In Japan you can still smoke while eating dolphin. 😳

Helme Heine (1941–2025). 😢 Amazing illustrator and author.

MITpress ragebaiting on Instagram 😅

“tHiS iS AI! Who dares post this! 😠” - the replies alone prove how utterly humorless Bluesky has become. (Or always was)

I’ve been ending student consultations with “don’t let me detain you” for years - and today, one finally got the reference. #thekidsarealright

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

It’s always funny how many Asians are 100% convinced “Maggi” is an old, traditional Asian brand and simply won’t accept it’s Swiss.

He’s 100% right. Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there. For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood. At least they tried.

Ai Weiwei. Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat: Der deutsche Proto-Rentner. hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

Playing around with Fibonacci based procedural stop-motion animation and AI-generated code-to-Blender-to-3D-print pipelines. Still a bit messy, but promising.

After walking into the workshop over the weekend, I now know: A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time. B) Where all the materials are disappearing to. They’re preparing for Comic-Con. A+ #Halo

STEM postdocs when you ask them if they need help with the grant writing they do for you.

Phil Tippett (74) apparently adapts to new technology far better than many of young creatives in the industry who cling to the “anything AI is Satan” narrative.

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Dramaqueens

"(...)applications in disaster management, search-and-rescue operations, and beyond." Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.

Still not sure how this would work, but we're ready.

After all the Charlie Kirk meets Jesus clips from 2 weeks ago, I started looking deeper into online religious AI slop and… Good Lord! 😳 youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...

"Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios -nuclear war, global warming, autocracy -are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising) can generate some enjoyable escapism." Pretty much sums up the current debate

At the same time, people who oppose anything AI pick up the same language - just flipped. They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan. Just as silly as worshipping it.

People clearly have never seen Paw Patrol.

Heavy 2019-Twitter Kindergarten vibes

The problem in a city with top-notch public transport is that people are atrocious cyclists and drivers.

Late-stage Surveillance Capitalism

Application No. 216 for humanoid robots (before we find a useful one): Being a smooth criminal. It's really smooth.

The movie will flop - hard. But AI as a tool will still turn the entire industry upside down. Not with the bang techbros hope for and artists fear, but gradually, over years. In that sense, it won’t be so different from other technologies that fundamentally reshaped animation.

Not an Ostalgie fan at all - but some Socialist Realism art really slaps.

Jesus! I'm too European for this.

Evan Ackerman has been a thoughtful reporter on robotics for a decade or more @spectrum.ieee.org spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-rob...

A hill I’m willing to die on. [Not every artist is an illustrator.]

Visit us! For a year. Or more. It’s fun! Most of the time. But seriously: Please share. We are especially curious about people who are curious about AI.

Sigh...

Finding out that one of your favorite university-days artists has gone full-blown tinfoil-hat right-wing conspiracy theorist is… depressing. (I know, not exactly news - but new to me.)

one of the wildest bits of discourse, is the idea that we can just ban ai we cannot ban ai. code is speech and you can run these models on a 4080. there's no putting this genie back in the bottle.

The new Netflix Asterix series isn’t as bad as I feared The writing is actually quite clever, though it sometimes feels like they shuffled through ALL the comics, picked the best panels, and built a story from them What I really don’t get is the design: Sure, use CGI, but why make it look like 2003?

Not sure which is more clearly a millennial religion The belief that existing technologies are just the heralds and forerunners of “AGI” Or the belief that existing tech is a “bubble,” a fraudulent Babylon whose millions of deceived followers will melt away like snow when its falsehood is unmasked

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

If only it matched the style and design quality of the originals. Also - where’s his Chinese friend?

Cool. But can Grok do it with dinosaurs as well?

This is the mailbox for Singapore’s second-largest Buddhist monastery. I'm not sure why, though.

You have one minute to interact with a robot through movement only. At the end, you need to say whether it's tele-operated or not. That's the React to This (RTT) Test - one of the robot Turing tests presented this month at activeself.de/movement-mat... Here's how our initial tests went down 👇

Complete brainrot, indeed. Still, I’d say Hologram-2Pac in 2012 was *slightly* worse. Definitely more expensive. (Only a matter of time before AI-generated Hologram-Beatles are filling stadiums.)

Only in Singapore: Four [sic!] weeks of fireworks rehearsals [yes, rehearsals] before National Day Celebrations.

Verschlimmbesserung

The idea that artists aren’t using AI; that (gen)AI and ‘real art’ are somehow polar opposites with no middle ground confuses me. It’s just not how art or art-tools have ever worked.

Probably too weird for investors, but this is proper home robot design. Not another humanoid nanny trope.

I’ll never get used to finding a lizard trapped in the sink in the morning, staring at me like it’s MY fault. #tropics

Solidarität mit der Maus. www.spiegel.de/panorama/mau...