“Sometimes you don’t survive whole. You only survive in part. But the *grandeur* of life is that attempt. It’s not about the solution. It’s about being as fearless as one can and behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances.”

Happy 2026 to all who celebrate. My accomplishment of 2025 I'm willing to be Internet facing: a return to reading in the back half of the year.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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One more little device will fix me

depression resistance 📈📈📈 heat resistance 📉📉📉

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Clean up your links before you share them with others. It's a small and simple piece of operational security that anyone can integrate into their practice.

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Having a job has crippled my productivity.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

one of my favorite twitter interactions was when someone asked Vincent to say fuck terfs, he responded "what does terf mean?" and then four minutes later tweeted "FUCK TERFS!!!"

Cat-dad father's day: Adora in my lap and the books she and my partner gifted me. 😸 The Night Eaters 2 & 3 by @sanatakeda.bsky.social and Marjorie Liu

Was invited to a brunch with my great uncle (a circuit court judge) and Antonin Scalia. I chose to sleep in instead.

For whoever needs to hear it? These are transferable skills.

It's the yearly drive for @newap-georgia.bsky.social , who are trying to do right by refugees even in the midst of this fresh hot hellscape. I donated the all time record between USC-UCLA, $53 to 34¢ (plus fees!) @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social EDSBSCharityBowl.com #CharitibundiBowl

Adobe deleting their first BlueSky post because they realize that the artist community pretty much universally hates them now is extremely funny

Other stuff I've made, for reference.

Almost that time of year to make some ephemeral, rotting, fan art.

Stuff I've made, for reference.