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Chaotic good. I'm a big fan of you. I think you’re awesome. 🤘

A photo of a presentation slide titled "creative renaissance in spite of AI, not via AI" that shows connections between eras and their art: romanticism as a result of nausea from the enlightenment, arts & crafts movement as a result of nausea from the industrial revolution, and "romanticize the toil?" as a result of nausea from the algorithm/AI era. Red letters at the bottom state "you are here" and point to "nausea" for the algorithm/AI era.
Screenshot from The Simpsons. A hand is holding a pamphlet with the title “So I’ve Decided to Become Isolated and Weird Again”
A photo of an abandoned rail road trestle in the Pacific Northwest forest.
A set of alternating images, starting with my original headshot (my avatar photo). It's transformed into an anime style by ChatGPT, then transformed back into a photorealistic headshot. The series stabilizes after about six or seven transformations.
Screenshot from the article: "In 2021, the journal Nature declared arXiv one of the "10 computer codes that transformed science," praising its role in fostering scientific collaboration. (The article is behind a paywall--unlock it for $199 a year.)"
A blurry airport scene through a rain soaked window
A view out of a rain streaked airplane window, looking out at blobs of color and light in the darkness
What Bluesky thinks doesn't matter. What other "hackers" think doesn't matter. Do it for your community.
Horseless Carriage Syndrome * New technologies initially imitate the old technologies they are replacing * It makes the new tech more understandable by keeping familiar features * If we never move past the "horseless carriage" stage, we fail to reap the full benefits of innovation
COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL THREAT MODELING 1. As individuals and communities inhabiting our systems. what do you need to protect? 2. From whom do you need to protect those things? What vectors do they use? 3. How bad are the consequences if they aren't protected? 4. Which elements of our systems/tools/protocol/policies make it harder for you to protect what you need to protect? What could we do to help?
It’s that dashingly handsome Matthew McConaughey sucking down a cigarette with a particularly intense look on his face
Photo of a slide from a presentation: Atproto Ethos The Web: open, permissionless, universal, interconnected data Peer to Peer: location independent data, self certifying data, skepticism of centralization Distributed Systems: split read and write mode, application aware indices, microservices, eventual consistency, stream processing Identity based authority, structure gives freedom, split generic hosting from application, lazy trust
A whole bunch of enthusiastic AT Proto nerds watching Boris open the conference program.
A white mug with an image of people running and a declining chart and the text: SVB > Silicon Valley Bank Bank Run ‘23
Caspar David Fredrich’s “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”
Photograph from the Museum of the City of New York of a black sweater with a gold slogan embroidered on the front in cursive script. It says “Unbought and Unbossed” — Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 presidential campaign slogan.
A photograph of the entrance to the Museum of the City of New York with two big stone signs illuminated by the sunlight.
Edward Hoppers "Soir Blue" from 1914. It's a scene of people drinking at little tables at a cafe in Paris. Chinese lanterns hang above. Everyone is painted in muted and darker tones, except for a standing waitress with red cheeks and a BALD SMOKING CLOWN in bright white face paint, bright red makeup, and puffy white outfit. The clown appears to be hanging out with two otherwise normal looking dudes.
An extraordinarily gentle portrait of an older Black woman looking directly at the camera.
Franz Kline's "Black, White, and Gray" from 1959. An abstract painting with (unsurprisingly) black, white, and gray forms. There are distinct forms within the composition, but also quite a bit of gradients and softer edges, unlike "Mahoning" (the other painting in this skeet)
"The Smokers" by Adriaen Brouwer who enjoyed trolling his austere and idyllic contemporaries. Brouwer painted himself into the scene -- he's the surprised dude in the middle.
A sign at The Met that originally said "Free tours this way" ... but some clever individual has taped a piece of paper over "tour" and written in "beer"
The fabulously ornate and painted ceiling of the famous Rose Reading Room at the main New York Public Library. There’s even a little blue sky peeking through some clouds in a mural on the ceiling. Yours truly is featured at the bottom right, looking up at the ceiling.
A fancy looking candle with the label: "A candle for fucking meetings; smells like this could have been an email; and this is why I drink"
A small paper cup full of ice cream and espresso. It says "AUBI & RAMSA" in fancy gold lettering, followed by Affogato Cognac Ice Cream Hazelnut Sidecar Made With: Hennessy 4.9% alc.
Two posts separated by the “View full thread” link. The first: “i am a dad now so naturally i am filling all my car tires with air to make the witch cauldron light on my dash that i had been ignoring go away” The second: “Wait. Egg, underneath? We're talking about a beef patty right? Are you... Are you over cooking the egg?”
The goal: a delicious pizza from Denino’s on Staten Island. Half “a Salute” with ricotta, arugula, prosciutto; half “M.O.R.” with meatballs, onions, and ricotta
The wing tip of a 737-800 against a blue sky streaked with contrails, and a blue water below
A screenshot of two consecutive messages from Paul Frazee and Aendra talking about introducing bugs into their respective software projects
A photograph of the back of a garbage truck with the slogan: “SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR DOUBLE YOUR GARBAGE BACK”
Cover art for Sheep On Drugs album, “never mind the methadone,” featuring a couple of edgy looking 90s guys
A giant sticker on the back of a stop sign that says “CAUTION: Myabe you aren’t uniquely lazy and terrible” (Yes, the misspelling is present)
Screenshot of the "Post Hidden by Muted Word" notification
A coaster on a wood table. The coaster says “I wouldn’t do anything for a Klondike Bar but I would do some shady shit for a margarita and some tacos.”
A frame from the movie “They Live” wherein our ruggedly handsome and very muscular protagonist, who happens to be sporting the most flowingly magnificent 80s mullet, opens a magazine that simply says: BUY and DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY (If you’re thinking OMG this movie totally ripped off Shepard Fairey … you know, the OBEY sticker artist who went on to do that famous Obama screen print? Well, you have it the other way around. I mean, I can’t fault the guy, and I think his WWF choice of lionizing Andre instead of Roddy was a good one.) Anyway. Our extremely tore up protagonist goes on to fight a bunch of fucking aliens and teach them Some Shit in a sophisticated allegory about his personal disillusionment with the American Dream, the disenfranchisement of the middle class, and the dismantling of the social contract at the hands of billionaire motherfuckers in pursuit of power and wealth. There isn’t any particular reason I’m watching this tonight. No, I’m not lonely and angry about (waves hands) All This Fuckery. Go watch some Zizek and get back to me. Reply with 😎 if you got this far. Peace. ✌️
Screenshot of Clara's top feeds: BookSky, What's Cooking, and SciFi-Fantasy-SpecFic, all with thousands of likes. Clara is a nerd. Huge nerd. Just ... the nerdiest.
An image of a user counter for Bluesky rolling over to 28 million users; there's confetti in the background!
An emotional scene from Pootie Tang, wherein our eponymous hero (Lance Crouther) comes to terms his legacy and learns an important lesson from his corn cob father (Chris Rock)
A blurry Cinnamon Toast Crunch nugget with angry eyes and eyebrows and mouth with the words “what the cinnamon toast fuck is this”
A pint of a dark Irish stout on a worn wooden table. A lovely accessory for spending time chatting with friends, feeling grateful for the year, and looking forward to whatever comes next. ❤️
A screenshot from the 1983 David Lynch “Dune” movie. Detective Dale Cooper and Jean-Luc Picard are sitting behind a couple of other guys wearing prototype puffy jackets. Pretty sure Patagonia and North Face watched this for product inspiration. Everyone looks concerned about important things. They are surrounded by gold vinyl diamond quilted wall coverings. They look serious and worried. If I found myself in a small room with diamond vinyl wall padding I would also be serious and worried. The guys sitting in front of our Twin Peaks/Star Trek heroes appear to be wrestling with some unfortunate plumbing that controls the ornithopter they are riding in. Anyway. It’s complicated and from the 80s.
The view from seat 20A on a regional jet flying out of PDX airport. The plane is parked, and the view out the window is of the wing, the next plane over, and the Portland Airport parking garage in the distance.
Screenshot of a message on Discort: "Also, it's Peat's fault. He LinkedIn. Like an animal."
Screenshot of a Discord chat where one of the three raccoons that run this company says "niceeee, I'm gonna push something here before I take off, yolo"
Screenshot from https://bsky-users.theo.io/ 25,000,822 total Bluesky users!
Cover art for Lettuce's "Mt. Crushmore" ... eight dudes faces drawn onto an ... astroid? In space? Not really sure what's happening here. Lots of hats and sunglasses and facial hair. Whatever. It's a fun album; great working music. Enjoy!
A screenshot of the navigation menu on Graze.Social with the “Donate” button circled in highlighter
Screenshot from Good Reads of a book review. Luigi Mangione rated a book (four out of five stars) Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski
A table with four columns and three rows of data. The first column are dates -- the 3rd, 4th, and 5th of December. The other three columns are unlabeled, but show more-or-less orders of magnitude growth every day. There are no column titles for Reasons. I'm vague posting. Deal with it.
Looking up into the Spokane Pavilion, a giant tent-like structure of steel cables supported by a central tower. The sky is grey and cold.
A weirdly empty, long, and wide hallway at the Portland airport.
The extraordinarily handsome Matthew McConaughey sucks down a coffin nail as a proxy to the emotional state of graze.social devs contemplating the not-too-distant future.