RIP Raoul Vaneigem 1934-2026 A good run for a radical leftist and an influential legacy

This account/comment is making the rounds right now. My friends, this is an AI-generated profile picture and clearly a political spam operation don’t engage with this crap

How chuffed with himself do you think AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky was when he got this angle on Putin

Watch me crush a dying man’s dreams of having discovered a da Vinci painting on Swedish public television: www.svtplay.se/video/jMdmpB...

And academia all over the world grinds to a halt …

Cover reveal! Digital Photography after AI out Dec 1, 2026! 🎉 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205639...

ChatGPT uses sources now, they said. It's more reliable, they said. Great images/sources for this made up art historian "Seth Drimmer" (alter ego of @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I assume)

It was a typo ffs

My article, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare: Computer Vision and the Art Theory of Joseph Beuys" appears in this excellent new volume released Feb. 28

I still don’t understand why the Swedes think the Canadians cheated at curling 🤔

Mechanical turks at it again www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

This forced me to read it in a robot voice {"type":"text", "content":"goofy"}

Ah nytimes is at it again… and this is the only voice representing a humanities perspective 🫠

One of the major funding bodies in Sweden is using AI-generated images as thumbnails for the research projects they've funded and... the absolute absurdity of the "The Best ways to improve reading skills" project thumbnail

Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today

Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness

Here are two others in the sequence on the AP website:

Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby

My contribution with Matti La Mela (@matti-lamela.bsky.social) — ”What is Digital Humanities and what’s it doing in the department of ALM (Archives, Libraries, and Museums)”

Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

ohhh kay. I see how it is.

Just finished reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI — and wow so good!

I hate this so much... just let me read the damn book. Why is this the default? So many students are going to miss out.

...or when this kind of mistake could make it to print without being noticed (2008)

I love reading old tech literature. ...when terminology had not yet settled (2009)

Two pages that have aged pretty badly

The rate of wtf articles appearing in the nytimes seems to be accelerating 🫠

Happy May Day! Thinking of those who fought and died—and still fight and die—for the rights of workers around the world.