Editorial Designer & Creative Director, always trying to look at the big picture, but getting lost in the patterns. posts mostly related to #print, #photography, #dataviz, #typography, #journalism and #media in general. Living, working and teaching in Munich.
Ich hatte als Kind eine Schulfreundin, die Olga.
Eigentlich war sie gar nicht meine Freundin. Am ersten Schultag war sie plötzlich da, niemand kannte sie. Ich wollte neben meiner besten Freundin aus dem Kindergarten sitzen, aber mein Vater sagte: Nein, setz dich neben das neue Mädchen, die kennt noch niemanden.
So wurde Olga meine Freundin, am 1. Schultag in der ersten Klasse.
Olga war Russin, zumindest hat man das so gesagt. Sie kam aus der Sowjetunion, die damals gerade zerfallen war.
Adobe is switching some Creative Cloud users to a pricier AI plan https://www.theverge.com/news/670241/adobe-ai-creative-cloud-all-apps-pro-increase
Hi fellow Europeans! Have you heard about this open letter to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy?
You can read it (and sign it) here:
https://creators-for-europe-united.eu
(German version available)
“What kills most ideas are people [who are] desperate to express an opinion. And let's be very clear: opinions aren't ideas.” – Jony Ive
“It gets even more demeaning. It can be just: ’Well, that’s your opinion’. That's like telling your heart surgeon: ’Well, that’s your opinion’, and you having a go yourself.“ – Jon Ive
No real surprise, but even Jony Ive struggles with the same issues as all the creatives I know: “Much of my contribution and the contribution of designers and other creatives [to a product] can’t be measured easily with a number. But people generally want to talk about product attributes where you can agree that six is a bigger number than two. [And] because we can easily measure them, [they are] all that matters. And that’s a lie.”
Did you know that there is an annual art exhibition about non-existent video games? The beautifully designed cartridges are exhibited in their “original” form in an art gallery in Tokyo.
Well, if that isn't something for Peter Molyneux (or Molydeux).
they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups
If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.
Why am I still committed to keeping vis.social running, more than ever? Because we need actual distributed social more than ever, in these times, and moving forward.
@molosovsky Haha, und ich fand den britischen Akzent so überraschend. Danke!
@molosovsky Ich weiß gar nicht, ob ich seine Stimme schon einmal gehört habe - aber jetzt weiß ich, man braucht seine Stimme (zumindest im Kopf), um seine Bücher zu lesen!
In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.
#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.
Information is power, knowledge is power.
Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.
@serpentroots @netpraxis It gives me a warm feeling, because it makes me think of Magnetic Scrolls text adventures (on the Amiga).
Starting tomorrow, you can find me at the Adela Festival organized by @ljudmila in Ljubljana! I’ll have prints and a coloring book available in exchange for donations to Forbidden Stories on Saturday, and on Sunday I’ll be speaking about silent and silenced open sources. Also, I highly recommend stopping by for the algorave 👾🌿 the lineup is incredible!
@georgetakei The Liberty Plane!
