installing software art and feeling existential between this and being asked “is America working?” about a touch screen

i love to forget everything i’ve learned and then relearn slightly less of it later

why do i have to work while the president is saying he’s going to end civilization

added birthdays and most-viewed filters to the whitney museum's online collection, if you like birthdays and seeing who's popular. colinbrooks.com/birthdays-an...

Birthdays and popularity

Recently I added a page for birthdays and a bunch of most/least popular sorting options for artists, artworks, and exhibitions on whitney.org.

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no microsoft I don't want to install the Microsoft Rewards extension or the Bing Bar what year is this

me reading any paul ford piece about technology

a cartoon character is standing in the rain looking up at the sky

Alt: a cartoon character is standing in the rain looking up at the sky

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Paul Ford@ftrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

fully losing my mind

warrior cop@wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

incredible photo

John Abernathy@john-abernathy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

ignoring fascism for a moment to download the update that makes my phone worse

did karl marx have a backpack?

one of my favorite things about working on early net art projects is when you're missing a file like dumpster_587x400.jpg and that file might have gone missing in the 00s, or the decade after, or it never actually existed in the first place and it's just a bug and no one including the artist knows

lethal face card

robert rauchabzug

taking an international flight out of newark is great because it breaks your spirit that there is anything good in this country right before you leave

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

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Molly White@molly.wiki · last yr.

wait til i tell you that that was me paraphrasing because his actual wording was way funnier

entering the despair hole

had some belated thoughts about submitting art as apps to the app stores and how much it stinks compared to the web colinbrooks.com/app-stores-a...

App stores and museums

Some thoughts about apps, app stores, and art on the internet.

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the only one brave enough to say it

reposting the bird app i made a few months ago—Daily Bird gives you new birds everyday in a few categories and has ✨widgets✨. i made this mostly because i wished i could put the eBird bird of the day on my homescreen. all data is pulled from open sources apps.apple.com/us/app/daily...

‎Daily Bird: a Bird a Day

‎See and learn about regular and unusual birds! Daily Bird shows you new featured birds every day, with information, images, and quotes pulled from multiple public data sources like Wikipedia and Wiki...

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the guy in florida doing horny trump prompts on our ai art bot needs to chill or go to a hospital

Hi Bluesky 👋 We're debuting with...a blue sky

did not expect this bug in my daily bird app today

happy brat remix day to all who celebrate

i know this is a niche style guide complaint but the NYT trump/putin story today says Mr. 49 separate times and it feels insane to read

the fun part of being a dev at a place that does this is you get to explain the difference over and over again forever as new people onboard like accessibility sysyphus

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2y ago

to the publications that stylize headlines and other content in ALL CAPS, but who use `text-transform: uppercase` instead of actually typing the headline in caps: i see you, i appreciate you, i love you

giving my work plants a little bit of coffee as a treat

I worked on this for the biennial with holly herndon and mat dryhurst it was very fun xhairymutantx.whitney.org

xhairymutantx | Holly Herndon + Mat Dryhurst

Do we get to choose how we are represented on the AI substrate?

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wrote about using AI to tag artworks (sometimes i still write things) colinbrooks.com/gp4-google-v...

Keyword tagging artworks with GP4 and Google Vision

I have no data to back this up (a great way to start a blog about data), but I think when people visit a museum’s online collection there are two kinds of things they’re likely to type in a search...

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