Dan Thorpe

@danisnotadj.bsky.social

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Sound designer // LGBTQ+ public health researcher. Your queer dad. He/Him

Dan’s hair is swept into a flatted side part, with a lavalier microphone just visible Through the hairline
Dan’s thick, brown hair standing straight upright a solid 4 inches above his head
A photo graph of Dan’s hand holding a piece of armature wire shaped to fit around an actor’s ear and hold a lavalier microphone
Inscrutable bar of a partial orchestral score; 3:11:12 polyrhythm (with the 3 subdivided in even more cursèd ways)
Screenshot of black text on a white background. Title (in all caps) — Disruption: Tactics Body text — The faggots never tire of fucking with the men's minds. Once all the faggots let their hair grow long, wore necklaces made of silver and shells and clothes of colourful, elaborate fabrics. They looked so stunning that the men over-looked their principles and began to look stunning also. When the men all looked like faggots, the faggots cut their hair, put on black leather and looked like the men used to look. The men were annoyed and pretended not to notice. Growing bored with basic black leather, the faggots began to elaborate. They wore black fish-net stockings and high heels with their black leather jackets. They carefully sewed imitation rhinestones all over their black leather pants. They wore feather boas as they rode their motorcycles through the devastated city. They wore flowing gold lame gowns and workboots with their short hair and dirty fingernails. They drank beer and swore, in velvet robes and furs. They sipped champagne and talked refined in paint-splattered blue denim. The men did not want to look at any of this. And when they had to, they became confused and petulant and unpleasant, which pleased the faggots.
White guy with greying dark brown hair and beard — wearing an outrageously unbuttoned tan linen shirt, exposing a hairy chest — does bear face at the camera. A strip of light illuminates the bottom half of the frame, drawing attention to the top of a black sternum tattoo just visible at the lowest extent of the shirt’s unbuttoning.
A messenger message from a person named Ash, which I have laugh reacted to, reading "it IS well documented that women have better colour perception" followed by two eye emoji
Crying child holding a gun meme on a white background with the text “LISTEN TO BLOODWORK (😔)”
That meme of the two guys on a bus, where one looks forlorn at a rock face while another overlooks a beautiful landscape with a smile. Text on either side above said guy, respectively, reads “Needing to read Barad”
A white man with thick framed glasses smoulders semi-effectively
Cut off screenshot of a message to a choreographer friend, reading “would you be open to teaching two unco fags how to move in a compelling way”. “Unco”, of course, being deeply 90s Australian slang for “uncoordinated”
Screenshot of an obsidian.md notebook. Text reads: "This reviewer finds themselves alarmed at the extent to which the broader social, political, and economic contexts of these interventions was elided by the authors. Indeed, the context, results, and recommendations of this review are substantially and immediately clarified by the introduction of any sort of *theory of power* in the context of AI. Take, for example, this excerpt from the introduction:" A large black rectangle covers the embargoed text of the reviewed article, before the author's text continues: "*What* is driving increased demand for mental health services? *What* has led to strain on clinical workforces? *What* is the relation between these supply-side and demand-side pressures and Artificial Intelligence based solutions? To name one author (among many) who has written about this at length, this reviewer points you to the work of Jathan Sadowski. I urge you to consider the ways in which AI, in *all* of these applications, displaces labour that *should* be paid for by a state, or perhaps in an American context (unfortunately) an insurer, with what you yourselves identify as a cluster of technologies with substantive limitations. Secondarily, this reviewer urges you to consider how this broader displacement of labour and erosion of the economic foundations of millions of people's lives drives distress at population scale. This framing radically shifts the terms of evaluation; it is not "is AI better than *nothing*", but rather "is AI better than *a clinician with the time to take proper care of their patients*"...
Portrait selfie of a beleaguered, sweaty looking white man with a voluminous brown mullet, a large beard, two nose rings in his left nostril, a grimace, and sad eyes behind a pair of the Bailey and Nelson glasses every cunt with a masters degree in this stupid country wears. His slightly sheer, maroon shirt is unbuttoned so much he may as well not be wearing it, showing off a truly slutty amount of chest hair.
Screenshot of a preface to an ebook. The first two and last sentence are highlighted in yellow. In November 2015, a chance meeting between Dr. Jim Jansen and representatives of AJ+, an Al Jazeera social media channel, led to a discussion of the difficulties of using the many analytics platforms available. It was at that meeting the concept of Automatic Persona Generation (APG) emerged. That meeting led to a set of algorithmic approaches to improve user understanding by presenting analytics and numbers in a form that most people can relate to—another person! Since that impactful meeting, the APG Project team members and collaborators have developed innovative approaches, identified and created new processes, implemented technology products, designed services, and devised delivery methods for data-driven personas—all aimed at enhanced user understanding. Many of these advances have been published in research articles, intellectual property disclosures, and online postings. This book takes these published manuscripts, enhances them, polishes them, and integrates them into a coherent lecture that serves as a foundation for the future advancement of data-driven personas, data-driven personas systems, and data-driven personas research. The driver for APG and the related research is inspired by Papa John’s slogan— Better Personas! Better Decisions! Better Results!
Uruk hai from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy with the subtitle “looks like libbing out is back on the menu boys”
Text from “Notes on Gooning” by JV Marx for Sensitive Content Magazine. Black text on a white background. Gooning is tough to define. Gooning is many things. For example, cumming all the time is goony. But so is not cumming. “Alpha males” do it; “Beta males” do it. Girls, gays, theys, and people who don’t know they’re “doing it” do it. It’s solitary, it’s communal. It’s holy, it’s demonic. It’s divine.
Block of R code, including two regular expressions that look like poorly executed ASCII art.
Slightly out of focus phone shot from the top of a staircase of a gaggle of middle-distance highschool students in uniform huddled beneath a towering, translucent veranda as freezing rain pours on a green lawn in front of a glassfronted, white, three story ecomodernist building
Beer in big plastic cup 🖤
A business in a shitty 1970s brick building with a green sign on top. To the left of the sign, crude clip art of a snake in flat black. The business name in white text on top - “REPTILE CREATIVE”. Beneath this in black text, the tagline - “Innovate. Educate. Elevate. Reptiles.”
A photo of a distressed, gigantic iced-coffee holding Ben Affleck captioned “me in my hometown after seven minutes with my family feeling my nervous system reverting to my sixteen-year-old self”
Two stills from the film “It is not the Homosexual who is perverse, but the society in which he lives”. A group of nude men sit in a luxuriant pile of fabrics and throws.; pinks and purples. In the top still a hairy, bearded, blond man says “pretending we’re real men is bullshit”. He continues in the second frame “because most of us aren’t.” The twink in front of him says “let’s become more gay!” as, to the left, a man with a handlebar moustache leans backwards and into the embrace of another blond man.
A handsome tuxedo cat sits on top of a bookcase in between a lamp and a monstera. Behind him, a poster for The Thing announces “the ultimate in alien terror”
Low angle shot of a beardy man in a cream shirt with a patterned print of palm-sized red flowers sitting in a computer chair. In his lap, the most magnificently handsome tuxedo cat looking to the left of the camera contemplates committing an atrocity to his mouse and keyboard.