Jesse Josua Benjamin

Oh, Angelo...shit. what a loss

Ok so there's clearly another wave, maybe I'll become a bit more active here. Currently working on contemporary design aesthetics, driven half mad by all the blinking cursors I'm close to convinced HCI needs Cassirer and Flusser more than ever & dangerously close to thinking I should do that writing

@dpgreen.bsky.social 🦀

Reedlands clouded over in Leighton Moss, Lancashire

Boggy boglands in Leighton Moss, Lancashire

*Boooooom* goes the bittern.

Leighton Moss, Lancashire

Precisely.

this doesn't feel like the place, but --- i'll be joining TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) this summer as Assistant Professor »Design Aesthetics for Intelligent Adaptive Systems« and that is insane and i am absolutely chuffed🔮🎛

#HCI
@academic-chatter.bsky.social

so, so, soooo much sloppy work in ostensibly "more-than-human" design. cripes.

Germany under pressure to explain intercepted phone call German ministers warned that the leak, aired by Russian state media, amounts to a "hybrid disinformation attack".

"The discussion was reportedly hosted on the *Webex* [!!!!] conference platform rather than a secure army platform, causing further embarrassment for Berlin."

Forever Neuland @arneberger.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...

Screenshot of a presentation slide quoting @bildoperationen with examples fo what he refers to as Platform Realism

Quoted @bildoperationen.bsky.social (alongside Flusser & Rancière) today in a guest talk at TU Eindhoven 🎛🔮

Really enjoyed working on this piece for The Conversation with @entoptic.media … exploring how the way we think about #genAI models arguably has some resonance with with free speech theconversation.com/ai-a-way-to-... … which in turn is a great argument for responsible #AI licenses www.licenses.ai

Midjourney-generated image: a photograph of a jesus washing the feet of a football player in a stadium, in the style of Gregory Crewdson --v 6.0 --style raw --ar 16:9

The »He Gets Us« ad, which aired during Super Bowl, made quite a buzz. Many pointed out that the images of people washing each other's feet looked suspiciously AI-generated. Meanwhile, the artist behind the series has spoken out, describing how each of these photographs took days to create
1/5

i'd love this

Mr Milchick about to serve up the ‘Defiant Jazz’ Experience

“Excellent Choice.”

Picture of the Blackthorn Salt Tower, a large brutalist-organic, chapel-like structure with narrow wooden front and horizontally inserted blackthorn branches for collecting salt from the Scottish seawind

I’ll swear any oath at the Blackthorn Salt Tower 🖤

www.blackthornsalt.co.uk/our-method

Picture of Gerald fucking Stratford holding a huge…gourd? Zucchini?

“Send the terfs?” you say? Why yes milord, at once milord.

Norbert Weiner, concluding his famous "Cybernetics" book, by warning that STEM shouldn't replace the Humanities...

Wondering whether #HCI (particularly the design research community) is lacking a bit in its consideration of aesthetics (≠ aesthetic)—there seems to be little in-depth consideration over why artefacts take certain forms in contrast to methods that justify & evaluate artefacts functionally

And another thing, seen from the perpective of the Lumon designers the faux 70s/80s International Style of the Severed Floor is kind of amazing, like finding the eye of a storm for the severed in the form of a digestible, perfectly signifying sludge of corporate core

And the timeless forms of small and great oppression with occasional gardens of joy in both. Oh, Irving.

Really remarkable approach to shatter the supposed duality of the two worlds. 2/2

Exactly! What I find really interesting is that this does not only stick to the Severed Floor (where this logic is turned up) but also permeates the Outie World in a slightly more shbtle wa. The cars, the relative lack of tech, the barely cohesive living spaces, that guy Ricken (!) as a whole. 1/2

I’m obsessed with the design on this show…nudging utilitarian ergonomics into the twilight zone is such a great move

Still thinking about this comic ... I was a huge C&G fan as a student, now I’m a middle-aged critical theory nerd who keeps going on about art & the means of production & better futures and yeah I’m more and more disillusioned about the contribution of digital practices to the latter – thread 🧵 1/14

Towel rack with old-timey green grocer illustration, his board being used by me to count how much I, sigh, vape.

Wet lung counter initiated.

Oh no

Real screenshot of Amazon where products are AI-generated and their names are “I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”

If you want a vision of the future,

Tatsächlich seien diese Ideen mit Vorsicht zu genießen. Und nun zu Gundula Gause.

250gr bag of coffee from the Yemeni Haraz Collective, roasted & ground by Atkinsons Lancaster

Shot of the coffee in a pour-over Hario filter, it has a light brown-golden colour somewhere between black earth and sand

View of the filter after third water pour, looking like puckered clay

The coffee in a mug with oatmilk, cloudy and caramel

I like my coffee (in the knowledge that people nerd much harder about it than I do) so having Atkinsons Coffee Roastery in Lancaster is a ridiculous treat.

This coffee they sourced from the Yemeni Haraz Collective does incredible things, and a little of the price goes to the Yemen UNICEF appeal.

The rampant corruption!

Crying! At the Research Group Rebranding