Oh, Angelo...shit. what a loss

Ok so there's clearly another wave, maybe I'll become a bit more active here. Currently working on contemporary design aesthetics, driven half mad by all the blinking cursors I'm close to convinced HCI needs Cassirer and Flusser more than ever & dangerously close to thinking I should do that writing

@dpgreen.bsky.social 🦀

*Boooooom* goes the bittern. Leighton Moss, Lancashire

Precisely.

this doesn't feel like the place, but --- i'll be joining TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) this summer as Assistant Professor »Design Aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems« and that is insane and i am absolutely chuffed🔮🎛 #HCI @academic-chatter.bsky.social

so, so, soooo much sloppy work in ostensibly "more-than-human" design. cripes.

"The discussion was reportedly hosted on the *Webex* [!!!!] conference platform rather than a secure army platform, causing further embarrassment for Berlin." Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

Quoted @bildoperationen.bsky.social (alongside Flusser & Rancière) today in a guest talk at TU Eindhoven 🎛🔮

Really enjoyed working on this piece for The Conversation with @entoptic.media … exploring how the way we think about #genAI models arguably has some resonance with with free speech theconversation.com/ai-a-way-to-... … which in turn is a great argument for responsible #AI licenses www.licenses.ai

The »He Gets Us« ad, which aired during Super Bowl, made quite a buzz. Many pointed out that the images of people washing each other's feet looked suspiciously AI-generated. Meanwhile, the artist behind the series has spoken out, describing how each of these photographs took days to create 1/5

“Excellent Choice.”

I’ll swear any oath at the Blackthorn Salt Tower 🖤 www.blackthornsalt.co.uk/our-method

Norbert Weiner, concluding his famous "Cybernetics" book, by warning that STEM shouldn't replace the Humanities...

Wondering whether #HCI (particularly the design research community) is lacking a bit in its consideration of aesthetics (≠ aesthetic)—there seems to be little in-depth consideration over why artefacts take certain forms in contrast to methods that justify & evaluate artefacts functionally

Still thinking about this comic ... I was a huge C&G fan as a student, now I’m a middle-aged critical theory nerd who keeps going on about art & the means of production & better futures and yeah I’m more and more disillusioned about the contribution of digital practices to the latter – thread 🧵 1/14

Wet lung counter initiated.

Oh no

If you want a vision of the future,

I like my coffee (in the knowledge that people nerd much harder about it than I do) so having Atkinsons Coffee Roastery in Lancaster is a ridiculous treat. This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.

Crying! At the Research Group Rebranding

I’ll swear any oath at the Blackthorn Salt Tower 🖤 www.blackthornsalt.co.uk/our-method

That banger that isn’t in English made me think of this banger that isn’t in English m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgL...

Post a banger that isn’t in English m.youtube.com/watch?v=FEb6...

+1, though: “[science fiction as a genre] operates a lot like a large language model that is trained using a body of text heavily contaminated by previous LLMs; it tends to emit material like that of its predecessors.” AFAIK the 1st time I’ve seen this direct comparison “unprovoked”, curious…

ok these are extremely my shit

*badly* need the Disco Elysium Thought Cabinet tie, pocketsquare, tie-pin/brooch combo atelier.zaumstudio.com/products/tho...

*badly* need the Braun / Raytheon (😬) Lectron kit

𝔧𝔢 𝔰𝔲𝔦𝔰 𝔲𝔫 𝔥𝔬𝔪𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔢

@seantcollins.bsky.social I know boy appreciation window is closed technically, but I was not prepared for ‘Whiplash’ to star such a crop of lads that when you see them you know they’ll own you for any screentime they’ve been given, so just to log this: a real Boys’ boys movie

Further immaculate men

Bright, shining lads

R Banham’s “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age” showing in the intro already how takes on technology (good/stupid alike) have not really gotten any more sophisticated since 1958 (!); and offering the most beautiful selection of designs that give form to world (re-)conceptions pre-1950

Carlisle goes a bit hard

end run

Some (doomed) holiday reading, 1/2 courtesy @dukepress.bsky.social

1. I’m very grateful for the response to my appearance on Question Time, but also puzzled. I felt that in all cases I was simply stating the bleeding obvious. Is this now so rare in public life that it becomes an event when someone does it? The grim truth seems to be: yes.🧵

"It is no more art to lay on colour deliberately than to lay on acid deliberately. It is no more art to use the cornea and retina for the reception of an image than to use a lens and a piece of silvered paper." → www.jstor.org/stable/1360290 agreed, but not how he meant it. still, beautiful overlap

George Monbiot’s getting the rage shakes on QT, its so good to see someone actually saying something real outside of the constructed racism circus of ‘concerns’ the tories keep flogging

Learned about dag’s by The Rusk today

Finally uploaded one of the odder things from my PhD: an article for ŠUM where I got to dig into (& add to 🙃) the archives of Soviet-era computing firm Iskra Delta to help me figure out what I mean by "entoptic media" Enjoyable: www.sum.si/journal-arti... Citable: osf.io/preprints/me... #STS #HCI

@geovisual.bsky.social 👊

1) "a-pile-of-purple-legos-sitting-on-top-of-a-table" 2) "a-close-up-of-a-piece-of-luggage-with-text-on-it" what do we call this? sort of hauntology, for sure, but puns are always better... re-*curse*-ion?

Is there such a thing as a (graphic/anthropological) history of diagramming in cybernetics/systems development? #HCI #STS

Moon halo 🎛️

Photo of an MtG card of Tom Bombadil, a print of Martin Heidegger scowling, and a receipt from Piggly Wiggly with the pig doing some radical surfing, all held together by an ugly magnet #altpost

One for 3d modellers: 3d.si.edu/object/3d/ne... Highly detailed 3d scan of Neil Armstrong's space suit, from the Smithsonian. Free to download.

Incredible scenes at the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent

My defining teen albums:

the mood, it's huggingface.co/spaces/editi... @huggingface.bsky.social