An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage. www.vice.com/en/article/g...

Perfect photo, but … www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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/...

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#NoKings Miami!

Go for it! New business trend: AI storefront wrapping or in german: Folierte Leerstände mit KI #Stadtentwicklung, #Digitalisierung, #AITrends

»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...

"…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."

Ireland just made its Basic Income for Artists permanent — while Hamburg votes this Sunday on testing a universal basic income (german= #Grundeinkommen). Two small steps against permanent austerity and for genuine social participation. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

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...

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/...

Walter Abish's "How German Is it" and everything that is the case. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/9/28/how-german-is-it

In this fictional trailer, Roger Penrose invites his students to share first steps: sketches, models, fragile experiments. “Prospective Naiveté” resists rigid knowledge and avoids the trap of professionalism, trusting mistakes, setbacks and detours as a productive misunderstanding. #AI

I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault. The Professionalism Trap

New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war; #AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem.... #criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org

You’ll find lots of other materials from the summit — including keynotes from Arvind Narayanan, Kathy Pham, Anna Mills, and Maha Bali — at the Public AI Summit website: publicaisummit.com

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“Trump Poisons Democracy’s Blood” from yesterday’s Stop Trump protest in London. #StopTrump

You've still got time to visit the Independent #Self-Publishing Fair #Indiecon in #Hamburg today. The atmosphere is open and welcoming, and the discussions are thoughtful. With authoritarian tendencies on the rise, independent publishing is more important than ever. www.indiecon-festival.com

The spray-painted gold ornamentation is spreading like a cancer

Claude, Gemini und ChatGPT können erklären, trösten, programmieren und sogar schlechte Witze machen. Aber wie geht das? Zeit für einen Blick unter die Haube und in die Werkzeugkiste – ohne Informatik-Studium, aber mit Tiefgang und praktischen Tricks. open.substack.com/pub/tobioeti...

what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way americabydesign.gov

Concerned about the state of the U.S. government? @unbreaking.org is a community project mapping the damage and its human costs. See an example of their work in progress, where they are tracking immigration issues. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

New blog post just dropped (no paywall): "A Dangerous Imitation of Care." Examines the growing use of generative AI as a substitute for therapy. These systems simulate care without offering real support, accountability, privacy, or ethical oversight. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

Gavin Newsom's strategy of centrist liberal «populism» seems to involve wholeheartedly embracing AI slop. However, rather than demonstrating a possible «progressive» use of generative AI, this example shows how quickly such a use can lead to the uncritical adoption of fascist aesthetics 1/

Gavin Newsom holding a mirror up DJT

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fstoppers.com/opinion/sam-... I needed to rant.

I've asked Kelli Anderson to join us with some of her big mechanical finger protest signs :) I'm also thinking of buying big foam fingers (indexes!) for all attendees ☝🏽

ChatCanvas = neue visuelle Dialogplattform 🤔

The most heart-warming and welcoming fair in #Hamburg is back — and it's more important than ever. In an era of rising authoritarianism and social media dominated by autocrats, self-publishing is more important than ever: self-publishing matters. www.indiecon-festival.com September 5–7, Oberhafen

Art Appropriates Culture. Al Expropriates Culture.

« On continue à jouer – mais personne ne sait pourquoi ça a commencé. » found in a mock archive - #ai

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

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from Tesla Takedown to out-trolling trolls. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share. Download here: www.wired.com/story/downlo...

My neighbor preparing

As a skilled children's book illustrator, your task is to create a hand-drawn tutorial for making animal shadow puppets. The position of your hand should correspond directly to the shape of the shadow, making it look as if it were lit from below.

We grow by creating things through trial and error. AI-coding tools skip this process: Trae, Cursor, Windsurf, Bolt, Lovable, GitHub, ChatGPT, Claude, Cognition AI, Poolside AI, Replit, Tabnine, Diffblue. Fake film poster inspired by Jason Santa Maria's thoughts. jasonsantamaria.com/blog/large-l...

Yes to everything. jasonsantamaria.com/blog/large-l...

So glad to see that cursive writing isn't a lost skill after all. #WestAdams

The latest announcement: Sung Tieu and Henrike Naumann will represent Germany artreview.com/2026-venice-...

Here's a free download of this fascinating publication that accompanies the Wende Museum exhibition, tracing the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods. issuu.com/wendemuseum/...

The new Expectation Fail foundation is offering 10 grants (1500-7000 EUR) for artists to work on strategies against the growing tech fascism. https://error417.expectation.fail/

How AI is permanently rewriting history: This is a good introduction to the present, with a warning for the future. Right now, a Google Image search for 101st Airborne in World War II will return the most-popular AI-generated images first. [ h/t @jonippolito.net] www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqrH...

Für die FAS hab ich über KI-generierte Bildwelten der Rücksichtslosigkeit und das Bündnis von Techoligarchie und autoritärer Staatsmacht geschrieben zeitung.faz.net/fas/feuillet...