odbol
@odbol.bsky.social
A11y designer, new media artist, photographer, cybertechnician, dodecahedonist pursuing new styles of interfaces through the body. https://odbol.com
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Maybe meritocracy is a good idea after all. So many rich people did not earn their money with talent or hard work. They do not deserve it
honestly one of the most striking things about epstein's emails is the fact that the man, described in many places as "a genius," is essentially subliterate
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Maybe meritocracy is a good idea after all. So many rich people did not earn their money with talent or hard work. They do not deserve it
LLMs will not bring us AGI. Humans derive most of our intelligence through our perception of the 3d physical world. The next evolution of AI is in World Models with this spatial intelligence drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words...
From Words to Worlds: Spatial Intelligence is AI’s Next Frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
drfeifei.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
LLMs will not bring us AGI. Humans derive most of our intelligence through our perception of the 3d physical world. The next evolution of AI is in World Models with this spatial intelligence drfeifei.substack.com/p/from-words...
China plans for the future. America plans for short-term profits for the owner class
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
China plans for the future. America plans for short-term profits for the owner class
Every big company uses ffmpeg. They should all be paying for its maintenance, or submitting fixes themselves
thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
thenewstack.io
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Every big company uses ffmpeg. They should all be paying for its maintenance, or submitting fixes themselves
thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
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This week's comic: Lead and Circuses
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This week's comic: Lead and Circuses
The government should provide the raw servers. The people decide how to run them
“Given the severity of the threats social media companies pose to democracy and fundamental rights, policy responses cannot merely tinker around the edges,” writes Christine Galvagna. The EU must act now—fund decentralized, public service social media to protect democracy and digital rights.
Public Service Social Media as a Democratic Safeguard | TechPolicy.Press
Christine Galvagna proposes an EU fund to support decentralized, public service focused social media networks to protect digital rights and democracy.
www.techpolicy.press
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The government should provide the raw servers. The people decide how to run them
The rizz of this bass solo is dripping off the charts. Sakan Action youtu.be/BxqYUbNR-c0?
サカナクション / 忘れられないの -Music Video-
YouTube video by サカナクション sakanaction
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The rizz of this bass solo is dripping off the charts. Sakan Action youtu.be/BxqYUbNR-c0?
This is why capitalists and their politicians are against solar. It's literally free everyday raining down from the sky and they can't charge for it
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is why capitalists and their politicians are against solar. It's literally free everyday raining down from the sky and they can't charge for it
Google Magenta just dropped a new model that can generate a stream of music in real time, combining prompts and styles. I wonder what it would be like to jam with live? magenta.withgoogle.com/lyria-realtime
Introducing Lyria RealTime API
Lyria RealTime APILyria teamFor the last few years, we have continued to explore how different ways of interacting with generative AI technologies for music ...
magenta.withgoogle.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Google Magenta just dropped a new model that can generate a stream of music in real time, combining prompts and styles. I wonder what it would be like to jam with live? magenta.withgoogle.com/lyria-realtime
not my son finding the mic switch and using it to threaten the google home "hey google, what are hurricanes made of? tell me right now or i'll turn the mic off!"
November 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
not my son finding the mic switch and using it to threaten the google home "hey google, what are hurricanes made of? tell me right now or i'll turn the mic off!"
at least three of my previous managers have called me brilliant (derogatory)
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
at least three of my previous managers have called me brilliant (derogatory)
logging on to twitter just to watch all the bigots seething mad about zohran mandami winning
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
logging on to twitter just to watch all the bigots seething mad about zohran mandami winning
The incredible potential of AI art is being obscured by unimaginative cretins posting static images and videos to social media apps that weren't designed to handle the new paradigm
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The incredible potential of AI art is being obscured by unimaginative cretins posting static images and videos to social media apps that weren't designed to handle the new paradigm
When half the names on the list are in your regular rotation, you better check out the other half of the list!
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
When half the names on the list are in your regular rotation, you better check out the other half of the list!
When the whole world around us is saturated in perfectly designed, flawless, beautiful content, The Vulgar Image is the counterpoint: tasteless, ugly, devoid of information. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...
The Vulgar Image by Dean Kissick
AI is co-spawning a visual culture beyond any imagination. Will an overthrow of good taste re-vest pictures with their mysterious power? Or are we chasing our machines into pastiche hell?
spikeartmagazine.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
When the whole world around us is saturated in perfectly designed, flawless, beautiful content, The Vulgar Image is the counterpoint: tasteless, ugly, devoid of information. spikeartmagazine.com/articles/vul...
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." - from Andor
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear." - from Andor
This is the best they can do?
Every right-wing media Mamdani gotcha is like something out of The Onion.
Do you know he call his dad’s cousin his aunt? Can you believe he claims to be a regular guy who eats $10 burritos but also took his wife out to a fancy sushi restaurant for a birthday dinner? 😱
Do you know he call his dad’s cousin his aunt? Can you believe he claims to be a regular guy who eats $10 burritos but also took his wife out to a fancy sushi restaurant for a birthday dinner? 😱
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This is the best they can do?
Reposted by odbol
Reposted by odbol
It’s not food insecurity, it’s intermittent fasting.
October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s not food insecurity, it’s intermittent fasting.
UX designers need to change their thinking from surface level UI details and interactions, to defining how to shape an LLM's response to fit the user's needs. Context engineering, tool orchestration, eval sets: these are the new "pixels" of UX design. www.suffsyed.com/futurememo/d...
Designers Have to Move from the Surface to the Substrate — Suff Syed
Designers once controlled 85% of user experience through interfaces and interactions. Now, with intelligence moving beneath the surface, that control has collapsed to 5%—while the real design decision...
www.suffsyed.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
UX designers need to change their thinking from surface level UI details and interactions, to defining how to shape an LLM's response to fit the user's needs. Context engineering, tool orchestration, eval sets: these are the new "pixels" of UX design. www.suffsyed.com/futurememo/d...
Copying a political game but making it "cozy" is like these whispy gen Z Influencers making soft lo-fi covers of gritty 90s songs. Like if Sabrina Carpenter covered Rage Against the Machine
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
blog.giovanh.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Copying a political game but making it "cozy" is like these whispy gen Z Influencers making soft lo-fi covers of gritty 90s songs. Like if Sabrina Carpenter covered Rage Against the Machine
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
My eyes are burning. How do you debug this? How do you cancel it in the middle of the seven days? What if you upload a new codebase with fixes in between the seven days?
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My eyes are burning. How do you debug this? How do you cancel it in the middle of the seven days? What if you upload a new codebase with fixes in between the seven days?
The trad creative economies of ideas, taste, and differentiation are being replaced by economies of scale, prediction and synthesis. In this regime, “intelligence” and “creativity” are no longer scarce resources but cheap, abundant, and mostly directionless nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/the-creati...
THE CREATIVE RECESSION
Can you feel it?
nemesisglobal.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The trad creative economies of ideas, taste, and differentiation are being replaced by economies of scale, prediction and synthesis. In this regime, “intelligence” and “creativity” are no longer scarce resources but cheap, abundant, and mostly directionless nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/the-creati...
Eightsleep made a bed that stops working if the internet is down. Boycott terrible design
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Eightsleep made a bed that stops working if the internet is down. Boycott terrible design
