Michael E. Gruen

@gruen.us

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A Switch
“What tree am I?”
Sign at a campground that says: Whilst the majority of campers are responsible the rise in popularity we are experiencing at this site is unsustainable. If you do stay, please do not promote the site on social media etc
@gruen.us sitting on the floor of Amtrak, assured a seat circa 2014
ASCII Claude with an ASCII pumpkin
Sad Charles Leclerc
"Why would you take the car?" text snippet from article.
AI Slop in Graph form (n.b., nothing makes sense at all)
Sherwin Williams’ “cover the earth” lol
Carbon footprint for Google Workspace
Door with sign that says “the hovel”
MacOS dialog asking to allow Anthropic's Claude access to find devices on my local network.
New Yorker Cover from 1976, showing 9th Ave to the Hudson river, to China/Russia
A sticker in the style of a restricted parking sign, saying "NO KING ANY TIME".
Google ngram for "dead cat bounce".
Twitter for Dummies coming up in Llama 3 training data set, courtesy of the Atlantic.
Congressional seats by the new states of PR, DC, Guam, USVI, Northern Mariana, American Samoa, and... Canada
table showing congressional redistribution
Copy as Markdown option
MacOS not letting me open Docker, which is a critical path on how I do most of my software development
Video unavailable
Screenshot demonstrating inherent bias of how AI models are trained, where a copilot autocompletes someone else’s thought.
Note that says: Firstly, please note that no LLM nor “AI” was used in this letter’s creation. (As a hiring manager, most cover letters as of late have been clearly of artificial origin. Rest assured that an organic intelligence—n.b., me—authored this recommendation… questionable though his “intelligence” may be.)
Wordle does not like “Santa”
15 puzzle game
Queens, a LinkedIn Game, saying that I am smarter than 95% of CEOs. (Not quite mensa territory, but I'll take it.)
Cloudflare having a moment
Arrow sticker on sidewalk pointing towards polling location.
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User #711 on BlueSky
Medium red bicycle in front of little red lighthouse underneath the GWB.
Cesspool Man in front of Union Square Cafe
Nice
Cloud Iridescence: the color spectrum painted on the wisps of a cloud.
Red bicycle in front of the little red lighthouse under the George Washington bridge, nyc
My face again. Not that I don’t have a reddish complexion, but I’m not *that* pink.
My face smoothed as if it were made of silly putty.
AWS dashboard predicting our aggressive cost cutting efforts are all for naught.
Bluesky with non-loading iOS icon
Spelling bee game claiming the word “quine” as invalid.
NYTimes connections game where most tiles are podcast names
Differently colored macarons in a display case looking very much like an office365 bar chart.
Email stating my handle will migrate away from me unless I “tweet” on T2
MacOS error message informing me terraform will damage my computer.
Glyph that says to place hands here for air drying
Playdate editor having dvorak-style control setting for testing games (over the standard qwerty keyboard)
Twitter for Dummies (first or second edition)
Me on a blue sky
Writers on strike on E 19 in NYC.
Hand painted billboard in progress for Johnny Walker
Ready Player One image with a guy wearing an IOI headset that you could mistake for the recently announced Apple Vision Pro
Cat on a railing. (Not mine. Not a stray.)