Some of yall need to listen to the lyrics of lean on me by bill whithers and it shows
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Math at the Club @ mit media lab future sketches CharStiles.com
i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.
im learning french (apologies in advance) there are so many different words for little walk as an american im getting culture shock. Promanade, marcher, balade, faire un tour, à pied theyre all little walks around. They have more words for big walks.. not even getting into that
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NEW: DOJ is fighting states that are trying to pass accountability laws that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks. the DOJ says this would endanger ICE agents...pointing to an art project that doesn't work? www.wired.com/story/states...
States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them
Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.
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no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns
For whatever reason when I go to Washington DC I encounter situations that evoke good will and whimsy. Beyond me how or why.
Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...
After making a decision arbitrarily as a teenager, I am finally free from the tyranny that is godaddy, not limited to the time that they broke my mail records trying to turn my website into a vibe coded tile store website
I don’t care if the Google quantum computer has no real life applications- I want to use it for a different non practical application: making the fastest integer multiplier (its not practical because it uses a 1729 dimensional Fourier transform aka a GALACTIC ALGORITHM) hal.science/hal-02070778...
My fav rx happening was traveling home, ticket canceled, my bag was overweight (I opted to trashing/wearing 3kg of clothing in the summer) tsa swabbed all my stuff & then passport control machine just showed me a picture of an exhausted man, didn’t take my picture and then just let me through.
Mercury retrograde is really going hard this season
everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you
Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
In training to info dump about shaders on unsuspecting French people
Shout out Mr jones high school math teacher when he taught us primes he was like “I know it seems innocuous but they’re kind of a big deal” but still even then nothing could have prepared me for what they are
I’m speaking at IRCAM about something musical I’ve been working on 👀 www.media.mit.edu/events/ircam...
IRCAM + Media Lab Meeting 2026 – MIT Media Lab
This open event brings researchers, artists, and developers from the Media Lab and IRCAM to present their work on AI for music, computational creativity, music…
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2010s data selfie movement would have loved today’s tools. I really haven’t seen a whole lot of “I tracked this part of my life deeply” projects… we are all so tired on being tracked tracking our own data sounds horrible
gunna start all my sets with "computa make da javascript sing"
i came across shaders.com, the probably def vibe coded business idea around selling shaders or selling the idea of agents using shaders i cant tell, but under the product name Shaders and found a really funny FAQ. Is Shaders free? No!
Shaders
Component library for creative WebGPU effects in modern frontend frameworks. Compose interactive visuals for Vue, React, Svelte, Solid & JS.
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a submission to @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social this interactive svg for quaternions upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... found in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatern...
google couldnt believe in my free time with my free will i would look up "Unitary operator exercise"
If I’m not posting my little projects online it means I’m making money moves in silence (scheduling meetings to talk about meetings then canceling them and then getting mad no one attended them and then scheduling another meeting to talk about those meetings then c…)
if youre having a bad day just remember sinusoids are eigenfunctions of linear systems 💕
Very excited for @switchangel.bsky.social l & (LOFI.SCIFI) to give a talk and perform at Hex House (and then DDR DANCE?) This sunday! pools.events/event/yTel21... 8pm !
Sun, Jun 21 - Dance Dance Livecode: Switch Angel Lo.fi.sci.fi by Hex House
Dance Dance Livecode: Switch Angel Lo.fi.sci.fi by Hex House on Sun, Jun 21 at 8:00pm at Brooklyn, NY. Get tickets and event details on Pools.
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