Ari Gesher
@arigesher.bsky.social
Software, platforms, and data guy.
Head of Technology for Parallel Bio - purveyor of fine immune organoids!
Previously: Kairos Aerospace, Palantir, SourceForge
Photography, meaning grounded in nihilistic certainty, Jew, raver, autodidact, proud weirdo.
Head of Technology for Parallel Bio - purveyor of fine immune organoids!
Previously: Kairos Aerospace, Palantir, SourceForge
Photography, meaning grounded in nihilistic certainty, Jew, raver, autodidact, proud weirdo.
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What would quietly slipping past the AGI-event horizon into fully-mediated digital reality look like? We can all probably imagine it happening loudly.
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
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@kevinkelly.bsky.social has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@kevinkelly.bsky.social has spent his life exploring how technology shapes human experience. He helped launch Wired and became one of its most influential voices, known for big, clear ideas about tools, culture, and the future.
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.
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Every now and then, my "hit the button enough times and something good will happen" approach to photography pays off.
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Every now and then, my "hit the button enough times and something good will happen" approach to photography pays off.
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Osaka, early in the morning.
November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Osaka, early in the morning.
Stochastic #photography
A parrot’s reimagination of a photo of a wall
in a photo of a photo on the wall of my house.
in a photo of a photo on the wall of my house.
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Stochastic #photography
What would quietly slipping past the AGI-event horizon into fully-mediated digital reality look like? We can all probably imagine it happening loudly.
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
What would quietly slipping past the AGI-event horizon into fully-mediated digital reality look like? We can all probably imagine it happening loudly.
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
But if it lowers like the dew after sunset did we even notice it happen?
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The Indigo camera app from Adobe suits my style pretty well. research.adobe.com/articles/ind...
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Indigo camera app from Adobe suits my style pretty well. research.adobe.com/articles/ind...
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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maybe this is why people think AI is amazing, because they're not using their brains to figure out how to do things. if you can't figure out how to search a document, maybe having a slopmachine hallucinate an answer at you DOES seem miraculous?
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
maybe this is why people think AI is amazing, because they're not using their brains to figure out how to do things. if you can't figure out how to search a document, maybe having a slopmachine hallucinate an answer at you DOES seem miraculous?
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
We’re so far to the right, they’ve deployed **Ronald Reagan** to pull us _to the left_.
Holy shit.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.
The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.
What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada
The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.
www.fastcompany.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We’re so far to the right, they’ve deployed **Ronald Reagan** to pull us _to the left_.
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It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 AM
It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
October 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Do not stay home tomorrow. We must stand up.
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Do not stay home tomorrow. We must stand up.
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how about this instead bsky.app/profile/4nik...
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
how about this instead bsky.app/profile/4nik...
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I keep saying this but I can’t get it out of my head that we must be led by political and military leaders who saw the movie The Siege and thought Bruce Willis was the good one.
I am absolutely not saying that the court orders demanding the blockage, even just for now, of Trump’s military invasion of Chicago aren’t good; what I am saying is that even without the troops, his *militarized* invasion, with the guns and military-style gear and fatigues or whatever the fuck, has…
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I keep saying this but I can’t get it out of my head that we must be led by political and military leaders who saw the movie The Siege and thought Bruce Willis was the good one.
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Magnificent Monday Morning. Today's sunrise in Chicago.
October 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Magnificent Monday Morning. Today's sunrise in Chicago.
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I know we should celebrate Tony Fitzpatrick for his Chicago art, but I'll always love his portrait of NYC's Flaco
October 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I know we should celebrate Tony Fitzpatrick for his Chicago art, but I'll always love his portrait of NYC's Flaco
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Moment of Reflection - #NewYorkCity #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Moment of Reflection - #NewYorkCity #FridayPhoto 🗃️📷📸
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I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
October 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
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It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.
unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them
It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.
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