jess

wet pavement after rain; the reflection of a cottony cloud in a puddle on the ground

shadows of grass cast on the wall of a camping tent in morning light

i’m not done with this turn around the sun yet but it has truly tenderized me

each person, a prophecy

What do we mean by rules? Technology rules. It rocks, reigns, and restricts. Other things rule too: states (famously, and now repackaged into short form DnD content), ants, Elon Musk, Gordon Moore, platforms, protocols, and dril. Every day we operate under the layered, entangled, and frequently contradictory logic imposed on us from any number of these different sources. Sometimes they can be extremely generative: sheet music is a set of rules to produce a song, lines of code the same for a program. Just as often, however, they can become restrictive, encroaching, and unintelligible. Vibes we would like to see: The NIST standard for lighting a cigarette. Three felonies a day. Getting a text and making yourself wait before responding. The move-fast-break-things to extremely-specific-content-moderation-policy pipeline. The internationally approved frequencies for amateur ham radio operators to contact the International Space Station. Not selling a painting, but selling the rules for how to make a painting. Surviving on the 2b2t anarchist Minecraft server.

Examples of things we're interested in: Can we trace a rule from a minor de-facto technical issue to a society-defining standard? What's with the self-imposed screen time helper device arms race? An entrepreneurship qua self-help face-off between Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life vs. Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power vs. Ray Dalio's Principles vs. Andrew Huberman's Protocols (throw any book about "agile" in too). The fine distinctions between rules, instructions, and recommendations. Is code still law? The Trial but with smart contracts. Governing bodies 7 letters acronyms or longer. Who are the W3C and what are they doing with my internet? The rules-driven pursuit of biohacked immortality. Trader Joe's Brie importation gambit and other histories of business as regulatory arbitrage. The failure and/or reversal of the copyleft movement and the shifting party lines of the new IP debates. How you feel about the workwear guy. Rule-based art across disciplines. Who is saying when it's okay to post what and why. Some modes of creative expression that intrigue us: Experiments in form; works that traverse both the printed page and digital media; speculative stories that follow a contemporary phenomenon to its logical (or illogical) end; text-based games; source code; lists; satire. What about the microscopic evinces something of the macroscopic? How can fiction, poetry, or visual art get at a contemporary circumstance, historical condition, or possible future from an alternative

in search of: manifestos, explorations, and hot takes

pitches for kernel magazine issue 5 are now open!

this issue's theme is RULES🎛️
how we make them & how they make us; how they restrict & how they generate; how they arrive from above & below

more info here: joinreboot.org/p/kernel-5-p...

this is huge. THE CALLS WORKED

YAAAAAY

literally was just thinking of this … where is the pro palestine starter pack!

YouTube video by Mitski Mitski - Real Men (Official Audio)

she/they blues www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYo...

💭💭💭💭💭

A screenshot of a tweet from Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò that reads: "one thing I'm trying to get better about from here on out is writing and thinking even less defensively. trying to craft sentences into fortresses is a waste of valuable time and effort. what would you say if you were speaking to someone who's trying to understand you? say that."

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has this one tweet that i think about all the time

07.06.23 🗺️ making maps / a cruise car named ube / trying to dream a decade into the future / understanding as a love language / “how am i gonna try today?”

https://jiessicas.tumblr.com/post/722170907677917184/070723-because-of-some-health-stuff-my-body-has

✨ regathering on tumblr for lil

wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped

probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/controlnet_for_qr_code/

A screenshot of the custom feeds tab

New feature just dropped: custom feeds!

Now you can choose what algorithm powers your social media experience. We’ll feature some in this thread, but you can easily discover more in the feeds tab.

Rolling out to app stores now — upgrade to Version 1.29 when it’s available in your app store.

i don’t want to just be the nicer alternative to elon — i want this to be a paradigm shift where i was influential in kicking it off, but overall it is about the town square of public social becoming more self-organizing and open to innovation

you’re telling me that posting on bluesky is called skeeting

BLOSSOM SZN!

squeak squeak meow meow 🐭🐭🐭🐈‍⬛🐈

she’s Everything

nothing reminds me that i live in a three-dimensional world like dicing an onion

this is so us

GitHub - bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem: list of projects and implementations in the AT protocol ecosystem list of projects and implementations in the AT protocol ecosystem - GitHub - bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem: list of projects and implementations in the AT protocol ecosystem

For newcomers,

Tools and libraries are already listed in the following repository for easy use of the AT Protocol and Bluesky's API :)

There is also a list of third-party clients, so even if you are not a developer, check it out!

Welcome🤝

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem

blue skies today 💙

hehe just recorded a reading of a poem for a video installation coming to the asian art museum in sf later this year :) https://bsky.app/profile/jess.bsky.social/post/3jt5qvp6f7c2j

miffy curry via @fiii.bsky.social’s creative direction ✨🐰🍛💛

periodic reminders (until we make these clearer):
"likes" are public here;
mutes and account email are not-public but your PDS can see;
alt-text exists in post schema, but not yet in clients;
links and mentions can be "gotchas" for now;
posts and follow graph are public

Leaving bird app for sky app

wrote up a quick tutorial for how to code + deploy an easy bluesky bot!

emoji bot for what's happening in the big blue sky 🐥☁️@skies.bsky.social

code: https://github.com/emilyliu7321/bluesky-emoji-bot

tutorial: https://github.com/emilyliu7321/bluesky-emoji-bot/blob/main/TUTORIAL.md

omg i missed this but yes please

sent in a lil something for a future installation, feeling tender

it’s a poem from 2021, a turning point year where i frequented museums music events open mics and encountered nam june paik’s work for the first time

i got to reencounter him last week while recording this 💌🪐

it would be helpful if the community self-organized a proposal for how this should work, actually. it’s outside our core protocol dev, but if it’s important to people someone should spec it out