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Archived account for Nick Foster, Royal Designer for Industry. Follow @hellofosta on Threads. hellofosta.com Joined January 2008

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3 years ago

I won’t be posting here for the foreseeable future. Follow ‘hellofosta’ on Threads and we’ll see how that goes

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3 years ago

Next Tuesday. San Francisco. eventbrite.com/e/welcome-dear…

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James and Jimmy presented this project 22 years ago and I keep coming back to it. The Afterlife project: converting the decomposing body of a loved one into a dry cell battery. Incredible stuff. auger-loizeau.com/afterlife.html

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3 years ago

If we increasingly rely on LLM's trained on existing words, structures and phrasing, how does language evolve? How are new words created? What's the future for slang, patois and jargon?

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3 years ago

‘We make our own tonic in house’ are words I never want to hear in a bar.

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3 years ago

First six episodes of Hijack 9/10 Last episode of Hijack 3/10

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3 years ago

Many moons ago, my team at X worked on the design of a robotics platform for what became the Everyday Robots project. Today that same robot features in this great article in the New York Times. So fantastic to see this work still in use by @GoogleDeepMind. nytimes.com/2023/07/28/tec…

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3 years ago

The paperback version of The Manual of Design Fiction is now available. shop.nearfuturelaboratory.com/products/the-m…

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3 years ago

Just came out of a 70mm projection of Oppenheimer. A truly incredible piece of work, close to flawless.

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3 years ago

I’m still gonna call it Google X.

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3 years ago

It’s worth considering here the huge cultural impact of Chris Cunningham’s video for Björk’s ‘All is Full of Love’. It’s also worth remembering that this was produced over a quarter of a century ago. youtu.be/k9YZW7XGON0

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3 years ago

We still have a major cultural problem when it comes to representing machine intelligence in the media. These are the header images from four AI stories from major news outlets in my feed today.

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3 years ago

That’s 200 days without crisps/chips, and I think I’ve broken their spell. It’s also 19 days since I quit candy/sweets, which is proving to be a more significant challenge.

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3 years ago

Baggy fashion is the worst. All these skinny fellas creeping into my size bracket, buying up all the XL’s…..

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3 years ago

Peloton paid more to the record industry than TikTok last year (estimates, but still.....)

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3 years ago

Hello folks, anything new? What have I missed?

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3 years ago

A beautiful side effect of aging is that I now require reading glasses. Far from being annoying, these make the pages of a book crystal clear, and the rest of the room fades away into blurry nothingness. The feeling of focus is wonderful.

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3 years ago

The Octopussy logo only has five limbs.

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3 years ago

Google Photos knows where I’ve been (location tagging) and the kinds of things I like to do (image recognition). I’m surprised it doesn’t make vacation recommendations.

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3 years ago

@danjwebster Yep. They count as crisps in this house.

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3 years ago

I have now gone six months without eating crisps/chips. Honestly, it was much easier than I thought. Tomorrow I am also stopping candy/sweets, which I think will be considerably more difficult. Here goes…