Matt Farah @ DEFCON

Even paint projects can be helpful! Portland did this project on SE Hawthorne and reduced speeding, increased reliability of transit, improved bike infrastructure, and most importantly reduced fatality and serious injury crashes. www.portland.gov/transportati...

On the plane to defcon and there’s a guy on the plane in front of me that I can tell is some sort of tech bro. He is doing some training and on every question, he is changing tabs and asking Supergrok — the $300/mo subscription — for help and STILL GETS THE QUESTIONS WRONG

Grok's 'Spicy' Mode Makes NSFW Celebrity Deepfakes of Women (But Not Men) Taylor Swift and Melania Trump? You bet. Elon Musk and the author of this article? Not so much.

We definitely don’t need regulation for these AI companies. Think of all this progress we’d be missing 🙃🙃🙃 gizmodo.com/groks-spicy-...

That looks so fun

Such a cool perspective!

2nd one!

It’s so wild that a tiny group of people across the world can have such a huge effect on so many creators and consumers

Great tutorial on how to drive safely and share the road with people on bikes!

Mayor Keith Wilson Orders End to Racial and Gender Preferences in City Programs Portland Mayor Keith Wilson mandated Thursday that the city remove race and gender preferences from about 75 programs and policies in order to keep the $349 million in federal dollars it currently ma...

So unfortunate that a bully in office can hold $349M over Portland's head to change how our city chooses to run. Hopefully the ethos behind these policies will be maintained even though the words are going away www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Appreciate all the gamers reaching out. We can’t let these bully groups kill free speech from LGBTQ people and sex workers

A screenshot of the Microsoft copilot website with an amorphous blue blob smiling above the search bar

Who are you and what have you done to Clippy?!?!

Most developers use AI in their daily workflows - but they don't trust it, study finds Developers, according to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, are using AI tools more than ever, but, simultaneously, they trust them far less.

This is so true as a person who works in Tech. AI tools are useful, but so often inaccurate. It takes a lot of skill to remember that the confident tone of AI chat bots does not mean they are right. www.zdnet.com/article/most...

Mayor Wilson Defends Northwest Shelter Plan Against Upset Neighbors This is the first organized and persistent opposition that Wilson has come up against during his quest to add 1,500 beds to the shelter system by the end of the year.

Let's go Portland. Getting more people places to sleep inside is a step forward. NIMBYs gonna NIMBY www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Omggggggg. The Cheat!

That game is so cute! I wish it were a little more challenging, but worth playing for the cute visuals

Does anyone else see FFS and think female feminization surgery at first and is confused when it means for fuck’s sake? Lolol

It is so amazing how quickly progress can be made. More biking everywhere!

ChatGPT is rolling out 'personality' toggles to become your assistant OpenAI is rolling out a new "personality" feature on the ChatGPT web app. This allows you to choose between multiple personalities, such as "Robot."

Oh god. This is not gonna help people remember that ChatGPT is just a souped up iPhone keyboard text prediction
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Ni yo tampoco 😢

DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers The slop in search will continue until you give up on Google.

I just started using Duckduckgo and have had pretty good results in the past couple weeks. This makes me want to to use them even more! gizmodo.com/duckduckgo-i...

The only way you could get me to give it away is to pry it from my cold dead hand or if it didn’t fit anymore

How to Check If That 'Deleted' Tweet Is Real We've got seven tips for finding that

Such an important reminder to not believe everything you see on the internet.

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Does anyone else have a favorite shape? I really dig triangles personally

A screenshot of a LinkedIn post that says “The proposed Boring Company tunnel will connect BNA to downtown Nashville. Having just seen this impressive tunnel in Las Vegas at ICSC, I am excited about the prospective solution. Our downtown sees nearly 17 million annual visitors.”

I’ve never heard someone call the Vegas tunnel “impressive.” Thanks for sending me a notification of this post LinkedIn, I needed a chuckle this morning

Yesterday was full of boredom and today was full of inspiration! Wishing y’all the same

I absolutely love this project! Thank you for sharing

A true anti capitalist king

A black and white smeared exposure of an alien-person holding a capsule with a tiny alien inside Text "This photo was made using 1/15 shutter speed and flicking the camera while shooting. The flash freezes the initial image and the drag effect comes from the longer exposure"

A black and white double exposure of an alien-person. You can see their bug eyes and feet prominantly in the image as well as them licking the capsule from the last image

A black and white quadruple exposure of an alien-person on the edges of the frame with vintage looking planets and stars in the center of the frame Text "Rotate the camera to make a frame for text or another image"

A black and white double exposure of an alien-person holding a capsule with a smaller alien in it. There's a ghost to the image and the person has their mouth wide open with their tongue out Text "Combine camera movement and double exposure to make rainbow emoji art rainbow emoji"

Huge thanks to @cobaltstudiospdx for hosting and @prophotosupply for providing equipment

#AlienAesthetic
#bwphotography
#StudioVibes
#OtherworldlyArt
#SciFiPortraits
#photographyTutorial
#doubleExposureMagic
#photographyEducation
#behindTheShot

A black and white double exposure of an alien-person laying on the floor with a full suit on. Text "Using double and long exposure in studio"

A black and white double exposure of an alien-person with a vintage TV. She has tentacles for fingers and a 1950's vibe to her clothing Text "Moving the camera slightly for the two images can cause a ghosting effect"

A black and white double exposure of two alien-people. They are sitting on a couch. One is putting her tentacle finger in the other ones mouth

A black and white double exposure of an alien-person laying on the floor with a full holding a vintage phone in her hand Text "Try putting faces of neutral textures so they show up well in the final image"

Take a look through these slides to get a little inspo on how to use double exposure and long exposure in studio.

Model: @anacobalturqe
Mua: @katiefx_pdx
Model: @shahol1
Mua: @natalie_portland

Councilor Mitch Green is Portland's socialist transportation champion Socialists are having a moment in Portland. But how might that translate into transportation policy?

Amazing to have such progressive people representing the needs of Portlanders on our city council

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