René Walter
@rawx.bsky.social
i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model.
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de
http://goodinternet.substack.com
http://goodmusic.substack.com
https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
If Weatherby's right, then one of the imperatives of citical AI is nil: to exclude AI from decision making, to not hand over any true agency to the machine, as exemplified by the now famous page from an internal IBM training in 1979.
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 AM
If Weatherby's right, then one of the imperatives of citical AI is nil: to exclude AI from decision making, to not hand over any true agency to the machine, as exemplified by the now famous page from an internal IBM training in 1979.
Christopher Locke did it first www.heartlessmachine.com/modern-fossils
February 4, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Christopher Locke did it first www.heartlessmachine.com/modern-fossils
This piece of propaganda at this point in time is revealing.
February 3, 2026 at 4:37 AM
This piece of propaganda at this point in time is revealing.
February 1, 2026 at 11:06 AM
We have AGI. It's for the best.
January 28, 2026 at 9:27 AM
We have AGI. It's for the best.
Seeing GenAlpha using electronic outsider music to soundtrack consumerist shortform vids on hypercommercial platforms adds a welcome weird quirkiness, a fitting aesthetic choice for this moment in time and a good encapsulation of what platform life feels like.
It feels like an Aphex Twin track.
It feels like an Aphex Twin track.
January 27, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Seeing GenAlpha using electronic outsider music to soundtrack consumerist shortform vids on hypercommercial platforms adds a welcome weird quirkiness, a fitting aesthetic choice for this moment in time and a good encapsulation of what platform life feels like.
It feels like an Aphex Twin track.
It feels like an Aphex Twin track.
This particular one is quite a beauty, and i say this as someone who actually likes some AI www.nakatomiinc.com/products/thi...
January 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM
This particular one is quite a beauty, and i say this as someone who actually likes some AI www.nakatomiinc.com/products/thi...
Oh look at this old fav of mine. The only thing better than typography is typography on pencils.
January 25, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Oh look at this old fav of mine. The only thing better than typography is typography on pencils.
"People eating funny food"
January 25, 2026 at 10:57 AM
"People eating funny food"
The text-rotation metaphor also describes what i call "explosion of thought", where you can examine your ideas from many perspectives and all angles, like the exploded view of a camera on the right. An LLM can do exactly this with your ideas and thoughts.
January 17, 2026 at 9:04 AM
The text-rotation metaphor also describes what i call "explosion of thought", where you can examine your ideas from many perspectives and all angles, like the exploded view of a camera on the right. An LLM can do exactly this with your ideas and thoughts.
Excellent metaphor for what LLMs and AI really are, and it's very compatible with my framing of them as interpolatable archives.
January 17, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Excellent metaphor for what LLMs and AI really are, and it's very compatible with my framing of them as interpolatable archives.
My first diskmag in 1990. Serious stuff. My room was plastered with a mess of floppy discs and those absolutely great disk covers from the scene, here's a nice collection of these blog.worldofjani.com?p=2420
January 15, 2026 at 11:47 AM
My first diskmag in 1990. Serious stuff. My room was plastered with a mess of floppy discs and those absolutely great disk covers from the scene, here's a nice collection of these blog.worldofjani.com?p=2420
The best line of Basic ofcourse stays 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a random pattern generator that inspired book and a fabulous T-Shirt from yours truly
goodinternet.myspreadshop.de/10+print+chr...
goodinternet.myspreadshop.de/10+print+chr...
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 AM
The best line of Basic ofcourse stays 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a random pattern generator that inspired book and a fabulous T-Shirt from yours truly
goodinternet.myspreadshop.de/10+print+chr...
goodinternet.myspreadshop.de/10+print+chr...
Berlin, January 2026.
January 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Berlin, January 2026.
I got especially into the notgivingashitness about dignity in my piece on Elon Musks Degradation Engine goodinternet.substack.com/p/elon-musks... here's the relevant part:
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM
I got especially into the notgivingashitness about dignity in my piece on Elon Musks Degradation Engine goodinternet.substack.com/p/elon-musks... here's the relevant part:
Rhea Seehorn Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress in Plur1bus variety.com/2026/tv/news... which FUCK YEAH and so deserved! Best character on any show for a very long time. Carol rules. So good.
January 12, 2026 at 5:58 AM
Rhea Seehorn Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress in Plur1bus variety.com/2026/tv/news... which FUCK YEAH and so deserved! Best character on any show for a very long time. Carol rules. So good.
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony".
Consciousness is a Moiré.
Consciousness is a Moiré.
January 10, 2026 at 1:10 PM
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony".
Consciousness is a Moiré.
Consciousness is a Moiré.
The circular incentives at work here are mindblowing.
January 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The circular incentives at work here are mindblowing.
Yes, i absolutely do want a giant pac man chair that will eat and isolate me at will and has a built in boombox. There's one available in germany, if you have 25k lying around www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/su... / www.bumadesign.ch/moebelklassi...
January 4, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Yes, i absolutely do want a giant pac man chair that will eat and isolate me at will and has a built in boombox. There's one available in germany, if you have 25k lying around www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/su... / www.bumadesign.ch/moebelklassi...
Someone pls make a photoshop-template, i'm too lazy.
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Someone pls make a photoshop-template, i'm too lazy.
I guess what i wrote about nonconsensual AI porn and the omnipresent AI-enabled male gaze two years ago holds: goodinternet.substack.com/p/taylor-swi...
January 2, 2026 at 3:39 AM
I guess what i wrote about nonconsensual AI porn and the omnipresent AI-enabled male gaze two years ago holds: goodinternet.substack.com/p/taylor-swi...