The New School announced that the program I've been teaching for ~10 years will close after the current students finish next year. I stumbled onto The New School's 1919 founding document. Reading it feels like a diagnosis of exactly what's happening there right now. medium.com/@leesean/the...

🍓 Monday Strawberry Update: the harvest continues strong with growing yields and consistent quality, The total harvest to date (as of June 8th, 2026) is 3,946 grams (8.7 lbs). This is a 37% increase compared to the 2,880 grams (6.35 lbs) harvested by the same date in 2025.

New level of algorithmic absurdity unlocked! I guess I should be flattered that Meta’s copyright bots think my piano playing is indistinguishable from a major commercial recording? 🙃 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

🌈 New pride crosswalk in downtown Providence ⚓️

I'm proud to announce that selections from my portrait series of the Rhode Island Gay Men's Chorus are featured in the art and literary publication Fluid: Revelry & Rebellion of Queer Joy. 🏳️‍🌈✨ Thanks to A&A Curation for including my work in this project. www.amandabaldiart.com/digitalpubli...

Honored to kick off Pride Month at the Rhode Island State House today! I got to sing with the Rhode Island Gay Men’s Chorus and witness the governor sign a proclamation making Pride Month official.

These shorts match my podcast

🍓 Today’s Harvest 🌱

🍓 Strawberry season has begun! 🍓

New portrait, thanks to Shutterstock for hosting me at their Empire State Building offices. The look: all linen, olive & pinstripes. Ready for summer.

After receiving a string of professional rejections this year, I got two acceptance emails this week for artwork that I submitted. One is for a publication and the other is for a gallery. But now it’s like “oh, #$H1T, I have to actually deliver.” 🙀

Absolutely thrilled to renew my passport 😝

"Mostly Straight With a Little Bend" 🎵 Original Song Live Clip from Sunday's RIGMC Cabaret at Myrtle in East Providence youtube.com/shorts/6JH8q...

Monkeying around in Lisbon

ICYMI, "Designing Radical Empathy, my International Design Day conversation with Cybelle Jones of SEGD is now on YouTube. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8irC...

In 2024, a stranger emailed me about a book I never wrote. Real name, real publisher, fake book — a ChatGPT hallucination. I followed the glitch, down a rabbit hole of dead labor, lost auras, and the uncanny valley. I synthesized what I found into "Haunting Machines," a video essay. 🧵

International Design Day 2026 streams live this Monday, April 27th, beginning at 6:00 am ET on the SEGD YouTube channel. This year's theme: The Spaces In Between. My interview, "Belonging, Learning and Radical Empathy," streams at 4:30 pm ET. www.youtube.com/@SEGDchannel

Loving this Brazilian Amazon branding project / Apaixonado pelo novo branding da Amazônia. Mandaram super bem! www.visiteamazonia.com.br/en/project/

First time submitting my art to a gallery show open call. Please clap.

TFW you see yourself in an art gallery. “Notes on the Surface” by Bruno Benavides at GRID Gallery in Providence until June 6. www.gridgalleryri.org

🌸🍜 My twist on Sakura Somen (cherry blossom thin noodles). The pink “cream” sauce is made from silken tofu, umeboshi (pickled plums) and benishoga (pickled ginger). The green sauce is a scallion, parsley, and nori blended in olive oil.

Jook Joint - a place that serves congee and other Cantonese comfort foods meets a Japanese-style music listening cafe 👈 someone please steal this business idea

In 2024, a stranger emailed me to ask if I'd written a book about UX design. But it was all a ChatGPT hallucination. Full video essay and artwork dropping tomorrow. #GenerativeAI #AIArt #VideoEssay #DigitalLabor #AIEthics

1. Read “Empire of AI” by @karenhao.bsky.social 2. Watch this talk between Karen and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app 3. Follow @dairinstitute.bsky.social, Karen and Timnit for a sober, critical analysis of the “AI” field.

I’m working on designing a series of cheeky greeting cards that blend 17th century art with contemporary unhinged captions. Think: refined raunch and highbrow heat. Any recommendations of local Providence-area printers to collaborate with?

Tonight! I’ll be performing in Behind the Music, an improvised music documentary parody at the Providence Improv Guild

A Pivotal Turn: AI, Society, and Education at the Crossroads hosted by Brown University

Spring, sprang, SPUN

Preview of a new experimental work-in-progress

🧀 Tarte à la tomate 🍅 I learned this from an online French cooking class during the pandemic when I couldn’t go on my annual work trip to Paris to be with my grad students.

This throwback from 3 years ago is reminding me that I should wear glasses and draw more often

I made matzo balls

A view of last night's moon and flurries. Very cinematic

Lying on a mat of plastic spikes is actually quite relaxing

Field trip to Poster House with my grad students

Harassment of advocates for Tibet is a consistent feature of commemorations of Tibetan Uprising Day in Taiwan, pointing to China's reach in Taiwan domestically

Reflecting on recent AI discourse in the Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Jacobin. AI at Work: Intensification, Liberation, or Degradation? If we are going to talk about AI and productivity, we have to talk about power and politics, too. medium.com/@leesean/ai-...

My first orchid of the year has blossomed…and it’s looking a little Lynchian #cinematic #fujifilm #plantdaddy

"And make it so," Picard hath spoke; 'twas done. The Bard's old work, with life anew, begun! www.audible.com/pd/Patrick-S...

Trump fired Kristi Noem. What looks like a MAGA Civil War is less a crisis and more the system working as designed. medium.com/@leesean/pol... #Design #SystemsDesign #Management #KristiNoem #Fascism

My 1-sentence take on Pillion: Less of a "Dom-Com" and more of a "BDSM Bildungsroman" that proves the hardest thing to submit to is a healthy relationship. #Pilion #Gay #film

It is now February 28 in Taiwan—one of the most significant dates in modern Taiwanese history. First and foremost, 228 is associated with the February 28 Massacre in 1947. Contrary to a common myth, it's not just one date, just one incident, or even just in Taiwan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Februar...

Can #design ever truly be "universal?" Reflecting on the passing of Jean Widmer, the architect of the Pompidou's visual identity. I’m sitting with the tension between that beautiful aspiration and the reality of whose standards we canonize. medium.com/@leesean/no-...

What should you charge for freelance design work? We’re about to find out. Introducing the Design Pricing Transparency Project, a new research collaboration between FastCompany and AIGA. Learn more and fill out the survey here: www.fastcompany.com/91494897/des...

Anybody else in Rhode Island paying sky-high utility bills this winter? Our usage is up 20% due to the colder weather, which is understandable, but our bills are more than 2x last year's. This article provides some context: rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/02/23/t...

Wicked Big Blizzard Monday Evening Update #Providence #Blizzard

❄️ The New England snow forecast keeps changing, but the chances are high for bisexual mischief 💕💙💜

🎶 🧱 “Everybody pick up a brick, through thick and thin…coming together is how we win” 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️I wrote this #protestsong when I found out that the regime ordered the Pride flag removed at #Stonewall. “Louder and prouder we won’t be erased.” youtube.com/shorts/ZIgPQ... #singersongwriter #indiefolk

Just enjoyed a $10 single origin matcha drink while the Gen Z baristas vibe to Fleetwood Mac. I ❤️ NY