Max Taylor

My favorite week of the year

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Can we just have, like, a few hundred more politicians like this in our country?

I've fallen off a bit lately, but I spend a couple of days working on Motion and a few days playing around with CSS Scroll Driven Animations, so let's call that days 38-43 of #100DaysOfCode and I'll try to get back to a more regular cadence

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.

Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Won’t somebody think of the poor nazis?

List of Minnesota businesses closing for Jan. 23 anti-ICE strike First announced by faith leaders and unions on Jan. 13, Minnesota businesses have begun announcing plans to join the action.

there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants

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Here's a good way y'all can help trans immigrant youth in the cities: Troop 350064 is a trans immigrant group of Girl Scouts in the Twin Cities who cannot safely do cookie booths this year. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop3...

Order them for *shipping* not hand delivery.

You better figure out a use for our product or we’ll have to listen to the market

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor

Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes

Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day

Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

Use of AI to harm women has only just begun, experts warn While Grok has introduced belated safeguards to prevent sexualised AI imagery, other tools have far fewer limits

“Women and girls are far more reluctant to use AI. This should be no surprise to any of us. Women don’t see this as exciting new technology, but as simply new ways to harass and abuse us and try and push us offline.”

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Day 37: did a couple of lessons from
Animations for the Web
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I have heard multiple white Minnesotan men outright say how angry they are in the last week and people who haven’t spent time in this part of the world do not understand how big of a deal that is

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

I forgot to post yesterday, but for day 36 I did a little more work on my side project. Played with filters a bit and added more content to the site.
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It was supposed to say congratulations, but apparently autocorrect had other ideas lol

Consultations!!

Days 34 and 35 of 100 days of code. Working building my own project. Turns out this whole react thing is a lot harder without guided tutorials. Who would have thought? Anyway, I managed to get filters work for some data I’m mapping over from a json file.
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I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Shut it all down now

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” etc etc

My alarm went off this morning and in swear for a second there I was just like, what the hell is going on?

When I was 4 I was spinning around in my dad’s coat, stepped on the sleeve, fell, and broke my ankle.
My mother, who was a pediatric nurse, insisted I was fine and waited 2 days to take me to the doctor.

It’s cool we collectively have a term for dreading going back to work, definitely a healthy cultural indicator

Day 33 of the 100 Days of Code: Just played around with some motion.dev stuff today.
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