Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis is almost out! It will be published this winter by Amsterdam University Press, kick-starting a new book series on green media. aup.nl/en/book/978946… #ecogames @humanitiesuu Manchester Game Centre The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies Ben Abraham || AfterClimate

Saved from the garden shed.

Happy to spot a poster I knocked up 6 years ago still on view in the WHB in Chelmsford.

3D scan of St Edmund (Bury St Edmunds) I made on Saturday. In Anglia Ruskin FHEMS we're testing different ways to create non-clinical environments for use in our new immersive XR rooms. #ARUProud to be working in a team that values innovation. Dr Marques Hardin

Runway's Gen-1 (video2video) is incredible. All the facial expressions and mouth movement is entirely inferred from the body language and generated. This is Text Prompting only. Remember...the input model doesn't even have a face 🤯 I'll post a comp with more variation in

Thanks to the Latent Consistency Model (LCM), we're nearing real-time image diffusion. I've made a simple MJPEG server for generation stream using diffusers img2img pipeline. It's really fun to play with it. Can't wait for the ControlNet version. try it: huggingface.co/spaces/radames…

I'm getting really fed up of people not citing my PhD thesis on how artworks perform speech-acts😨 Lots of work on art & speech-acts is coming out now which is super cool, but my work on this is not getting cited. It was published in 2019 open access,here: repository.cam.ac.uk/items/9ab4fdac…

Two of my favourite weekend activities – calisthenics and messing around with generative AI. #calisthenics #AI

In the brief time I spent there, I found both their flat hierarchies and cinnamon buns equally appealing. Fika, four-week holidays – and zero overtime: Sweden’s stunningly healthy work culture | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

The Big Dipper twinkling brightly through the kitchen window tonight.

The importance of tackling biases in AI: White faces generated by AI are more convincing than photos, finds survey | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian theguardian.com/technology/202…

It really must have taken considerable effort to squeeze so many, fallacies into one pretty graphic. Impressive.

Robert Maddox builds engines with an astonishing 1000 pounds of thrust, making them the largest (and most insane) pulsejet engines in the world. x.com/Xudong1966/sta…

First scan of the year!

When a normal part of your job is removing an AI- hallucinated woman's head from the top of a fireplace, you know you're working in the HeMS Digital Simulation Team Anglia Ruskin FHEMS

If you tune out of all the AI hyperbole and incremental improvements for a couple of weeks, something like this comes also and really impresses. Quite a jump forwards from anything I've seen previously in this area.

NEWS: New ⁦ARU⁩ initiative addresses teacher shortage edexec.co.uk/new-aru-initia…

Great work by our talented students! #ARUProud of everyone involved.

Simulation-based learning Wednesday 17 July | 10am-11.30am or 1.30pm-3pm ThingLink Scenario Builder: what, why and how? In this session, we will delve into the “ingredients” for creating a scenario with Paul Driver aru.ac.uk/anglia-learnin… book via Business World