Every time you like an artistβs artwork, an angel grows their wings.
Every time you repost an artistβs post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
Every time you like an artistβs artwork, an angel grows their wings.
Every time you repost an artistβs post, an angel grows artillery and heat-seaking missiles to fight the forces of evil.
Someone is going to be murdered by one of these and itβs going to be an incredible detective story
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
This is a sad but correct decision. Thank you, @python.org, for committing to your values when it matters.
I would love a list of organization that have made this kind of value-driven decision to donate to.
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national electionβand he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
23.10.2025 00:06 β π 4231 π 1676 π¬ 161 π 46Hidden Door is forging ahead with the marriage of roleplay and fan fiction, built with humans, authors and AI. gamesbeat.com/hidden-door-...
19.10.2025 20:01 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1A screenshot of an article in The Canberra Times with the title "How sitting down to write her memoir led to a debut novel" by Paula McClean with the first sentence "Paula McClean's debut novel, The One Remaining, is the fictitious memoir of a fictitious novelist named Hilary Mason." The last line is fading to unreadable white, as I have not paid for access to the full article.
Oh Paula, I would like a word.
17.10.2025 12:42 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's Spooky Season, and if you relish exploring mysterious gothic horror in modern-day Amsterdam, you can now play Dracula on hiddendoor.co
15.10.2025 18:18 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A printed sign taped to a door with blue tape that says "X, DO NOT USE"
Good advice, random door.
14.10.2025 20:56 β π 41 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm surprised no one has mentioned John C Wright's The Golden Age series, since the central theme of it is about the idea of identity in a society of originals, fragments, and sub-process consciousness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...
The first book was published in 2002.
I've recommended this book before, now is the time to go order it!
14.10.2025 00:22 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I put in an order, and I really hope it goes as well as possible for you and that you recover easily and without stress. π€
14.10.2025 00:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...
12.10.2025 20:10 β π 137 π 43 π¬ 7 π 3These are very good words.
10.10.2025 14:36 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0βI fucking love tropes.β - @scalzi.com 
Strong start to NYCC with this incredible panel on SciFi tropes with @cjfarley.bsky.social, Emery Robin, Yume Kitasei, @scalzi.com and moderated by @juliesnyder.bsky.social
I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election.
Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others. 
Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever. 
wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...
YES!!
09.10.2025 12:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A pile of paper street posters in bright pink and orange that say WHERE FANFIC MEETS ROLEPLAY in a handwritten font. The bottom has a bunch of tearaways that are each a different trope. There's a hand and a scissor cutting them up.
Sometimes being a founder means staying up too late doing arts and crafts.
We'll be at #NYCC tomorrow with an exciting launch, come find us (or at least find our QR code to skip the waitlist)!
A long table lined with redacted documents
Close-up of redacted documents, showing that the redactions are moveable black strips and blobs
A stack of printed Du Bois FBI files that visitors can take with them
π Ann Messner's "Du Bois: The FBI Files" at the "In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois" show @ Pratt Manhattan Gallery βΒ making redaction tangible! 
(Also in the show: Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Theaster Gates, Mickalene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, et at)
LOL, you are definitely not the kind of leader I'm talking about here!
07.10.2025 14:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm trying to understand how otherwise intelligent people can make such poor leadership decisions.
...and is it just a few, or is it the majority of folks?
Back in 2014-2018, it was IBM, Palantir et al bullshit hype but there was a way from hype excitement to strategy to outcomes.
Do you have specific examples you can share? DMs welcome!
I'm really trying to understand the dynamics that are leading to otherwise intelligent people losing the thread of good leadership.
Ahh yes, that lack of role clarity and expectations has been a huge problem. 
I do wonder if itβs getting better, as the AI energy sucks up a lot of the magical thinking.
I appreciate the comment. I have a good sense of the 2014-2018 ML moment (I built a whole business in the sales wake of IBMβs Watson bullshit!) and Iβm trying to figure out why itβs so especially difficult right now. I see the through line.
06.10.2025 17:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0quick while the government is shut down letβs all switch to metric
01.10.2025 04:11 β π 14031 π 2821 π¬ 312 π 176I'm not going to 'like' that, but I'm sorry!
06.10.2025 15:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How many folks have actually experienced a CEO or manager pressuring them to use AI in a way that's dumb or out of touch?
06.10.2025 15:42 β π 22 π 7 π¬ 15 π 0WHAT THE FUCK
04.10.2025 02:23 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0What does it mean to "read for pleasure", and what does it mean that that's declining?
I appreciate Mathew Ingram's pretty balanced take in his newsletter: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/so-whats-so-...
...and I expect that amidst all of the noise, we are finding new places and ways to read.
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