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Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision

Softly, effectively, in the age of AI On dolphins and disobedience

I wrote about what it means to keep writing when more language feels like the last thing we need--as a computer scientist, but also as a writer.

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"Men who lack control over their own lives reach out desperately to drag women down, to control their emotions, to make them feel weak and dominated"

Yup. I experienced this just this week w/a rogue commenter determined to take out his feelings of inadequacy on me. Who would want to empower this?

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity." - William S. Burroughs #quote

4 collaborative drawings where one person draws the head another the body and then the legs - creating odd unintentional juxtaposition

exquisite corpse drawings with the 8yo, making things together is always time well spent

Don't get any on you I am still what I meant to be

I wrote an essay about platform complicity and other quiet kinds of self-loss: becoming legible, optimizable, successful while your inner compass goes quiet.

Love Berkeley! Incredible plants and pastries, explaining to my 8yo that the moon is not an alien spaceship and dolphins are not typically portrayed as alien gods after an interesting Lyft ride

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

My dog and I have this ritual where I'll hear her drinking too much water, and I'll think "I should stop her before she drinks too much." But I don't.
Then, without fail, she'll walk over to thank me for trusting her judgement and knowledge, then barf a little water on the floor.

This is why MAGA come up with so many anti-American ideas like hostility to immigration and feminism. The fundamental premise that all people are created equal is anathema to the MAGA mind.

I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.

Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.

Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.

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One thing I will say about AI, is that ever since they did that Tupac hologram show, nobody wants to go to concerts anymore. Everyone wants to stay at home, by themselves, looking at a hologram sing songs from 30 years ago.

Photograph shot from above, aka a bird's eye view, of an urban street with tram tracks, and three figures: a delivery man (perhaps for bread?0 on a bicycle, and a male and female couple walking arm in arm. The long shadows suggest it is early in the morning

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Merry Christmas from Chicago!

Howl, after Allen Ginsberg for the AI-headed hipsters

Also on substack

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who fed it words, who watched it excrete words, who fed it excreted words again & again waiting, who ran the primitive nervous system with sloshing words & prayed & made words of excrement & finally brought it out to check the Time, & now mistake the words for heroes

(more from my Howl rewrite)
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Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

At the jazz show

Jam Band: Oh look, we got a new boat, a funky boat, with pink sails
Crowd: Yeah?
Band: And stripes, we’re sailing it down a river…
Crowd: So cool!
Band: Uh oh, the river's picking up speed... something’s around the bend… ? Is it... some Rapids!?!!
Crowd: Fuck yeah, some Rapids!

I rewrote Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but for the AI-headed hipsters👇

"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,

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Nick Drake voice:
Yeah it's a corn moon, Corn corn corn corn, Corn Moon

Congrats, that's awesome!

Yep. For me, there’s also something about life drawing in art school that reinforced observation and finding the relationships for yourself. Once you figure out how to ignore misdirects in language and expectations (face = eyes+nose+mouth), it's easier to focus on what’s happening in front of you.

Discovery park in Seattle if you want to walk in some nearby scenery. There's better hiking outside Seattle though. Taking the Ferry to Bainbridge is kinda fun. For New York, I totally agree with the Tenement Museum.

They sent me one “asking if there’s anything we can say to convince you to contribute?” Even their rhetorical questions avoid taking action

You'll want to procure your intimidation plates in advance.