cameron tonkinwise

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transition design, service design, design philosophy, finitude most of my occasional thinking these days takes advantage of the slightly longer form afforded by the truly awful linkedin, sorry:

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cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jun 30

appears to have been promoting her company while testifying: www.linkedin.com/posts/tdiese...

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jun 20

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat:

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jun 19

A data point about what it is like working at a university at the moment. These are the workshops Central is advertising via an email sent to every academic at my institution:

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jun 12

You can apparently fool most of the people most of the time, especially stock market gambling addicts www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

screenshot reading "So what could Trump's rhetoric about a deal really mean? The warning comes after months of Trump repeatedly insisting a deal with Iran was imminent — in fact, at least 38 times since March, according to CNN. Trump's remarks on a potential peace deal with Iran, which would end the war, open the Strait of Hormuz, and heavily restrict Iran's nuclear ambitions, have been coming up since March in multiple interviews and social media posts."

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· May 25

If you know what this note to myself found on my desk means, please drop me a line. Also, how my handwriting has degraded...

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· May 24

Copilot tries to give you good answers, but it can make mistakes. Sometimes, the sources Copilot uses may not be reliable, relevant, or accurate, and sometimes, Copilot may give you wrong information. When responding, Copilot may use information it finds on the internet, and we don’t control that content. You might see Responses that seem convincing but are incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate.

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· May 11

Here is the intellectual giganticism of the Minister for Science Technology and the Digital Economy in my so-called nation - from this Gwyneth Paltrow vibed speech: www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ch...

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· May 5

nothing says we don't really care like AI-slopping your political campaign

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Apr 30

a new account that just posts mixed metaphor visuals:

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Apr 26

"a temporary liberal consensus that dissolves on contact with air" youtu.be/id2SNd6HnC8?...

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Mar 16

A couple of decades later they collaborated, but worth remembering how legitimately pissed off Derrida was with Habermas' utterly hypocritical early dismissal of Derrida's work - from "Afterword" in the book version of _Limited Inc_

long screenshot of Derrida's footnote, with this section highlighted: "With a stupefying tranquillity, here is the philosopher
of consensus, of dialogue and of discussion, the philosopher who claims to distinguish between
science and literary fiction, between philosopy and literary criticism, daring not only to criticize
without citing or giving a reference for twenty-five pages, but, even worse, justifying his nonreading
and his atmospheric or hemispheric choices by this incredible alibi: "Since Derrida does not belong to those philosophers who like to argue [argumentations Jreudigen Philosophen, my emphasis!], it is
expedient [ratsam] to take a closer look at his disciples in literary criticism within the Anglo-Saxon climate of argument in order to see whether this thesis really can be held."

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Mar 14

And then of course the whole 'let's fk with library catalogue metadata' is capitalized upon by some gestural environmental politics that registers 'NATURE' as an artist to collect negligible Spotify payments. FFS

Screenshot of text indicating that 'NATURE' is an 'official artist' registered in association with the 'Museum for the United Nations' so that 'Tracks that credit NATURE support her [sic] conservation.'

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Mar 14

Infuriating when large businesses are this bad at their core business. Penguin Cafe Orchestra have a piece of music based on a 'traditional' tune, so Spotify offers other music by the artist 'traditional' because who-the-f-cares.

screenshot of Spotify showing track name and under 'Artist' it reads 'Traditional, Penguin Café;' then below that it reads 'More by Traditional'

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Feb 17

Fujitsu to its customers: "whatever - at least we are not lying to you"

screenshot of website that reads:
Knowledge base > Information > ChatGPT service manuals (2)

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Feb 12

The response from the unprincipled cowards who now run a Nazi bar.

Screenshot of post by Hamish McKenzie that reads "I just want to make it clear that we don't like Nazis either - we wish no-one held those views. bus some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship makes the problem go away - in fact it makes it worse."

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Feb 8

the desert of the real

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Feb 1

platform zealotry

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Feb 1

I'd actually just settle for insight into the Business Model: sufficient revenue from university library purchases despite those universities also subscribing to 'we must actually help students use AI because it is the future'?

New Yorker cartoon of a man talking to children around a fire in a cave saying "yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we published hundreds of giant Routledge Handbooks on Regenerative More-than-Human Planetary Design"

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jan 24

There is some solace in the fact that if you are going to stick AI-Slop into your (pre-print) academic paper, you are required to reference the infantile name that some techbro has given their image regurgitation machine... Nano Banana, FFS

screenshot of image caption that reads: "...Image generated by Gemini's Nano Banana, December 13, 2025)"

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jan 16

no, oh no, please, this cannot be, make it stop

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Jan 13

"Don't make me think" was a dangerous slogan when the 'me' was 'users,' but now the 'me' seems to be 'designers.' What do these people think thinking is and why do they hate doing it?

Screenshot of a linkedin post by a creative director at BCG that reads: "Prototyping is now faster than thinking. Methodologies are being ignored hacked and rebuilt. I've caught myself designing first and thinking second because when execution is this fast and cheap, fear of wasting time or money disappears."

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Dec 18

I have for the very first time in my life intentionally attempted to use a genAI system, and the result was far from intelligent

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Dec 11

A blogpost I just found. FFS. genAI = inauthentic the they idle chatter! (& why does anyone do this: "here's what the TV said when I turned it on." "here's a quote from a random page of a book." "here's a song lyric." "here's the result of me clicking the middle word option suggested by Siri.")

Why does Heidegger say that the modern man loses his being to “the They” in his “average” way of living.
ChatGPT said:

Excellent question — and a central one in understanding Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927).

Heidegger says that modern man loses his being to “the They” (German: das Man) because in our everyday, average mode of existence, we do not live as our own authentic selves, but rather as anonymous participants in a social order that dictates how one ought to think, speak, and act.

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Nov 23

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Nov 19

A designer posted this and all I can see is the pile of short-life things people put on the kerb on household bulky waste clean-up day. A career in landfill.

A screenshot that the author has captioned "A look at (most of) the products I've helped brief, design, prototype, engineer, strategize, and bring to market." There are 15 barbecue-associated cooking devices and about a hundred children's pull-carts and scooters.

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Nov 5

Use AI to make traffic elsewhere - or, you know, you could take active/public transport

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Oct 19

Change Radio to GenAI in this Brecht polemic: www.nyklewicz.com/brecht.html

It was not the public that waited for radio but radio that waited for a public; to define the situation of radio more accurately, raw material was not waiting for methods of production based on social needs but means of production were looking anxiously for raw material. It was suddenly possible to say everything to everybody but, thinking about it, there was nothing to say. And who was "everybody"? To begin with, the answer was not to think about it.

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Sep 27

The Design Team at @microsoft.com: do we care? we do not - let the shitshow continue

Teams message: "Announcement: As part of a recent update, some Teams you may have previously hidden are now visible again. If you'd prefer not to see them, you can easily hide them from your Teams view."

cameron tonkinwise@camerontw· Sep 14

BAU