In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Silicon Valley, they had billions in venture capital and what did that produce? The Elon Musk AI sizzle reel.

Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 2w ago

This Elon Christ Superstar AI movie goes on for SIX minutes, and it’s as hilarious at is terrifying due to the reflection of just who exactly has taken control of everything in this world

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I guess the entire Arday episode shows us that it isn't just the Right that's susceptible to con men.

New paper arxiv.org/abs/2607.13696

Anatomy of Uncertainty: Expressive Descriptors of Robotic Manipulator Motion for Non-verbal Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration

Robots operating in human-robot collaboration must communicate not only their intended actions but also uncertainty arising from incomplete or ambiguous perception. This work introduces a mathematical...

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Just waiting for this one to bust out some dance moves. And that'll be the last we ever see of it.

Ich will einfach nur ein Daumenkino auf den neuen Euro-Scheinen, damit Geldzählen endlich Spaß macht.

This whole bizarre debate about skin colour in the Odyssey becomes even stranger once you realize that Homer describes honey as "green" (chlōros), sheep as "violet " (ióeis) while "blue" isn't mentioned even ONCE in thousands of verses.

Gut zu wissen, dass wir mit dem Problem nicht allein sind.

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This was the maritime flag (ensign) used on Chinese ships around 1700 for national identification. #China

Me, quietly thriving in the rare awareness that I don’t know enough about geopolitics to tweet confidently about it.

Me, an animation scholar, when everybody talks about the 'Monkey Punch'

a man in a red suit and tie is eating a sandwich

ALT: a man in a red suit and tie is eating a sandwich

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The correct term for a humanoid robot/android that resembles a woman is: 'gynoid.' You’re welcome.

Gott behüte uns, wenn der deutsche Landwirt Drohnen für sich entdeckt.

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Chinese farmer loads pig onto drone, accidentally flies into power line, causes blackout

Finally an actually useful application for humanoid robots. (Apart from dancing, of course)

Apple Vision Pro. Released exactly 2 years ago. The kind of product that feels inevitable on paper, then turns out to be quite silly, impractical and useless. Still somewhat cute.

I really miss the times when plans for illegal invasions came with elaborate artworks.

Note: Life in Germany is worse than in China AND Portugal.

Bernhard Schmitt@patchcritics.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ai Weiwei. Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat: Der deutsche Proto-Rentner. hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

"It is time to abandon that dream for good. Robots are for battle, and robots are for spying, and robots are for places where humans will not or cannot be." I'd like to differ: >Underneath my couch< is definitely a place I don't like to be. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

«Wissenschaftliche Fakten gelten als langweilig. Mit langweiligen Fakten konfrontiert zu werden, funktioniert also offenbar ganz hervorragend als Provokation! An Kunst als Transgression hat man sich dagegen gewöhnt, die wird als normal hingenommen.» www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

„The Island": Hito Steyerl in der Fondazione Prada

Die Künstlerin Hito Steyerl zeigt in Mailand ihre neue Videoinstallation. Darin kämpft ein Superheld mit Unterstützung der Quantenphysik gegen Populismus und die Übermacht von KI. Ein Gespräch über Fa...

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Das ist eines der Probleme des öffentlichen KI-Diskurses – der Begriff «Künstliche Intelligenz» suggeriert eine spezifische Technologie (für die meisten Leute: ChatGPT und Verwandtes), kann aber bei Bedarf alle möglichen avancierten Software-Anwendungen auf Machine-Learning-Basis umfassen 2/

These moralizing Disney posts are weird. As if Disney had ever acted out of moral principles. Disney has always been tech-obsessed and profit-driven, from multiplane cameras to robots. Testing technology is in Disney’s DNA. It is the reason for the success. Acting surprised now is just naive.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 9mo ago

Disney has signed a deal with OpenAI & invested $1 billion into the company Sora will now be able to AI generate videos based on animated, masked & creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar & Star Wars Curated selections of AI generated videos will be released on Disney+

For people who trusted copyright laws to rein in AI, this should be the last scene in Animal Farm. “They looked from IP to Tech, and from Tech to IP, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora

Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

openai.com

Time again for this meme

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

In Japan you can still smoke while eating dolphin. 😳

Helme Heine (1941–2025). 😢 Amazing illustrator and author.

MITpress ragebaiting on Instagram 😅

“tHiS iS AI! Who dares post this! 😠” - the replies alone prove how utterly humorless Bluesky has become. (Or always was)

@unioncity.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch

Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

futurism.com