Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
Doing #MediaStudies at RuhrUniBochum as part of CRC Virtual Lifeworlds | Book project on #Photoshop and #ImageProcessing | #Culture, #History and #Theory of #Digitality
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Till A. Heilmann
@tillheilmann.info
· Oct 16
Was liest ChatGPT? Vom Take Off der Token
Der Beitrag untersucht, welche literarischen Texte für das Training von OpenAIs Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) verwendet wurden. Über öffentlich zugängliche Informationen...
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#GuineaPig girl Cassiopeia (“Kessi”) in her cozy new cardboard cave, munching on freshly cut grass. Life is good.
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
#GuineaPig girl Cassiopeia (“Kessi”) in her cozy new cardboard cave, munching on freshly cut grass. Life is good.
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Das Comeback, auf das wir alle gewartet haben: Die Arbeiten am Schriftzug an den Kunstsammlungen sind abgeschlossen. Jetzt strahlt das Werk von Licht- und Konzeptkünstler Mischa Kuball wieder über unseren Campus.
Die Rückkehr eines Kunstwerks
Die Arbeiten am Schriftzug an den Kunstsammlungen sind abgeschlossen. Jetzt bringen LED-Buchstaben die Südseite der Universitätsbibliothek zum Leuchten.
news.rub.de
February 3, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Das Comeback, auf das wir alle gewartet haben: Die Arbeiten am Schriftzug an den Kunstsammlungen sind abgeschlossen. Jetzt strahlt das Werk von Licht- und Konzeptkünstler Mischa Kuball wieder über unseren Campus.
February 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
And that’s not even the best line.
"I have got to get to a library... fast!" Hahaha! Great nonsense fun film!
January 30, 2026 at 9:15 PM
And that’s not even the best line.
"I have got to get to a library... fast!" Hahaha! Great nonsense fun film!
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
"I have got to get to a library... fast!" Hahaha! Great nonsense fun film!
… helps reframe our …
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
… helps reframe our …
… speaks directly to …
January 29, 2026 at 1:23 PM
… speaks directly to …
Geduld nur, Geduld! / Der Frühling ist nah.
January 29, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Geduld nur, Geduld! / Der Frühling ist nah.
Die Meerschweinchen sehnen den Frühling herbei.
January 28, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Die Meerschweinchen sehnen den Frühling herbei.
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I normally don't share my little UI experiments, but everyone's trapped in a blizzard, so here's the Internet Archive's magazine rack inside an experimental alternative interface. Enjoy reading and discovering titles and issues.
mirrorball.textfiles.com/MAGAZINERACK
mirrorball.textfiles.com/MAGAZINERACK
THE MAGAZINE RACK
mirrorball.textfiles.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:25 PM
I normally don't share my little UI experiments, but everyone's trapped in a blizzard, so here's the Internet Archive's magazine rack inside an experimental alternative interface. Enjoy reading and discovering titles and issues.
mirrorball.textfiles.com/MAGAZINERACK
mirrorball.textfiles.com/MAGAZINERACK
Just bought a second-hand copy of an old Terminator 2 release on Blu-ray, i.e. pre James Cameron's AI upscaled and DNR'd disaster versions, and what can I say? It actually looks like it's a movie shot on film, not a puppetered video game.
January 24, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Just bought a second-hand copy of an old Terminator 2 release on Blu-ray, i.e. pre James Cameron's AI upscaled and DNR'd disaster versions, and what can I say? It actually looks like it's a movie shot on film, not a puppetered video game.
Does anyone have or know of a recording of the broadcast "Medien und Krieg" [Media and War] from Radio Bremen on 17 February 1991, feat. Friedrich Kittler, Wolfgang Coy, and Wolfgang Hagen? This is the broadcast mentioned at the beginning of Kittler's "There Is No Software".
January 23, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Does anyone have or know of a recording of the broadcast "Medien und Krieg" [Media and War] from Radio Bremen on 17 February 1991, feat. Friedrich Kittler, Wolfgang Coy, and Wolfgang Hagen? This is the broadcast mentioned at the beginning of Kittler's "There Is No Software".
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Just published: "A few notes on the scalar foundations of foundation models," a position paper in which I discuss the need for rejecting large-scale vague AI, and talk about fascination as a technological operation. Available open-access at doi.org/10.1017/cfc.... .
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Just published: "A few notes on the scalar foundations of foundation models," a position paper in which I discuss the need for rejecting large-scale vague AI, and talk about fascination as a technological operation. Available open-access at doi.org/10.1017/cfc.... .
This is not funny. And yet …
January 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This is not funny. And yet …
Surprise, surprise. I cannot open said *.PIC files in an emulated version of PC Paint 3 on DOSBOX. Hmm, what format could these files be?
January 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Surprise, surprise. I cannot open said *.PIC files in an emulated version of PC Paint 3 on DOSBOX. Hmm, what format could these files be?
I could, of course, try to write my own decoder. 😉
January 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I could, of course, try to write my own decoder. 😉
Ten or so years from now, we will ask "Where were you when Musicology Duck woke up and figured out the bus was not going to the right place?" #ThreadsForEternity
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 21, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Ten or so years from now, we will ask "Where were you when Musicology Duck woke up and figured out the bus was not going to the right place?" #ThreadsForEternity
Lone Star > One Battle After Another
January 20, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Lone Star > One Battle After Another
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+++ NEU erschienen:
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
+++ NEU erschienen:
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Oliver Ruf: Medienwissenschaft. In: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Theorie – Praxis – Geschichte. Hg. v. Oliver Ruf, Thomas Hensel u. Lars C. Grabbe. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2026, S. 339-346.
Senior #GuineaPig lady Mimi enjoying some freshly cut grass. (To the left: Snofru)
January 17, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Senior #GuineaPig lady Mimi enjoying some freshly cut grass. (To the left: Snofru)