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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · 14d

And I’m not talking about ‘birds’ - I’m talking about birds - this all went down before all that other sh*t went down.

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · 14d

If you zoom way in, you’ll see Connery did it all with two birds in his left hand

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · 15d

Look to see if they have a subscription; I think the latest bush bird bags and the zero-fault bags are the same price if you’re a member.

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · 15d

Assuming that <class bird> has been instantiated, and that bush-bag-loop is running and (crucially) this is neither an imaginary class nor a bird-within-bird recursive error - then yes, you will have several more hands worth of ‘birds’. Do not pay the contractor.

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, sure… again with ‘birds’

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Sep 7

Recently published from British Council: "Why Technology Needs Artists: 40 International Perspectives" @britisharts.bsky.social - Interviews and Essays from Jasia Reichardt, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Morehshin Allahyari, Rebecca Allen, Sougwen Chung, Xu Bing - the hits truly go on and on!

www.britishcouncil.org

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Sep 5

Prompt Magic? See what you want.

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 21

You're spot-on about the reinforcement of stereotypical ideas about art and knee-jerk positions (e.g. AI cheerleading, moral outrage, old-fashioned denial, etc.) Your comment about AI for criticism / seeking other perspectives is great & succinct. Wish there was more time in the format to hear more!

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 21

Highly recommend checking out this interview with Jon Ippolito regarding impact of AI on creative practice. Especially if you're teaching in a creative field this fall, its crucial listening!

Jon Ippolito @jonippolito.net · Aug 21

Most educators have moved from denial about AI to cautious use, but the real cutting-edge is creators twisting it to reveal off-label uses and glitches. At least that's what I claim in this UT podcast edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca/made-for-u-o... citing @eryk.bsky.social @annamillsoer.bsky.social

MADE for U of T | Ep. 13 | Generative AI in practice

In the 13th episode of MADE for U of T, we hear from artist and new media educator Jon Ippolito about the evolving role of generative AI in teaching, creativity, and the future of media.

edtech.engineering.utoronto.ca

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 11

Yes! And normalized()

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Jul 19

Don’t they already sell a wooden box with a single knob that doesn’t have any power for three times that?

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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pianists don’t “play” the piano, there’s a little guy in there.

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

With almost no exceptions, every single cybersecurity breach occurs via mechanisms the technology industry knows how to fully and robust defend against, but didn't

Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · Jun 17

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

It's all just linear models. Statistics is, like, three linear algebra operations in a probability-shaped trenchcoat.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · May 16

Sometimes you talk to a New York Times reporter for forty minutes and don’t end up in the article, but I’m still happy to have offered some background for Cade Metz in this assessment of AGI. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon

www.nytimes.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 17

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gonna catch up with VR

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Mar 30

Battle chickens are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are ancient so this checks out

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Mar 30

Chicken crotales or veggie crotales?

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Feb 24

Sharing print from project: "Gli infiniti di Bruno" - Fictional evidence of a fictional opera derived from fictional scenarios in life of Giordano Bruno unsuspectingly engaging with artificial intelligence(s), sentient hyperobjects, and plural nonhumans.

More info:
badatsports.com/2024/sub-rur...

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Feb 22

Jenn Karson at the University of Vermont has a project working with a dataset of leaves that were partially consumed by gypsy moth caterpillars. jennkarson.studio

jennkarson.studio

#OwnYourDataset

jennkarson.studio

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Feb 7

I hear you there - this is my first time back in six years!

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thrilled to share I’m co-chairing a roundtable at #CAA113 in NYC next week w/Mat Rappaport. Our session, AI in Art: Practices, Processes, Doubts, and Revelations w/Barbara Rauch (OCAD) and Jenn Karson (UVM) is sure to be a great time! If you’re going to CAA, please stop by and join the conversation!

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · Jan 29

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵

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Paul Catanese @paulcatanese.bsky.social · Jan 22

specifically: Thinking about "Eclipse" (commissioned by ASPU Terminal 2015) as seed for a long-form generative NFT in fx(hash) What do you think? Have you done anything like this? - or seen any exemplary long form generative NFT? Would love to hear from you! 😀
www.paulcatanese.com/experiments/...

Paul Catanese | Eclipse

The art practice of Paul Catanese - Hybrid Media Artist, Author, Fulbright Scholar, Professor, Director of Graduate Study for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, and President Emeritus of...

www.paulcatanese.com

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