Fred Scharmen

waterfall 2, gorilla country golf, atlantic beach, north carolina, 1985

waterfall 2, gorilla country golf, atlantic beach, north carolina, 1985

"We need to cultivate Jones Falls river Valley power"

one thing they don't tell you about the labubu tarpits is that they're alive in there.

Sunrise run with bonus snow flurries

Autocorrect just changed “NRx” to “Marx”

Yessir, couldnt agree more.

cc @frontdeskattendant.bsky.social

Mike should be the Left. Give Mike a trillion dollars to build the Railroad.

Glushkov Red Plenty. Sovietcore Tekhnika Molodezhi.

Glushkov Red Plenty. Sovietcore Tekhnika Molodezhi.

We urgently need a promethean left.

municipal level geoengineering goes hard as a concept, but i am not sure how you manage externalities on that. i think an advantage the contemporary right has is, simply, denigration of consent of the governed as a concept, so they can always just let some other sucker pay externalities

Build outside. Build above. Build.

I mean in present day material terms we can talk about the column inches in the WSJ front page that OP is crowing about

I follow some work like this yes. Addie Wagenknecht is one artist here who comes to mind. What kind of stuff are you thinking of?

We’re also losing huge opportunities for regulatory capture that ensures equity. It’s not *illegal* to steal rain from one place and sell it to paying customers. That’s why this guy is raising money to do it. We should do weather influence, at a municipal level,for good, not evil.

The median academic opinion about AI has been

2017: quant methods are no use for qualitative problems
2021: these models are just parroting memorized phrases
2025: now that they do everything, higher ed is doomed

So, if you're depressed right now, remember: we're almost certainly wrong! +

Yeah man I make chatbots. Give me money.

It’s literally popular mindshare, investment capital, and political will that we’re losing. As well as a bunch of lost futures. That’s what I mean by ground

Reminder that as the left gets more technophobic, this is who you're ceding ground to.

Christian Dominionism meets Weather Control hardware startup ideology.

“I guess we’re doing arch now”

If I start doing DocuSign in my sleep I stg …

I'm now the head of a program at an architecture school and I still have that dream where there's a final review the next day and I haven't even started the project

Weird Sisters: Norns Against Norms
(this came to me in a dream)

Everything. Is a war. Except war. Which is a special military operation.

*our* Great Oxygenation Event <->
*their* Great Oxygenation Catastrophe

Lmao what year do you think this is?

It was a great thread! I’m just riffing and joking here!

While you’re at it, get some spaghetti, Teddy Pasketti

Sometimes you have an edible and it's like "this tastes like a hotel"