Venkatesh Rao 🔹
@vgr.bsky.social
Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
New art series titled Birren
Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s
Birren #1
Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s
Birren #1
December 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
New art series titled Birren
Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s
Birren #1
Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s
Birren #1
Art 2.2.1
We’re semantic versioning here now
We’re semantic versioning here now
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Art 2.2.1
We’re semantic versioning here now
We’re semantic versioning here now
Thought: “Human” is now a compile target rather than superseded. Like assembly or JavaScript. Some proposition in the neighborhood of that is true. Where “human” is some mix of artisanal+bespoke+idiosyncratic. Started unpacking the thought in my latest contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/revenge-of...
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
contraptions.venkateshrao.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thought: “Human” is now a compile target rather than superseded. Like assembly or JavaScript. Some proposition in the neighborhood of that is true. Where “human” is some mix of artisanal+bespoke+idiosyncratic. Started unpacking the thought in my latest contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/revenge-of...
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I think I drank too much Stafford Beer
December 15, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Trained a model on my october/november paintings on titles.xyz and the results are absolutely astounding. Every test I ran produced better results than my own manual efforts. Essay and public access soon.
My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trained a model on my october/november paintings on titles.xyz and the results are absolutely astounding. Every test I ran produced better results than my own manual efforts. Essay and public access soon.
My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
Been too agentic today. Gonna practice my learned helplessness for a while now.
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Been too agentic today. Gonna practice my learned helplessness for a while now.
Newsletter back from hiatus. With 30% more AI and a fresh new lime fragrance. contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/be-slightl...
Be Slightly Monstrous
Learning to feel time again in the Permaweird
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November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Newsletter back from hiatus. With 30% more AI and a fresh new lime fragrance. contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/be-slightl...
Made a little gallery page for the art I've been posting recently.
venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
Bucket Art – Venkatesh Rao
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November 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Made a little gallery page for the art I've been posting recently.
venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
👀 🍿https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/12/16/david-graeber-digging-for-utopia/
Digging for Utopia | Kwame Anthony Appiah
That the history of our species came in stages was an idea that came in stages. Aristotle saw the formation of political entities as a tripartite process:
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November 15, 2025 at 4:54 AM
👀 🍿https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/12/16/david-graeber-digging-for-utopia/
🙃 #42 in my ongoing art series
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
🙃 #42 in my ongoing art series
This could backfire in an interesting way. I think prices have gone up by more than 2k for the average household due to tariffs and making a per capita dividend number legible is a sign of weakness. Dems should commision a credible estimate. www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/e...
Trump floats $2,000 tariff rebate checks. What you need to know | CNN Business
President Donald Trump, embattled by America’s growing affordability problems, has once again floated a unique solution: Sending Americans rebate checks for the tariffs that his administration has col...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This could backfire in an interesting way. I think prices have gone up by more than 2k for the average household due to tariffs and making a per capita dividend number legible is a sign of weakness. Dems should commision a credible estimate. www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/e...
When AI is used to address enshittification you get entoiletpaperfication
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When AI is used to address enshittification you get entoiletpaperfication