Jon Koffel
@jonkoffel.bsky.social
Artist, educator, and technologist. Former librarian and Midwesterner, now surfing and petting dogs on the coast. Taking little bites of many things.
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everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
messenger.abeto.co
messenger.abeto.co
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
messenger.abeto.co
messenger.abeto.co
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I've been working more on this, getting the data crisp enough to be able to draw little faux rivers. But I've also been staring at it for so long it's getting hard to tell if things are even improving.
Anyway, still a cheap erosion filter which is calculated from scratch every frame here. #ProcGen
Anyway, still a cheap erosion filter which is calculated from scratch every frame here. #ProcGen
September 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I've been working more on this, getting the data crisp enough to be able to draw little faux rivers. But I've also been staring at it for so long it's getting hard to tell if things are even improving.
Anyway, still a cheap erosion filter which is calculated from scratch every frame here. #ProcGen
Anyway, still a cheap erosion filter which is calculated from scratch every frame here. #ProcGen
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How will the flower bloom in 2100?
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
How will the flower bloom in 2100?
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/
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Some sketchbook pages
September 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Some sketchbook pages
September 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
August 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Playing around, putting my custom pathfinder tool through its paces. Just seeing where it takes me.
August 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Playing around, putting my custom pathfinder tool through its paces. Just seeing where it takes me.
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Reposted by Jon Koffel
Reposted by Jon Koffel
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Our judges have been through literally HUNDREDS of websites and selected their shortlist for the Tiny Awards 2025 - voting's open now, so take a few minutes to check out some of the best, most beautiful, oddest, silliest websites of the past year, pick your favourite, TELL THE WORLD!: tinyawards.net
August 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Our judges have been through literally HUNDREDS of websites and selected their shortlist for the Tiny Awards 2025 - voting's open now, so take a few minutes to check out some of the best, most beautiful, oddest, silliest websites of the past year, pick your favourite, TELL THE WORLD!: tinyawards.net
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This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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Maarten Inghels.
Yo solía ser una montaña.
Yo solía ser una montaña.
August 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Maarten Inghels.
Yo solía ser una montaña.
Yo solía ser una montaña.
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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
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We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...
July 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...
Just saw a photo from my old rundown house and then this. Rings very true.
I think about this comic a lot
July 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Just saw a photo from my old rundown house and then this. Rings very true.
This is incredibly sweet and she is a cutie. Seems young to be leaving home, though.
I created a recipe Substack mainly for my daughter. She will be leaving home soon and I want her to be able to make her favorites ("Mom! So embarrassing..")
#blueskyfood #blueskycooking #Foodie #Cooking #Cooksky #HomeCooking #foodsky #ComfortFood #QuickMeals #EasyRecipes
onlybangers.erinkoffel.com
#blueskyfood #blueskycooking #Foodie #Cooking #Cooksky #HomeCooking #foodsky #ComfortFood #QuickMeals #EasyRecipes
onlybangers.erinkoffel.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This is incredibly sweet and she is a cutie. Seems young to be leaving home, though.
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Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps.
"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.
Jfc.
"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.
Jfc.
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps.
"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.
Jfc.
"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.
Jfc.
I'm a bit biased, but I think this is a fantastic team and opportunity at UMN Libraries.
University of MN is hiring a Data Curation Librarian! External applicant link: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/369...
July 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I'm a bit biased, but I think this is a fantastic team and opportunity at UMN Libraries.
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"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."
July 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything