"The Idea of AI Slop is Slop"
"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of culture." by @francescodisa.bsky.social @philosalon.bsky.social
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"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of culture." by @francescodisa.bsky.social @philosalon.bsky.social
thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-idea-of-...
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"The Idea of AI Slop is Slop"
"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of culture." by @francescodisa.bsky.social @philosalon.bsky.social
thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-idea-of-...
"The majority of human production has always been slop. Mediocrity is not a bug of technology; it is the baseline of culture." by @francescodisa.bsky.social @philosalon.bsky.social
thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-idea-of-...
AI - Is it creative or just crap? Our event at the Wheaton Institute, Dec 3 at 5pm, featuring great and fun student work on the most-hyped tech-bubble of 2025: wheatoncollege.edu/wiih/current...
AI Humanities - Events AI: Is it creative or just crap?
AI and the creative industries: What will it enhance? What will it make obsolete? What will it retrieve that might not happen otherwise? Creative work by Wheaton students, critical, celebratory, acade...
wheatoncollege.edu
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
AI - Is it creative or just crap? Our event at the Wheaton Institute, Dec 3 at 5pm, featuring great and fun student work on the most-hyped tech-bubble of 2025: wheatoncollege.edu/wiih/current...
my new class: Understanding AI - creative experiments with AI and applications outside the “ready-made”, “pre-packaged”, “shiny boxes” of Chatbots and prompt-based image generation, to get an idea on the true potential of AI (and also its limitations).
wheatoncollege.edu/academics/sp...
wheatoncollege.edu/academics/sp...
Understanding AI
New class Understanding AI: Concepts and creative experiments beyond chatbots and prompt writing
wheatoncollege.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
my new class: Understanding AI - creative experiments with AI and applications outside the “ready-made”, “pre-packaged”, “shiny boxes” of Chatbots and prompt-based image generation, to get an idea on the true potential of AI (and also its limitations).
wheatoncollege.edu/academics/sp...
wheatoncollege.edu/academics/sp...
The great exhibition on Caspar David Friedrich in the Metropolitan Museum inspired me to finally translate and update an old essay on forests as metaphors and German romanticism: jbenno.net/waldeinsamke...
Waldeinsamkeit | jbenno.net
jbenno.net
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The great exhibition on Caspar David Friedrich in the Metropolitan Museum inspired me to finally translate and update an old essay on forests as metaphors and German romanticism: jbenno.net/waldeinsamke...
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How to Spend Less Time on your Phone: Memento mori (Latin for 'remember (that you have) to die').
This meme is brought to you from #earlymodern #bookhistory and the #SmilingDeath himself.
This meme is brought to you from #earlymodern #bookhistory and the #SmilingDeath himself.
June 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How to Spend Less Time on your Phone: Memento mori (Latin for 'remember (that you have) to die').
This meme is brought to you from #earlymodern #bookhistory and the #SmilingDeath himself.
This meme is brought to you from #earlymodern #bookhistory and the #SmilingDeath himself.
Reposted by Joerg Blumtritt
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
March 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
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DC being DC you know people who know people. A friend writes the following, which I’m posting with permission.
March 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
DC being DC you know people who know people. A friend writes the following, which I’m posting with permission.
Am Grunde der Moldau wandern die Steine
Es liegen drei Kaiser begraben in Prag.
Das Große bleibt groß nicht und klein nicht das Kleine.
Die Nacht hat zwölf Stunden, dann kommt schon der Tag.
Es liegen drei Kaiser begraben in Prag.
Das Große bleibt groß nicht und klein nicht das Kleine.
Die Nacht hat zwölf Stunden, dann kommt schon der Tag.
March 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Am Grunde der Moldau wandern die Steine
Es liegen drei Kaiser begraben in Prag.
Das Große bleibt groß nicht und klein nicht das Kleine.
Die Nacht hat zwölf Stunden, dann kommt schon der Tag.
Es liegen drei Kaiser begraben in Prag.
Das Große bleibt groß nicht und klein nicht das Kleine.
Die Nacht hat zwölf Stunden, dann kommt schon der Tag.
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"A state is destroyed by great men and the people fall
into the slavery of monarchy thanks to ignorance.”
ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἐκ μεγάλων πόλις ὄλλυται, ἐς δὲ μονάρχου
δῆμος ἀϊδρίηι δουλοσύνην ἔπεσεν #Solon
into the slavery of monarchy thanks to ignorance.”
ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἐκ μεγάλων πόλις ὄλλυται, ἐς δὲ μονάρχου
δῆμος ἀϊδρίηι δουλοσύνην ἔπεσεν #Solon
January 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"A state is destroyed by great men and the people fall
into the slavery of monarchy thanks to ignorance.”
ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἐκ μεγάλων πόλις ὄλλυται, ἐς δὲ μονάρχου
δῆμος ἀϊδρίηι δουλοσύνην ἔπεσεν #Solon
into the slavery of monarchy thanks to ignorance.”
ἀνδρῶν δ’ ἐκ μεγάλων πόλις ὄλλυται, ἐς δὲ μονάρχου
δῆμος ἀϊδρίηι δουλοσύνην ἔπεσεν #Solon
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Students at Brown have used the Google Maps API to create a live tracker for traffic flows under congestion pricing in NYC. It includes a real-time diff-in-diff type comparison between NYC, Boston, and Chicago:
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
Congestion Pricing Tracker | Benjamin and Joshua Moshes
This project is run by Joshua Moshes and Benjamin Moshes, under the supervision of Brown University Professor Emily Oster
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Students at Brown have used the Google Maps API to create a live tracker for traffic flows under congestion pricing in NYC. It includes a real-time diff-in-diff type comparison between NYC, Boston, and Chicago:
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com
2017 I generally stopped using Twitter. While I can be found on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@jbenno ) and Bsky, I lost most of my social network in the transition. And now I don't know about what I should post anymore. Feeling self conscious and clumsy.
Joerg Blumtritt @jbenno (@jbenno@mastodon.social)
62 Posts, 946 Following, 438 Followers · pathetic
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November 25, 2024 at 9:14 PM
2017 I generally stopped using Twitter. While I can be found on Mastodon (mastodon.social/@jbenno ) and Bsky, I lost most of my social network in the transition. And now I don't know about what I should post anymore. Feeling self conscious and clumsy.
We are hiring a professor of film and digital media at Wheaton College where I teach: jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/postings/4447
November 20, 2024 at 3:41 PM
We are hiring a professor of film and digital media at Wheaton College where I teach: jobs.wheatoncollege.edu/postings/4447
I was appointed Director of the Wheaton Institute at Wheaton College, where I also teach digital media. My project there will be 'AI Humanities': wheatoncollege.edu/wiih
Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH)
AI Humanities: Revisit and reclaim AI as an endeavour of the humanities, philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts
wheatoncollege.edu
July 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I was appointed Director of the Wheaton Institute at Wheaton College, where I also teach digital media. My project there will be 'AI Humanities': wheatoncollege.edu/wiih
my favourite museum in London. Have been there many times!
Jam-packed with treasures: the eccentric Sir John Soane’s Museum | The Spectator - www.spectator.co.uk/article/jam-...
Jam-packed with treasures: the eccentric Sir John Soane’s Museum
Sir John Soane’s Museum is one of London’s most eccentric buildings, containing a riot of classical fragments, paintings, architectural models and plaster casts jammed in to overflowing narrow galleri...
www.spectator.co.uk
June 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
my favourite museum in London. Have been there many times!
missing in this list: the wonderful "Insel Felsenburg" ("Palisades Island") by Johann Schnabel ("Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer") de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insel_F...
*The "utopian genre." There may be some others, in manuscript, that nobody has noticed yet.
April 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
missing in this list: the wonderful "Insel Felsenburg" ("Palisades Island") by Johann Schnabel ("Wunderliche Fata einiger Seefahrer") de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insel_F...
Furthest I've been:
E: Tokyo
W: Vancouver
S: Singapore
N: Hammerfest
E: Tokyo
W: Vancouver
S: Singapore
N: Hammerfest
Furthest I've been:
E: Ankara, Turkey
W: the west coast of Bali, Indonesia
S: San Miguel de Allende, MX
N: Edinburgh, UK
E: Ankara, Turkey
W: the west coast of Bali, Indonesia
S: San Miguel de Allende, MX
N: Edinburgh, UK
Furthest I’ve been:
E: Petra
S: Miami
W: San Francisco
N: Amsterdam
E: Petra
S: Miami
W: San Francisco
N: Amsterdam
December 13, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Furthest I've been:
E: Tokyo
W: Vancouver
S: Singapore
N: Hammerfest
E: Tokyo
W: Vancouver
S: Singapore
N: Hammerfest
"Repressive forces don't stop
people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves." Deleuze, Negotiations
people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves." Deleuze, Negotiations
November 10, 2023 at 8:26 PM
"Repressive forces don't stop
people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves." Deleuze, Negotiations
people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves." Deleuze, Negotiations
"Living for Pleasure": Emily A. Austin has written a beautiful book about Epicureanism and how to lead a good life. Such pleasure to read! Truly Epicuren. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 9, 2023 at 12:44 AM
"Living for Pleasure": Emily A. Austin has written a beautiful book about Epicureanism and how to lead a good life. Such pleasure to read! Truly Epicuren. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Because I love fun, people-pleasing topics, I wrote about when anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism, why anti-Israel movements are often coopted by anti-Jewish actors, and how an array of apologists have unfortunately used anti-Zionism as a cover to justify bigotry and violence towards Jews:
When Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
The most consequential form of anti-Zionism today is the one that deploys guns and rockets.
www.theatlantic.com
November 8, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Because I love fun, people-pleasing topics, I wrote about when anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism, why anti-Israel movements are often coopted by anti-Jewish actors, and how an array of apologists have unfortunately used anti-Zionism as a cover to justify bigotry and violence towards Jews:
'pathetic' translates to erbarmungswürdig and erbärmlich in German. The first expresses that someone deserves mercy, the second that they are despicable.
October 29, 2023 at 6:00 PM
'pathetic' translates to erbarmungswürdig and erbärmlich in German. The first expresses that someone deserves mercy, the second that they are despicable.
The contemporary designer vase inspired by Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia Universalis? (cc @bruces.bsky.social )
October 18, 2023 at 6:19 PM
The contemporary designer vase inspired by Athanasius Kircher's Musurgia Universalis? (cc @bruces.bsky.social )
techno-optimism - dead like those custom ringtone subscriptions.
October 17, 2023 at 4:56 PM
techno-optimism - dead like those custom ringtone subscriptions.
Introduce yourself with three books you love:
1. THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN GERMAN ART 1790 - 1990, Royal Scottish Academy et al.
2. MINIMA MORALIA, Theodor W. Adorno
3. ABEND MIT GOLDRAND (trans. An Evening Edged in Gold), Arno Schmidt
1. THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN GERMAN ART 1790 - 1990, Royal Scottish Academy et al.
2. MINIMA MORALIA, Theodor W. Adorno
3. ABEND MIT GOLDRAND (trans. An Evening Edged in Gold), Arno Schmidt
October 17, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Introduce yourself with three books you love:
1. THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN GERMAN ART 1790 - 1990, Royal Scottish Academy et al.
2. MINIMA MORALIA, Theodor W. Adorno
3. ABEND MIT GOLDRAND (trans. An Evening Edged in Gold), Arno Schmidt
1. THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN GERMAN ART 1790 - 1990, Royal Scottish Academy et al.
2. MINIMA MORALIA, Theodor W. Adorno
3. ABEND MIT GOLDRAND (trans. An Evening Edged in Gold), Arno Schmidt