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Matthias Ring @iconscreen.de · Jun 25
1976, a group of young architecture students gathered in Jericho, Oxford. They were invited to build the impossible. They held models that could not exist, in front of buildings that could not lie. What they built was not a house, but a question in the shape of a home.
found in a mock archive - #ai
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robertrotifer.bsky.social
For listeners to German: Heute lief Folge 1 meiner dreiteiligen Ö1 Radiokollegserie über Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder, morgen und übermorgen mehr davon um die selbe Zeit (9:45).
Mit Zitaten von @unddieregel.bsky.social, @jennizylka.bsky.social und Michael Behrendt

oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Missbrauchte Stimmen und Lieder (1) | DI | 09 12 2025 | 9:45
KI-Tränen für Charlie - die neue Ära des Tribute Hijack
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December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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wendyo.bsky.social
Martin Parr (1952-2025)
A street vendor in Israel sells wooden camels by the roadside. A real camel is standing next to the souvenirs. The image is featured in the Martin Parr photography book Animals published by Rookie Books.
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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homeforinfinitelosers.online
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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gdeleur.bsky.social
Martin Parr (1952-2025). Disparition d’un photographe extraordinaire : celui des gens ordinaires et des bords de mer. 🖤
Deux hommes sur une digue en béton regardent la mer, l’un est torse nu. Deux enfants sont aussi posés dessus. Assises sur la digue, deux femmes discutent, vêtues de façon estivale. On voit une poussette, des sacs et des déchets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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jamesosullivan.bsky.social
We generate more text than ever, but we read less. Has the post-literacy age begun?

open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...

#reading #closereading #postliteracy #literacy #artificialintelligence, #attention #reading #writing #genAI #generativeAI
Is this the age of post-literacy?
We generate more text than ever, but we read less.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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jtotheartist.bsky.social
There’s no such thing as an “ugly sweater” if you open your heart.
December 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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simonwillison.net
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt

As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use

simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours". In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed 0.12-0.24kWh of electricity per hour" - that's 240 watt-hours per hour at the higher end. Assuming that higher end, a ChatGPT prompt by Sam Altman's estimate uses: 0.34 Wh / (240 Wh / 3600 seconds) = 5.1 seconds of Netflix Or double that, 10.2 seconds, if you take the lower end of the Netflix estimate instead. I'm always interested in anything that can help contextualize a number like "0.34 watt-hours" - I think this comparison to Netflix is a neat way of doing that. This is evidently not the whole story with regards to AI energy usage - training costs, data center buildout costs and the ongoing fierce competition between the providers all add up to a very significant carbon footprint for the AI industry as a whole.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Fake History, Reenactment with AI

www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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tyleraking.com
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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simonwillison.net
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...

Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’

Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
iconscreen.de
Writing in Future – The public symposium at HfbK Hamburg (free of charge and no registration required) and the corresponding exhibition are dedicated to different ways of dealing with texts and writing practices in an art context. 3. – 5.12.2025

www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...
HFBK: Symposium: Writing in Future
With Lukas Bärfuss, Jenifer Becker, Friedrich von Borries, CAConrad, Sophia Eisenhut, Elisa Linseisen, Hanne Loreck, Vera Lutz, Enis Maci, Astrid Mania, Katrin Mayer, Noemi Yoko Molitor, Eugene Ostash...
www.hfbk-hamburg.de
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Pethke's insightful film about women in art. Using the biographies of her grandmother, her mother, and her own, she searches for the ghosts of the past. All three studied art at the HfbK in Hamburg.

www.3sat.de/film/dokumen...
Reproduktion - Dokumentarfilm
Dokumentarfilm über Frauen im Spannungsfeld zwischen künstlerischer Ambition und gesellschaftlicher Determinierung
www.3sat.de
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Inspired by an old classic book from Simon Lovell about the secret craft of cheats and hustlers …
Four black-and-white portraits of a young man performing a simple magic trick with a ball, arranged in a 2×2 grid. Yellow text reads: ‘How to cheat at everything – and lost it all with AI.’ The scene echoes vintage instructional magic photography.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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hannesbajohr.de
Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...
Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained
Listen to Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained by Hannes Bajohr #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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helenbarrett.bsky.social
An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage.

www.vice.com/en/article/g...
The Magical Garbage Dump Spirits of the Congo
Though Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, is drowning in foreign waste, one subculture has found a surreal way to draw attention to this crisis.
www.vice.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
iconscreen.de
Perfect photo, but … www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
Gift link for you all. Unfortunately they didn't talk to @bildoperationen.bsky.social for this, still a good summary of the embrace of AI by the White House. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Gift Article)
The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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No notes
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#NoKings Miami!
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
iconscreen.de
Go for it! New business trend: AI storefront wrapping
or in german: Folierte Leerstände mit KI

#Stadtentwicklung, #Digitalisierung, #AITrends
leoprints.bsky.social Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · Oct 13
The simulation is encroaching on the high street.

This is on the Ormeau road in Belfast and I think it is part of a campaign to make the place look nicer?

#ai #aislop
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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»A dog can ‘go to church‘ but a dog cannot be Catholic. An LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation.«

mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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"…unleashed a world swathed in conspiracy and trawled by self-appointed sleuths parsing every passing signal and sign, their paths lit by the bright beam of their own righteousness. Everyone is enticed into this orgy of analysis, to feast and gorge on information, to go a little mad in the process."
Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Fabian Gröger used AI to turn his own memories into images, made real photo prints from them, and showed them to his mother—he then captured this encounter on film.

fg.hs-wismar.de/en/projects/...
Memories of my Youth. - Hochschule Wismar - Faculty of Architecture and Design
Hochschule Wismar, Fakultät Gestaltung
fg.hs-wismar.de
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM