Xin Xin

@xinemata.bsky.social

Taiwanese-American artist, educator, and nonprofit executive exploring the creative potential of community-driven technology at Processing Foundation and the New School. Solidarity economy and open source software. My opinions are my own.

The National Endowment for the Arts just canceled grant offers to hundreds of arts orgs across the country hours after Trump proposed his 2026 budget. How you can help: 📱Email and call your Congressional representatives 🗣️Remix this template to express your opposition to these cuts: bit.ly/4iOkIy6

Join Rachel Lim, artist, programmer, and p5.js Editor lead, for a hands-on workshop where you'll explore @processing.org's mission, learn how to contribute to p5.js, and make your first open source contribution! 📅 April 5 | 12–3 PM 📍 Gray Area, SF ✨ All levels welcome

Gray Area @grayarea.org · 2y ago

🚀 New Workshop: Intro to Open Source Contribution with p5.js Ever wanted to contribute to open source but don’t know where to start? It’s not just about coding—there are many ways to get involved, from documentation to community building. 🔗 Register: grayarea.org/course/intro...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

list of banned keywords

As Nvidia senior research manager Jim Fan put it on X: “We are living in a timeline where a non-US company is keeping the original mission of OpenAI alive — truly open, frontier research that empowers all. It makes no sense. The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”

Ruha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.social · 2y ago

“There’s no overstating how profoundly this changes the whole game. And not only with regards to AI, it’s also a massive indictment of the US’s misguided attempt to stop China’s technological development…(as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of inventions).” venturebeat.com/ai/why-every...