Ari Gesher

@arigesher.bsky.social

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Software, platforms, and data guy at large. Previously: Parallel Bio, Kairos Aerospace, Palantir, SourceForge Photography, meaning grounded in nihilistic certainty, Jew, raver, autodidact, proud weirdo.

Outback sunset with evening star detail
Close-up shot of a Fuji X-T5, silver lens and controls, black body. It looks like a classic 35mm compact camera from the 70s/80s era.
A vibrant sunset over dark blue water. The sun dips behind a dark landmass on the horizon, casting a golden glow beneath layers of heavy, dark clouds tinged with fiery orange and pink.
A young girl leaps over a tidal stream on a beach illuminated by an orange sunset.
A surfer pivots over the top of a low wave as seen from the shore.
A giraffe at the San Diego zoo looks for his next snack.
A beautiful middle-aged woman smiles at the camera, sunglasses perched on her pinned back hair.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London
A self-car wash, three bays full, frames a lone palm tree towering in the foreground.
A tree rises in a square inside the Tower of London, rising above Tudorish buildings while The Shard looms in the distance.
A sleek recliner sits empty in the corner of a room. The night scene is lit by four hexagons of light, arranged in a triangle-filling pattern. The panels emit a soft, warm white glow, lighting the scene in a cozy fashion. The walls are festooned with art, diplomas, and framed news articles.
A tight crop of the right side of a woman's face fills the right side of the frame, her eye staring directly into the camera.
Some corner of the Oakland skyline, ca 2018. The side of a building reads PUBLIC PARKING and a construction crane peeks over the top of low commercial buildings. One is tagged with tasteful graffiti reading RAW. The building closest to the foreground is labeled BEST DETAIL INC.
Long lens shot of a distance hillside, with stacked mountain ranges in the distance.
A tight crop of a vendor cart reveals an almost abstract landscape of yellows, reds, blacks, and even some greens.
It is not entirely clear what happened yet, as the investigation is ongoing, but two of the people said there was some kind of arrestment failure as the jet was trying to land on the carrier and the pilot and weapons systems officer had to eject. They were recovered by a rescue helicopter and are both alive, but they suffered minor injuries, one of the people said.
Screenshot of post by feral ‪@feraltempleguard.bsky.social‬: We can and do outlaw any kind of speech we would care to. Stop defending Nazis, Ari.
Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Frank Murphy upheld Chaplinsky’s conviction. The Court identified certain categorical exceptions to First Amendment protections, including obscenities, certain profane and slanderous speech, and "fighting words." He found that Chaplinsky's insults were “fighting words” since they caused a direct harm to their target and could be construed to advocate an immediate breach of the peace. Thus, they lacked the social value of disseminating ideas to the public that lay behind the rights granted by the First Amendment. A state can use its police power, the Court reasoned, to curb their expression in the interests of maintaining order and morality.
Telephoto shot, looking up from street, of the Nagoya Spiral Towers. A mix of repeating triangular windows forming a curved surface, broken in intervals to reveal interior balconies. The build appears as a somewhat abstract, complex shape, framed against a strip blue sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_Gakuen_Spiral_Towers
Median Earnings for a Full-Time Worker, Adjusted by TLC. It shows a dramatic 5% drop in median earnings during the Biden administration https://www.lisep.org/tlc
Wind blows the hair of a young girl, eyes closed, lips pursed in a kiss, and flashing a peace sign held in the foreground for the camera. In the background, the trees and grass of a beach side park.
Clouds glow orange pink in a mostly blue dawn sky.
Reflective Simulations, 2012, embodies the contradictions of nature versus culture. It is a semi-immersive sculpture that expresses an intuitive artistic process and challenges the way people engage with the natural environment. Comprised of a number of geometrical units, the work appears self-determining, growing like crystalline formations or plant-like growth where the viewer and the environment are thrown into a kaleidoscopic matrix. https://mcclelland.org.au/artworks/reflective-simulations
The photographer, wearing blue jacket, backpack, and CHROME hat at a jaunty angle, shows up reflected in various mirrored, triangular facets of a sculpture. https://mcclelland.org.au/artworks/reflective-simulations
Fading light creates shadows and textures on close-up view of Uluru.
Why don’t we see Moore’s Law type of growth in the performance of solar cells if this is simply a matter of believing in a self-fulfilling prophecy? Surely, such an acceleration would be ideal for investors and consumers. Why doesn’t everybody simply clap for Tinkerbelle to live, to *really* believe, and then the hoped for self-made fairy will kick in, and solar cells will double in efficiency and halve in cost every two years? That kind of consensual faith would generate billions of dollars. It would easy to find entrepreneurs eager to genuinely believe in the prophecy. The usual argument applied against this challenge is that solar chips and batteries are governed primarily by chemical processes, which chips are not. As one expert put the failure of exponential growth in batteries: “This is because battery technology is a prisoner of physics, the periodic table, manufacturing technology and economics.” That’s plain wrong. Manufacturing silicon integrated chips is an intensely chemical achievement, as much a prisoner of physics, the periodic table and manufacturing as batteries. Mead admits this: “It’s a chemical process that makes integrated circuits, through and through.” In fact the main technical innovation of Silicon Valley chip fabrication was to employ the chemical industry to make electronics instead of chemicals. Solar and batteries share the same chemical science as chips.
A map of Altadena, shows the fire perimeter of the Eaton over satellite imagery. Many, many homes lie inside the fire perimeter.
Light streams in rays from holes in the clouds over an agricultural field. An empty highway crosses the foreground
Meat packing, looking north. The buildings make a collage of occluded forms against a dramatically clouded sky.
An empty lot and a light snow at 10th Ave and W 18th opens up a rich cityscape of architecture, graffiti — a rich melange of colors, textures, and glyphs.
A poorly maintained two-story commercial building in the River North area of Chicago. Hand-painted red letters on the black doors proclaim: “POST NO BILLS” in two different sizes. A lone pedestrian strolls by while steel and glass residential towers loom in the background against an overcast sky.
The view looking straight up in the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta. A rectangle bounded by warm wood colors is punctuated by a sculpture in the foreground and a translucent ceiling with an off center skylight in the background.
Parts of the Chicago skyline reflected in the glass exterior of two skyscrapers on the north bank of the Chicago river.
The Kinzie railroad bridge over the Chicago River, a trestle structure, sits at a jaunty 75 degree angle with tall, reflective buildings in the background on an overcast Chicago morning.
A tightly-focused video camera shows a video of the beautiful sunset happening in the blurry distance.
A sculpture made of shiny metal discs arrayed like the rays of the sun stands stark against a blue sky.
A photograph of a shop window, line-art graphic showing a bao bun with a bite out of it next to another bao bun. The photo shows the bokeh-blurred street scene in reflection on the window and faint views of the interior behind with line art in sharp focus.