👉 4 days left to apply for Emergent Digital Media class 4,5 years diploma art studies at AdBK Munich with @hito and @databasecultures

We are looking for candidates with:

- a serious interest in digital technology, i.e. programming knowledge (Python or Arduino etc.) or at least advanced knowledge of 3D, sound or video technologies through the lense of visual art.

- eagerness to deal with theory (i.e. read books!)

- a strong social interest and the willingness to actively contribute to the class’s joint research work and community

- preference is given to candidates with previous engagement with natural or social sciences and/or professional experience (of any kind)

Study Begin October 2026, Full Info: https://generativemedia.net/apply/

🙌 Dunne & Raby talk in Zürich @ MA Industrial Design, ZHdK:

“Not Here, Not Now.”
Tuesday, April 14, 17:30
2.A05 Viaduktraum, ZHdK

https://industrialdesign.zhdk.ch/news/dirty-hands-anthony-dunne-fiona-raby/
#DesignFuturing #SpeculativeDesign

“Context Widows - by Kevin Baker - Artificial Bureaucracy”

https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/context-widows

> Goal displacement is a different diagnosis that is being made on a different patient. The problem is not in the metric but in the organizational form that needs metrics to function.

"Misconceptions about test-driven development and pair programming abound. Code review is the norm even though it’s largely useless as practised.

When developers say that LLMs make them more productive, you need to keep in mind that this is what they’re automating: dysfunction, tampering as a design strategy, superstition-driven coding, and software whose quality genuinely doesn’t matter"
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-two-worlds-of-programming/

*Edit*: here at least, I am clearly not isolated!

Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.

I love reading.

I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.

I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.

Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.

RE: https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/116228110099701969

Basically, yes:

"If hardware has improved so much over the last 20 years, has the modern framework/ad-tech stack completely negated that progress with abstraction and poorly architected bloat?"

Bitfield weaving

https://slab.org/2026/03/11/bitfield-weaving/