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Jacob Birken
@jbirken.bsky.social
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Futures historian & media archaeologist @ Uni Köln ~ @akgwds.bsky.social‬ ~ er || they ~ writes in EN & DE ~ http://www.jacob-birken.de ~ GLHF (◔◡◔✿)
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · Dec 12
Dachte ich illustriere mal wie das aussieht wenn Autor:innen ihre Bücher pushen, wobei ich hierzu eine Hilfskraft anheuern musste weil meine beiden letzten Bücher recht klein sind und das etwas albern aussehen würde wenn ich die selbst pushte
Suletta Mercury aus Gundam Witch (sie ist etwa 12 cm groß und aus Plastik) schiebt zwei Bücher vor sich her, es sind "Vom Pixelrealismus" und "Videospiele" von mir
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 8h
Hat das EU-Parlament eigentlich auch schon bestimmt, welche Sprachregelung fürderhin für das Wienermobile gelten wird
Photo des Wienermobils, eines Kraftfahrzeugs, das die Formen eines in einer Lache Senf oder vielleicht auf einer eher platten Brötchenhälfte liegenden Würstchens aufgreift
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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 16h
🖼️ ≈ 🍋 Weltfreie Bilder – Digitale Fäden zwischen Mona Lisa & Zitronen. @jbirken.bsky.social, Christian Welzbacher & @schalkewins.bsky.social sprechen am 22.10. über die Zukunft der Fotografie zwischen Kunstgeschichte und digitaler Kultur.
#Fotographie #KI #Kunstgeschichte
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 1d
Affinity finde ich soweit voll okay, also als Alternative zu jeweils Photoshop und InDesign.
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 1d
3D gaming boldly keeping the tradition of the 'Decisive Moment' alive while photography itself is strangled by deepfake slop in some dingy back alley
Screenshot from Infinity Nikki. Nikki, with blue hair and some kind of idol outfit, is posing to the left - there's a yellowish rectangle around her face indicating that a pic of her is being taken. Text to the right explains a new in-game photo function under the title "Capture the 'Decisive Moment'"
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 3d
Only 200 were made. But that hasn't stopped everyone who walks into Sharp's industrial design museum from wanting to walk out with one of these beauties.
The Sharp Rateca Puter. Up top, left to right: a collapsable TV/radio antenna, brightness and contrast dials, a giant speaker, a smaller speaker, and input for the tapedeck, with the play counters that were more common on the day. Face, left to right: A 4.5 inch CRT (behind a plastic guard), VHF/UHF and radio dials, channel and band selectors (TV/COMP, FM, Shortwave, and Middlewave), the "RATECA PUTER' logo on the battery gauge, AFC switch, mode selector, tape deck controls, audio controls for balance, bass, treble, and volume, and a mollyguard to prevent dials and switches from being mashed (the mollyguard being a signature of Sharp's boomboxes of the time). Face, low: the collapsable carrying handle that doubles as a stand; computer power button; slide-out chiclet keyboard based on Sharp calculators of the day, with number pad; an LED clock, clock controls, alarm controls. Right side: mic jacks, earphone jacks in two different sizes, beat cut switch, fan exhaust, DC and AC power plugs, and a printer port (!). Help I'm trapped in an alt text factory
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 5d
Ärgerlicherweise noch gar nix, irgendwie publiziere ich zu allem möglichem außer meinem aktuellen Forschungsschwerpunkt :p Um so Proto-Firmenstädte wird's aber schon gehen, vor allem die hier en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_... und etwas zu Robert Owen, wobei zu dem vllt schon genug geschrieben wurde
Lowell mills - Wikipedia
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 5d
😭 ich hoffe irgendwann nächstes Jahr, brüte schon viel zu lange drüber
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LudoBande @ludobande.bsky.social · 5d
Im Laufe des Oktobers dreht sich bei uns alles um den Raum. Raumtheorie, Raumforschung, Raumdesign schauen wir uns den Monat über ab. Zum Auftakt schauen wir uns die Rolle des Raums in verschiedenen Disziplinen an.
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 5d
Da geht's dann um alles Mögliche zwischen frühen Planstädten und geometrisierter Landaufteilung, theoretisch bau ich erst mal vor allem auf Martina Löws "Raumsoziologie" auf -> Raum als die relationale (An)Ordnung von Lebewesen und sozialen Gütern an Orten
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 5d
Meine Habil hat als Arbeitsuntertitel "Gedachte und gebaute Möglichkeitsräume in der Early Republic" und da geht's drum, wie Amis in der 1ten Hälfte des 19. Jh sich eine 'verbesserte' Welt vorgestellt haben und wie sich das in bestimmten Raumordnungen niederschlug oder niederschlagen sollte
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 5d
Ich find Kartoffeln ja *theoretisch* toll aber *praktisch* bin ich zu faul zum Schälen und zu eitel um die äh vorverarbeitet zu kaufen
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 6d
Le Chiffre from Casino Royale being smug & subtitled: "What you fail to see Mr Pope,"
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 6d
Wo so Aliens ja aber mit teils extremen Gesundheitsrisiken für alle anderen daherkommen kreuzt sich die Eigentumsfrage ja auch noch mit Problemen à la der Aufbewahrung von z.B. radioaktivem 'Abfall' (bitte nicht missverstehen dass ich außerirdische Lebensformen als Abfall einordne, nix liegt ferner)
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 7d
(TL;DR: While the Californian disaster was quickly reframed as a heroic tale of Western resilience and actually a great opportunity for rebuilding SF bigger & better, stories about Messina presented the 'Old World' as a generally ruinous place inhabited by helpless, superstitious Catholic peasants)
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 7d
New chapter out in this volume on Natural Disasters in the US! I wrote on early 20th century framings of disaster - specifically, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake & fires and the 1908 Messina earthquake, and how US (and northwestern European) press used both as propaganda for a 'Western' mindset
Natural Disasters in the United States
This volume covers a wide array of historical failures in the USA that hindered improvements in resilience against natural hazards.
link.springer.com
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 8d
The sad thing is that if they'd used 438,000,001 Minecraft blocks they would have hit true AGI
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 8d
This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 9d
He's also the author of «How To Use Pokémon Go For Small Business Marketing», Jordan Peterson's AI Guru and, as several of his websites state, a «consummate Renaissance man»
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 10d
Preparing a slide on the slopaganda authoritarian complex for a workshop on gen AI & facts & fiction I'll be running tomorrow (turns out the guy who made this bizarre 1980ies nostalgia clip recently was hired by Bukele as a governmental tech advisor in 2024)
A PowerPoint slide with the meme of a guy trying to explain a conspiracy as a background image. There are other images related to AI imagery and US fascism scattered across the slide and connected with red lines
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 9d
Finde "Sprachbrahmanen" aber ganz cute, schon bissi cultural appropriation aber könnt mich gern so nennen
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 10d
creating a demand for my writing through artificial scarcity
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 10d
Preparing a slide on the slopaganda authoritarian complex for a workshop on gen AI & facts & fiction I'll be running tomorrow (turns out the guy who made this bizarre 1980ies nostalgia clip recently was hired by Bukele as a governmental tech advisor in 2024)
A PowerPoint slide with the meme of a guy trying to explain a conspiracy as a background image. There are other images related to AI imagery and US fascism scattered across the slide and connected with red lines
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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 11d
a table in a Call of Cthulhu supplement for the early 21st century that includes prices for bitcoins, Bored Apes, labubus.
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 12d
It's amazing how this thing is geared towards just grabbing ppls attention, pure refined nostalgia bait and thirst traps and cute animals walking in your direction, staring in yr eyes and so on, nothing to say, no story to tell, really a kind of automatized mass sedation device
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12d
Mark Zuckerberg is introducing a feed that's just 100% AI slop. No pesky creativity from real people to get in the way. Eat up little piggies
Introducing Vibes -- a feed of expressive AI-generated videos from artists and creators in the Meta AI app. Create and remix videos with leading models and music for free.
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 12d
(I don't like Rafman's video really much TBH, it has a kind of condescending "look at the crap ~those people~ are watching" vibe while effectively just providing a different audience with the same feelings of disgust or bewilderment)
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 12d
So while the late 20th century video pastiche is still a kind of 'archival' work & can be traced back to the dadaist collage etc., it seems pointless to ask whether Rafman found those clips or prompted them himself, as they are products of a networked, encompassing sphere of cringe content anyway
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Jacob Birken @jbirken.bsky.social · 12d
This is not a new thing ofc, it's very much 'classic' TV/VHS culture like Concrete TV and virtually every VJ set I've seen as a student ~2000, but with the IMO crucial difference that YouTube and AI slop have redefined the scope of 'bad taste' media that can be used/recontextualized as found footage
SAMPLES — CONCRETE TV
www.concretetv.com
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