Bernhard Schmitt

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Silicon Valley, they had billions in venture capital and what did that produce? The Elon Musk AI sizzle reel.

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I guess the entire Arday episode shows us that it isn't just the Right that's susceptible to con men.

New paper arxiv.org/abs/2607.13696

Just waiting for this one to bust out some dance moves. And that'll be the last we ever see of it.

Ich will einfach nur ein Daumenkino auf den neuen Euro-Scheinen, damit Geldzählen endlich Spaß macht.

This whole bizarre debate about skin colour in the Odyssey becomes even stranger once you realize that Homer describes honey as "green" (chlōros), sheep as "violet " (ióeis) while "blue" isn't mentioned even ONCE in thousands of verses.

Gut zu wissen, dass wir mit dem Problem nicht allein sind.

Me, quietly thriving in the rare awareness that I don’t know enough about geopolitics to tweet confidently about it.

Me, an animation scholar, when everybody talks about the 'Monkey Punch'

The correct term for a humanoid robot/android that resembles a woman is: 'gynoid.' You’re welcome.

Gott behüte uns, wenn der deutsche Landwirt Drohnen für sich entdeckt.

Finally an actually useful application for humanoid robots. (Apart from dancing, of course)

Apple Vision Pro. Released exactly 2 years ago. The kind of product that feels inevitable on paper, then turns out to be quite silly, impractical and useless. Still somewhat cute.

I really miss the times when plans for illegal invasions came with elaborate artworks.

Note: Life in Germany is worse than in China AND Portugal.

"It is time to abandon that dream for good. Robots are for battle, and robots are for spying, and robots are for places where humans will not or cannot be." I'd like to differ: >Underneath my couch< is definitely a place I don't like to be. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

«Wissenschaftliche Fakten gelten als langweilig. Mit langweiligen Fakten konfrontiert zu werden, funktioniert also offenbar ganz hervorragend als Provokation! An Kunst als Transgression hat man sich dagegen gewöhnt, die wird als normal hingenommen.» www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Das ist eines der Probleme des öffentlichen KI-Diskurses – der Begriff «Künstliche Intelligenz» suggeriert eine spezifische Technologie (für die meisten Leute: ChatGPT und Verwandtes), kann aber bei Bedarf alle möglichen avancierten Software-Anwendungen auf Machine-Learning-Basis umfassen 2/

These moralizing Disney posts are weird. As if Disney had ever acted out of moral principles. Disney has always been tech-obsessed and profit-driven, from multiplane cameras to robots. Testing technology is in Disney’s DNA. It is the reason for the success. Acting surprised now is just naive.

For people who trusted copyright laws to rein in AI, this should be the last scene in Animal Farm. “They looked from IP to Tech, and from Tech to IP, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Time again for this meme

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)

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...

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