Platform Brutality

Out Now: Platform Brutality by Geert Lovink, Valiz, Amsterdam, September 2025 The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just […]

“Zero-shot visual reasoning”

*That would be strange. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20328

Covert escape multitool

https://youtu.be/SB7pbqNJal4?si=gTk0gHOoFFaNx3bP *I wonder if any prisoner during World War II ever successfully escaped actual custody by using a farfetched milspec gadget of this kind.

Full-color 3D resin printing — on flexible surfaces

https://youtu.be/y4V7OGILaJM?si=nixgNxI_4Tt44lUU

How sloppy is your slop?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19163 REFERENCES Meta AI. Introducing llama 4: Advancing multimodal intelligence, 2024. URL https://ai. meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/. Anthropic. Claude 3 model card addendum. Technical report, 2024. URL https://www-cdn. anthropic.com/fed9cc193a14b84131812372d8d5857f8f304c52/Model_ Card_Claude_3_Addendum.pdf. Accessed: 2024-12-30. Kyrtin Atreides and David J Kelley. Cognitive biases in natural language: Automatically detecting, differentiating, and measuring bias in text. Cognitive Systems Research, 88:101304, 2024. Payal Bajaj, […]

Large Language Models and human language barriers

*This isn’t “hallucination” exactly, but this is disconcerting. I asked the same question in two different languages, and only the Italian language could provide the answer. *Of course, given that this is an LLM, I’m not yet sure that was an “accurate” answer, but… When was Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel “The Last Days of Pompeii” first […]

Four (slightly different) Ancient Roman Multitools

https://flic.kr/p/2ruA2sB https://flic.kr/p/2ruFEUr https://flic.kr/p/2ruzYvK https://flic.kr/p/2ruFA3U *How many existed, when this tradition was in its heyday in the 2nd Century AD? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands?

“European Alternatives”

https://european-alternatives.eu/categories