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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Sogar als edgy Teenager fand ich sein Ding schon zu sehr auf edgy Teenager zugeschnitten...

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Genau das sagt ja der OP. Damals ohne Social Media

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Einfach stumpf und unreflektiert die Schlingensief-Nummer weiter aufwärmen...

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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

Isn’t it a general problem in academia? The problems the author describes as artschool specific are the very same for humanities, social science and even engineering.

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

Fully agree on the point about university administration. Completely disagree on the art school part. Art isn’t special or fundamentally different, and I despise that mindset - it actively undermines art education.

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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 · 06/05/2026

It’s not the decadence that bothers me, it’s the boredom. I just don’t see much conceptual thought. Mostly just “being different.” it's bland.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

more like a mantisoid than humanoid

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

After my jokes they just stare back silently, pain in their eyes, and I’m left with that hollow feeling of loneliness. 😞

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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 · 13/02/2026

Agreed. If there’s one part of human anatomy worth copying for robots, it’s the hand.

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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 · 07/02/2026

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

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

Besser, fünf sagen: „Ich hasse es“ und fünf: „Ich liebe es“, als wenn zehn sagen: „Ganz okay.“

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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

Now lets replace the legs with wheels an we're actually getting somewhere...

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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

No - Fpv drones have indeed been quite disruptive in recent and currentarmed conflicts. I mean more autonomous systems. (Now i think about it - i kind of would like to have a fpv function on my roborock 🤔)

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

Also: Robots have not really been that great on the battlefield so far... But they perform brilliantly underneath my couch.

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

🙄 Too many procurement staff officers watching black mirror.

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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 · 18/12/2025

Not that any of this wasn’t already described in detail by Roberto Saviano over 15 years ago in 'Gomorrah.'

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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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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Funnily enough, with this Disney is just returning to its roots: tech, tech, and more tech. Disney was always obsessed with new technology and yes: he would absolutely have used GenAI.

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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...

faz.net

„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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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Viele Dronen related Technologien wie VR oder AR stammen ursprünglich aus dem militärischen Bereich, wurden dann von Kunst und Kultur adaptiert und kehren jetzt über diesen Umweg teilweise wieder zurück. Irgendwie schon ironisch.

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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 · 13/12/2025

All while being a serial adulterer.

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

Disney was never "pure." It’s always been about profits. Golden-age movies were primarily commercial products. Which is ok.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Disney wants money, not purity. IP and copyright aren’t God-given, they’re negotiable policy. The tech is here to stay. So this shift was inevitable. Honestly, I’m more surprised it took them this long. (Doesn’t mean I like it though)

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Dabei ist "Funktionssocken" das most BW Wort ever.

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Bernhard Schmitt @patchcritics.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Over the last two years, I’ve been fascinated by how many people treat copyright as if it were some kind of natural law - not the rather new invention it actually is. (Not a big fan of this development though.)

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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.”

openai.com

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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