just had a flashback to approximately 2004 when digital photography bloggers discovered unsharp mask. those images felt so intensely detailed. i didn't have that feeling until i saw a retina display 5 years later, then HDR displays 10 years after that.

if you’ve ever wondered what my salary is, @businessinsider.com just published it along with some info about my apocalypse early warning system www.businessinsider.com/programmer-a...

i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net

the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗

i made an app that checks if your contacts are in the epstein emails myepstein.com apple rejected it from the app store because it “capitalizes on current events” but you can still try it on testflight

i'm vibecoding a 3d model that is generative but needs to meet certain topological requirements. i was having trouble asking for what i wanted, so i asked for a face selector and copied IDs to the clipboard. i pasted the IDs with a request ("merge faces like this"), now it works

“vibecoding” is dead. now it’s just “coding”

imagine twitter, but there's a bot is crawling all the tweets and when people post "add an edit button", the bot implements it. what would a fully crowdsourced social media platform look like? and what constraints would keep it from breaking apart?

after 2.5 years of vibe coding, my biggest takeaway? native apps are dead. iterating for the web is so much faster, has better tooling, and lower overhead. low-latency, multi-projector, 3d, spatial audio, custom hardware—ai will continue to have trouble with these.

RPI stack overflow (2009-2026)

sailing from lumolumo to dawson island

water witches and solar power

from the other side of the welcoming party

betel nut, berries, apples and coconuts

new cables and old ladders

a short trip from alotau to lumolumo with an incredible welcoming

“transformirror” with daito manabe will be at cinekid this year 🤗

i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc

the latest realtime video-to-video demos are wild

icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profiles

The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny (2015) by Chris Sugrue, Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social, Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry → www.creativeapplications.net/project/the-...

has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers.

@michaelnielsen.bsky.social i would love to hear your take on the latest quantum news azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...

the cross-disciplinary technical mastery in this project is off the charts. if you spend any time thinking about strange sensors, this is a must read.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

are there any citizen science efforts to figure out what is actually in the air and in the ash in LA right now?

Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍ Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/

✨JOB ALERT✨ You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices. It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome. Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool! art.cmu.edu/employment/#...

i'm building an experimental tool for exploring 25 years of my old sketchbooks, with image and text recognition powered by gemini

one of my biggest concerns about LLMs is their ability to smother marginalized cultures with homogenizing hallucination. gemini 2.0 flash (released today) is one of the first models to explain the fijian wind compass clearly, succinctly, and accurately.

DID YOU KNOW??? 🤔 a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯

if you're deep in machine learning and excited to work on something that's not ethically ambiguous, this postdoc bioacoustics job at the san diego zoo looks incredible us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...

openai has a closed program where artists are helping them evaluate their video generator sora, and some of the artists just leaked access to draw attention to their “unpaid labor” techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/a...

i’m hiring a part time studio manager 🤗 forms.gle/nd4xBhGTAFY3...

twitter alternative poll results! posted on twitter (36k followers): 252 votes for twitter / 420 total mastodon (2k): 262 for mastodon / 313 threads (1k): 33 for threads / 97 bluesky (350): no poll feature, but 16 likes, 12 replies in short: i underestimated mastodon

how many people have actually mainly migrated to bluesky?

does being a millennial just mean rebuilding your social graph every few years until you die