iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Silicon Valley, they had billions in venture capital and what did that produce? The Elon Musk AI sizzle reel.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We're looking for a new colleague. Assistant / Associate Professor ,Tenure-Track in Interactive Media. apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119165

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I guess the entire Arday episode shows us that it isn't just the Right that's susceptible to con men.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just waiting for this one to bust out some dance moves. And that'll be the last we ever see of it.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ich will einfach nur ein Daumenkino auf den neuen Euro-Scheinen, damit Geldzählen endlich Spaß macht.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This whole bizarre debate about skin colour in the Odyssey becomes even stranger once you realize that Homer describes honey as "green" (chlōros), sheep as "violet " (ióeis) while "blue" isn't mentioned even ONCE in thousands of verses.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Gut zu wissen, dass wir mit dem Problem nicht allein sind.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Me, quietly thriving in the rare awareness that I don’t know enough about geopolitics to tweet confidently about it.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

The correct term for a humanoid robot/android that resembles a woman is: 'gynoid.' You’re welcome.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Gott behüte uns, wenn der deutsche Landwirt Drohnen für sich entdeckt.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Finally an actually useful application for humanoid robots. (Apart from dancing, of course)

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Apple Vision Pro. Released exactly 2 years ago. The kind of product that feels inevitable on paper, then turns out to be quite silly, impractical and useless. Still somewhat cute.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I really miss the times when plans for illegal invasions came with elaborate artworks.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Note: Life in Germany is worse than in China AND Portugal.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

"It is time to abandon that dream for good. Robots are for battle, and robots are for spying, and robots are for places where humans will not or cannot be." I'd like to differ: >Underneath my couch< is definitely a place I don't like to be. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

«Wissenschaftliche Fakten gelten als langweilig. Mit langweiligen Fakten konfrontiert zu werden, funktioniert also offenbar ganz hervorragend als Provokation! An Kunst als Transgression hat man sich dagegen gewöhnt, die wird als normal hingenommen.» www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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„The Island": Hito Steyerl in der Fondazione Prada

Die Künstlerin Hito Steyerl zeigt in Mailand ihre neue Videoinstallation. Darin kämpft ein Superheld mit Unterstützung der Quantenphysik gegen Populismus und die Übermacht von KI. Ein Gespräch über Fa...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Das ist eines der Probleme des öffentlichen KI-Diskurses – der Begriff «Künstliche Intelligenz» suggeriert eine spezifische Technologie (für die meisten Leute: ChatGPT und Verwandtes), kann aber bei Bedarf alle möglichen avancierten Software-Anwendungen auf Machine-Learning-Basis umfassen 2/

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

These moralizing Disney posts are weird. As if Disney had ever acted out of moral principles. Disney has always been tech-obsessed and profit-driven, from multiplane cameras to robots. Testing technology is in Disney’s DNA. It is the reason for the success. Acting surprised now is just naive.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 11/12/2025

For people who trusted copyright laws to rein in AI, this should be the last scene in Animal Farm. “They looked from IP to Tech, and from Tech to IP, but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora

Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

In Japan you can still smoke while eating dolphin. 😳

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Helme Heine (1941–2025). 😢 Amazing illustrator and author.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

MITpress ragebaiting on Instagram 😅

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

“tHiS iS AI! Who dares post this! 😠” - the replies alone prove how utterly humorless Bluesky has become. (Or always was)

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...

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$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch

Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It’s always funny how many Asians are 100% convinced “Maggi” is an old, traditional Asian brand and simply won’t accept it’s Swiss.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

He’s 100% right. Also: the robot doesn’t look fashionable - the silhouette just isn’t there. For good-looking humanoids, see ’80s/’90s Hollywood. At least they tried.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Ai Weiwei. Ruhestand in Portugal, Schimpfen über die frühere Heimat: Der deutsche Proto-Rentner. hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

hyperallergic.com

What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier

A German newspaper commissioned an article from me but then refused to publish it.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Playing around with Fibonacci based procedural stop-motion animation and AI-generated code-to-Blender-to-3D-print pipelines. Still a bit messy, but promising.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

After walking into the workshop over the weekend, I now know: A) Why my students don’t get any assignments done in time. B) Where all the materials are disappearing to. They’re preparing for Comic-Con. A+ #Halo

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Phil Tippett (74) apparently adapts to new technology far better than many of young creatives in the industry who cling to the “anything AI is Satan” narrative.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"(...)applications in disaster management, search-and-rescue operations, and beyond." Completley beyond me what this "beyond" is supposed to mean.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Still not sure how this would work, but we're ready.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

After all the Charlie Kirk meets Jesus clips from 2 weeks ago, I started looking deeper into online religious AI slop and… Good Lord! 😳 youtu.be/rGwa2BIru00?...

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Rapture Short 3D Animated Christian Movie that will change your life | AI Animation #biblestories

YouTube video by THINK JESUS NETWORK

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"Thinking about the end of the world can be fun. Although realistic doomsday scenarios -nuclear war, global warming, autocracy -are stressful to contemplate, more fanciful apocalypses (an alien invasion, a robot uprising) can generate some enjoyable escapism." Pretty much sums up the current debate

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

At the same time, people who oppose anything AI pick up the same language - just flipped. They frame AI as something supernaturally evil, like real-life Satan. Just as silly as worshipping it.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

People clearly have never seen Paw Patrol.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Heavy 2019-Twitter Kindergarten vibes

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The problem in a city with top-notch public transport is that people are atrocious cyclists and drivers.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Late-stage Surveillance Capitalism

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Application No. 216 for humanoid robots (before we find a useful one): Being a smooth criminal. It's really smooth.

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