did you know that you can visit the Internet Archive’s building that looks like their logo for a free public tour every Friday at 1pm? everyone there is so nice and thrilled that you’re interested in and using the archive

The latest #aaba2026 meeting was the best yet! I have so many highlights, from the art expo and silent auction to the education committee workshop and course seeing the fascinating talks and posters. I’m so glad my 3D prints were so well received.

“We also observed a case where a user created a loop that repeatedly called a model and asked for the time… Over many iterations, the model began to exhibit “fed up” behavior and attempted to prompt-inject the system controlling the user role.” openai.com/index/how-we...

Shockingly accurate.

I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

Made a dinner iftar Ramadan theme artwork! ✨️

It’s crazy how the only thing that fixes problems with the brain is Puzzles. Vestibular therapy? Puzzles. Vision therapy? Puzzles. Cognitive rehabilitation? Puzzles. Feels kind of like a joke solution but ok

Bought myself Letterboxd for luddites.

Chairing a conference is basically a flex of soft skills, what with writing soliciting emails, fitting a budget, and enforcing deadlines. No wonder scientists hate it.

I remember, even within the introduction to AI course I audited in grad school in 2015, I remember the inclusion of some graph like this. The thing which is maybe surprising in my reread is how quickly it seems like researchers within these field are willing to accept the redefinition in scoping.

Beautiful! Also indexed in Singapore’s National Parks website: www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunawe...

“Instead of showing its potential, generative AI just demonstrated how out of touch a major media force had become.” www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

want to remind everyone that this is the art I make

As someone who melted a significant portion of my brain writing about sociotechnical representations of time and temporal sensemaking in my dissertation, this is amazing.

Sorry, but I've had to remind myself recently that I'm actually pretty darn good at what I do, whatever this is

I think emoji-only feedback is actually underrated Highlight a comment splice and then just write “☠️” 😂

if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities

I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher

Only Valve can get away with casually dropping news of new hardware on a random day of the week out of the blue. A new VR headset from Valve. Steam Frame is here and it’s real.

Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution

just experienced "MacSpreading" - where someone just asked for more room on the train table because their MacBook Pro and Mouse needs more than their half of the table...

I made a ridiculously fun app for Apple Vision Pro and the new Logitech Muse 'spatial accessory' that lets you spray paint the world around you. Spray Paint Spatial, approved by Apple and now on the App Store! Help me spread the word! apps.apple.com/us/app/spray...

I am sad that this large styrofoam Pillsbury dough boy is not for sale.

My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!

Hmmm. Watching the Affinity big "True Creative Freedom" reveal video. I've long recommended the Affinity tools as solid alts to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (ipad apps in particular are great). Basically, it's all rolled into 1 app. Now free, but with deep integration with Canva (for AI). 🧵 1/

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

I guess corporate found that engagement metrics increase if you don't mention whose birthday it is, because now there's an opportunity to catch you scrolling in the app I'm so tired of the mundane hostility of the attention economy

AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?

If you [shudder] use LinkedIn for professional stuff, you should read this and make relevant changes if needed.

The absence of content like Open Brush and limited availability of controllers really does give Mirage Solo Déjà vu vibes. Is there another Android XR headset coming that this system is a developer kit to prepare ahead of? How can we get more headsets to devs?

There’s now a Swift SDK for Android? What?? www.swift.org/blog/nightly...

wussup

The floating cursor was my first gameplay prototype, haha.

A few quick thoughts on Galaxy XR before we lent our headset to @ianhamilton.net for the weekend (since it’s silly Samsung didn’t provide UploadVR with a review unit and the one they ordered at their own expense won’t come for weeks).

A fun (“fun”) new thing we need to address is the time wasted correcting the errors of people who arrive at a conversation having only read the AI summary of a document.

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“With physical things, it's more like a memory of what shaped you, what you’ve been through”. An interesting look at Winston Chong and his love for collecting analogue media in Singapore. Seeing some of the items like the phone cards immediately brought me way back to when I was little. Good times.

Game developers. I am begging you. PLEASE. Make your games start at 50% volume by default or don't make them so LOUDDDDD. WHY is everything so LOUD?? 👵😭

"Chat, make me an infographic about global water usage but importantly make it slightly simpliced." "Already way ahead of you."

I'm digging through my archives looking for a photo for a project and keep finding funny shit I've made. Apparently I did this one ~ ‎Friday, ‎August ‎20, ‎2021, ‏‎1:02:50 PM.

figured out how to solve not one but two problems at work while i was brushing my teeth. (clearly production should have me brush my teeth all day)

The interesting part of Tron for me was the fact that the users had avatars for their programs that looked like them in the computer world and did the work of that program. Years later, you’ve trolls, lurkers, chat rooms, scammers, social media, influencers and a wealth of stuff to draw on.

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I’m looking forward to the day when an LLM, out of sheer frustration, tells a "vibes coder" that "the code works on my machine" and that it’s a skill problem. That day, be afraid, very afraid, of the machines 😳

Absolutely flawless. A truly delightful, playful, and clever LEGO set that nails every part you might care about. From the button feel to the cartridge click, all incredible.

“The idea that every new technological ‘advancement’ that comes along is progress is just ridiculous, because all it’s about is commerce.” www.aol.com/could-3d-com...

Like every business, Panic has a curated, themed playlist that plays in our lobby, emanating office-parkily from a weird rock speaker. The vibe goal? 80's-corporate, EPCOT center, inspirational slideshow of Apple II quarterly results, slight unease/discomfort, and personal computer optimism.

If you're bored of doomscrolling on Bluesky, why not print out and color this alarming coloring book from Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye in San Francisco instead? library.nyam.org/colorourcoll...

Kodak Charmera. Love the colours! But the whole blind box thing is just … sigh.

Series of videos and a guide to using Xreal glasses with SteamVR through PhoenixHeadTracker and Driver4VR. bbs.xreal.cn/post/56f86bf...