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Pearl

After the Bath by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1875)

Artist Trevor Paglen: At the Expense of Everybody Else

Meet American artist Trevor Paglen and his ground-breaking work on AI and the technological systems shaping our world.

For most of my career, one of the big themes I've been trying to understand is our relationship with infrastructures and technologies. In other words, how do we change the landscapes around us? And in doing so, how do we change who we are?

Over the years, Paglen has investigated communication systems, surveillance systems, and technologies that we use to interact with each other.

Is AI going to take people's jobs? Yes, absolutely. Is AI going to increase economic inequality? Yes, absolutely. We see the beginnings of that with what are essentially surveillance systems using AI. So, for example, your car spies on you, sends information about how carefully you drive and how closely you adhere to traffic laws to insurance companies who can then use that information to modulate how you pay your insurance.

Now what is going to happen is that increasingly, the entities we interact with online will be generated for us individually. So right now, people have to make TikTok videos, and the algorithm curates them in order to capture our attention. In the very near future, those videos or that media will just be individually generated for us. We will increasingly live in a world where each of us will contain dramatically different world views. And this, of course, will amplify a lot of trends like polarization, political manipulation, and disinformation. I think that's going to be far more dramatic than what people are imagining. And if so, I'm not sure how you have a concept like democracy.

#art #technology #ai #Youtube

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Georges Hobieka Haute Couture Spr/Sum 2025

miamaimania

by Guo Pei

goryhorroor

cats in horror

blanche in house (1977)

winston churchill in pet sematary (1989)

jezebel in the sentinel (1977)

jonesy in alien (1979)

ligeia in the tomb of ligeia (1964)

thackery binx in hocus pocus (1993)

general in cat’s eye (1985)

mar in ju-on: the grudge (2002)

the cat in a girl walks home alone at night (2014)

cat in coraline (2009)

olivierstephane

Olivier Stéphane 2025.

huariqueje

Enter - Morten Schelde , 2025.

Danish. b. 1972 -

Coloured pencil and marker on paper , 100 x 75 cm.

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Soey Milk aka Soey 우유 (Korean-American, b. 1989, Seoul, South Korea, based Los Angeles, CA, USA) - Untitled, 2016, Paintings: Oil

visual-poetry

by rafaël rozendaal

3liza

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

3liza

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layo

3liza

from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just from support but from the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.

ralfmaximus

Well fuckity

helendamnationx

Well. Shit. That explains the lack of April fools thing. This is... not good.

thiswilldragon

Welp. The Tumblr University jokes are coming home to roost.

The historic parallels that help explain Elon Musk’s rampage on the federal government.

"Such visions of a technologized society represent a break from the Make America Great Again populism that drove the first Trump Administration. maga reactionaries such as Steve Bannon tend to be skeptical of technological progress; as the journalist James Pogue has explained, their goal is to reclaim an American culture “thought to be lost after decades of what they see as globalist technocracy.” Bannon has denounced Silicon Valley’s ideology as “technofeudalism” and declared war on Musk. He sees it as antihuman, with U.S. citizens turned into “digital serfs” whose freedom is delimited by tech companies. In a January interview with Ross Douthat, of the Times, Bannon said, “They have to be stopped. If we don’t stop it, and we don’t stop it now, it’s going to destroy not just this country, it’s going to destroy the world.” Whereas the maga right wants to restore things as they were (or as they imagine things were), the tech right wants to, in Mark Zuckerberg’s phrasing, break things. In the Times interview, Bannon called Musk “one of the top accelerationists,” referencing another technology-inflected political ideology that treats chaos as an inevitability."

#techno-fascism #techno-populism #technology #AI