Erik ❤️

@benoist.dev

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internet plumber as @nilcoast.com— ex: startups Chicago fan, RPCV, and lapsed urban planner (he/him)

Casio inspired pebble watch face
Sutnar inspired pebble watch face
Brutalist pebble watch face with iMessage support.
Downed tree laying across a road with a blue car underneath
Pebble 2 watch face featuring mouse follow eyes and a compact design.
A snippet from Wikipedia’s take on AI slop in articles with highlights over the words that define the line between LLMs as tools and as slop machines 🎰 generated articles. Editors' position, as well as the position of the Wikimedia Foundation, has been to not make blanket rules against AI because Wikipedia already uses some forms of automation, and because AI tools could assist editors in the future. The new policy doesn't ban the use of other automated tools that are already in use or future implementations, but it does show the Wikipedia community is less optimistic about the benefit of AI-generated content, and taking a stand against it.
A well worn commodore 64
Landing page screen shot of Amazon Prime’s Speed (1994) getting the actual speed of the bus wrong.
A dark sky with green and purple auroras and St Gertie
A cute red head named Benoist eats a beignet.
Early 90s gas scooter, a goPed
The red line tracks are in the background and there’s some prime real estate for infill in the foreground.
A terrier sits next to a ghost on a porch in Chicago
Cicada on some wood
A terrier looking contemplative on a porch
Sections of carpet revealing 100+ year old hardwood floors.
Framework laptop at a diner.
A photo taken from a front porch looking at the street. My snoopy shoes are in the foreground and there’s a dog and Guatemalan flag in the middle ground.
Framework installation completed and looking at 1440
Bubblegum and blue 12” framework laptop installing ubuntu
The "i made this" meme edited to include Claude. Anthropic's logo gives the developer some code without attribution and the developer takes that code and claims they made it.
Subtitles from the previously sacked editor of Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
Constitutional rights against ICE agents, in a Church.
Edith the dog, a terrier, sleeps demurely on her pillow
Orange cat that turned its back to me.
noaa radar image of tstorms in Chicago
An ambitiously named repo, written in just a few days, now holding up 4.5 million viewers
A cheese curd pizza taco in red checked wax paper
Spider web with Edgewater in the background
Covid stickers, first two shots.
A geriatric millennial amount of vinyl records.
Brutalist art museum in Japan.
A set of OOP occult books.
Edith, the super mutt, snoozling next to me like a human.
The movie that shaped me and other curios.
A Guatemalan flag flies on the porch of a Chicago home in a northside neighborhood.
Espresso tonic on a porch
Glow in the dark vibe japanese ghosts
Terrier sits on a porch with a Guatemalan flag waving from a flagpole.