John Riney III

@8bithe.art

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8-bit heart in a double precision world. Mostly old computers and cats. My opinions are mine alone. Fuck Trump, Elon, Nazis, and GenAI. Instagram: https://instagram.com/8bithe.art Twitch: https://twitch.tv/jay_threezy Blog, projects: https://8bithe.art

Four identical envelopes from FedEx, containing tariff bills caused by our frighteningly stupid administration
Top-down view of the card cage of an IBM 5110 computer, with the top of each card coated with varying amounts of black, lumpy sludge, the remnants of protective foam.
A screenshot of the new AI-enabled Siri chatbot, summarizing a text. The content of the text, from someone named Aga, is "Have you heard of Calathea? It's a patterned tropical houseplant..." Above the text is the summary "Aga sent you a message about Calathea. She described it as a patterned tropical houseplant."
A black t-shirt with the words "Segway & Blockchain and Crypto and NFTs and Metaverse" crossed out and "GenAI" right below them, not (yet) crossed out
A black 5.25" floppy diskette labeled "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" in a gray Infocom sleeve
A title card for Star Trek with the text "Operation: Mandatory Sexual Harassment Training"
A title card for Star Trek: Voyager with the text "Wait, what's a spore drive?"
A title card for Star Trek: Voyager with the text "Tuvix, Too Furious"
A title card for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with the text "Fuck You Miles O'Brien (part XVIII)"
The words "sushi glory hole, hear us out" flying onto the screen in rainbow colors, imitating the Game Boy Advance startup screen
A drawing of a handheld scanner with anthropomorphized hands and face shouting "no"
A yellow sign with a laser safety symbol and the text "do not look into laser with remaining eye"
A black knob labeled "high voltage control"
A print ad for an Olivetti Divisumma 18 calculator,, featuring a young woman pressing a calculator to her forehead
An off-white Hammond Novachord synthesizer from 1939, looking rather like a piano with some extra knobs above the keyboard.
A suitcase-sized box with an inordinate number of numeric dials bearing the name "Cowculator"
A fluffy tan ragdoll cat sniffing an HP omnigo 100 palmtop
An HP Omnigo 100, an IBM Workpad C3, an HP LX100, and an Atari Portfolio, on a light pine floor
Six 3.3 nF ceramic disk capacitors in a clear plastic bag
A keyboard key labeled "DEL BS" in white lettering on black plastic
A NeXT Computer, with a NeXTStation sitting on top of it, with the matching monitor, keyboard, and mouse
A black cat in a sunbeam sitting on a field of grass
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension
A black-and-white magazine ad for a Micon Cassetterm, Miget, and Tiger data terminals from Micon Industries in Oakland, CA.
A typewritten card with the text "To the best of my knowledge, no part of this exhibit was created with, or with the assistance of, generative AI technologies. GenAI is bad for creators, bad for creativity, and bad for the world in general, in its present form. Signed, John W.S. Riney III"
A 128 GB USB stick in the shape of a 5 1/4" floppy diskette
The back seat of a car filled with old computers, monitors, boxes, and cables
Gul Dukat, a Cardassian from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, pointing toward the viewer and saying "there is no dilemma that cannot be solved by a disciplined, Cardassian mind"
An Osborne 1 portable computer