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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 · 07/02/2026

The famous middle management orc arguing with Saruman about factory output.

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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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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Highly recommend reading this. Not exactly about GenAi but autonomous agents:

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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 · 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 · 29/09/2025

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

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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

There’s a slight chance he’s wearing a costume from the “Urban Camouflage” series, designed by Adelle Lutz for David Byrne’s True Stories (1985) But I doubt it.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Also: Where's his Chinese friend?

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

The new Netflix Asterix series isn’t as bad as I feared The writing is actually quite clever, though it sometimes feels like they shuffled through ALL the comics, picked the best panels, and built a story from them What I really don’t get is the design: Sure, use CGI, but why make it look like 2003?

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Was hat die Bundesbank eigentlich mit den ganzen 5-Mark-Münzen vor 25 Jahren gemacht? Ich hätte da eine Idee.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Nordkorea ist bei der Gestaltung seiner Orden weitaus fantasievoller.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If only it matched the style and design quality of the originals. Also - where’s his Chinese friend?

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Cool. But can Grok do it with dinosaurs as well?

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

When it comes to interpretation, LLMs always sound like overly eager first-year philosophy students

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is the mailbox for Singapore’s second-largest Buddhist monastery. I'm not sure why, though.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Only in Singapore: Four [sic!] weeks of fireworks rehearsals [yes, rehearsals] before National Day Celebrations.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Ich bin fasziniert. Und immer noch unsicher ob das nicht einfach nur das nächste Paintball level ist.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Mmmhh... Funktioniert etwa das EW zeug das auf tiktok verscherbelt wird ?

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think I came across the source of many of these AI primates videos on TikTok

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

To be fair: Die alten Römer waren wahrscheinlich näher dran als wir mit normalem Klopapier

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Two things suggest it’s AI-generated: The anthropomorphic gesturing of the primate - highly unusual, though not impossible. The fact that it fits into a broader pattern of AI-generated ape videos circulating on social media (see below).

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Just another chance to bring up that one weird fact that’s lived in my head rent-free for years: George W. Bush is - bizarrely - a genuinely good artist. (Trump is very much not.)

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Discussion Regarding the Scheduling of Lectures - AY 2025/26, Semester 2

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I genuinely don’t understand how Malaysian cuisine - hands down the best in all of Asia - still flies under the international radar.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I probably couldn’t answer even 0.1% of the questions on that test but I’m pretty sure I could come up with plenty of questions a 4-year-old could answer, and Grok couldn’t.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Es gereicht mir zu aufrichtigem Bedauern, Euch kundzutun, dass jener Witz bereits vor zwei Tagen zum Vortrag gebracht wurde

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Colour and Lighting in AI-SLOP always reminds me somehow of Frank Frazetta. And now Wikipedia tells me that Kinkade worked as a background artist on Fire and Ice (a cheesy 80s animation film with Frazetta as art director) early in his career.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Das muss der Startschuss für diese viel diskutierte Initiative sein, amerikanische Spitzenwissenschaftler an deutsche Unis zu holen. #Prien

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