Jon Koffel

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
messenger.abeto.co

girlrustcohle on tumblr: "fuuuuck i just realized that the future idealized version of myself cant exist without current me being the catalyst for change and doing hard things. has anybody heard about this"

I've been working more on this, getting the data crisp enough to be able to draw little faux rivers. But I've also been staring at it for so long it's getting hard to tell if things are even improving.

Anyway, still a cheap erosion filter which is calculated from scratch every frame here. #ProcGen

How will the flower bloom in 2100?

We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/

Some sketchbook pages

And a variant without rotation. Playing with different ways to make perfect loop.

Radiant sunset loop

#creativecoding #p5js

Playing around with perfect loops in P5.js (inspired by @bleuje.com tutorial)

#creativecoding #p5js

Really lovely balance in these

Playing around, putting my custom pathfinder tool through its paces. Just seeing where it takes me.

Very Andy Goldsworthy!

single panel cartoon of a little girl riding on a small bike with training wheels, next to her dad riding on a regular bike, slightly in front of her. the training wheels on the little girl's bike are labeled "AI". the girl says: "no you don't get it, they're just a tool that make me better at this, you should try them too or you will get left behind!!"

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

A logo for the Tiny Awards 2025 suggesting that you might like to cast your vote

Our judges have been through literally HUNDREDS of websites and selected their shortlist for the Tiny Awards 2025 - voting's open now, so take a few minutes to check out some of the best, most beautiful, oddest, silliest websites of the past year, pick your favourite, TELL THE WORLD!: tinyawards.net

And your spouse is probably just scrolling through blue sky chuckling to himself

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

Maarten Inghels.
Yo solía ser una montaña.

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

About Shapes 形について
kyndinfo.notion.site/About-Shapes...

#p5js #math #physics #code #art #design

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

We present a simplified, p5.js version of the vocal tract synthesizer from Neil Thapen's popular Pink Trombone, adapted for use in a creative coding assignment concerned with interaction design and absurd puppeteering.
Interactive: editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch...
Writeup: github.com/golanlevin/6...

Just saw a photo from my old rundown house and then this. Rings very true.

This is incredibly sweet and she is a cutie. Seems young to be leaving home, though.

Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps.

"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.

Jfc.

I'm a bit biased, but I think this is a fantastic team and opportunity at UMN Libraries.

"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Really fun, though I noticed that the hold and swipe to turn moves in tiny increments in Chrome on a pixel phone