Matthias Ring
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Art Appropriates Culture. Al Expropriates Culture.
https://www.iconscreen.de/labor
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DON'T-- After reading
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
article in The Guardian, I put together three digital cut-out collages using some of her text ideas.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Are you reluctantâand rightly so!âto use AI programming on a Mac? I found following:
holtwick.de/en/blog/bx-s...
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AI Coding Tools in a Sandbox: Why Your File System Needs Protection | Dirk Holtwick
AI coding tools like Claude Code or Copilot have full access to your file system. bx protects everything except the current project directory with a single command.
https://holtwick.de/en/blog/bx-sandbox
3 days ago
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Dirk Holtwick
5 days ago
No more AI yolo on your Mac! đĄď¸ AI tools like Claude Code can read, write and delete any file your user can access. bx-mac gives you a native macOS sandbox to restrict any command to just the folders it actually needs.
github.com/holtwick/bx-mac
#macOS
#opensource
#security
#AI
#Apple
#mac
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GitHub - holtwick/bx-mac: Launch apps in a macOS sandbox â only the project directory is accessible
Launch apps in a macOS sandbox â only the project directory is accessible - holtwick/bx-mac
https://github.com/holtwick/bx-mac
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Eryk Salvaggio
9 days ago
I mean the less funny thing to consider is that the reason Sora got discontinued so shortly after OpenAI signed a military contract is that those GPUs are gonna be busy
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The article depicts DOGE as an experiment applying tech & gaming methods to governance. The result: a blurred line between public administration and digital siege. đŽđď¸
#DOGE
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government
The long read: Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/17/elon-musk-gamify-government
10 days ago
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Robin Detje
16 days ago
In Deutschland landet mein neuer Newsletter heute so frßh, weil es bei mir schon so spät ist. Hier auf der anderen Seite der Welt fahre ich Fahrstuhl mit dem Amoklauf der westlichen Männlichkeit.
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39. gemeinsame Weltungtergangsverbesserung
Ich bin in Hongkong und glaube, dass ich den Rachefeldzug der Männer zur Verteidigung "westlicher Werte" nicht ßberleben werde.
https://steady.page/en/robindetje/posts/aaa54bc7-96a5-409c-b973-dcafb86d2e15
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Brian Merchant
16 days ago
Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Jobâeducators:
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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai
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zeldman
17 days ago
Cool AF: a design archive of design archives, â creative director/artist David Sizemore. Get lost in space exploration logos, chrome lettering, comix, flyers, matchbox art, more!
archiveofarchives.com#design
#art
#DesignArchives
#archives
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Archive of Archives
A curated archive of digital projects, resources, and references.
https://archiveofarchives.com/
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X Ray Eyes
19 days ago
Diane Arbus, Portraits/Selfportraits.
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Tim Berners-Lee
21 days ago
(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm
#Web37
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London Review of Books
20 days ago
âAlison Bashfordâs story is, on the one hand, just about a bit of the human body and, on the other, about the changing, contested and consequential practices through which we have sought to know ourselves and others.â Steven Shapin on a new survey of the hand.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Steven Shapin ¡ Heart, Head, Life, Fate: Talk to the hand
The hand is an organ through which we know about the world, and in its expressive mode it helps others know something...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/steven-shapin/heart-head-life-fate
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Michael Lobel
25 days ago
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil BarrelsâThe Iron Curtain" (1961â62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank
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Michael Lobel
23 days ago
Do you by any chance know about Gordon Matta-Clark's "Fake Estates" artworks? They were tiny, often inaccessible plots of land he purchased in the 1970s, publicly auctioned by the city of New York for a price ranging between $25 & $75 each. More info here:
socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/g...
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Gordon Matta-Clarkâs âReality Properties: Fake Estatesâ (1973)
Starting in the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased fifteen lots in the city of New York, fourteen in Queens and one in Staten Island. The specificity of these plots is to be tiny resi...
https://socks-studio.com/2014/10/22/gordon-matta-clarks-reality-properties-fake-estates-1973/
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Sung Kim
24 days ago
Developing an application using Claude Code / Codex.
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Ethan Marcotte
28 days ago
đŚ We cannot meaningfully separate everyday usage of âAIâ from the machine of death and war. If youâre upset by the military-industrial complex? These tools feed it; they *are* it.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...
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Propellant. â ethanmarcotte.com
We cannot separate the everyday use of âAIâ platforms from their use in death and war.
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/
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Grace
27 days ago
Against Claudeâs advice, by the way
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Lukas Hermsmeier
29 days ago
ganz falsch lag ich vor 1 jahr nicht
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Opinion | Germany Needs to Get Its Act Together. Under Him, It Wonât. (Published 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/friedrich-merz-germany-chancellor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QlA.WeY6.Vodv5dpqQrSj&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Ernesto Priego
about 1 month ago
This Is Real Life is at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 9 May.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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âCultural monstrosities!â The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk â in pictures
From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/mar/03/visual-legacy-post-punk-posters-in-pictures
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ShouraHashemi
about 1 month ago
Sehr gutes Interview mit der Journalistin
@solmazkhorsand.bsky.social
mit einer sachlichen, nßchternen Einschätzung der Lage im Iran.
kurier.at/politik/ausl...
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Nach Tod von Khamenei: "Mit Eliminierung einer Person ist es nicht getan"
Die Journalistin und Autorin Solmaz Khorsand sprach in der ZiB2 Ăźber mĂśgliche Proteste im Iran, einen Regimewechsel und Reza Pahlavi.
https://kurier.at/politik/ausland/iran-krieg-proteste-nahost-solmaz-khorsand-zib2/403136897?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter-feed&utm_campaign=cleverpush-1772488385
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LizdelaGarzaG
about 1 month ago
Morning call, time to wake up. Weâre already at war.
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Juan Diego Rodriguez
about 1 month ago
War is Peace
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These thermal images of dozens of unauthorised mobile gas turbines powering an X-AI data centre in Mississippi really triggered me â there's something about the aesthetics that feels like a death cult.
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
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'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
https://floodlightnews.org/thermal-drone-footage-musk-ai-plant-epa-rules/
about 2 months ago
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CPhMag.com
about 2 months ago
Great portrait
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âRegrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong holeâ: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty â and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s â then a brush with death turned the artistâs life upside down. Now sheâs as frank as ever
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/14/tracey-emin-interview-tate-modern-regrets-smoking
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H e t e r o t o p ia
about 2 months ago
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Ryan McGrady
about 2 months ago
Pair of articles on slop developments on YouTube. Report from Kapwing about the most popular slop channels by country, and a finding of 33% of a new account's feed being brainrot (though it doesn't look like they replicated it). Bonus
@eryk.bsky.social
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www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop...
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AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
Kapwingâs new research shows that 21-33% of YouTubeâs feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos. But which countries and channels are achieving the greatest reach â and how much money might they ...
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-report-the-global-rise-of-low-quality-ai-videos/
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The âGigantic, Fecal Babyâ Inside Every Populist Ruler Olga Neuwirthâs new opera, âMonsterâs Paradise,â leans into the absurd to examine the phenomenon of the strongman leader (with added zombies). -> Germany, Hamburg State Opera
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/a...
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The âGigantic, Fecal Babyâ Inside Every Populist Ruler
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/arts/music/mosters-paradise-olga-neuwirth.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JVA.mKjS.6O6PYkwEDnah&smid=url-share
about 2 months ago
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John R.
2 months ago
Dorothea Lange
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molly conger
2 months ago
oh shit we got hennepin hannah
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Just as interesting as the FCK-ICE tictoc propaganda in the spirit of Hanoi Hannah (propaganda broadcast on Vietnamese radio during the Vietnam War) is the British/German soldiers' radio station Calais during World War II.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzxk...
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Gßnter Gaus im Gespräch mit Sefton Delmer (1963)
YouTube video by Leo Dietrich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzxk1epsmfA&t=2620s
2 months ago
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Jon Collins
2 months ago
Minneapolis is trying out new forms of resistance. They're doing pop-up blockade block parties. This one is on Cedar and 34th, a main route into the city. They have a stereo, food & a fire. MPD is present but not interfering. Lots of honks of support. ICE agents have been reported detouring around.
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NPR
2 months ago
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
n.pr/4thWiUr
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A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota
A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.
https://n.pr/4thWiUr
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Tim Dickinson
2 months ago
Folks are passing out whistles and zines. The DIY/analog aspect of American activism in this moment is as important as the videos of ICE abuses
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Tim Dickinson
2 months ago
"What do we want? ICE Out When do we want it, Now"
#portland
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
âWhether the regime is âfascistâ, âpost-fascistâ or âneo-authoritarianâ, what is indisputable is that it has unleashed what John Ganz has called a sense of âmoral anarchyâ, in which there are no longer any limits to the expression of sadism, (âŚ).â
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Adam Shatz ¡ Another Country: Visions of America
America is a âbattlefieldâ, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, âand you can only become passionate about the battle it is...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/adam-shatz/another-country
2 months ago
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Best event so far this year in Hamburg:
#HFBK
Jahresausstellung đ¨ art school opening & exhibition. Opening -- February 12, 7 p.m.
www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...
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HFBK: Annual Exhibition 2026
All information about the exhibition you can find here >>>
https://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles/jahresausstellung-2026/
2 months ago
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Billy Bragg
2 months ago
I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8
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taylr
2 months ago
at alex prettiâs memorial in minneapolis: âno one is illegal on stolen lands built by stolen handsâ written on a van, caribou coffee in the graffitied bus shelter, âWE ARE UNDER REACTINGâ sign, âwhat car did i just see?â pocket guide to identifying cars
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Marcus
2 months ago
âItâs our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noemâs dirty liesâ
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hyperallergic.com/artists-stre...
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Artistâs Street Signs in Philadelphia Warn of Fascism Ahead
The guerrilla imitations of common road signage use a distinctive brand of Philly humor to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism.
https://hyperallergic.com/artists-street-signs-in-philadelphia-warn-of-fascism-ahead/
2 months ago
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Carole Cadwalladr
2 months ago
NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thielâs Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. Itâs also the âcloud supportâ for our nuclear weapons system 𤯠1/
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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Angela Omulepu
2 months ago
Hereâs a gift đ article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/white-supremacy-trump-administration-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Annika Brockschmidt
2 months ago
US-Regierungsaccounts posten White Nationalist und Neo-Nazi Content - seit Monaten. Einiges ist auch fĂźr Laien ersichtlich, andere Codes fallen weniger auf. Meine Analyse - mit Einordnungen u.a. von
@bildoperationen.bsky.social
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@mikesenters.bsky.social
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US-Regierungsaccounts posten Neo-Nazi-Content
KI-Slop, Neonazi-Slogans, Memes, Videogames und Ăhnlichkeiten mit Nazi-Parolen: Eine Analyse von Annika Brockschmidt, wie US-Regierungsaccounts seit Trump posten.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/us-regierung-neo-nazi-content/
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Timothy Snyder
2 months ago
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
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Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
https://snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-lawlessness
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Dumb Megan
2 months ago
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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Jen Bendery
2 months ago
People are definitely setting up a barricade of trash cans and this couch, in the middle of the street where ICE is. "That's my couch," said a woman standing nearby. "It's been on my porch for four years because it won't fit up the stairs. My neighbor will be pleased it's gone now."
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Jimmi Lotts
2 months ago
Minneapolis at the intersection where Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE.
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Marina Weisband
2 months ago
Oh schaut mal, eine Karikatur von 1938!
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Inspired by an anti-Nazi leaflet created by Cahun / Moore, i make a adaptation of their theme. Text versions are based on last stanza of Heine's poem âDie Loreley.â However, instead the siren song, it is hollow political rhetoric (â slop) that could also cause a catastrophe in our timeâpotentially.
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THE NERVE
2 months ago
A guide to the US governmentâs flirtation with Nazi slogans and racist memes Federal departments are under fire for social media posts that reference far-right ideology & symbolism. John Mulholland makes sense of the noise and rounds up the most shocking examples
www.thenerve.news/p/us-governm...
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Nazi slogans and racist memes: a guide to the US governmentâs flirtation with fascist propaganda
Departments are under fire for social media content that references far-right ideology and symbolism - and which seems increasingly explicit. John Mulholland rounds up the most shocking posts
https://www.thenerve.news/p/us-government-nazi-racism-fascist-meme-propaganda-homeland-security-social-media
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Sonja Drimmer
3 months ago
GenAI is not inconsequential, but exorbitant attention on its failures diverts attention away from all of the otherâfar more thoroughgoingâforms of AI that are being used to violate and impoverish citizens by means of data extraction and arbitration.
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