The Crowd Is Performative [300] Hi Crowd! I've been really into this series of photos I've been taking and posting recently and think I'm going to build on it a bit more. I don't know how much I want to talk about what is drawing me to them just yet but there's a few levels of tension and unease…

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Kinda magic to use @11ty.dev to make a website with github & cloudflare. Burnedpunks.com and museumpunks.com no longer require Wordpress upkeep. Boom!

I meant to write a thing today but didn’t write a thing today.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

TIL hegseth is out here promising soldiers eternal life

The Crowd Is Socially Engaged [299] So the EFF announced that they are leaving X, not because of any political objections though they note that’s a legitimate reason as well, but because they did the math and they get only 3% of the engagement on a post today that they did 7 years ago. People have…

The fact that the president of the United States is writing 500+ word social media posts about them in and of itself debunks the claim that no one is taking about them, and that he doesn’t care about them.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to [login].

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

My newsletter app is launching on Product Hunt today! www.producthunt.com/products/qui...

This is exciting.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

This is a real thing posted by the president of the United States on Easter Sunday morning.

What would be a true miracle is if Christians ever shut the fuck up.

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The Crowd Starts A New Month [298] Hi Crowd! Here's an old school meme frontloaded Crowd for you today, let's get the self back patting out of the way first: If you've been following along the multipart essay series I've been writing about the conversation around AI & Art is now 4 parts long, I…

Reminder nothing posted online today is believable. Check back tomorrow.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON ART + AI: THE HARMS ARE REAL In the beginning of this series I stated my intention to write “not just another piece about AI Art, or about AI and Art, but about the conversation around AI and Art.” So far I’ve spent a lot of time discussing historical precedence and…

🤖 Sean Bonner: 52/100 clone fidelity — Very Close "I care less about titles than about whether the work is useful." are you just a system prompt? → replacebyclawd.com?url=https://...

If you like newsletters as much as I like newsletters but subscribe to so many newsletters you can't keep up with your newsletters, then this thing I built for me might also be for you. Check it out: quicky.email

The Crowd Makes A Thing [297] Hi Crowd! I've been hinting at this for a week or two now and have decided to just stop beating around the bush and tell you all about it. It's funny because one of the reasons I made it was because it's 2026 and we've got really bad ass coding AIs and can spin up…

The Crowd Makes It Up [296] Hi Crowd! Everywhere I look the last few days people are debating if Netanyahu is dead. You've seen it too I'm sure. Pointing to videos as proof of life, pointing to the same videos as proof of coverup. Missed meetings, no press conferences, but leisure coffee shop…

This was *the* case pro-Israel defenders would point at to say "See? Israel takes human rights violations seriously!" And after all that — including mobs of Israeli rioters and politicians storming a military base to protest the arrest of these soldiers — it's being dropped.

Safecast: 15 Years On Today is March 11, 2026. 15 years since the Tohoku earthquake in Fukushima Japan which led to the formation of Safecast and unquestionably changed my life forever. Given the weight of what happened then, since, and... well *waves hands wildly* I thought it was worth…

The Crowd is Artificial [294] Hi Crowd! Apologies for yet another AI heavy note, but it's really the most exciting thing happening right now on a dozen different levels and given that there's burning shitpiles everywhere else I'm trying really hard to stay positive and focusing on the exciting…

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Had an idea for an app that solves a newsletter problem I have. Started brainstorming w/ Claude then handed off instructions to Claude Code. The app is online and working in less than 2 days. I didn’t have to write any code myself. Totally mindblowing moment we are in right now.

In case you missed it, Fugazi just released the Albini sessions. fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON ART + AI: IS IT THEFT? Artists using AI in their work are regularly accused of theft and if we’re going to have any kind of reasonable conversation on the subject that needs to be addressed. On a recent 60 Minutes episode artist Molly Crabapple said generative AI…

When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON ART + AI: WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE Everything old is new again, again. The concern about mechanical/technical innovation replacing, or threatening to replace the human hand is something we as a species have faced repeatedly. It could be argued that’s due in part to us…

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON ART & AI: THE PRE-RAMBLE Fair warning: This is not just another piece about ai art, or ai and art, but about the conversation around ai and art. I think this is far more complicated, more nuanced, and perhaps more important. If you know me you know how much of my life…

CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON ART & AI: THE PRE-RAMBLE Fair warning: This is not just another piece about ai art, or ai and art, but about the conversation around ai and art. I think this is far more complicated, more nuanced, and perhaps more important. If you know me you know how much of my life…

The Crowd Prays to Bits [293] Hi Crowd! This week was my birthday and I've been heads down writing what I thought was going to be a short blog post and has turned into a multi part extended essay on AI and art. If all goes well I'll have the first part live by end of the week. I wanted to take a…

How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”

Reminder: t.me/justanotherc...

It’s my birthday. What did you get me?

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Suspect Devices It's been about 5 years since I updated core devices, and even longer since I talked about those choices so I'm probably overdo for a brain dump. What I’m using, how I’m thinking about it, and what I’m carrying around vs leaving at home. I also thought I’d touch a little on some…

Beginning February 21st, and for four online sessions in total, I will host the class INTRODUCTION TO OCCULTURE. What is Occulture, and why is it so trendy and popular? TICKETS & INFO: www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/in...

Checking in Post-X At the beginning of the year I noted that I’d been on Twitter (now X) for 20 years, and given the cesspool the site has become that was probably enough. I made a post there saying my account was no longer being monitored and logged out / deleted the app off my devices. I made…

Really disappointed to see that the majority of the art feeds here explicitly state that they filter out anything AI/NFT related. Suddenly realizing why so many artists I know have told me they don’t feel welcome on BlueSky even though BlueSky sees itself as being by very artist friendly.

I don't find this surprising, but I do hope media companies learn from the latest poll that shows people do not, for the most part, think they should pay for news. It's time to think about a different approach. aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/m...