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anti-hype. i paint and do computer vision research for satellite image datasets https://zhanpeifang.com/

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just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

18.05.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(this is notably not something i would ever associate with growing up in western washington state for 18 years. this is specifically portlandia type shit)

25.01.2026 07:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it happened: I've finally lived in oregon long enough that i've become a "nutritional yeast on popcorn" kind of person

25.01.2026 07:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now that iโ€™ve blocked twitter and reddit on my laptop and deleted the apps (plus ig/bsky) (haven't blocked bsky on my computer since i still find the culture here pretty bleh) i'm at the point where i'm opening the Financial Times app every time i want to scroll a 'feed' of 'content'

08.12.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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chartposting season๐Ÿ˜—

03.12.2025 22:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i bought a couple old nylon magazines in a fit of mid-2000s-nostalgia (dare i say โ€˜indie sleazeโ€™) pique and flipped open to this fan letter on the feb 2004 issue

02.12.2025 06:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
oil painting on aluminum, 5 x 7โ€, of the stanford bunny

oil painting on aluminum, 5 x 7โ€, of the stanford bunny

stanford bunny

19.10.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website:

zhanpeifang.com

19.10.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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sorry to all my haters and losers

01.10.2025 20:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear

29.09.2025 18:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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just ate a shockingly competent bowl of ่žบ่›ณ็ฒ‰ in Kampala, Uganda

15.09.2025 11:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist

13.09.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

one of my worst housemates in college (had the most blatant case of yellow fever/weaponized male meekness ive seen) left his phd to work here lol. i will say there was something cathartic about my old coop nemesis (in a group photo of xAI employees) being called โ€˜evilโ€™ on a QT with >200k likes๐Ÿคญ

18.08.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is

17.08.2025 05:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by๐Ÿ‘‹

04.08.2025 20:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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figs from the tree in my housing co-opโ€™s garden

02.08.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm going to sub-Saharan Africa in a month for fieldwork lol

01.08.2025 16:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

in the past 7 days iโ€™ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what iโ€™m saying is that iโ€™m currently a walking gu jar

01.08.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend

23.07.2025 05:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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weirdly sophistiquรฉ chart this week

29.06.2025 04:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

which volume(s)?

03.06.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Scientific diagram of two birds looking at seeds from different directions, showing their blind spots and extent of binocular vision.

Scientific diagram of two birds looking at seeds from different directions, showing their blind spots and extent of binocular vision.

01.06.2025 02:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye

30.05.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year

29.05.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer

29.05.2025 22:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex

29.05.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

18.05.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

but of course

18.05.2025 16:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?

17.05.2025 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
excerpt from Frank Nielsen's poster for "Taxonomy of principal distances and divergences", seemingly written with pure uncut PGF/TikZ

excerpt from Frank Nielsen's poster for "Taxonomy of principal distances and divergences", seemingly written with pure uncut PGF/TikZ

just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...

14.05.2025 02:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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