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A11y designer, new media artist, photographer, cybertechnician, dodecahedonist pursuing new styles of interfaces through the body. https://odbol.com
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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
Chart titled "AI-NATIVE ART" presented as a Marshall McLuhan Tetrad (four-part framework). The center label, "AI-NATIVE ART," connects to four quadrants, each representing an effect of the new medium, labeled on the outer corners: ENHANCES (Top-Left): Infinite variation and Collaborative creation. REVERSES (Top-Right): Stylistic filter bubbles and Aesthetic homogenization. RETRIEVES (Bottom-Left): Platonic Forms and Oral Culture. OBSOLESCES (Bottom-Right): Fixed art objects and Linear creation. A title above the chart reads: "We're still in the skeuomorphic phase of AI art". The source citation below the chart reads: "marshall mcluhan - tetrad, adapted by @octopusyarn".
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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?
await sendWelcomeEmail(email); // Pause for 7 days // without consuming any resources await sleep("7 days"); await sendOneWeekCheckInEmail(email);
October 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Eightsleep made a bed that stops working if the internet is down. Boycott terrible design
The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently working, with some experiencing data processing delays. 2) We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done. More updates soon.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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mooooooooooon
The moon between pink flowers, orange clouds overlaying it
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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OpenAI is telling web developers to make their sites more accessible! Not for the benefit of people with disabilities though... for the benefit of their AI agent
There was one other detail in the announcement post that caught my eye: Website owners can also add ARIA tags to improve how ChatGPT agent works for their websites in Atlas. Which links to this: ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags---the same labels and roles that support screen readers---to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility, follow WAI-ARIA best practices by adding descriptive roles, labels, and states to interactive elements like buttons, menus, and forms. This helps ChatGPT recognize what each element does and interact with your site more accurately. A neat reminder that Al "agents" share many of the characteristics of assistive technologies, and benefit from the same affordances.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Buy one shoe and you've already gone through more water than using an AI for your entire lifetime
Have you ever worried about how much water things you did online used before Al? Probably not, because data centers use barely any water compared to most other things we do. Even manufacturing most regular objects requires lots of water. Here's a list of common objects you might own, and how many chatbot prompt's worth of water they used to make (all from this list): Leather Shoes - 4,000,000 prompts' worth of water Smartphone - 6,400,000 prompts Jeans - 5,400,000 prompts T-shirt - 1,300,000 prompts A single piece of paper - 2550 prompts If you want to send 2500 ChatGPT prompts and feel bad about it, you can simply not buy a single additional piece of paper. If you want to save a lifetime supply's worth of chatbot prompts, just don't buy a single additional pair of jeans.
October 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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We're in such a bubble, OpenAI is asking to pay AMD in "exposure". Like AMD was some two-bit indie band
How do those negotiations go? Like, schematically: OpenAl: We would like six gigawatts worth of your chips to do inference. AMD: Terrific. That will be $78 billion. How would you like to pay? OpenAl: Well, we were thinking that we would announce the deal, and that would add $78 billion to the value of your company, which should cover it. AMD: OpenAl: AMD: No I'm pretty sure you have to pay for the chips. OpenAl: Why? AMD: I dunno, just seems wrong not to. OpenAI: Okay. Why don't we pay you cash for the value of the chips, and you give us back stock, and when we announce the deal the stock will go up and we'll get our $78 billion back. AMD: Yeah I quess that works though I feel like we should get some of the value? OpenAl: Okay you can have half. You give us stock worth like
October 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Why asking ChatGPT to "count R's in strawberry" is not the dunk you think it is
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Boycott Disney and Hulu. We need to show these companies what happens when they bow to fascism
Disney Plus screen Please tell us why you canceled. By the way, this is optional. Other You cancelled Jimmy Kimmel. I will not send my money to companies who bow to fascism. Grow a spine
September 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary effort.

Most times are ordinary. Make an ordinary effort." Treasure your Slack. Protect it. thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/s...
Definition: Slack. The absence of binding constraints on behavior. Poor is the person without Slack. Lack of Slack compounds and traps. Slack means margin for error. You can relax. Slack allows pursuing opportunities. You can explore. You can trade. Slack prevents desperation. You can avoid bad trades and wait for better spots. You can be efficient. Slack permits planning for the long term. You can invest. Slack enables doing things for your own amusement. You can play games. You can have fun. Slack enables doing the right thing. Stand by your friends. Reward the worthy. Punish the wicked. You can have a code. Slack presents things as they are without concern for how things look or what others think. You can be honest. You can do some of these things, and choose not to do others. Because you don’t have to. Only with slack can one be a righteous dude. Slack is life.
September 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Fascinating explanation of why height filters in dating apps are severely harming the chances of women who set them www.secondperson.dating/p/33-bits?s=09
A common tragic example is women who set height filters of 6’0” and up on apps. Only 15% of American men are 6’0” or taller. On an app with height filters, each of them has 3-4 times as many women to choose from as a guy of average height, and they’re not particularly impressed by the fact that a girl cares about height so much. The woman’s effective dating pool is limited to 5% of what it was. A height-agnostic woman picking from a pool of 20 men could select based on looks, intelligence, devotion, industriousness, sociability, skill in bed… But only 1 of those 20 is both over 6’ and has her as his first choice. Setting a height filter spends 4-5 bits, close to a girl’s entire budget after filtering A/S/L. It gets her a guy who’s tall and nothing else.
September 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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I've been working on this feature for two years; it's finally about to launch and people are starting to notice!

Never be blinded by a bright light theme app again. www.androidpolice.com/how-to-force...
My favorite new Android 16 feature solves a years-old problem
September 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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If you're worried about the environmental impact of AI, stop eating meat
Water consumed using ChatGPT vs other activities 300 ChatGPT queries: 1 gallon Hour of TV: 4 gallons Hamburger: 660 gallons Sources: Li, Ren et al., 2023; U.S. Census Bureau; UNEP
August 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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This is actually a graph of the ease of making electronic music due to the release of cheap DAWs and home studios. People flooded the market with mostly computer-made music.
Graph of "popularity of rock music over the years". Y axis is "reason is total songs released". showing a rise in 1960 to 0.35, then a sharp decline starting around 2005
August 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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My favorite ships
Flight of the Navigator Trimaxion Drone Ship babylon 5 shadow ship Lore's Borg ship, with the Enterprise D in front of it blacktron renegade Lego ship
August 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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@moderation.bsky.app needs a "report incorrect moderation" button or fact check or something. Because I'll tell you what, this guy's post is the least intolerant in the whole thread and yet he's the one who got censored. "Luddites" is a protected group, really?
Intolerance: discrimination against protected groups. With buttons for off warn hide
August 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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I just saw NiN play last night. This interview just makes me respect him so much more
. I remember the Prodigy bulletin boardAn early precursor to the online forum, “bulletin boards” offered from the online service Prodigy allowed users to post and respond to messages in subject-specific boards, which were sometimes moderated by professionals in the topic. and being fascinated to see there was a Nine Inch Nails room. The promise of that kind of interaction with fans was exciting. The consequences of how that interaction has evolved have not been. What are were those consequences? One is the demystification of artists. Growing up, I didn’t know what Pink FloydLegendary and enigmatic British rock group best known for their 1973 album, The Dark Side of the Moon. looked like and I didn’t need to know. In my mind, they looked like fucking wizards, man.
August 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Weird, the website is rejecting Firefox, but works in Chrome
Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.
July 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This is like every touchscreen and IoT appliance ever
Instead of raising your hand to ask a ques- tion in class, how about individual push-buttons on each desk. That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then, all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question.
June 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Nice, yeah I got my Nikon converted by Lifepixel to "hypercolor", which is some kind of blend of IR and a bit of UV and skin tones thrown in. Didn't know you could just get a bare sensor and swap out the filters though
Hypercolor photo of Edinburgh, a clock tower and Gothic church framed by purple trees
April 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Butterflies and their host plants. Protect at all costs!
Illustrations of butterflies next to their host plants and flowers
April 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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California is passing a law to guarantee that toddlers get access to a lawyer when in immigration court. This is why voting in local elections is so important! Your community has the best chance of protecting you from enemies foreign and domestic
I'm proud to be leading AB 1261 this year, which would establish the right to legal representation for unaccompanied children in immigration court proceedings taking place in California. Unaccompanied immigrant children in the U.S. currently have no right to legal counsel in immigration court, leaving them vulnerable to deportation and unable to access critical protections. This is an urgently needed bill, with California seeing over 10,000 unaccompanied minors just last year. California cannot afford to roll over to the federal administration
April 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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America sold off our future to corporations and hedge funds. We don't own our means of production: China does. www.americasundoing.com/p/from-maker...
America's current model prioritizes financial extraction—stocks, patents, intellectual property. It obsesses over short-term quarterly profits, separates thinking from doing, and rewards extraction rather than creation. China's model prioritizes physical ownership—factories, supply chains, resources. It plans decades ahead, not quarters, merges innovation directly with production, and values production capacity as strategic strength.
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This is awesome! Always love an exquisite corpse game. One bit of feedback: the tooltip instructions are blocking my view of the drawing (Firefox on Android)
Screenshot of a drawing app Screenshot of a drawing app drawing
April 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thank you, Facebook, for spying on me and then having to pay me for doing it. Please, spy on my data more often! I could use the cash
Facebook Internet Tracking Settlement Administrator has sent you $40.67 USD.
April 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM