Jordan Orelli

@jordan.orel.li

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platform engineer at Whatnot, game design MFA from DePaul https://orel.li/

Wienermobile parked, partially obscured by a bush, with mountains in the background, in Salt Lake City
night pic of the milky way above above a big ol’ bush. It’s visually ambiguous if it’s a hill or if the camera is tilted wrong but it’s a hill. The stars have some movement trails from the long exposure but you only notice when you zoom in. The milky way is a bit faint but hey it’s my first one.
a Playstation Vita showing Angine de Poitrine’s KEXP performance
screenshot from stalling ubuntu server which asks me to import ssh keys from github using a github username
A sign that reads “DANGER: stay in marked trail” and warns the reader of unexplored ordinance nearby.
a carton of a dozen eggs on a grocery store shelf, priced at €2.15
it's the logo for the game Theme Hospital. The logo is a green cross, but there's a cartoon doctor injecting it with a needle and it's spraying green stuff out its back.
post from Mitsuhiko on lobster.rs: Lots of innovation can through non ethical processes and that does not prevent us from using them today. Many products descent from slave labor or human rights abuses. You would have to reject a lot of modern medicine if you want to opt against innovation that at one point in their history did not do horrific things on a scale much worse than abstract IP theft
screenshot from the lobste.rs moderation log showing that the story was deleted from lobste.rs with the reason "Article does not relate to computing".
the foreman of the miners in the tv miniseries Chernobyl
a husky standing in a doorway, looking up at you expectantly
StackoverFlow developer survey result. The description reads: More developers actively distrust the accuracy of AI tools (46%) than trust it (33%), and only a fraction (3%) report "highly trusting" the output. Experienced developers are the most cautious, with the lowest "highly trust" rate (2.6%) and the highest "highly distrust" rate (20%), indicating a widespread need for human verification for those in roles with accountability. The raw results for experienced devs show 2.5% of respondents highly trust AI outputs, 28.6% somewhat trust AI outputs, 26.7% somewhat distrust AI outputs, and 20.7% highly distrust AI outputs.
it's the cover image for The Giver, by Lois Lowry
screenshot from bluesky's announcement of user-level notifications, showing that I can get notifications when The Athletic posts
a frame from THX 1138. The protagonist, THX 1138, is in a phone booth talking to a computer image of Jesus, confessing his sins
screenshot of slackmojis.com, a directory of custom Slack emojis. I've entered "dead" into the search box, and the first image is a little cartoon man in a suit, laying on his back with his arms and legs splayed out, because he is dead.
Batman slapping Robin meme. Robin is saying "developers will just have to remember to ..." and Batman is slapping him and saying "they won't".
the footer of the CoAI web page, it says “No Hype. No doom.”
screenshot from Civilization 7, showing that I've chosen to create a religion named "Beatlemania" whose symbol is a beetle.
A bar graph of network bandwidth usage over the course of 30 days. The vertical axis range is from 0 to 30GB. Halfway through, the usage goes from about 15GB a day to zero.
A Nintendo Switch screen with no attached Joycons, showing a game of Balatro
screenshot from the video game INSIDE by Playdead. The player character, an unnamed boy, is in the foreground, watching a group of slumbering people, lined up and walking under the gaze of a security camera
a DVD of Welcome to the Dollhouse in a clear case with a Video Vortex sticker on the front
a soaking wet ten dollar bill, dyed dark blue as if it was a piece of denim
me in a hot tub, wearing my black knit beanie
it’s me, wearing a black beanie, smiling, lit warmly by the light of a campfire
A screenshot of project descriptions from Universal Paperclips, including Curing Cancer, World Peace, Global Warming, and Male Pattern Baldness, with curing Male Pattern Baldness increasing trust in your corporation the most.
an error message that reads "Currently, our app is available on Desktop Chrome only. Please switch to Chrome for the best experience."
a small campfire with three logs
a low-resolution 3d skeleton mage, which is an early art asset from Diablo 2. The mage's left hand is consumed in a large fireball and in his right hand he's holding a brown wooden staff. The top of the staff is in the shape of a cobra's head, but it has googly eyes.
screenshot of the 1993 roguelike Castle of the Winds. The player is fighting a rat, and the rat is kicking the player's ass.
the cover of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Michael is shown reclining from the waist up, the lighting is soft and there is a bit of a halo around him.
it's the Windows shut down button with a little orange circle above it, which indicates that Windows will update the next time you turn the computer off
a wagon with rubber tires used for gardening