You wish you were eating this pasta verdure with me

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In the book Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson states that around 1972, while Jobs was attending Reed College, Robert Friedland "taught Steve the reality distortion field." The RDF was said by Andy Hertzfeld to be Jobs's ability to convince himself, and others around him, to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement and persistence. It was said to distort his co-workers' sense of proportion and scales of difficulties and to make them believe that whatever impossible task he had at hand was possible. Jobs could also use the reality distortion field to appropriate others' ideas as his own, sometimes proposing an idea back to its originator, only a week after dismissing it.

He gives the impression of being the kind of guy who thinks he’s Steve Jobs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality...

Rediscovered medjool dates in my olde age

Here I am at the Louvre pyramid. See me supporting the Leaning Tower with my bare hands. Need to get the Machu Picchu selfie. Collect em all

I haven’t given up. I’ll shame them

Their team looked into it and validated my hunch about what was causing it. How is it that can one man be so right about so much. Many people are asking

Fucked up they didn’t call it what everybody calls it

Do it

I’m sorry your neighbors elected someone who represents their interests instead of yours

It’s like people are looking for a frothing condemnation of the state or a soft launch and one, I get a weekend, two, you who have not once introduced me to a prospective partner leave me so I only have the birds, some of whom would break into my home if they could and in fact are trying

Politics friends tapping into my IG stories immediately tapping the X like “jfc another goddamn slice of life pic”

Is that a threat?

Amazon should be the USPS. Not my idea but vv good

Outstanding PR for the profoundly dunderheaded notion that language (in Claude’s case purpose-built *programming language*) does something more than represent an attempt to represent the shifting states of our very weird and very needy brains. Pure self-reference! At no point is the problem escaped

Also very Augustinian. AI optimists’ conceit that Truth can be discovered in the aggregate, that we can reach it at last if only we circumvent the problem of human particularity and our fallible brains by dumping absolutely everything into the machine is notching Ws with Claude Code’s bug hunting

To the extent that Christianity has a core ethic, something that distinguishes the Christian Gospel from other systems of belief, Leo is closing in on it, in starkly contemporary terms. This is remarkable

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Ribsy!

Thank you! I paint

Good stuff in their portfolio, landscapes especially. Bare-limbed trees are tough to pull off

I’ve stretched enough canvas to appreciate the pre-stretched kind but 👀

That’s very kind! And fair comparison. Navigate outside the Loop and Chicago’s architecture gives the impression of having pushed straight up out of the earth. Dreary under the best conditions, and they wouldn’t have it any other way

No place nearby sells these cheap gallery profile canvases anymore. I’m in my feelings about that

A photo of a painting showing a number of nondescript building roofs and sides plus trees plus a sky

Finished a little 8×10 study I crapped out on pre-pandemic. Four colors (umber, ochre, phthalo blue, white), one #4 flat brush. Downpour in Logan Square, looking out the back window from my last Chicago apartment, getting sick from black mold. June 2013. Packed up and moved west. Calling it “Spate”

Saleam www.instagram.com/saleam108

not the suburban depressive gunning it home from work to spend the evening on the couch, not the guys who got themselves locked into doing like their buds and goin for the F350 else they’re gay, not the coal rollers, not the people at the lake or in the forest every single weekend. Preteen nation

The problems are all human problems and ones we don’t want to solve. Nobody wants to do the work to regulate their emotions, not the pols who see the prestige of political office as their birthright, not the residents who think they’re being murdered if the street they park on loses one parking spot

Cars are fast and fun, and they’re weapons and that’s a different kind of fun, but most of all they’re power and a thing you get to lord over people and let them know you’re someone they can’t push around anymore because once you hit the gas they had best get out of the way

Americans looked at cars the way capital looks at AI, less oats and carrots and less shit on the roadway is a twofer, big win, and then cars and automotive infrastructure made it easier to move away from other people, and then whole towns were conceived on the belief that everyone would have a car