#Inside Serra’s The Matter of Time, Guggenheim Museum #Bilbao #BlueskyArtShow #photography #BlackAndWhite

why is claude smarter in claude than it is in kiro? make it make sense

we don't negotiate with terrorists, but apparently we'll negotiate for them 🙃

it's so hard to move from nyc to anywhere else bc why is it the only city with a culture of socially acceptably sobbing in public

cloudflare capta is down (and with it 95% of the internet 🫠)

Joyn Walker, 2008

Harvard researchers have unveiled the "Gram determinant score," a novel metric to evaluate data reliability without ground truth. This experiment-agnostic framework could revolutionize decision-making in fields like finance and public health. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.17085

watching rogue heroes - really happy to see Theon Greyjoy thriving in a leadership role after everything that happened to him

Color Analysis Plates from "Color problems; a practical manual for the lay student of color," Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, 1903.

internet surfing has turned into to app surfing. mostly whatsapp and telegram chats, with the occasional discord server and signal group.

Namsai Supavong

like the M3GAN 2.0 villain, I have also asked for 5 minutes from an important Zoom meeting so I could escape certain death by running to a new location

Going through some Erdős problems that Mark Sellke and Mehtaab Sawhney found had already been solved using GPT5 pro for search. More precisely, these were listed as open, but solutions to them already existed in the literature, but not recognized as such. Quite remarkable. One example: [+]

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins. Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame! Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago! It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet. Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

I don’t think the main character in Friendship was a narcissist. I think he was deeply burying his grief, protecting himself, and ruining everyone else’s lives in the process.

overstimulated in the wework during tech week.

anyway the vibe olympics are only on luma bc I hate random rules. if you're around for #SFTechWeek, come compete! we have a $10k cash prize. think e-sports style challenges with only one winner. refs not judges. qualifiers (compete) -> luma.com/vibe-champio...

#sftechweek requires events to be on partiful, and only partiful. SF event spaces are usually only reserve-able via luma. this has led to all kinds of chaos.

finished ep 4 of black rabbit and idk if I can keep watching. does it get good? that just felt so unearned. you’re telling me these guys are getting away with running around nyc murdering based on rumors all in the hunt of $100k from one dude? like ???

The Entire City https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-entire-city-1935

John Piper, Bethesda Chapel, 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118584

I'm sticking with the "2027" date for the Great AI Boyfriend Panic of 2027. These are just foreshocks. arxiv.org/abs/2509.11391

gpt 5 and claude 4 cannot hang and would be left out of the group chat

First up in my series, El Maestro, Francisco Toledo. Not a strictly abstract artist, he used geometric shapes, textures, fantastical forms, ancient morphologies & symbols, native creatures in his art painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles. 🧵 1/? #MexicanArtist #AbstractArt

is there a design term, like 'norman door,' for something that appears to have a functionality and then infuriatingly doesn't? like a chair with a plug that isn't actually plugged into anything.

space booked ✅ domain acquired ✅ featured on the sf tech week luma calendar ✅ the first vibe olympics are really happening 🤩 www.vibeolympics.com #buildinpublic

the great british baking show felt like a serious competition during covid when you knew everyone was trapped there with only the other contestants, practicing their bakes in the parking garage

‘It almost feels like a big church – like I’m worshipping.’ Portia Zvavahera talks to Apollo about working in her Harare studio, which sits between a mountain and a dried-up riverbed

I'm somehow at the max # of discord servers. every time I need to join one for an event I leave another behind. stressful, reflective, so many emotions that I'm not sure their designers were expecting when they chose this probably arbitrary cutoff lol

buffy was right, apocalypses happen all the time

spent the past 5 days completely sucked into a project. I feel like I’m waking up out of a dream…

US photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Wind Tunnel Construction, Fort Peck Dam, Montana 1936 #WomensArt

Vision is gen-NI ! ('The shape of things unseen', Adam Zeman)

someone brought a 3d printer to the hackathon 👀

Tiny skeletons? Sort of. Macro shot of snapdragon seeds. #macrophotography #skulls #botanical

🙋 How do Large Language Models internally process cultural knowledge? 🌐 Happy to share our new preprint "Entangled in Representations: Mechanistic Investigation of Cultural Biases in Large Language Models" 📃 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08879

beat the badge puzzle at my first def con 😤🦾 aka was handed a badge on thursday and did nothing else for the next 72 hours

smells like ai fall 🍂

better call saul is a hacker show

you can just do things (derogatory)

surveillance usually = gov or big tech but, a startup in sf has installed a network of cameras, partnering with businesses to place them. it’s something I hadn’t thought about - that renting property lets you surveil beyond it.

Lioness rhyton from Knossos Palace, Crete. Fabulous example of Minoan stone carving skills during the Bronze Age 3,500 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

‘no sunset here’ #geometric #AbstractAug #abstract #eastcoastkin #abstractphotography #mobilephotography

🎉New preprint! "TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing" tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA! Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

what do I need to do for Netflix to make more ‘haunting of’s pls

MaterialPicker is a multi-modal generator using a Diffusion Transformer to create high-quality materials from photos and text prompts. It enables creators to extract and apply realistic textures under challenging conditions, transforming virtual design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03225

bye webflow! today I moved my blog over to www.leandra.dev built with t3 + tiptap rich text editor + supabase for storage #buildinpublic

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #DecorativeArt #French #Japonisme #EdmondLachenal Edmond Lachenal (1855 - 1948) VASE WITH BATS AND MOON, ca. 1895 Glazed earthenware

This is insane. youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...