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I wrote a bit about IDEs, and about how lots of creative coding languages/IDEs assume the user doesn't want to code (which is essential to get people into programming! But I ask what happens next?) and some silly experiments I have been doing! www.media.mit.edu/projects/exp...

Not the be dramatic but Big Corporate Brand and Marketing™️ is a putrid bubble made from the blood of a violent system of covert wealth concentration. Blameless, self-absorbed, contrived, and completely bodiless.

Making music for fun and resistance

#Opportunity! The Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology has announced its 2026-2027 residency program, focused on "AGENCY", providing both local-to-NYC as well as virtual residencies for US-based artists. Deadline is Sunday, Oct 11! eyebeam.org/focus/agency

Invited to the Anthropic dinner they had us fill out a questionnaire asking us who was the most interesting person we met, the AI listened to our convos, gave us a ranking from least to most interesting; I’m sad to say I got least interesting. Claude took me out back and shot me.

I made this spreadsheet to impress a hinge date and it didn’t work out so now i made content about it #outkast

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

if you’ve been through the tech layoff wringer its worth looking for software jobs at places that aren’t tech companies. hospitals, municipal and state governments, universities - all of these places need programmers and a lot of the jobs are even union!

I’m hosting a math club and one of the guys assumed I didn’t know what an LLM is and explained it to me. The life I would have to live to not know what an LLM is and also use my free will to host a math club is one I wish I had.

Btw Corporatism is collective psychosis

Yes this is what I’ve been saying, a tech employee is regularly asked to make a decision that will affect infrastructure for millions of people, that is more control than a lawmaker

As a general rule, I would say that most things we are being told to believe are technology issues are actually civics issues. 5/5

I had a dream last night that there was a group like the free masons but they were about writing compression algorithms and the right to choose to compress and they had a really long name and didnt allow anyone to use a nickname for them but only they could use their nickname

It's time to bring back regular #EdChat from the best days of Twitter to Bluesky so educators can meetup regularly, share ideas and notes, and build community. This type of community and solidarity is essential now as education & educators are under threat. #EthicalCS #CSforAll #CSed #EDUsky

Computa, choose my hopes and dreams then achieve them

Fab28 is in Rwanda !! I hope I can go

im learning french (apologies in advance) there are so many different words for little walk as an american im getting culture shock. Promanade, marcher, balade, faire un tour, à pied theyre all little walks around. They have more words for big walks.. not even getting into that

why did we stop calling them server farms

NEW: DOJ is fighting states that are trying to pass accountability laws that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks. the DOJ says this would endanger ICE agents...pointing to an art project that doesn't work? www.wired.com/story/states...

Determined to make bobo work as a nickname for Boston

no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns

Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data

After making a decision arbitrarily as a teenager, I am finally free from the tyranny that is godaddy, not limited to the time that they broke my mail records trying to turn my website into a vibe coded tile store website

I don’t care if the Google quantum computer has no real life applications- I want to use it for a different non practical application: making the fastest integer multiplier (its not practical because it uses a 1729 dimensional Fourier transform aka a GALACTIC ALGORITHM) hal.science/hal-02070778...

My fav rx happening was traveling home, ticket canceled, my bag was overweight (I opted to trashing/wearing 3kg of clothing in the summer) tsa swabbed all my stuff & then passport control machine just showed me a picture of an exhausted man, didn’t take my picture and then just let me through.

who wants to marry you get a

Shout out Mr jones high school math teacher when he taught us primes he was like “I know it seems innocuous but they’re kind of a big deal” but still even then nothing could have prepared me for what they are

I’m speaking at IRCAM about something musical I’ve been working on 👀 www.media.mit.edu/events/ircam...

In Paris soon