new article about icespy.org! DOJ has been using my 2018 art project as justification for arguing with states that ICE agents need to be allowed to wear masks 😩

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: The DOJ is trying to block state laws that ban ICE and other enforcement authorities from wearing masks by citing alleged “doxing” threats from a website that almost no one visits and doesn’t really work. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/states...

we built a tool to traffic private jet emissions during the world cup and other events. it's pretty bad 🤮

Tax Private Jets@taxprivatejets.org · 2w ago

136,000 tons of CO₂ — the cost of flying private jets to this year's World Cup. We enlisted @kcimc.bsky.social to track every flight: Atlanta 2.5× normal, Miami 2×, NYC final already +70%. Billionaires pay less tax to pollute more. Open data + how to act → TaxPrivateJets.org

absolutely fascinated by what fable counts as a biohazard

i've had a pet technical problem for ten years. i know the solution space inside and out. a few months ago gpt-5.5 made a massive leap that broke new ground, but the solution was not elegant. last night, fable found the elegant solution 😳

it's my first time making merch! binary stacks (2008) knit shirts and sweaters now available in collaboration w glitchwear.store 🤗

just had a flashback to approximately 2004 when digital photography bloggers discovered unsharp mask. those images felt so intensely detailed. i didn't have that feeling until i saw a retina display 5 years later, then HDR displays 10 years after that.

if you’ve ever wondered what my salary is, @businessinsider.com just published it along with some info about my apocalypse early warning system www.businessinsider.com/programmer-a...

I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weird.

Kyle McDonald's jet tracker exposes wealth inequality by monitoring private jets, and questions who has access to critical information.

businessinsider.com

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net

the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗

i made an app that checks if your contacts are in the epstein emails myepstein.com apple rejected it from the app store because it “capitalizes on current events” but you can still try it on testflight

i'm vibecoding a 3d model that is generative but needs to meet certain topological requirements. i was having trouble asking for what i wanted, so i asked for a face selector and copied IDs to the clipboard. i pasted the IDs with a request ("merge faces like this"), now it works

“vibecoding” is dead. now it’s just “coding”

imagine twitter, but there's a bot is crawling all the tweets and when people post "add an edit button", the bot implements it. what would a fully crowdsourced social media platform look like? and what constraints would keep it from breaking apart?

after 2.5 years of vibe coding, my biggest takeaway? native apps are dead. iterating for the web is so much faster, has better tooling, and lower overhead. low-latency, multi-projector, 3d, spatial audio, custom hardware—ai will continue to have trouble with these.

RPI stack overflow (2009-2026)

sailing from lumolumo to dawson island

water witches and solar power

from the other side of the welcoming party

betel nut, berries, apples and coconuts

new cables and old ladders

a short trip from alotau to lumolumo with an incredible welcoming

“transformirror” with daito manabe will be at cinekid this year 🤗

LeoLoves@leoloves.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Come play in our Cinekid MediaLab: 18 - 24 October - open every day 10 am - 5 pm. Tickets & full program cinekid.nl/medialab2025 with works of @kcimc.bsky.social @haykranen.nl #xrlab #smartphoneorchestra and many more!

i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc

the latest realtime video-to-video demos are wild

icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles

ICESPY

Find ICE employees using face recognition.

icespy.org

The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny (2015) by Chris Sugrue, Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social, Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry → www.creativeapplications.net/project/the-...

The Augmented Hand Series - Playful, dreamlike and uncanny

The Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands.

creativeapplications.net

has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers.

@michaelnielsen.bsky.social i would love to hear your take on the latest quantum news azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog

Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.

azure.microsoft.com

the cross-disciplinary technical mastery in this project is off the charts. if you spend any time thinking about strange sensors, this is a must read.

hforsten@hforsten.com · last yr.

New blog post: "Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone". hforsten.com/homemade-pol...

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)