Jesse Josua Benjamin
@entoptic.media
Research\Design~Philosophy of Technology
Making https://entoptic.media/
Currently thinking about architecture, symbolic representation, and systems
Making https://entoptic.media/
Currently thinking about architecture, symbolic representation, and systems
Oh, Angelo...shit. what a loss
January 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Oh, Angelo...shit. what a loss
Ok so there's clearly another wave, maybe I'll become a bit more active here. Currently working on contemporary design aesthetics, driven half mad by all the blinking cursors I'm close to convinced HCI needs Cassirer and Flusser more than ever & dangerously close to thinking I should do that writing
November 27, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Ok so there's clearly another wave, maybe I'll become a bit more active here. Currently working on contemporary design aesthetics, driven half mad by all the blinking cursors I'm close to convinced HCI needs Cassirer and Flusser more than ever & dangerously close to thinking I should do that writing
March 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM
*Boooooom* goes the bittern.
Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Leighton Moss, Lancashire
March 8, 2024 at 10:06 PM
*Boooooom* goes the bittern.
Leighton Moss, Lancashire
Leighton Moss, Lancashire
this doesn't feel like the place, but --- i'll be joining TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) this summer as Assistant Professor »Design Aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems« and that is insane and i am absolutely chuffed🔮🎛
#HCI
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#HCI
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
March 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM
this doesn't feel like the place, but --- i'll be joining TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) this summer as Assistant Professor »Design Aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems« and that is insane and i am absolutely chuffed🔮🎛
#HCI
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
#HCI
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
so, so, soooo much sloppy work in ostensibly "more-than-human" design. cripes.
March 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM
so, so, soooo much sloppy work in ostensibly "more-than-human" design. cripes.
"The discussion was reportedly hosted on the *Webex* [!!!!] conference platform rather than a secure army platform, causing further embarrassment for Berlin."
Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...
Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...
Germany under pressure to explain intercepted phone call
German ministers warned that the leak, aired by Russian state media, amounts to a "hybrid disinformation attack".
www.bbc.co.uk
March 4, 2024 at 12:39 PM
"The discussion was reportedly hosted on the *Webex* [!!!!] conference platform rather than a secure army platform, causing further embarrassment for Berlin."
Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...
Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...
Quoted @bildoperationen.bsky.social (alongside Flusser & Rancière) today in a guest talk at TU Eindhoven 🎛🔮
February 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Quoted @bildoperationen.bsky.social (alongside Flusser & Rancière) today in a guest talk at TU Eindhoven 🎛🔮
Reposted by Jesse Josua Benjamin
Really enjoyed working on this piece for The Conversation with @entoptic.media … exploring how the way we think about #genAI models arguably has some resonance with with free speech theconversation.com/ai-a-way-to-... … which in turn is a great argument for responsible #AI licenses www.licenses.ai
February 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Really enjoyed working on this piece for The Conversation with @entoptic.media … exploring how the way we think about #genAI models arguably has some resonance with with free speech theconversation.com/ai-a-way-to-... … which in turn is a great argument for responsible #AI licenses www.licenses.ai
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The »He Gets Us« ad, which aired during Super Bowl, made quite a buzz. Many pointed out that the images of people washing each other's feet looked suspiciously AI-generated. Meanwhile, the artist behind the series has spoken out, describing how each of these photographs took days to create
1/5
1/5
February 13, 2024 at 1:37 PM
The »He Gets Us« ad, which aired during Super Bowl, made quite a buzz. Many pointed out that the images of people washing each other's feet looked suspiciously AI-generated. Meanwhile, the artist behind the series has spoken out, describing how each of these photographs took days to create
1/5
1/5
“Excellent Choice.”
February 3, 2024 at 9:26 PM
“Excellent Choice.”
Reposted by Jesse Josua Benjamin
January 4, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Reposted by Jesse Josua Benjamin
Norbert Weiner, concluding his famous "Cybernetics" book, by warning that STEM shouldn't replace the Humanities...
January 25, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Norbert Weiner, concluding his famous "Cybernetics" book, by warning that STEM shouldn't replace the Humanities...
Wondering whether #HCI (particularly the design research community) is lacking a bit in its consideration of aesthetics (≠ aesthetic)—there seems to be little in-depth consideration over why artefacts take certain forms in contrast to methods that justify & evaluate artefacts functionally
January 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Wondering whether #HCI (particularly the design research community) is lacking a bit in its consideration of aesthetics (≠ aesthetic)—there seems to be little in-depth consideration over why artefacts take certain forms in contrast to methods that justify & evaluate artefacts functionally
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Still thinking about this comic ... I was a huge C&G fan as a student, now I’m a middle-aged critical theory nerd who keeps going on about art & the means of production & better futures and yeah I’m more and more disillusioned about the contribution of digital practices to the latter – thread 🧵 1/14
On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem De Kooning, 1/12
January 19, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Still thinking about this comic ... I was a huge C&G fan as a student, now I’m a middle-aged critical theory nerd who keeps going on about art & the means of production & better futures and yeah I’m more and more disillusioned about the contribution of digital practices to the latter – thread 🧵 1/14
Wet lung counter initiated.
January 14, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Wet lung counter initiated.
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If you want a vision of the future,
January 12, 2024 at 4:39 PM
If you want a vision of the future,
I like my coffee (in the knowledge that people nerd much harder about it than I do) so having Atkinsons Coffee Roastery in Lancaster is a ridiculous treat.
This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.
This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.
January 11, 2024 at 10:08 AM
I like my coffee (in the knowledge that people nerd much harder about it than I do) so having Atkinsons Coffee Roastery in Lancaster is a ridiculous treat.
This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.
This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.
Crying! At the Research Group Rebranding
January 10, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Crying! At the Research Group Rebranding
January 4, 2024 at 9:07 PM
That banger that isn’t in English made me think of this banger that isn’t in English
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgL...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgL...
December 28, 2023 at 12:03 PM
That banger that isn’t in English made me think of this banger that isn’t in English
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgL...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgL...
December 28, 2023 at 10:09 AM
+1, though: “[science fiction as a genre] operates a lot like a large language model that is trained using a body of text heavily contaminated by previous LLMs; it tends to emit material like that of its predecessors.”
AFAIK the 1st time I’ve seen this direct comparison “unprovoked”, curious…
AFAIK the 1st time I’ve seen this direct comparison “unprovoked”, curious…
Scientific American op-ed:
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
(by me):
www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech...
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
(by me):
www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech...
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook
www.scientificamerican.com
December 21, 2023 at 10:52 AM
+1, though: “[science fiction as a genre] operates a lot like a large language model that is trained using a body of text heavily contaminated by previous LLMs; it tends to emit material like that of its predecessors.”
AFAIK the 1st time I’ve seen this direct comparison “unprovoked”, curious…
AFAIK the 1st time I’ve seen this direct comparison “unprovoked”, curious…