Saw a preview of I LOVE BOOSTERS yesterday and it was *AMAZING*. Wildly imaginative, bonkers sci-fi in the present-day East Bay, in that one-of-a-kind @bootsriley.bsky.social way. It was *SO GOOD*. I don’t think I’ll see anything better this year. Opens nationwide May 22nd.

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev “The leak isn’t the story. The code is the story.”

UPDATE: Most students in the class hadn't heard of ILM! They knew of Lucasfilm, but just as the place that makes Star Wars, not as a VFX studio. Next year I'll probably instead assign Chapter 2: "Perfect Imperfection: ILM's Effects Aesthetics", about how ILM aesthetics now pervade everything.

Wow this is good.

📢 New England Symposium on Graphics 2026 returns April 12 at @mit.edu! Featuring talks by Profs Frédo Durand (MIT), @adrianaschulz.bsky.social (Brown), @theodore-kim.bsky.social (Yale), junior talks, posters, and networking. Free to attend!! Register: forms.gle/g5fWyLVqCfm8... Details: nesg.graphics

Hard to imagine now, but IRON MAN (2008) was about a weapons manufacturer who had a moral awakening after seeing the human toll of his products. He finally springs into action when he see news footage of refugee families being torn apart. At the time, people thought he was modeled after Elon Musk.

Remember that time Jesse Jackson showed up at a 2014 Google shareholder meeting demanding that the company publicly disclose their shitty diversity numbers? www.vox.com/2014/5/15/11...

(Slow exhale ...) yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

I’m struck by how many people (even in CS) are unfamiliar with the term “AI Winter”, and are treating the current hype as a once-in-human-civilization-level event. Nope. It’s a regular cycle of over-promising hucksters crashing the markets every few decades. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Reading “Hitler’s American Model.” It’s striking that the Nazis passed the anti-semitic 1935 Nuremberg Laws against a backdrop of nationwide “radical street violence” against Jews. They were legalizing what was already happening in the streets. 1/2 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am teaching a Computer Graphics class this semester where I am going to pair technical readings with STS-type readings. The students are evaluated on both.

Hello. I'm back on the socials after writing a book for the last year and a half.