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Brett Stalbaum

@stalbaum.bsky.social
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Artist, long engaged in the internet and technology in the landscape and remote projects. Founding member Electronic Disturbance Theater and C5. Teaching Professor of Visual Arts, UCSD. Teaches video walls, digital signage, supercompute, electronics, code.

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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Observation re teaching computing the past number of years: many students do not know what a file system is. Especially #mac users. I mean, #windows is a catastrophe, but users know what a file and a folder are. Sorry, Apple kids don't. They are keeping all their files in Downloads and using find!
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Observation re teaching computing the past number of years: many students do not know what a file system is. Especially #mac users. I mean, #windows is a catastrophe, but users know what a file and a folder are. Sorry, Apple kids don't. They are keeping all their files in Downloads and using find!
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Actually NOT totally totally unheard of but daytime temps in my nearby city of El Centro California are forecast to be close to 110F (43C) mid week next. Happy October everyone! @ai6yr
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A few days left to see Data Tales at #UCSD, an exhibition/summer show by my Vis 141b students and guests at the Mandeville #Art Gallery #MAG #computerart #datavisualization #concretepoetry #python #digitalsignage youtu.be/U2Q-Gd_qZE0?...
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Data Tales Exhibition Vis 141B UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery Spring 2026
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know if anyone in #edtech or #AI cares, but I finished firing #canvas at my tier 1 this year and have made my classes radically local. The big lecture course is a challenge and the last to go (medium and small classes I took offline over the past three years...) Convinced this is the way.
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't know if anyone in #edtech or #AI cares, but I finished firing #canvas at my tier 1 this year and have made my classes radically local. The big lecture course is a challenge and the last to go (medium and small classes I took offline over the past three years...) Convinced this is the way.
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Naoero. There, I said it. #Naoero
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
In #uspol this is wildly controversial because it is angrily rejected by all political parties. But it is turning out to be true and in retrospect, an obvious outcome (yes you can scroll me and find out.) Donald #Trump is doing more and FASTER for the #green movement through his incompetence […]
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A few days left to see Data Tales at #UCSD, an exhibition/summer show by my Vis 141b students and guests at the Mandeville #Art Gallery #MAG #computerart #datavisualization #concretepoetry #python #digitalsignage youtu.be/U2Q-Gd_qZE0?...
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Data Tales Exhibition Vis 141B UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery Spring 2026
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Let just occasionally mark how clearly we knew what was going on so that #genX and #millennials can't lie to our children about not knowing. #trump #Iranwar #tariffs #idiocracy #uspol youtu.be/UIvc4-6O1Wo?is=DmbbctvZkKO…
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The #beeple work (I have not seen yet) seems like completely mainstream computer art. In fact, not really an #AI artwork at all. Rage is falling upon it. I'm going to call it, this is much more about poor art education with some AI rage bait actually serving it. www.channel3000.com/news/art-dir...
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Art director reacts to backlash against use of AI in piece at museum
MADISON, Wis. -- When the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's Gabriele Haberland Director Paul Baker Prindle first saw 'Diffused Control' he was surprised himself with how encaptivating the piece was...
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The #beeple work (I have not seen yet) seems like completely mainstream computer art. In fact, not really an #AI artwork at all. Rage is falling upon it. I'm going to call it, this is much more about poor art education with some AI rage bait actually serving it. www.channel3000.com/news/art-dir...
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Art director reacts to backlash against use of AI in piece at museum
MADISON, Wis. -- When the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's Gabriele Haberland Director Paul Baker Prindle first saw 'Diffused Control' he was surprised himself with how encaptivating the piece was...
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
As an artist, we have largely been left out of federal funding (as a function of individual grants from the NEA) for decades. My whole long career, scientists have been demanding we compete with them on grants to show our value to the University. We have no NSF, NIH. So losing the #Kennedy […]
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Two new #Iranwar memes. One is that the Iranian/Houthies takeover of the Bab al-Mandab is a "Tet Offensive" moment for the United States and #Israel. One that screws all the world. Two is that Donald Trump partying at his convention as global shipping changes irrevocably is a sort of Jim Jones […]
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Friends need to follow @timnitgebru.blacksky.app
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Long awaited news, mixed news for many probably, but interesting to me! #Waymo is taking rides in San Diego! I remember almost two years ago as Los Angeles burned and our friends who came to speak at the #Getty had their talks cancelled. We enjoyed the most cognitively dissonant of all weekends […]
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
I just want to run this by my shared intersection of #linux and #nba fans out there. Kawhi Leonard for the win? A poster with Steve #Ballmer under the jockstrap? Yeah? 👍 Always happy when an #oligarch $#!+$ themselves and #journalists win. #pablotorrefindsout
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
People who are simultaneously so ignorant and confidently arrogant, which is usually such a white man thing to do, believe that while setting out to describe large language models, we should have also discussed reinforcement learning. This guy was saying Emily M. Bender wasn't doing science.
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
#Iran is bunkered up and using decoys just as everyone does. (I don't have a source, but I have watched Ukraine.) #Trump claims he is going to hit them hard but you don't have to have passed your freshmen year at West Point to know that part of asymmetrical war is bait targets. There is a […]
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Distillation ain't just a river in Egypt. Open weights are iron strong for this kind of practical reason too. 💯 can't stop it with TOS. In historical mapmaking, phantom islands were useful for copyright claims only to a limited degree. The maps were still out there! And internet makes copies, fast.
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rename it Lake #Epstein.
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rename it Lake #Epstein.
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1337 $#!+ I did that @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
#Meta agrees to 17 billion settlement over killing teens and girls, so that Zuck and execs don't have to testify. To think I left #Facebook in 2017 over Cambridge Analytica, and to think so many stayed on after they knew of this child murder rampage. No wonder the nation, including Biden Admin […]
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I have missed this since, idk. 90s maybe.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The voices of people—especially Black women—in marginalized communities are often systematically erased by white men. Attention-seeking AI guru Connor Leahy is now outlining an intellectual history of SV that is virtually identical to the one outlined by me and Gebru. 1/3
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Paula and I saw @thebreeders.bsky.social last night in San Diego, Kim performed with joy few others do, and three (by my count) new songs that sounded great. And a dedication to Dolly. Thanks for coming to SD Breeders!
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Brett Stalbaum @stalbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hi friends! Mostly I am posting on my #mastodon profile, fed.brid.gy/ap/@stalbaum... that can be followed here @stalbaum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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