brennan

@brennan.computer

unlicensed back alley alchemy digital ⇄ physical, 3D and AI research. living in a world of magic and vibrance

in a sort of vignette, I was doing yard work with a fancy leaf sucking / mulching contraption, and an electric delivery truck strolls silently past and some neighbors walk by and we chat and for a second it felt like a vintage movie where these were the halcyon future world days

this is a very mundane design example, of course, but I needed a quick bracket printed and basically just spoke it into existence no CAD, no modelling, just ask

bambu 3D print slicer view of a bracketvanilla claude code on this computer

the thing is, for the 2-6 weeks I do it per year, I actually really like crunch working late, music loud, stuff happening, quick decisions, no meetings, small team are all cylinders firing. it's just fun and satisfying to do a lot rapidly and be competent together

"keeping up with the joneses" is only a bad thing if you're the loser trying to keep up we're setting the pace on this block with this ridiculous amounts of christmas lights I _am_ the joneses

quasi-related, do you ever notice that super smart characters in TV shows and media end up with some strangely dumb blind spot as a punchline? once you start noticing it, it's everywhere and I think viewers internalize that 'super smart' inherently has that type of weakness or something

Rollofthedice@hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 3d ago

I do not believe superintelligence exists in the generalized way that it seems most people conceive of: in which superintelligence is unaccountable to ethical thought and reasoning, destined to render all human efforts and statuses obsolete, and otherwise elicits fears of Darwinian replacement.

so vampires can't see themselves in mirrors because of the silver, but presumably they can see themselves in webcams do you think that's like, super surprising to them? to not know what you look like for hundreds of years until the humans invent a dumb thing like the selfie

Found an old menu concept for Playmaker from 2020 I now wish I had kept. I still like how the bubbles agitate the water’s surface when they pop.

table next to us with a bunch of old ladies (70-80s?) who are gushing because they used AI to turn a photo of their granddaughter into a cross stitch pattern