felix stalder

Researcher, teacher, and activist. Born at 324 PPM. Binary, so you don't have to be.

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2024-10-30 17:26:17

Come work with us!
Professor of Artistic Practice
The newly hired professor in the area of “Post Internet Praxis” will shape the English-language Master's Major in "Art:ificial Studies" (to be launched in 2025). The new major curriculum at the MA level is designed for students who are interested in the intersections of art, artificial intelligence technologies, and society.
https://apply.refline.ch/788531/1006/pub/2/index.html

2024-10-18 10:57:12

Generative AI is actually a continuation and intensification of the existential emptiness, simulation, and disposability produced by late-stage consumer capitalism.
Case in point: the Zurich franchise of the Munich "Oktoberfest". Inside the train station. Ugly, sad and fake on more levels than you can count on your fingers (even if you have six on each hand). And, of course, the adverts are AI generated creepiness. But at least they fit.
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2024-10-18 07:04:19

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@npub1yhj…3h3t I share the sentiment and agree that writing is thinking (rather than writing up), but this is really not true across the board. Translation and transcription services come to mind. These are real use-cases which are transformative, rather than outright generative, that have improved through LLMs, not to the point of full replacement, but enough to alter the landscape.

2024-10-13 21:49:56

Great comment on an AI generated poem.
"The ladder is very long, but it is still far from the moon.”

2024-10-13 21:42:59

On Generative AI
"The ladder is very long, but it is still far from the moon.”

2024-10-13 20:38:38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1VyNQpHF_8

2024-10-05 08:05:38

"Postscriptum Anthology" out now! Great collection of essays, published by @npub1epc…vetw tracking critical tech over the last decade. Best group of people to be part of.
https://aksioma.org/postscriptum-anthology
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2024-10-04 10:06:49

"Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds."
OK, this is obviously a very self-serving story, from a museum trying to prove its value ahead of potentially devastating public finding cuts.
One could do an entire cultural analysis of the moment where are in, when museums feel compelled to position themselves as effective neuro-stimulants.
But I think it nevertheless points a reason why stuff like the metaverse will never take off. There is a hard line that even high-res simulations cannot gross. And i's not the uncanny valley. And, my guess is: It has to with a) the infinity of detail of the analogue materials and b) the pleasurable complexity of embodied relationships.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/03/real-art-in-museums-stimulates-brain-much-more-than-reprints-study-finds#img-1

2024-10-03 18:13:37

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@npub1jxv…5h5n I don't think you can do this technically. I think you need to establish a strong culture not to use it and ask people to adhere to this rule. There are plenty of other rules on WP. But even in the best case, it will require manual clean up, even more admin tasks.

2024-10-03 12:03:46

I really like the Rest of the World site, and this is an impressive collection of digital religious practices (and great web design)
https://restofworld.org/series/digital-divinity/

2024-10-03 10:58:45

Wikipedia now needs to have a "WikiProject AI Cleanup". They should send Sam Altman a massive bill for all their extra, unnecessary work.
I wouldn't be surprised if, on balance, cleaning up after AI produced more cost than using AI ever saved. Unfortunately, probably not for the same people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

2024-10-03 10:55:59

Wikipedia now needs to have a "WikiProject AI Cleanup". They should send Sam Altman a massive bill for all their extra, unnecessary work.
I wouldn't be surprised if, on balance, cleaning up after AI, produced more cost than using AI saved. Unfortunately, probably not for the same people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup

2024-10-03 07:44:52

Schön @npub1s33…ddwy und @npub1yl8…0uj9 in derselben Radiosendung (oe1, orf) zu hören.

2024-09-25 09:47:33

If you think the world is not in a good shape and that capitalism, colonialism and patriarchy have something to do with it, then Verso is important to you. You know that.
If you have a one of their books at home (or, one of their non-drm ebooks on your device), now it's the time. They need your solidarity.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/versobooks/comrades-verso-needs-your-support-for-radical-publishing
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2024-09-25 09:46:44

2024-09-25 09:44:04

Verso, the publisher, is important. If you have a one of their books at home (or, one of their non-drm ebooks on your device), now it's the time. They need your help.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/versobooks/comrades-verso-needs-your-support-for-radical-publishing

2024-09-25 07:10:08

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@npub1yhj…3h3t for me, it all depends on the length. 500-1000 words are like this. More get exponentially more difficult. I need to keep more balls in the air simultaneously.

2024-09-16 12:07:56

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@npub1yhj…3h3t I like it. I also played with students a game where one draws a doodle and the challenge is that the class recognizes it before the

2024-09-05 17:23:28

Wie kaputt ist denn der @npub1wdm…uvky ?
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2024-09-03 08:46:53

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@npub1yhj…3h3t "But companies would rather burn a lot of money on failing #AI projects instead of going to therapy. How sad."
Great!

2024-07-02 08:25:31

Mal wieder ein ganz schwacher Artikel zu ChatGPT in der Bildung in der NZZ. Tenor: KI ist OK in anderen Fächern, aber nicht in meinen, dem Deutschunterricht, weil der Kanon der Literatur formt die "zukünftige Elite des Landes". So vieles ist falsch hier. Die Idee des Gymnasiums als Eliteschule, das bronierte bestehen auf Goethe als zeitlos relevant, der technikfeindliche Dünkel der konservativen Geisteswissenschaften, ....
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/ki-in-der-schule-chat-gpt-ist-eine-gefahr-fuers-gymnasium-ld.1836386

2024-06-27 09:45:49

My favourite error message!
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2024-06-18 10:59:59

Slides gerade noch fertig geworden. Nun auf dem Weg zum Institut für Europäische Ethnologie (Berlin)
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-institut/instituts-kolloquium

2024-06-04 09:39:27

It feels like big tech has basically given up and has retreated to indulging in escapist fantasies: space colonization, blockchain, AGI, the network state, metaverse, "hacking death", etc.
None of this solves any problems, or, even works as advertised.

2024-05-31 09:55:28

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@npub1yhj…3h3t da du nicht unter "Wissenschaft" fällst, würde ich es mal unter "politischer Bildung" versuchen. Also ev. mal mit der BPB sprechen.

2024-05-11 17:56:43

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@npub1yhj…3h3t neues profilbild!

2024-05-07 07:24:33

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@npub1yhj…3h3t 🤞

2024-02-23 11:17:54

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1mjh…pwl3
The guard rails go up. They don't want to create stereotypes of aliens :)
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