Decentralized ecosystems or it’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Worldcoin opened a LA location and thought it was a good idea to have me speak. Spent 25 min calling out proof-of-person as a spoofable scam, warning about the surveillance state, and telling everyone why they should never give up their biometric data. The Worldcoin staffers’ faces were priceless.

Been quietly building something I’m excited to share soon. For now, enjoy the rare silence.

Signal – the US sees the traffic, not your text. Telegram – Russia can read your text and name the parties. The more you know.

We don’t value privacy enough and when AI makes the consequences clear, it’s going to be much tougher to claw it back.

Bad takes aren’t nearly as annoying as the people lining up in comments to agree because they feel it benefits them to.

Diversification and decentralization of digital art isn’t appreciated enough. Too much maxi talk.

make exactly what you want to make and let everyone catch up in their own time

AI is just a complicated machine that’s great with patterns and basic reasoning. It’s neither sentient, nor alive, and we’re still a decade+ from AGI. Any resemblance to general intelligence is purely a combination of wishful thinking and naivety. Sorry.

My love of tech began at six or seven, when my dad would periodically bring home discarded Apple Macs; I taught myself to tweak their configs so I could wring playable games out of hardware that was never built to handle them.

The safe/fair-use AI crowd doesn’t get it. Reality is simply our outcome is “safest” only if we win the race with China to AGI and all this posturing is only handicapping us in race we’re losing.

Turning down all group show offers for the rest of the year. Let’s make some space for other artists.

Art prices are a combination of speculation on future value based on cultural significance of the art and a handful of psychopaths who just like the art. Here for the psychopaths 🍻

People thinking movie/tv audiences will care about a few visual issues/warping with AI are just coping.

Gotta sting nobody showed up for your birthday.

No Kings

Weather clapping back on Trump

Waiting for the first religion to worship an ASI as their god.

Disney doesn’t realize Midjourney is just the tip of the iceberg. Just wait till they discover people have been making fan art for decades

/nero

Los Angeles protests

Triggered by artists with political opinions? Scroll down your feed just a bit further for sanitized, commentary-free eye candy made just for you.

Sandwiches and water. Problem solved

Imagine the outrage if a Democratic president unilaterally deployed the national guard in a red state

Los Angeles

Anti-AI crowd picking their battles

Many artists are making the most compelling work of their careers with AI and I’m here for it. Those desperately attacking and shaming artists who use AI in order to protect their own relevance are destined to fail.

Skateboarding was my gateway drug to graffiti which helped lead to art. World Industries deck, Independent trucks, generic bearings and saving up for Spitfire wheels. Peak teenage acquisition.

It’s a chilling atmosphere to make politically proactive work. Great - less competition.

We’re just pre post-aesthetic in art

Export Control - MYDOOM // embedded encrypted Mydoom virus in the PNG

If it’s digital, it’s rising. If it’s analog, it’s fading. Everything.

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JPEGs huh?

tomorrow... Export Control

2030 scandal spoiler - We discover we’ve spent years trading tokenized RWAs of gold bars and real estate that never existed.

We’ll own the same expensive things but they’ll be tokenized rwas in storage facilities we don’t visit.

just another Thursday. be safe out there. 🏴

Your art collection says a lot about who you are. Nothing else at the higher end can do so with nuance like art.

Stealth mode 🥷 Iykyk