Sociologist, UX researcher, digital anthroplogist & artist. Exploring UX, VR, AR, AI, the Chinternet & techy-art.
Berlin, Germany
Joined August 2014
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This very old image-archive-blog of mine called Internet Smiternet is 10 years old now. I haven't updated it in years, but there is ton of good content here. Enjoy:
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Instagram is dead.
In the next 3 - 5 years, every single image in social media will be generated by AI.
And here is the kicker: It will be impossible to tell fake from reality.
I wrote a few lines of Python code to show you how screwed we are:
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La fuerza gravitacional de la luna dirige las mareas. La Luna tira de los océanos hacia ella y hace que la Tierra se abulte ligeramente: este abultamiento crea las mareas. Pero las mareas que tenemos se deben a que la Luna está donde está. 🌊 🌒
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InfiniteNature-Zero: Learning Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from Single Images
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2207.11148
project page: infinite-nature-zero.github.…
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children being eaten by bears as punishment for mocking a bald man, germany, 15th century
ALT A medieval drawing of bears attacking children while a man watches from a cart
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1/4 conference presentation week, showing off some work with @shchetvina on the technological imaginaries of the Chinese machine vision industry at #SSN2022
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today I read the sentence "I don’t think it’s possible to make WeChat for the West" and I can't stop thinking about it
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Brilliant: after Shanghai said it was easing lockdown, reporting Shanghai gov’t Weibo account to anti-fraud app.
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“For the Birds,” a star-studded, 242-track collection of songs and readings inspired by or incorporating birdsong, became a sprawling project, its organizer Randall Poster said, because “people were spending a lot of time looking out the window.” nyti.ms/3LnMJMg
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Gotta appreciate this subtle form of protest. Someone on a street in Shanghai has written out the “Core Values of Socialism” but made FREEDOM extra big. The Core Values are everywhere u look in China. Whoever did this is using Party ideology against itself
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#hilmaafklimt #altarbird #1915 what I love about this work from the early 20th century, is that the quest for the spiritual, the archetype, the other world went hand in hand with aesthetics. More journey than art.
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Situation in Peking Univ. (my college)
If there is one college that's politically sensitive, probably this one. Everyone knows where many past political movements start. /1
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For one day last month, Chinese internet users beat the censors. We looked at the use of 'relay' or 接力, a kind of online collective action, to keep a video documenting the voices of Shanghai residents alive online despite censors best efforts to erase it.washingtonpost.com/world/int…
