Georgina Voss
@gsvoss.bsky.social
Big machines // Writer, artist, design researcher // Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso '24) // Before: Co-founder & director: Supra Systems Studio & Strange Telemetry
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'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI'
Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Guildenstern: I don't believe in it anyway.
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
Rosencrantz: What?
Guildenstern: England.
Rosencrantz: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
late to the game (literally) but having a very nice time with Hades II
November 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
late to the game (literally) but having a very nice time with Hades II
And whilst I'm here! If you're thinking of buying SYSTEMS ULTRA as a festive gift (neon cover also doubles as SAD lamp), I'd be happy to mail you a set of bookmarks and holographic stickers to go along with it - please get in touch [1/4]
Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
And whilst I'm here! If you're thinking of buying SYSTEMS ULTRA as a festive gift (neon cover also doubles as SAD lamp), I'd be happy to mail you a set of bookmarks and holographic stickers to go along with it - please get in touch [1/4]
Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Systems Ultra! 'A delight to read' says MIT Tech Review. Despite aiming for a work that wasn't bound to the present moment (no AI / algorithms), the parts on payment platforms, automotive technology, adult entertainment, supply chains, have proved horribly timely www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
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delicious writing from @gsvoss.bsky.social about undelicious food photography slop
"Summer arrived and, finally, unhappily, AI images of food began to bloom in the wild, their tells lurid and unmistakeable. I regretted ever wishing for their presence." www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI'
Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
delicious writing from @gsvoss.bsky.social about undelicious food photography slop
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Keeping it real.
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Keeping it real.
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For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI'
Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
'You want to imagine what this tastes like? Fuck you, says AI'
Georgina Voss on how AI-generated images impact the way we look at photographs of food. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
For @vittles.bsky.social, I wrote about what happens food photography - a practice steeped in stagecraft - meets the synthetic horrors of AI images. Gorgeous original illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/you-want-t...
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Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
November 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing
September 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing
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The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)
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Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."
October 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."
It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
October 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x
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ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-
ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
CAT: [grunts]
ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!
CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]
(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)
September 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)
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NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
August 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...
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There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/
'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com
A design language, if you can keep it.
ethanmarcotte.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
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what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant
Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.
August 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.