J Xavier
@jxdowd.bsky.social
Product, Industrial, & Sound Designer
Make things, make tools, & make noises.
He/Them 🥐♥️
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Make things, make tools, & make noises.
He/Them 🥐♥️
Likes or follows ≠ endorsement and do not reflect opinions of others
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They should make a Mario game where actually gets to do some plumbing.
August 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
They should make a Mario game where actually gets to do some plumbing.
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The terrifying prospect that *every single droid* in the Star Wars universe is actually remote-controlled by a humanoid somewhere, because they someone couldn't back down from the sales pitch for AI robots.
August 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The terrifying prospect that *every single droid* in the Star Wars universe is actually remote-controlled by a humanoid somewhere, because they someone couldn't back down from the sales pitch for AI robots.
Boy it is an unfortunate time to be capable of knowing things.
August 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Boy it is an unfortunate time to be capable of knowing things.
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I'm looking forward to the farm-subsidy-equivalent: AI pays me 5% to not use it.
July 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm looking forward to the farm-subsidy-equivalent: AI pays me 5% to not use it.
U1
I want to start a band that is a singular version of another band.
The White Stripe
The White Stripe
June 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
U1
I love to contrast Napster, internet archive, public libraries, etc. with arguments made for allowing companies with number averaging programs being allowed to steal all information so they can sell back the blended up outputs to us.
Britain's future is in Jamster subscriptions, and if they aren't allowed to have all of your music to sell as ringtones then Jamster and therefore the UK will fall into bankruptcy and ruin. I've never used Jamster myself, but the executives I met yesterday were very clear about this.
The Labour government’s plan for economic growth, public service reform, and thus its electoral hopes, rest on the country adopting AI.
But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.
But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.
May 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I love to contrast Napster, internet archive, public libraries, etc. with arguments made for allowing companies with number averaging programs being allowed to steal all information so they can sell back the blended up outputs to us.
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We languished with the jackal and killed the eagle of Heaven, we slew lions in the passes of Kullah!
April 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
We languished with the jackal and killed the eagle of Heaven, we slew lions in the passes of Kullah!
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I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
For-Profit (Creative) Software
YouTube video by EndVertex
www.youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I made a video essay! It's a love letter to 3d software crammed in between several hate notes about 3d software companies. Maybe it can be something you put on in the background while you do art. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...
This chart is how M.San sees AI investment and development.
Employees: can we have visual communication
Boss: we have visual communication at home
The visual communication at home:
Boss: we have visual communication at home
The visual communication at home:
March 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This chart is how M.San sees AI investment and development.
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"HTS's leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the new president of Syria. How do you think he acquired that country? Through comparative analysis of socio-economical data at a national level."
February 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"HTS's leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, is the new president of Syria. How do you think he acquired that country? Through comparative analysis of socio-economical data at a national level."
Woah! Sick semper, tyrannis.
February 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Woah! Sick semper, tyrannis.
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I'm talking to trump cos US supplies Ukraine. By that argument, trump should be talking to Kim cos North Korea supplies us.
I remain a master strategist
I remain a master strategist
February 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I'm talking to trump cos US supplies Ukraine. By that argument, trump should be talking to Kim cos North Korea supplies us.
I remain a master strategist
I remain a master strategist
Markets are already riven with risk, why introduce more volatility? Based on the efficiency of open source models and the progress from improving fundamentals has given, it seems like Softbank investing in hyperscale is a net negative for tech progress.
SoftBank brings vision and volatility to big tech bets | Opinion
https://www.ft.com/content/6112eabc-ae2c-486c-8934-a5bdf665f61c
https://www.ft.com/content/6112eabc-ae2c-486c-8934-a5bdf665f61c
SoftBank brings vision and volatility to big tech bets | Opinion
AI is Masayoshi Son’s most ambitious bet yet
www.ft.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Markets are already riven with risk, why introduce more volatility? Based on the efficiency of open source models and the progress from improving fundamentals has given, it seems like Softbank investing in hyperscale is a net negative for tech progress.
Good design is accessible design.
There has been a shift in the Trump team's language in their anti-DEI attacks. All of a sudden they started calling it "DEIA", with the A being "accessibility". If you don't think it's a coordinated effort to remove disabled people from every facet of life, well I have news for you.
February 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Good design is accessible design.
In any other time the biggest threat to the US government would have been the mild falls all the most senior politicians are taking. Simpler times.
February 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
In any other time the biggest threat to the US government would have been the mild falls all the most senior politicians are taking. Simpler times.
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any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic is an advertising claim
February 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic is an advertising claim
Life is so cooked I’m listening to 2010 music.
January 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Life is so cooked I’m listening to 2010 music.
There is no reason for python on windows to as painful to version manage as it is.
January 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
There is no reason for python on windows to as painful to version manage as it is.
Going for a walk, it's time to touch grass. And by grass I mean Service Pack 3.
December 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Going for a walk, it's time to touch grass. And by grass I mean Service Pack 3.
Everyone talking about the digitization of our lives don't know nothin until they've build digital LEGO sets.
December 1, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Everyone talking about the digitization of our lives don't know nothin until they've build digital LEGO sets.
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Pro Tools is the Autocad of audio - both are expensive file viewers that hate their users. Send Bleet.
November 29, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Pro Tools is the Autocad of audio - both are expensive file viewers that hate their users. Send Bleet.
The difficulty lies in the desire to treat color blindness like a feature flag instead of a design task. It’s too easy to get a task and throw a filter on instead of reconsidering how someone views the color hue and contrast.
A thread on colourblindness & #gamedev -
If your approach to colourblindness is full screen filters, you're *doing it wrong*, and causing more problems that you're solving.
If you see a game that has filters, they're doing it wrong. If you see a game that has a 'strength' slider - don't copy it.
If your approach to colourblindness is full screen filters, you're *doing it wrong*, and causing more problems that you're solving.
If you see a game that has filters, they're doing it wrong. If you see a game that has a 'strength' slider - don't copy it.
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The difficulty lies in the desire to treat color blindness like a feature flag instead of a design task. It’s too easy to get a task and throw a filter on instead of reconsidering how someone views the color hue and contrast.
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There are plenty of scenarios in which spending time and money on features and options is the appropriate solution to barriers.
But don't let yourself end up in a situation where you have spend money on them solely to compensate for unnecessarily exclusionary design choices.
But don't let yourself end up in a situation where you have spend money on them solely to compensate for unnecessarily exclusionary design choices.
November 28, 2024 at 1:35 PM
There are plenty of scenarios in which spending time and money on features and options is the appropriate solution to barriers.
But don't let yourself end up in a situation where you have spend money on them solely to compensate for unnecessarily exclusionary design choices.
But don't let yourself end up in a situation where you have spend money on them solely to compensate for unnecessarily exclusionary design choices.
Something, something; born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore space, born just in time to be a poster.
November 28, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Something, something; born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore space, born just in time to be a poster.