Adam Compton

@comptona.bsky.social

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Dad, husband, and principal engineer @ https://wayve.ai. Anyone can break one computer, but if you want to break thousands of computers at the same time you need a professional. Also enjoys reading everything that's not nailed down and pixel art.

Screenshot of article text, reads: We don’t need to accept this new status quo. The office has been the No. 1 place adults form friendships, outranking houses of worship, children’s schools, neighborhoods and sports teams. Forming and sustaining these friendships almost always requires in-person time: Our brains are wired to connect face-to-face, and even the most advanced digital tools are a poor substitute. To maintain this critical source of connection, workers need doses of in-person time with one another. Yet the prepandemic norm of being in the office every hour of every workday often crowded out time with friends and family. So, for many of us, the solution is not to rewind the clock to our 2019 ways. Instead, we can form strong bonds by being more intentional about how we work.
A picture of the character Lightning McQueen from the Pixar movie "Cars"
An image of the Magic: The Gathering card "Silvos, Rogue Elemental"
A brief interaction with a generative AI where the user asks "It's 12:13 AM in California. What time is it in Tokyo?" and, after a lot of detailed reasoning which approaches the correct answer but never reaches it, the AI replies with a different, even more wrong answer.
An image of the Magic the Gathering card "Ball Lightning", a 6/1 creature with trample and haste for {R}{R}{R} that specializes in smashing faces
A landscape photo of a vivid blue sky and rolling green hills
These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us.
Newspaper from the movie Back to the Future 2 with the headline "Emmett Brown Committed"
"The likes of Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, however, surely have that kind of money, yet they're prostrating themselves before Trump. They aren't stupid; they have to know what kind of person Trump is and understand -- whether or not they admit it to themselves -- the humiliating nature of their behavior. So why do they do it?"
The box cover for the video game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters" for the Sega Genesis
A screen capture from the movie Everything Everywhere All At Once featuring Ke Huy Quan as Waymond Wang, the protagonist's mild-mannered husband.
A photograph of a car hood painted with the Joker and Harley Quinn, covering the entire hood
"When they struck, they wanted to create an atmosphere of fear. And one of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry. It's to tell the traveling public: Get on board. Do your business around the country. Fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Get down to Disney World in Florida. Take your families and enjoy life, the way we want it to be enjoyed."
A screengrab from The Nightmare Before Christmas, from the This Is Halloween song, featuring Sally and two hanged skeletons applauding Jack's grand entrance
The cover of the children's book "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective"
X post from CT Senator Chris Murphy reading: "The child tax credit, increased ACA subsidies, and student loan forgiveness helped people. All good policy. But it didn't move people emotionally to our side. Why? Maybe because most people don't want a handout. They want the rules unrigged so they can succeed on their own."
Cover image for the TV show "Strange Luck", featuring a man in a long coat and his shadow towering over him menacingly.
A promotional poster for a fake, joke movie: "42 Jump Street: Beauty School".
A poem by Joseph Fasano, titled "For Someone Who Used AI to Write a Poem". Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.
Vince McMahon reaction meme template with four vertical boxes reading, "Have an opinion", "Realize you were wrong", "Find people who got it right", and "Listen to what else they say you're wrong about"
An extended excerpt from an interview between Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Text: Toward the end of the interview, Trump appeared to speculate over the potential outcome of the November presidential election. "If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet the next time in Venezuela because it'll be a far safer place to meet than our country, okay?" the former president told Musk. So, we'll go, you and I will go and we'll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela because that's what's happening," he added.
XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/1053/, espousing the value of being open to learning new things
Output from the AI model describing a selfie of the poster as: a man with a beard and a tie dye shirt, impish smile, patreon, 4 5 yo, made in 2019, face icon, loosely cropped, robb cobb, buzzed short dark hair, springtime, smiling like a jerk, adobe, short silver grey hair, the encrypted metaverse, few wrinkles, lolth
A pie chart depicting one of the data sets from the grandparent chart with themed colors to demonstrate the suggested visualization.
Screenshot of an email notification, informing the poster that their charter membership in LOPSA has expired.
In the endless expanse of communications the Internet is, probably the greatest and most terrible gift it offers to furries, pedophiles, and others, is the ability to shut themselves off from the mainstream. They huddle in cloisters that are virtually unassailablr by the outside world and whisper encouraging things to one another that would be nearly impossible to say in real life. Free from the pressures of society to conform to a boring standard they go in the exact opposite direction, externalizing things that are roughly as far from "normal" as can be expected. Then, within their protected virtual enclaves, they declare these things to be the norm. By declaring their perversions, mores, and general imbecility to be their own status quo they have simultaneously validated their own existence and demonstrated the inferiority of outsiders.
Poster for the movie "The Breaks", with several characters standing around a graffiti'ed car
Screen capture from Idiocracy (2006), showing a character watching the popular TV show "Ow! My Balls!" surrounded by advertisements
A photo of the cover of Weird Al's Greatest Hits, Volume 2