Hi friends. I haven’t been around here much and intend to be around here even less going foreward. Mastodon is far from perfect, but if you’re looking for a scholar-run space that promises not to blue-check fascists, we’d love to see you at hcommons.social.

Saw someone here arguing that George R.R. Martin owes it to his fans to finish his Song of Ice and Fire series. Once you start something, the post argued, you just can't leave fans hanging. 🧵

One line of code, or the Ruffle browser extension, and you can get William Poundstone's fantastic 2005 Flash piece "Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}" up and running

i have worked with Casey and can corroborate their being a great team member. really smart, versatile, dedicated, and a great partner in brainstorming and product engineering

Again, I'm working on something I think is so cool that only a few other people will also think is so cool

How Generative AI Destroys Institutions. Killer opening line: "If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence."

A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach for the department. www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...

Been thinking a lot lately about Pete Seeger's "My Name is Lisa Kalvelage," the lyrics of which are taken almost verbatim from Lisa Kalvelage's court statement after her arrest for an anti-war protest.

I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...

Ordered some material for a physical computing project. Received a follow-up email saying I'll have to pay a 45% import duty upon arrival. Fuck yeah, this economic policy is working just perfectly.

I made a Python script to selectively delete your Bluesky posts based on certain criteria (age of posts, number of likes, images or not, etc.). Check it out! github.com/samplerealit...

IMINT #14696 from NROL-82 (EXPERIMENTAL) 1. Quantum Kink Commissary 2. Erotic Astronauts 3. Radioactive Content

Today I updated my procedurally-generated million-stanza ode to the daily news fugitivetexts.net/acts/

Pre-ordered!

Creepy things at my in-laws' that give my kids nightmares 🧵 1 - a porcelain cat next to an old fruit press

While I wish good riddance to 2025, it wasn't exactly a bad year professionally and creatively. A roundup of my last 12 months: samplereality.com/2025/12/31/m...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Pretty funny that the 12-months of credit monitoring and identity theft protection I'm receiving because of a hack of my employer's HR data doesn't have 2FA.

I knew we were cooked as a country the first time I heard "Born in the U.S.A." appropriated as a patriotic, nationalistic song. Approximately 10 minutes after the song was released in 1984.

this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth

I have questions about the fifa peace prize

Maybe some country can return the favor to the U.S.A.

I've been to the past few NarraScope narrative games conferences, and they're great. Great size, great talks, great people, great networking!

Never forget: The Cars’ “Good Times Roll” and “Just What I Needed” are OLDER than Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York.”

I did that thing where I list a lot of things from 2025. A roundup of my work from the past year...

I SAW WHAT I SAW

You know what? Probably worth putting into dialogue the two most high profile pieces of banned media of the past two weeks: the video game Horses and the 60 Minutes report on the U.S.'s use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador.

Good torrent link here (from the Internet Archive) archive.org/download/60m...

Random shoutout to Tailscale, which creates an encrypted mesh network between your devices. Pretty much changed my workflow for everything, especially after installing on my home router (an Asus router with the aftermarket Merlin firmware).

I'm working on something so cool that only a handful of other people will also think it's so cool. Again.

Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme. The complete code must be under 2Kb. One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once. taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15....

Fuck these apps with their end-of-year "wraps" and "reviews." They're all just algorithmic data points designed to make us feel so very unique and special as the machine swallows us whole and obliterates everything truly unique about the world. Plus, you know what? I don't want to relive 2025.

Come work with me! My institution is hiring a new library systems/digital services specialist. And what a place to be—we're in the midst of a $100 million library renovation and good things are happening here.

Check out the latest issue of Taper. I've got two minimal (2Kb) code poems in there, something to do with Shakespeare and something to do with Tarot...

I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com “Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”

already there, tyvm

13 ways of looking at a gun. 🧵

Every once in a while I revisit @everest.bsky.social’s awesome directory of tiny tools for creative coding. Instant inspiration: pick a random tool and just play around with it. tinytools.directory

Hey, look at that, the 2026 site for @iftechfoundation.org's annual @narrascope.org conference on narrative games is live narrascope.org

A web port of Jason Rohrer's 2007 game "Passage"—heralded by some at the time for its expressive power. Criticized by others for its gender and cultural assumptions. Either way, a lot happens in the 5 minutes and 8 bit game.

Fuck. RIP Raul Malo, one of the greats. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Object like uprooted tree drifting over Arizona desert.

Looking at the comments on Itch and GOG for HORSES reminds me that one of the biggest problems with video games is video game players.

"Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form."

I finished Horses, and pretty much agree with every thing here. I would add that most Americans seem to be missing the Italian context. Giallo films, Pasolini, and the historical collusion between the church, business, and fascist regime. The game turns out to be a pretty run of the mill critique.

7 cigar shaped objects in the sky early monday morning

Weekend post has animating sprites and Midjourney styles, web arty proc gen and fun ( @samplereality.bsky.social's great 1 Million Random Acts, for instance), game article links, some narrative AI papers (new creative writing bench, couple on style), infovis/ds. arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-73-a...

every single report is found poetry