like Jacques Tatti’s and I’m sure also similarly obsessed literature. Now in books and movies what we have is a parody of all forms of design and architecture in life.
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Lots to ponder upon here. I’d add my two bits: once upon a time there were design-centric movies like Jacques Tatti’s and I’m sure also similarly obsessed literature. Now in books and movies what we have is a parody of all forms of design and architecture in life.
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“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.
No, Microsoft, YOU signed ME out of MY account for no particular reason. It's a good idea to let the user decide when to sign out.
September 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
No, Microsoft, YOU signed ME out of MY account for no particular reason. It's a good idea to let the user decide when to sign out.
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
irisvanrooijcogsci.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
“These indicators have rapidly become targets for measuring institutional and personal impact, which has generated unbridled competition and growing inequality in the distribution of resources, incentives, and rewards,”
Goodhart’s law’s consequences in full swing
www.wired.com/story/black-...
Goodhart’s law’s consequences in full swing
www.wired.com/story/black-...
The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns
A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research.
www.wired.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:28 AM
“These indicators have rapidly become targets for measuring institutional and personal impact, which has generated unbridled competition and growing inequality in the distribution of resources, incentives, and rewards,”
Goodhart’s law’s consequences in full swing
www.wired.com/story/black-...
Goodhart’s law’s consequences in full swing
www.wired.com/story/black-...
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Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers
May 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers
I know the feeling
The joy opening
"Dear Author, please find enclosed the reviewer comments."
"Dear Author, please find enclosed the reviewer comments."
May 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I know the feeling
The problem with customer satisfaction is that it depends on the customer’s education
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The problem with customer satisfaction is that it depends on the customer’s education
The Brutalist (movie) is a lot of things, but definitely not about brutalism.
January 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The Brutalist (movie) is a lot of things, but definitely not about brutalism.
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November 28, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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If it has to be 2016 all over again, at least give me Bowie and Prince alive again
November 6, 2024 at 9:24 PM
If it has to be 2016 all over again, at least give me Bowie and Prince alive again
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100,000 workers estimated missing www.archpaper.com/2024/10/docu...
October 30, 2024 at 11:27 PM
100,000 workers estimated missing www.archpaper.com/2024/10/docu...
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"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
www.techpolicy.press
August 30, 2024 at 11:02 PM
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
First test at coding Self-Organizing Maps in #grasshopper3d
March 5, 2024 at 10:39 AM
First test at coding Self-Organizing Maps in #grasshopper3d
"I consider styles a leprosy of architecture, but I am interested in the relationship between content and form of architecture which in certain eras achieved extraordinary coherence because it included a new conception of man" - Giancarlo De Carlo, Sites, 2002
January 18, 2024 at 5:25 PM
"I consider styles a leprosy of architecture, but I am interested in the relationship between content and form of architecture which in certain eras achieved extraordinary coherence because it included a new conception of man" - Giancarlo De Carlo, Sites, 2002
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man what am i even supposed to do here
January 6, 2024 at 5:51 AM
man what am i even supposed to do here