/4 Why build a German speaking bot network if they don't post strong opinions (yet)?

While this is largely speculation, one should consider that Germany holds elections soon! By growing reach now, such an AI network will then be able to significantly steer what people see on Bsky! See #romania.

the blog post writeup of this is so good eieio.games/blog/writing...

In case you're interested, there's a pretty long history of plexiglas being used in purity and security theater, much of it rooted in racial and class politics

This is my life story. I'm not particularly saying you should read it, but if you're bored.
(cw suicide)
threadreaderapp.com/thread/17775...

Max Steinbeis’s fabulous play can be seen on Arte with choice of language subtitles! Must watch!

I'm nominated for a Karl-Hofer-Stipendium and will therefore show my graduation piece "Free as coffee" for one evening, this Thursday 2024-11-28 in #Berlin. Come for the free #coffee, stay for the media art!
welcometomywebsite.neopostmodern.com/portfolio/fr...
Hardenbergstraße 33, from 18:00

One of the absolute joys #macOS brings to #FLOSS developers is getting user reports over and over again how they can't install because the app is "damaged".
It's terrifying how the wording is wrong, not helpful and indie-hostile at the same time.

Okay, now that we're thinking about Substack and both its cultural influence and its business model, can I walk you all through the economics? Because they make no sense, and we can use that to predict how things are going to go... (Caution:🧵)

the way it works is that your terminal emulator sends escape codes (like "ctrl-[[M#x>ctrl-[[M }D") for various mouse actions and then the application has to explicitly implement support for interpreting those codes.

it's not so different from how the mouse works in a GUI in a way

While I agree on the whole "copyright – which doesn't even prevent so-called AI companies' theft – is a stupid stop-gap solution, we need actual financing for artists", I think the focus on "quality", "process" or "merit" is both a losing-strategy and makes questionable assumptions:

Cory Doctorow, who I consider to be a 'protocol' advocate in some way, doesn't buy Bluesky's 'protocol' approach at all, and thus won't join anytime soon:
pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/u...

Bluesky is currently a platform not a protocol and it's controlled by a single organization. Who is in control?

Intro / some projects

Most recently I deep-dived into #coffee, #automation and links between the two (both conceptual and practical, as in automated been-to-cup machines): neopostmodern.com/portfolio/fr...