Eckart Voigts

what a week-meme: What a yeah, huh Captain, it's 3 January

ugh

Heute ist Welttag des unzuverlässigen Erzählens. Vielleicht auch erst morgen.

An AI generated image of a mildly futuristic cityscape, with the SPD logo in the corner

The project assembles AI images of cityscapes supposedly representing the political programs of various parties. With their otherworldly glow and cartoonish aesthetics, all of these images have the same generic AI slop look familiar from countless LinkedIn posts and PowerPoint presentations
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My favourite.

His gross taste and his disgusting manners are just as bad as his atrocious politics. I hope the midterms will be the beginning of the end of this regime. One must not lose hope!

I spoke about Adaptation Studies and the Environmental Humanities for our Open Imaginaries Project. The extraordinary kindness of hosts Prof. Heebon Park, Dr Minki Kim, Sungji Lee and the entire team overwhelmed me. A shout out to fellow keynote speaker & travelling companion Mark Thornton Burnett.

Had an excellent few days at the 2025 Multi Con-TEXT Graduate Conference at Chungbuk University, South Korea.

Old song. New video. youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w?...

...and James Batman...

Next up is @ecco0210.bsky.social talking about adapting academic essays into film.

And now getting ready for Iain Robert Smith's keynote on the restored "the Turkish Star Wars" (and "coca-colonization" etc....).

You first.

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Dear Europe,

Trump completely melts under pushback.

So push back.

Chungbuk war nicht ganz so hübsch. Aber auch sehr nett dort.

US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on ‘inclusive’ AI Confirmation of snub comes after JD Vance criticises Europe’s ‘excessive regulation’ of technology

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Christopher Walken.

Gewissensheldentum verpflichtet: Im gestrigen „Duell“ zitierte Merz selbst seine Bundestagsrede.

Anglistenverband seit 2023 Anglistikverband. Mit großer Mehrheit. War gar nicht schlimm.

Went to see Gob Squad's News from Beyond at HAU Berlin. And Nachtkritik very much sums up what I thought. Plus: It needs a lot of courage to really allow unscripted entertainment. nachtkritik.de/nachtkritike...

'The truth is she did the right thing': The mystery of why Jane Austen's letters were destroyed – by her own sister Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's in part because of an act that infuriates many to this day.

Miss Austen www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian "President Donner." * That day is…

What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago: Science fiction writer Octavia Butler wrote in her 1993 novel "Parable of the Sower" that Feb. 1, 2025, would be a time of fires, violence, racism, addiction, climate change, social inequality and an authoritarian "President Donner."

*…

Hamburg. (Download from Insta).

WHO DID THIS!

A Shit Academics Say screenshot that reads (Manuscript in preparation (2024 crossed out, 2025)

It’s that time of year again.

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Anyhow, the distributed plagiarism of LLMs is so much more sophisticated than good old-fashioned copy & paste. Authorship is messy and dangerous. Data will keep us safe and clean. There ist no truth outside of data. Data is God.

Maybe a bad feeling, but also a great idea. As long as someone uses LLMs to produce text they can be thought of as 'responsible', right? No interest, no creativity. Apart from evolution. Wait, now it gets complicated.

If you start watching David Cronenberg's 1981 film Scanners tonight at 23:47 and 40 seconds that guy on the right's head will explode precisely at midnight.

I have no idea why you would want to do this. But you could.

Photo of an owl, giving an “I’m exhausted look”.

How your email finds me right now….