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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🙌 Nächste Woche im StadtPalais in Stuttgart. Vortrag von Eileen Mandir und mir: "Die Zukunft des Museums / Design Futuring" 📅 Di, 21.7.2026, 17:00 Uhr, 📍 StadtPalais Stuttgart, Eintritt frei. -> www.stadtpalais-stuttgart.de/veranstaltun...

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🪚 I frankensteined a small bench with golden joints together. Found a corner bench in a shed, cut it into a smaller straight one, and 3D printed all the joints in gold. Kintsugi style. Idea via J. Paul Neely www.linkedin.com/posts/jpauln... #Kintsugi #Design #3DPrinting #Furniture #Making

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Are you in the weights? 🤔 Type a name, see how strongly leading AI models recognize it. No web search, just what's baked into the weights. I'm apparently top 7%, unsure what to think. 😂 Interesting to see whose existence got encoded into AI, and more importantly, whose didn't. intheweights.com

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Two weeks ago Jordi Tost and I ran "Things from Otherwhere: Co-speculating with AI" at Politecnico di Milano. Design futuring, defamiliarization, and generative AI to question everyday objects. Glitches as raw material, not errors. Who got the Golden Glitch Award? 🏆

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

😂 "Don't blame me, I'm just copying the robots in my favorite sci-fi stories!" Anthropic found that when Claude hits an ethical dilemma not covered by training, it falls back on dystopian sci-fi tropes. 👉️ arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-blames-dystopian-sci-fi-for-training-ai-models-to-act-evil

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Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Bitte teilen & auch unterzeichnen. 🙏 In Deutschland wird ehrenamtliche Arbeit gesellschaftlich anerkannt und steuerlich begünstigt, aber Open-Source-Arbeit fällt bisher komplett durchs Raster, obwohl sie digitale Infrastruktur für alle schafft. www.ehrenamt-opensource.de #Ehrenamt #Petition

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My 2011 Kindle stops working today because Amazon cut off software support. Still perfectly functional hardware, now forced e-waste. 👎👎 Switched to a Tolino, open, all formats, actually respects its owner. #Permacomputing #RightToRepair

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

TIL you can get a DOI for any GitHub repo via Zenodo, by CERN. This makes your code, dataset, or project properly citable in academic papers and research, with a permanent, versioned reference that won't break. Yay! 🥳 We just added a DOI for OpenMoji as well! zenodo.org/records/1970...

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"Warum braucht es Menschen auf dem Mond?" Alexander Gerst beantwortet das bei Sternstunde Philosophie so down-to-earth und charmant, dass die Frage am Ende viel größer wird als gedacht. 👨‍🚀🌕

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Werden wir künftig auf anderen Planeten leben, Alexander Gerst?

Alexander Gerst war 362 Tage auf der ISS und erzählt, wie der Blick aus dem All auf die Erde sein Weltbild veränderte.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

☮️🍀 OpenMoji 17.0 is out! Full support of Unicode Emoji 17.0, a redesign of the Japanese ideographic emojis, plus new emojis from queer symbols, music, games, nature, and logos to hairy creatures. Many fixes and improvements. Big thanks to all contributors! 👉 github.com/hfg-gmuend/o... #OpenMoji

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Went to the Dunne & Raby talk "Not Here, Not Now" at ZHdK last night. Design as a form of inquiry, learning from quantum physics, literature, speculative philosophy. Meinong's Jungle, Umwelt, Archive of Impossible Objects. Great evening.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Is Angine de Poitrine my new favourite band? Really like that the sound is "off": the guitar plays the notes between the notes, yet on the meta level it follows common, pleasant patterns. 🎸🥁 youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so #music #microtonal #mathrock #algorithm

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New at AI+D Lab: a guest post on generating EasyRead pictograms, fine-tuned Stable Diffusion with OpenMoji as a core training pillar. By Nicolas Dickenmann and co-authors from ETH Zurich / UNICEF, accepted at CHI26, congrats! 🙌 aid-lab.hfg-gmuend.de/articles/eas... #GenAI #OpenMoji #StableDiffusion

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Steering Generative Models for Accessibility: EasyRead Image Generation using OpenMoji | AI+D Lab

EasyRead Image Generation

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Did cinema get narrower? Did the point of view of the camera actually get narrower over time? Spoiler: yes, and the charts are neat. www.kopanko.com/notes/did-ci... #dataviz #film #cinema #hollywood

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Did Cinema Get Narrower? — Jakub Kopańko

A mild conspiracy theory, backed by a YOLO model and questionable methodology.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Good read: #NYT on why programmers, of all people, tend to like AI coding tools. The irony is real, and the article does a good job unpacking it. "Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m... #ai #programming #coding

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🙌 Dunne & Raby talk in Zürich @ MA Industrial Design, ZHdK: “Not Here, Not Now.” Tuesday, April 14, 17:30 2.A05 Viaduktraum, ZHdK industrialdesign.zhdk.ch/news/dirty-h... #DesignFuturing #SpeculativeDesign

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Great #dataviz #map project: All The Views In The World "We've calculated all the views on the planet." 🗺️ 👀 map.alltheviews.world

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Bugs Apple ignores or loves? "Total time wasted by humanity because Apple won't fix these: 32.4 million years/year and counting". Great Formula: How frequently do Apple users encounter persistent bugs that remain unresolved, and how long are they affected each time ... www.bugsappleloves.com

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Bugs Apple Loves

Bugs Apple won't fix. Why else would they keep them around for so long? We did the math.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

“Nano Banana Pro is the ‘ChatGPT Moment’ for Visual Communication” ... I'm a bit skeptical/ambivalent of this claim, but nevertheless an interesting read. → jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/nano-banan... #ai #VisualCommunication #dataviz

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Nano Banana Pro is the “ChatGPT Moment” for Visual Communication

Google’s Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone.

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

🙌 Work with us/me! We're hiring: Interim professorship "Creative AI + Design" at the AI+D Lab and HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. 📄 www.hfg-gmuend.de/service/inte... 🛠️ aid-lab.hfg-gmuend.de #ai #design #education 🚨 #jobalert

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🙌 Join us this week at Transform 2025 in Trier! We're reflecting on 4 years of the gestaltung.ai/en #KITeGG research project, on teaching #AI, #Design, #Art, in context of #DesignEducation and #Society. 👉 24th - 27th September kind-lab.de/transform2025/ (Registration and participation is free!)

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Really interesting NY Times interview of Dan Wang on his view of the current dynamics between China and the West, touching on themes like "Does the Future Belong to China?" etc. For instance, I didn't know that China's top leaders have a strong engineering background. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Mind blowing! 🤯 After years, #Keynote can now both: display AND edit #SVG files. I'm totally breaking apart. #macOS #Tahoe

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🙌 #OpenMoji iOS App updated: Adds support for OpenMoji 16 (based on Unicode 16): apps.apple.com/us/app/openm... Special thanks to IG Alumnus Sam Eckert (and longtime OpenMoji contributor) @sam0711er@mastodon.social ❤️🙏

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‎OpenMoji

‎OPENMOJI 16.0 – 4,292+ OPEN-SOURCE EMOJIS FOR DESIGNERS, DEVELOPERS, AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES CREATIVE, CONSISTENT EMOJI DESIGN. Created by students and professors at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, with many…

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Danke an Christoph Luchs / Podcast Designerklärer für das inspirierende Gespräch! Wir sprachen über Zukünfte im Plural und Design Futuring – Szenarien zu entwerfen, zu bewerten und gemeinsam mit Beteiligten, Unternehmen oder der Öffentlichkeit zu diskutieren. www.designerklaerer.de/folge-34-wie...

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Benedikt Groß @bndktgrs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We've just published OpenMoji 16.0 🏖😎 ! Get it on ⬇️ OpenMoji.org Changelog 🛠 github.com/hfg-gmuend/o... #Emoji #OpenMoji

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