Tootfinder

Today's job: the utopian project of syllabus drafting. Imagining a perfect course is a way I deal with the existential dread brought on by the impending semester.
#academia

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

Every US tech company should sever ties with Europe and focus on LATAM/APAC for expansion. Europe isn't worth the ever-increasing amount of trouble associated with doing business here. Would also give European companies some breathing room to co-innovate the Progressive Utopian Surveillance State hand-in-hand with the EU.

Ernst #Bloch - Konkrete Utopie in der Jetztwelt
".... the very desire to transcend the status quo supports the idea that the world is pregnant with unrealized possibilities (Bloch 1988: 16)"
1988, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg (trans.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press