Luke VanderHart

@vanderhart.net

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Trying to build good things. he/him. Sic semper tyrannis

Illustrations from Ferdinand de Saussure's "Course in General Linguistics" published 1916. Depicts the relationship between two speakers as they perform audition and phonation, and the semiotic relationship between concept and sound-image -- Illustrating how how language serves to share concepts between speakers and listeners.
Screeenshot of an app used to monitor & control a kamado-style charcoal smoker, showing the early stages of a cook
Meme image from the Fallout computer game with the indication that "everyone disliked that."
Image of printed page reading "A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. And this looseness and blowsiness is not anything as simple and scandalous as abrupt and disordered syntax. It concerns the relation of expression to meaning. Abrupt and disordered syntax can be at times very honest, and an elaborately constructed sentence can be at times merely an elaborate camouflage."
Darth Kermit says "DO IT"
Screenshot of Chuck Schumers profile with a labeler showing all his big finance doners.
meme image of drake rejecting the phrase "artificial intelligence" and approving the phrase "language models"
A photo of a screen at a conference with a quote by David Graeber : “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
Screenshot of a bluesky quote post with the quoted post blocked.
Hitchcock and Scully from the TV show Brooklyn 99, mourning the loss of their office vending machine.
Screenshot of an OpenAI chat: Prompt: 5 students in a softly lit bar, discussing art and labor with drinks and notes. Response: "I am unable to generate images as your request didn't align with the content policy."