char stiles

@charstiles.bsky.social

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

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

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

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

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

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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

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

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…)