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Art Appropriates Culture. Al Expropriates Culture.

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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
Writing in Future – The public symposium at HfbK Hamburg (free of charge and no registration required) and the corresponding exhibition are dedicated to different ways of dealing with texts and writing practices in an art context. 3. – 5.12.2025

www.hfbk-hamburg.de/en/aktuelles...
HFBK: Symposium: Writing in Future
With Lukas Bärfuss, Jenifer Becker, Friedrich von Borries, CAConrad, Sophia Eisenhut, Elisa Linseisen, Hanne Loreck, Vera Lutz, Enis Maci, Astrid Mania, Katrin Mayer, Noemi Yoko Molitor, Eugene Ostash...
www.hfbk-hamburg.de
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Pethke's insightful film about women in art. Using the biographies of her grandmother, her mother, and her own, she searches for the ghosts of the past. All three studied art at the HfbK in Hamburg.

www.3sat.de/film/dokumen...
Reproduktion - Dokumentarfilm
Dokumentarfilm über Frauen im Spannungsfeld zwischen künstlerischer Ambition und gesellschaftlicher Determinierung
www.3sat.de
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.

Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Coincidentally, Operation Rough Rider is also Jesse Watters grindr handle
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Inspired by an old classic book from Simon Lovell about the secret craft of cheats and hustlers …
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Really good Tim Stanley essay on Fuentes et al.

Gift link.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f6dd290...
How Right-wing extremism is tearing Maga apart
Some radical Trump supporters believe the US president has betrayed his base. Now, they are fighting back
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...
Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained
Listen to Co-Yoga: Metamasken AI Self-Awareness Explained by Hannes Bajohr #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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An extraordinary visual essay from a city drowning in garbage.

www.vice.com/en/article/g...
The Magical Garbage Dump Spirits of the Congo
Though Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, is drowning in foreign waste, one subculture has found a surreal way to draw attention to this crisis.
www.vice.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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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/...
How Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Gift Article)
The president has posted A.I.-generated images and videos dozens of times on social media, in some cases misleading viewers and amplifying political divisions.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#NoKings Miami!
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Go for it! New business trend: AI storefront wrapping
or in german: Folierte Leerstände mit KI

#Stadtentwicklung, #Digitalisierung, #AITrends
The simulation is encroaching on the high street.

This is on the Ormeau road in Belfast and I think it is part of a campaign to make the place look nicer?

#ai #aislop
October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
»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...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"…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."
Thomas Pynchon Saw Where America Was Headed. What Does He See Now?
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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...
Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget
Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations
www.irishtimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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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...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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/...
Memories of my Youth. - Hochschule Wismar - Faculty of Architecture and Design
Hochschule Wismar, Fakultät Gestaltung
fg.hs-wismar.de
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.

The Professionalism Trap
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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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
Public AI Summit
A dynamic, two-day virtual AI Summit for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can...
publicaisummit.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 6:08 AM