Zach

Hey people I never talk to! Painting show coming

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

drawing of the creature from the black lagoon

drawing of a rabbit

drawing of ivey the chihuahua with paw close to her eyeball

pov goat playing jenga

happy #portfolioday everybody - drawer (books mostly) painter/animator - here's some graphite stuff

These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.

Full album drops next Friday and it's an extension of the film soundtrack, which is a mysterious DJ set that moves from western to funk to IDM to a whole bunch of experimental electronic stuff. Lots of super talented collaborators on it. Very excited!

Did another one of these. Lowered the contrast, blurred it out a bit more

Star field II
Acrylic and flashe on canvas
24x30
2024

As with FDR's Fireside Chats in days gone by, all of America comes together on Sunday nights to read posts where the President of the United States is like "due to 'you know what' and Incidents pertaining to your favorite President (Me!), Hugh Jackman is as of this moment Null and Void in AMERICA."

How a Janet Jackson song crashed laptops for 9 years In 2001, Microsoft support employees made a shocking discovery: Janet Jackson's hit, "Rhythm Nation," could cause laptops to crash. New details have now come to light showing what was done about it.

God I love stories like this.

'Rhythm Nation' used to crash hard drives.

Opinion | We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

This piece doesn't use the phrase "political prisoner," but that's what it's describing. Ozturk is a political prisoner. She's not the only one, and if Trump and Rubio have their way, there will be many more. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/o...

given the blatant human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, the most moderate position from the democratic party in this moment should be that they prosecute and lock up the entire trump administration and heavily sanction el salvador

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Impact
24x30
Acrylic, flashe, ink and graphite on panel, aluminum frame
2025

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

I have to be honest. I think the people in power are so stupid, sheltered and insane that there's no real overriding goal or strategy to any of this.

Shout out the guys at Helix Bikes. Bike looks great and the rushed shipping to avoid this trump shit. V thankful

Charybdis
Acrylic, flashe, ink and graphite on canvas
24x 36
2025

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

More of this. Constantly. Every chance we have, more of this.

"Creating a ruckus" is his euphemism for wrote an op-ed in a newspaper. The Constitution protects all people under U.S. jurisdiction (not just citizens) from government actions penalizing them for speech, use of the free press, or peaceful assembly.

On the other site, Studio Ghibli-style AI output is going viral and allow me to just say it is profoundly depressing to see that stuff being used to promote OpenAI's latest product. Miyazaki famously called AI-produced art "an insult to life itself"—and this in turn is an insult to him.

The increase in wealth experienced by the top 10% of households from 2020 to 2023 was almost without precedent, according to a paper published in May by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, enabling this cohort of “super rich” to keep spending even as their real incomes shrunk when adjusted for inflation. Gains among the wealthy were large enough to explain the rise in total consumer spending above its longer-term trend, according to the authors, economists Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm. A recent analysis by Moody’s Analytics found that Americans earning more than $250,000 a year now account for half of all US consumer spending, up from about one-third in the 1990s.

The wealthy’s dominant share of outlays helped the economy keep chugging along in recent years, even as other households fell behind on debt payments and dialed back their purchases. This lopsided spending pattern makes the current expansion more vulnerable, economists say. “What we have witnessed in the past two to three years is actually two different economic cycles between higher-income and lower-income Americans,” says Frances Donald, Royal Bank of Canada’s chief economist. “Anything that impacts your top 10% of Americans now becomes disproportionately important.” After going mostly up over the past two years, US stocks plunged in the past month, erasing much of the gains seen since Trump’s reelection. The S&P 500 fell into correction territory—down at least 10% from its most recent peak—and despite a series of small rebounds is still down 8% from its February high.

this is not a sustainable economic structure

(gift link)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Giant
24x36
Acrylic, flashe, ink toner and graphite on panel
2025

I like that paragon has a dedicated upstairs for guys with Shazam open watching the DJ

Reading about the insane numbers of books that ordinary working people used to read a hundred years ago feels like seeing pictures of the Pacific Ocean back when it teemed with whales. Hard to comprehend what we’ve lost.

saw a dog alone going down geary in a waymo car, that is the most fucked up thing i have seen in a minute. big great pyrenees dog, alone in the back seat of a driverless car zipping down the road

Ordinary Germans | Neal Ascherson We know who the Nazis were and what they did. In Hitler's People, the distinguished historian Richard J. Evans seeks to explain what what made them capable of doing it.

Of no particular relevance to the contemporary United States
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

They deserve it because the pizza place in there had a really good meatball sub and they refused to let you order it to go