Be easy to please and hard to impress

This post by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social illustrated where #GenAI can be helpful (doing the grunt work) and where it is not (determining a good goal, refining the grunt work, establishing the use case). Rather than brute-forcing GenAI to do everything, I like Mike's augmentation approach.

I have been creating arcane diptychs for a while now. It started as an exercise of vocabulary and humor with my teenager. Due to some encouragement, I started adding images via Midjourney and sometimes my children. I am slowly sharing these adventures. Now for more limacine escadrille.

Need music? I will be on a film project soon, but I currently still have short-term availability for one-off projects such as podcast themes! You can listen to some demos and contact me through my general film reel: play.reelcrafter.com/jpO3BtNETBqD...

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

Preach. blog.val.town/slow-mode @val.town @petemillspaugh.com

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

The news media (and social media) focuses too much on the negative when there's actually plenty of good news out there as well. This is doing real damage to our society as it pushes everyone into panic. Here's one of my favorite, humble antidotes to that phenomenon: fixthenews.com

This week's Fix the News has so much encouraging news in it, things I usually don't see elsewhere. Yes, there is much to be angry and anxious about. But there is so much good going on around the world that it is worth it, imo, to pay attention to the positive: fixthenews.com/p/338-ten-th...

Today I learned: fredchan.org/blog/localit... Via lobste.rs/s/g4lj0n/set...

Just a reminder I'm available to help on your tech/design/art project! ✨ I specialize in data visualization, prototyping, and custom interactive experiences. My portfolio: iangilman.com/projects/ Tell your friends! 😉

Just as a PSA never engage in long back and forth chains of conversation with an LLM like this, it tends to degrade on both sides. Context becomes very muddled and unpredictable. If you have a relative that has a multi day thread open ask questions & show them how to port clean context.

Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run

1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen

I'm looking for volunteers to help with VFX on a short film. We're down to a specific kind of shot that we have a lot of: Planar track a surface (street, fence, wall, etc.) and place an artwork or word there, blending as appropriate, then mask out any foreground elements (actor, trees, etc.).

Maelstrom, the beloved asteroids game from 1992 (that I did all the animations for), has been resurrected for modern devices! You can play it for free now on Steam, iOS, Android, and the web: steamcommunity.com/app/4239950/... What are you waiting for?? 😁🚀

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Publishing your drawings / art online? I'd recommend this episode of Comic Lab podcast: www.webcomics.com/uncategorize... Distils their best advice for comics artists into one guide @comiclab.bsky.social

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

The only way to bring the other side to the table to limit the available tools is to use the available tools. If only one side ever uses the available tools, there is zero incentive to restrict their use.

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

But the main points are that information build value when it is repeatedly tilled, expanded, tidied, reorganized, pruned; and that when two well-tilled gardens meet, interesting things can happen. So I know Karpathy isn't talking about fedwiki stuff, but maybe that can come out of this.

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Probably be doing exactly what I do now, just take on more silly fun goofy projects for a laugh and go crazy on the work on them.

All: would like your thoughts and support, friendly critique, message-spreading and more. Calx: A decision-intelligence platform for understanding and mitigating global harms. A tool for designing the future economy. www.calx.info

This precisely captures what is going on. Many critics AND advocates have decided that every societal ill and benefit is in fact an "AI problem". Ethnic cleansing? Blame AI. Poverty? Solve with AI. Mail late? Blame AI or solve with AI, take your pick. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

“As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation.” Humphrey Lyttelton

While researching the history of bringing bikes on buses, I just discovered something: in the mid 20th century, buses in Australia and New Zealand had hooks on the front or back for mothers to hang prams off! Bus pram hooks were apparently a unique NZ+Aus phenomenon, found nowhere else in the world.

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

The way things work is this -- you have a human process, it has a wonderful flexibility but it is slow, or tedious, or whatever. You build code and now it is faster and more efficient -- but also more brittle.

A friend of mine is reviving the classic arcade game Maelstrom (which I did the animations for in 1992)! Come help make it a reality ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/mae...

For me developing a Blu-ray habit has helped. If I send 10 bucks on a film I am going to put my phone down and watch intently. I probably spend 40 bucks a week on Blu-rays but it's been really grounding for me.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Our film The Little Bird (directed by @mrhoyle.bsky.social) won an audience choice award at the recent "For the Love of Film" shorts festival! There were so many great films there…it was a pleasure to meet many of the filmmakers, and an honor to be recognized for our work! ❤️

People are still making beautiful new color cycling pixel art! Check out this amazing piece from Steffest and learn how he made it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyB5...

We have released OpenSeadragon 6! This new version brings a powerful new data pipeline and two new tile sources, along with many additional improvements. Congrats to all of the contributors who made it possible! 🎉 github.com/openseadrago...

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

When your streets are cluttered with cars, how do you make the switch to more human-friendly green spaces? As Vienna discovered, ending free parking is a great start. news.fixthenews.com/kHgqMBO

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Casting for my next project: "Color," a queer dramatic short film. If you'd like to throw your hat in the ring, you've got till midnight on the 22nd to submit! Check out the TPS listing for more info 🥰 theatrepugetsound.org/auditions/co... #SeattleFilm #Acting #ShortFilm #QueerFilm

My father is teaching essential capacities for the modern age: core skills to improve your resilience and strengthen your community. This Thursday and Saturday he's running free online introductory events… I highly recommend checking them out! co-evolving.context.org/p/building-e...

@mayorofseattle.bsky.social The renter's survey link you recently posted is broken (404). Please post a corrected version! I do have a link to the previous form you posted, but it still says the deadline is the 13th.

The trick to making art is to make art and then keep making art and never stop making art and when people tell you to stop you don't stop and then they go away and you keep making art.

i'm biased, but anyone that's ever worked in a large group feels this in their bones

Conspiracy theory is an efficient engine to immediately quarantine any conceivable evidence against your position, which allows you to rationalize just about anything, which is why you shouldn't fuck with it.