ACB!

Doing things on the computer -
living + working on Gadigal land - they/she -

[ACB! @acb3000]

this guy Gets It on a level that few understand

[ACB! @acb3000]

Anyway. I watched the third man. It was a good movie. I have worked 8 days at my new job and it is fun. Life is good!

[ACB! @acb3000]

More than beginner, even. But i also wouldnt be surprised by cynical sell out involvement. Shit happens hey

[ACB! @acb3000]

Do you think anyone with more than an intermediate understanding of aesthetic theory is involved in this kind of stuff? Like does anyone who's read sianne ngai and actually understood her points go, i need to use what i know to Align The Models

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs.

Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.

And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners

AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design.

There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer:

- We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments.
- We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs.

We want a future where AI feels right.

If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!

[༺ 𐂂 ༻ @touchmoonflower]

the city heaves and stutters like an animal troubled by dreams

[no earthquake (undignified) @no_earthquake]

ai slop isn’t ai kitsch and vice versa. kitsch implies a poorly formed attempt at imitation. ghiblified selfies are kitsch. slop can be radically new. short-form-anthropomorphized-fruits cheating vids are slop.

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[symbolic human @mxcreant]

AI confuses pattern recognition with understanding, statistical likelihood with meaning. It can simulate care but cannot care. It generates text without stakes, answers without consequences. It loves anaphora, where every rebellion becomes smoothed into content. That's what sucks

[audrey 🔜 right behind you @iTrollWomen]

don't even bother coming over for playtime if you don't know the five characteristics it must have bro

[no earthquake (undignified) @no_earthquake]

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

[Rafael Хачатурян @rafkhach]

This is a civilizational struggle between Wembanyama Enlightenment and the petrofascism of the American heartland

[ACB! @acb3000]

one of my feet has red scars (not really calluses) from when we were training shooting single legs months ago and i never picked up my trailing foot. i have a graze under my chin from all the choke defense last wk ... its really fun and i like it :) good sport

[ACB! @acb3000]

its been about a year of training bjj. last week we learned a bunch of cool and interesting chokes and ive forgotten most of it all. yesterday we did takedowns / throws and my favourite was seoi nage. we were meant to be doing it drop style but it was fun just doing it hip toss-y

[Mark @AgingRanchHand]

Has there ever been a soccer player who slid on his knees after a goal and was unable to stop sliding until he reached the ocean

[Interface gallery @Interface_art]

Vera Molnar, the Grand Lady of Digital Art, is finally getting her first-ever major solo exhibition at @ArtBasel this June! Since the late 1960s she’s been one of the true pioneers of algorithmic art and generative art. What makes her so special? Unlike most early digital artists who came from engineering, Vera built her practice on pure academic artistic training. For over 50 years she has explored the exciting tension between order and chance, structure and freedom, logic and play. Her geometric, algorithmic compositions have shaped the entire history of contemporary art. In June 2026, Oniris Gallery & Interface Gallery will present her visionary work in Basel. In the coming weeks we’ll share more about Vera, the artworks and our preparations for the show. #VeraMolnar #DigitalArt #GenerativeArt #ArtBasel #WomenInArt

[www @w__h_]

graphic designers frothing the ufo file textures is such a perfectly depressing example of graphicdesignbrain: everything pure surface to be appropriated/recouperated, zero thoughts, most willingly psyopped. first palantir tasteslop now war dot gov slash ufo texture pack.

[Eugenio Tisselli @motorhueso]

"There is no outside of technique. The question is not whether technique is present, but to what end it is mobilised."

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 31st Birthday of the term User Experience!

The term User Experience was probably first heard in public at the CHI '95 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems held on May 7-11, 1995 in Denver.

[MAILER-DAEMON @hassanrahim]

for a small taste of what these imaging systems are capable of, look up heatmaps (2016) by richard mosse. exhibition of massive photographic prints using military grade infrared cameras

and that was 10 years ago

[Kazik Radwanski @redvineski]

Went for pho last night and the place had a big screen with arial footage of Scotland on loop. The drones must startle deer so it was mostly confused deer looking back at the camera. The TV was directly in front of me so I made eye-contact with terrified deer for the entire meal.

[matthew ellis @matthiasellis]

it's like we've fully passed through Steyerl's poor image into cheap "rich" images, and back into a new kind of poor image that works completely differently than the original poor image, its "poor"-ness *is* the quality