Hilary Mason
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things.
NYC
NYC
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But are we getting paid as much as men to ruin things? NO! A woman has to ruin something 3 5 times harder than your average mediocre dude does to get paid only 75% as much! Keep fighting, my sisters.
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
But are we getting paid as much as men to ruin things? NO! A woman has to ruin something 3 5 times harder than your average mediocre dude does to get paid only 75% as much! Keep fighting, my sisters.
Hey NYers, today is the day -- get out and vote!
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hey NYers, today is the day -- get out and vote!
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Every time you like an artist’s artwork, an angel grows their wings.
Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Every time you like an artist’s artwork, an angel grows their wings.
Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
Every time you repost an artist’s post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
Someone is going to be murdered by one of these and it’s going to be an incredible detective story
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
www.wsj.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Someone is going to be murdered by one of these and it’s going to be an incredible detective story
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters.
I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.
I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.
as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
October 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters.
I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.
I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.
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Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
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Hidden Door is forging ahead with the marriage of roleplay and fan fiction, built with humans, authors and AI. gamesbeat.com/hidden-door-...
Hidden Door has Halloween games for adults who love fan fiction
Back in August, Hidden Door, a tech studio at the intersection of machine learning and immersive entertainment, launched its social role-playing platform where roleplay...
gamesbeat.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hidden Door is forging ahead with the marriage of roleplay and fan fiction, built with humans, authors and AI. gamesbeat.com/hidden-door-...
Oh Paula, I would like a word.
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Oh Paula, I would like a word.
It's Spooky Season, and if you relish exploring mysterious gothic horror in modern-day Amsterdam, you can now play Dracula on hiddendoor.co
A new and terrifying world is now available on Hidden Door - Dracula!
Step into Bram Stoker’s world of gothic horror, set in modern-day Amsterdam. Play as a vampire, a hunter, or an unsuspecting guest, and see what unfolds. You can even earn the ability to bring vampires into your other worlds!
Step into Bram Stoker’s world of gothic horror, set in modern-day Amsterdam. Play as a vampire, a hunter, or an unsuspecting guest, and see what unfolds. You can even earn the ability to bring vampires into your other worlds!
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It's Spooky Season, and if you relish exploring mysterious gothic horror in modern-day Amsterdam, you can now play Dracula on hiddendoor.co
Good advice, random door.
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Good advice, random door.
I've recommended this book before, now is the time to go order it!
Or a signed copy of *How Comics Are Made*, my romp through the history of making newspaper comics and printing them? glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/h... Features interviews with Garry Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, and Bill Watterson. Unsigned copies at bookstores worldwide: howcomicsaremade.ink#preorder
How Comics Are Made: Signed by Author
If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my book How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page . For a limited time, I’m offering signed and optiona...
glog.glennf.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I've recommended this book before, now is the time to go order it!
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This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...
How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama
YouTube video by Obama Foundation
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...
These are very good words.
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.
This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’
Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?
MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
These are very good words.
“I fucking love tropes.” - @scalzi.com
Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social
Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“I fucking love tropes.” - @scalzi.com
Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social
Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social
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I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election.
Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others.
Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever.
wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...
Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others.
Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever.
wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...
How to Not Capitulate for Dummies
A framework for weighing decisions under Trump.
wiczipedia.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election.
Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others.
Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever.
wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...
Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others.
Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever.
wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...
Sometimes being a founder means staying up too late doing arts and crafts.
We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!
We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!
October 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Sometimes being a founder means staying up too late doing arts and crafts.
We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!
We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!
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😍 Ann Messner's "Du Bois: The FBI Files" at the "In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois" show @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery — making redaction tangible!
(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)
(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
😍 Ann Messner's "Du Bois: The FBI Files" at the "In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois" show @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery — making redaction tangible!
(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)
(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?
October 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?
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WHAT THE FUCK
The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
WHAT THE FUCK
What does it mean to "read for pleasure", and what does it mean that that's declining?
I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-...
...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.
I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-...
...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.
So what's so great about reading books?
If you pay attention to the news at all, you may have seen a host of alarming headlines recently about how the number of Americans who say they read for pleasure has declined sharply over the past 20 ...
torment-nexus.mathewingram.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What does it mean to "read for pleasure", and what does it mean that that's declining?
I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-...
...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.
I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-...
...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.
Okay bluesky please help me solve the mystery of why there is a blank VHS tape in this Tokyo subway station bathroom!
(Also if this message was meant for me, please try again, I accept USB keys, parchment scrawls, graffiti, Signal, I prefer to be in a comedy or spy movie no horror plz)
(Also if this message was meant for me, please try again, I accept USB keys, parchment scrawls, graffiti, Signal, I prefer to be in a comedy or spy movie no horror plz)
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Okay bluesky please help me solve the mystery of why there is a blank VHS tape in this Tokyo subway station bathroom!
(Also if this message was meant for me, please try again, I accept USB keys, parchment scrawls, graffiti, Signal, I prefer to be in a comedy or spy movie no horror plz)
(Also if this message was meant for me, please try again, I accept USB keys, parchment scrawls, graffiti, Signal, I prefer to be in a comedy or spy movie no horror plz)
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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He had me at “the Playskool version of Twitter”and at many more illustrations of sociopathy reduced to declawed swipes by neutered menchildren. How @davidjroth.bsky.social writes lifts one from an assaulting depression of nationality & unbelonging
"Vance, true to form, was just amplifying the one thing that Trumpism has ever offered—not real opportunity or purpose, not inclusion or community, not even personal advancement, but merely the chance to hurt other people and get away with it."
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
defector.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
He had me at “the Playskool version of Twitter”and at many more illustrations of sociopathy reduced to declawed swipes by neutered menchildren. How @davidjroth.bsky.social writes lifts one from an assaulting depression of nationality & unbelonging