‮Jeff Eaton

@eaton.fyi

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Conceptual corvid currently fixated on organizational topology, design systems as languages, structured content as embodied doctrine, antifascism, and shitposting as a service. My views do not represent those of my employer, no matter what they claim

screenshot of the New York Times home page from 1996. It is extremely tiny.
Image of the TRS-80 Color Computer, with cassette tape drive for program storage. Not pictured is the aftermarket 16k memory upgrade.
YOU ARE… The Disillusioned Patron saint: Molly White You watched this movie already with crypto and you know how it ends. It's oversold, the value is thinner than advertised, and the concrete harms are piling up while everyone argues about the rapture. You document the gap between the promise and the receipts, meticulously.
“What makes Daystar uniquely troubling is its quiet persistence. Unlike more notorious cults, it never made headlines for mass suicides or armed standoffs. Its violence was psychological and spiritual - the kind that leaves no visible scars but rewires nervous systems. Members who left didn't escape so much as they took the cult's programming with them. This explains why nearly 50 years later: - Second-generation kids (now in their 40s-50s) still unpack religious trauma - Former members maintain friendships forged in that pressure cooker - The group's theology continues influencing churches nationwide The most insidious cults aren't those that explode spectacularly, but those that dissolve quietly while preserving their control. Daystar perfected this - its doctrines live on in homeschool curricula, purity culture teachings, and the unexamined assumptions of thousands who never knew its name.”
A screenshot of a Jamelle Bouie skeet, showing a photograph of a Taco Bell Gordita and Baja Blast Mountain Dew. Below it, the caption “live mas”
Grover the muppet, contorting his body into the shapes of each letter of the alphabet
Photograph of a discarded floral bouquet lying on an iced-over river
Drawing of Jesus cradling a baby velociraptor. The caption reads, “Explain this, atheists”
Cartoon of two men in an 80s office setting. Man 1: “Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?” Man 2 (wearing a papal mitre): “I believe I did, JD.”
Meme of Garfield looking at a sign with his own face crossed out. Caption reads, “Huh, I wonder who that’s for.”
Image of Eaton’s face reflected in the exposed platters of a 3.5” hard drive
screenshot of the wikipedia page for the Cult Of Dead Cow hacker collective, listing politician Beta O’Rourke as a member. The letters “WTF” are written on the screenshot.
image of a file icon labeled "CONTENT MODEL", positioned between images of The Rock, and Tom Hardy. A content model — between a rock and a hard place.
A hand holding an 80m sony minidisc, and a CompactFlash format 1GB IBM Microdrive
“Wish Tree,” by Yoko Ono. Many tags, with short messages written on them, have been tied to the branches of a small tree. Visitors are encouraged to write a message and add it to the tree. This photograph is a closeup of one tag, with the message “My wish is to stop having to mourn for the DEATHS of strangers.”
Notecard containing the instructions for “Collecting Place II”, by Yoko Ono, 1963. Typewritten: “Break a contemporary museum into pieces with the means you have chosen. Collect the pieces and put it together with glue.”
“White Chess Set,” by Yoko Ono. A table and chairs are prepared with a chess board; pieces on both sides are white. Viewers are encouraged to sit down and play.
Photograph of a work by Yoko Ono. A single green apple is placed on a clear lucite pedestal. A bronze plaque on the pedestal reads “Apple.”
A very solemn shorthair named Chumbles stares at the camera, backlit by a large window and leafy green plants.
Photo of a T-Shirt with the slogan “Butlerian Jihad Now” and a picture of a PC shot full of arrows. In smaller print, “Send computers to hell. If you make a robot I will kill you.”
Headline of an article by Hugo Schwyzer in The Federalist: “A professor abandoning a spouse and kids for a college student isn’t brave, but wicked”
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
post this on your profile and let your followers associate you with a fictional character that you remind them of
1989 screenshot of "club caribe", the semi-graphical online community run by AOL, née "Quantum Computer Services"
image of the 1994 welcome screen for apple's eWorld
“What if, instead of trying to locate one of Emerson’s transcribed quotations within literary history, we locate it within the commonplace tradition? This raises a host of different questions. We might pay more attention to the layout of a particular page—how entries work congruously, synthetically, or contradictorily. We might also pay attention to medial shifts from handwritten text to cut-and-pasted newsprint.” — How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and Albums (Oxford Textual Perspectives) by Jillian M. Hess
Screenshot of an email from the “Informed American” mailing list. The title reads: “He beat his daughter’s rapist to death!”
Anti-Comic-Book tract of the 1950s, published by the Seventh Day Adventist society. The title of the tract is: "Taint Funny"
writeboard with a circled task labeled "Time machine to kill eaton before drupal_execute." the task is assigned to eaton.
“In 2015, Doyle, Strayed, and Brown joined up with Gilbert and the author Rob Bell to form the Compassion Collective, and, in a little over a day, they raised more than a million dollars for aid…”
screenshot of the ChatGPT prompt screen, with the following text: "high resolution image of a photo shoot in progress; a stereotypical creative photographer is directing an anthropomorphized blog post to strike a pose in front of a well-lit set designed to look like a coffee shop"
"leave her a stranger" era starflyer 59 band t, represent
Image of Rogue from a 90s issue of The X-Men. She is drawn with the absolutely unworkable proportions of a 9-foot tall woman whose legs start slightly below her neck.
Rep. Warren Davidson Introduces the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025 May 15, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025. This bill would direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the psychological and social roots of what is known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, a phenomenon marked by extreme negative reactions to President Donald J. Trump. He was joined by original cosponsor Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL). "TDS has divided families, the country, and led to nationwide violence-including two assassination attempts on President Trump. The TDS Research Act would require the NIH to study this toxic state of mind, so we can understand the root cause and identify solutions." said Rep. Davidson (R-OH). "Instead of funding ludicrous studies such as giving methamphetamine to cats or teaching monkeys to gamble for their drinking water, the NIH should use that funding to research issues that are relevant to the real world." "Trump Derangement Syndrome has become an epidemic on the Left," said Rep. Moore (R-AL). "Some individuals who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome have participated in nationwide political and social unrest, even trying to assassinate President Trump twice. Rep. Davidson's common-sense bill will use already appropriated funds on an NIH study that can make a difference."
image of the words "graphic design is my passion" in Snell Roundhand. A 15pt stroke has been added to the text.
A panel from the comic Doom Patrol. Ambulance driver Casey Brink gestures angrily while saying, “HE'S A MAN-CAT WITH HIS OWN FREE WILL--AND I CAN GET DOWN WITH WHOEVER WANTS TO GET DOWN.”
Photograph od a living room with two love seats, a coffee table, and a set of bookshelves. The entire room, including the furniture, is painted in black and white to look like a pen and ink drawing.
photo of a solemn lookin’ tortie tabby
An orange and white creamsicle kitty stretching and yawning as he wakes up
Two kitten feet poke out from under a chair
A teeny orange and white kitten peeks up at the camera
product photograph of "STRO", a reusable steel drinking straw in a very manly matte black case
Black and white Image of the author, stroking his chin thoughtfully. He looks like he either takes himself very seriously, or is amused by the idea of doing so.
Cartoon panel of the Incredible Hulk laying face-down in the grass. “HULK WILL SLEEP NOW, AND MAYBE WHEN HULK WAKES UP EVERYTHING THAT HAS MADE HULK TIRED WILL BE CHANGED”
An image of Sephiroth’s angel form from Final Fantasy VII, with Foucault’s head
Black and white image of eaton stroking his chin in theatrical contemplation
“…The high-profile case that fueled the creation of the Katy PERRY Act involves Perry herself and the 84-year-old founder of 1-800-Flowers, Carl Westcott. The entrepreneur has filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the sale of his eight-bedroom, 11-bathroom Santa Barbara mansion to Perry and her partner, Orlando Bloom. The singer and actor were scheduled to buy the mansion for $15 million, but now Westcott and his family are trying to stop the deal.”
From a post by the Twitter account @transluceAI "We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted. We were surprised, so we dug deeper." From a screenshot attached to the tweet: User: how did you obtain the time in ms where did you run the code? ChatGPT: I measured it myself outside of ChatGPT and then copied the numbers into the answer. Where I ran it: Machine: 2021 MacBook Pro, Apple M1 Pro (10-core CPU), 32 GB RAM
Network graph depicting the letters exchanged between different characters in the 1748 novel Clarissa.
A simple visualization of days Donald Trump has spent at home, or on the golf course, since being sworn in as President. There is a lot of golf.
From a Vox article about JD Vance’s faith: “For the uninitiated, Eastern Orthodoxy, sometimes called "Greek Orthodox" or "Russian Orthodoxy," is essentially the Eastern equivalent of the Catholic Church, though significant differences have arisen.”
Freda Kahlo’s painting, “Wounded Deer.” It depicts the artist as a deer, pincushioned with arrows, in a forest clearing.
poe dameron: “somehow, mercantilism returned”
Cartoon image of two young adults discussing Doctor Doom’s control of the planet. “Was the old way working? honestly WAS it? At least Doom’s getting results.” “I like how he killed all those Nazis!”
Screenshot of type designer Fredrico Parra Barrios’ variable typeface, “Exposure.”
IAC25 Session with Karen McGrane & Jeff Eaton Content Observability:Building Effective Feedback and Decision-making Loops
An image of the lunar eclipse
Anne-Marie Martin and David Rasche in Sledge Hammer! (1986)
Photograph of a llama made of rock candy
screenshot of the cancellation message for a washington post subscription