ollie palmer

@olliepalmer
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artist, film maker
locationRotterdam
projectshttps://olliepalmer.com
experiments and doodleshttps://olliepalmer.com/video
phd researchhttps://phd.olliepalmer.com
ollie palmerAug 9, 2023
I need to work on my 'time spent making things versus time spent making those things legible to others' ratio
ollie palmerJul 11, 2023

Incredible new article in Nature: “A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA” - although can’t help but think this is great fodder for conspiracy theorists…“so-called ‘junk DNA’ in the human genome is really encrypted information planted by ______” etc.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38876-w

A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA - Nature Communications

DNA data storage has gained recent interest due to the high information density of DNA. Here, the authors have developed a method to directly capture information in the form of light and encode it into DNA via bacteria, analogous to a digital camera.

Nature
ollie palmerJun 30, 2023
So sad that Buurman, the local place in Rotterdam that I have bought and learned about wood from over the past few years, has burned down - along with the studios of 40 independent makers. Hoping that the community can rebuild what has been lost; if you can help out, please do. https://www.buurmanrotterdam.nl
Buurman Rotterdam-Buurman Rotterdam - werkplaats leren meubelmaken hergebruikte materialen tweedehands bouwmarkt hout

Buurman staat voor lokaal hergebruik. In onze circulaire bouwmarkt haal je gebruikte materialen en Rotterdams stadshout. Volg in onze open werkplaats een cursus of workshop meubelmaken!

Buurman Rotterdam
ollie palmerJun 21, 2023
Ostrich politics
ollie palmerJun 17, 2023
Frank PasqualeJun 17, 2023
“No matter what a specific technology does — convert the world’s energy into gambling tokens, encourage people to live inside a helmet, replace living cognition with a statistical analysis of past language use, etc., etc. — all of them are treated mainly as instances of the “creative destruction” necessary for perpetuating capitalism.”
https://robhorning.substack.com/p/probable-events-poison-reality
Probable events poison reality

This week McKinsey released a report on the “economic potential of generative AI,” which, as the New York Times summed it up in a headline, apparently amounts to “$4.4 trillion in value to global economy.” Tech reporter Jacob Silverman was quick to note

Internal exile
ollie palmerJun 15, 2023
jamesbridleJun 15, 2023
25,000+ deaths in the Mediterranean since 2014. Hundreds more every month. We are all complicit. Fuck borders and those who uphold them; shame on all of us for what continues.
ollie palmerJun 12, 2023
Thank you leaky coffee flask for making everything in my bag look and smell like a kids' homemade pirate map.
ollie palmerJun 7, 2023
PaulWayJun 6, 2023

I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.

ollie palmerMay 30, 2023
What better way to commemorate the life and work of Dutch master painter Vermeer - the incredible sensitivity in his brush work; the delicate portrayal of light flowing into masterfully composited scenes - than with a co-branded Bic biro?
ollie palmerMay 19, 2023
I'm going to be testing a new film-thing called Time Frames at 'The Multiple Arts of Schematism in the Depths of the Soul' conference on 27 May. It's a performative essay-film about the ways in which time frames our experience, perception, and the bounds of what is, and what isn’t possible. https://v2.nl/events/the-multiple-arts-of-schematism-in-the-depths-of-the-soul-ii
The Multiple Arts of Schematism in the Depths of the Soul Day II - V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media

V2_Community invites Erasmus School of Philosophy. Day II.

V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media