Using #Picotron and remembering a time when the mere act of opening a picture file was fun. I'm tempted to replace all my social avatars with these.

The creators released a new patch, btw: https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php

Having fun implementing Pico-8 demoscene effects* in #Processing and in #Picotron (an amazing toy, by the way).

* after the tutorial in https://medium.com/swlh/creativity-through-limitation-pico-8-fantasy-console-175294e13332

Thinking about this still from Fritz Lang's 'Spion' (1927) is worth as much as attending a non-negligible fraction of film school.

You're welcome.

John Maeda announced the death of #CreativeCoding (how the mighty have fallen!). Paraphrasing his 'Maeda@Media' (2000), it seems "creatives should shop at the digital equivalent of home improvement megastores" after all!

After the NFT fiasco, no wonder if some #Processing 'co-pilot' BS is announced soon... (which will eventually evolve into good-old Illustrator - nature healing and all that).

PS.: I don't engage at the xitter. Hence, this being posted here. Original at https://twitter.com/johnmaeda/status/1686421796604841984

I've put together some of my ideas about 'artificial assistance' - AI, chatbots, image generators, &etc. - and the dangers and implications of those systems.

Hard to organize, I'll be updating the post.

(TLDR: AGI might be very dangerous if/when it happens. Current "AI" - 'synapses etched on glass' - is already very useful and possibly a way out of some 'bullshit jobs', but there is a grave danger of capital using "AI" to exploit workers even more.)

https://www.eduardomorais.com/weblog/20230331/artificial-assistance

Going through my childhood stuff in storage, found my old Timex 2068, a ZX Spectrum clone which was my first computer. It was actually assembled in Portugal!

The computer is very dead (I remember smoke coming out of it back when I was 9 or 10), but I was impressed with how the plastic case held through the decades (I found *utterly decomposed* old Nokia cellphones in another box).

(In the US, this was known as the Timex Sinclair - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_2068 )

So, it is #Genuary 31st! Let's look at the final iteration: into the eye of the generator. #Processing code at https://gist.github.com/edmorais/479fbb5ef9b1740ce220923a73a4a9ac

Phew, this was fun!