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Installations, art, and code. Artifex. Chief of Hard Work Party https://hardwork.party Augmented Realist http://noahnorman.substack.com building Third Wave Arcade https://thirdwavearcade.com
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The movie Moon is wildly underrated

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

How many legs can you fit in one pant? A) one B) a pair

right wingers are like "you must never forget what The Left wants to do to you." and the thing they want to do to you is give you healthcare and make sure there isn't sewage in your drinking water

Ooo @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social is here. One of the big things I missed about the unmentionable other place and whatnot

I am a research obsessive, which is to say, if I have a big decision to make (or even a small one), I have a tendency to rabbithole exhaustively, repeatedly, before making a decision, sometimes for months. For that reason, LLM 'deep research' tools are such a goddamn relief.

I’ll often call my male friends ‘Brody’, and sometimes they feel the need to remind me that their name isn’t Brody

why can't i get a pringles can-sized container of sous vide egg bites. what are they afraid of

Everything’s computer

Last Friday I hosted the first @touchdesigner.bsky.social Philly Meetup and the talks (and vibes) were fantastic. They're up to view on YT now: www.youtube.com/@thirdwavear...

@fetterman.senate.gov vote NO on the CR and have some spine would you please - PA voter

My springles

If your B2B ad doesn't start by telling me how many hats I wear, how will I know how many hats I wear

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Americans are simply standing up for their right to lose young children to preventable 19th century diseases

Just remembered the time as a kid I counted to a thousand and went into a kind of Sufi trance

Fun fact this is only my third most extravagant wig

Thanks to the public domain, I’m putting out a version of Winnie-the-Pooh books that’s word-for-word the same as the originals except instead of “Oh bother” his catchphrase is “Son of a bitch.”

Everybody thinks technology’s great and all but here’s the thing nobody realizes: it’s a double edged sword

I’m divorcing capitalism but I’ve grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle

You show me a focaccia and I’ll show you a guy eating a focaccia

It’s wild that if you take $35k off my desk it’s grand larceny but if you stiff me $35k for contract work there’s nothing anybody can do about it

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

It’d be cool to make a directory of companies that were "web3" companies that are now "AI" companies just, you know, for reference

In 8 to 10 years, when the articles start coming out about how “pex plumbing” is a loose term for a rainbow of compounds, some of which are toxic, it’s going to seem like I’m clairvoyant.

If I was concerned with optics do you think I would have this haircut

Put up one YouTube video: genius bro next level keep it up! Spend 10 years quietly modding a huge community: you’re a monster and I’ll kill you if I have the chance

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker theonion.com/dolphin...

FYI Philly TouchDesigner people

The internet

Describing Dream Theater, my friend Nico once said ‘they’re like Yes, but no’

A big part of Zen is saying tautologies in a wise tone

At a certain point in every community's growth, the concern shifts from 'will they come' to 'will they behave'