Andrew Parker

GenAI images are overra-🥹

Makes perfect sense. Where did your red box land?

Very cool. With PCA, does it mean that the closest to the three-way origin in that chart is ideal?

What a great book. Dances between genres. Gorgeous language.

Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid (Published 2017) Driven by misgivings about how tap water is treated, start-ups are turning to springs and the air for purer sources — and drawing an elite audience.

Feels like a rewrite of this same article: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/d...

This album is 💎

Drum and Bass meets Jazz. Drum and Tuba!

qntm is a gem. Both Antimemetics and Ra were two of the most entertaining books I've read in recent years.

All Fours is for sure my book of the year.

I'm reading Ra after Antimemetics and loving it.

If you also really like All Fours, maybe something Moshfegh? My fav is Rest and Relaxation.

Guy at Turkey trot: You look like you're in my age group, how old are you?

Me: 41

Him: ...

Me: and you?

Him: ah, huh, sixty-something, sorry

tl;dr is even if you make significant changes that are objectively better, better = different, and different really messes with muscle memory and will annoy people.

"Told" is not right. I brought context from HCI classes, and we learned through months of iteration on adaptiveblue. I learned so much in those early meetings.

I think about our conversations on this topic *all the time*

BlahBlah.bsky.social lengthy handles are the "default egg" pfp of this place

Very jealous you saw Rachel's

No love for Loveless? Maybe you're not a shoe gaze guy

That's a good answer.

Not tapping out forever, just watching at GRRM pace ;)

Has he already read the books? Maybe only watch a season if the book version exists.

Never noticed the ring until now

IIRC this was the first mainstream implementation of read receipts in a messenger and people lost relationships over it.

Next achievement to unlock: brewing your own. It consumes your life as the Mothers proliferate.

How about the story behind your profile pic?

Who makes more revenue from bluesky over the net 3 years?:
- domain registration/hosts
- bluesky

(For context, I think both Twitter and Tumblr had zero revenue their first 3 years... Through Twitter might have had a clever SMS fee kickback deal)

Utah, now-ish?

The Obama-Bush hand-off was pretty wild politically for how much of a narrative violation it was. Great coop: TARP, stuxnet, the mtg where Bush trashed McCain at WH during the suspended campaigning.

But yeah, Biden is very "make or break" rn.

Dreams of My Father, for the first time. Really loving Obama's writing style.

Just finished No One Is Talking About This. Loved the poetic feel even if the subject was a bit on the nose for comfort.

💯 intentional. I'm going to do my part to keep this place as trivial as possible.

When the thirst threads arrive in force, I'll probably just delete this app. Don't need a second Twitter.

That's the best cat litter

reading Dreams of My Father

Wild to read pre-president lens and opinions. He could never write this post election.

And he's a helluva writer.