@reckless.bsky.social Please no like buttons for Verge stories. Otherwise I'll need to hit up @bengrosser.bsky.social for a demetricator.

Macroplastic in a world of microplastics.

If you live in a city, everything around you was put there by someone who thought they were making the best decision they could at the time.

Even though I'm off the gram I still have the urge to post my silly little pictures.

Chicago folks -
Hosting an open studio tonight with a few artists in my building. 5-8pm, 350 N Ogden Ave. (West Loop)

Found a bowling ball on the street.
I hope that everyone gets that same feeling that I had picking it up and imagining rolling it down the open road.

Absolute power.

Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.

Go check out the spring edition of Chicago Gallery News, my first piece ever published in print!

Sus.
There must have been a dozen different type of camera on this one cars roof rack box.

How American Camouflage Conquered the World The world-famous MultiCam pattern was designed for the military by two Brooklyn hipsters. Now everyone—from babies to ICE agents—is suited up for battle.

Today we have @trufelman.bsky.social telling about the past, present, future of an American force -- camo www.wired.com/camouflage-m...

Under the Influence at the Whitney Biennial How the artists in this year’s survey do or, more often, don’t acknowledge those who paved the way for them.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I can almost respect a critic who chooses the worst pieces in the show as their favorites. Asinine takes.

Amazing write up about how absurd it is to be making art in NYC, especially sculpture - Josh Kline for October - "New York Real Estate and
the Ruin of American Art"

direct.mit.edu/octo/article...

Because of course they did. Infrastructure to precisely target areas was there for the taking. Fundamentally, tools for targeting individuals can target individuals the original users never intended to become targets... Because that's what the tool does - it makes targets.

Whipped this one up a few days back.

The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds. www.wired.com/story/the-ri...

LaGuardia 2hr 30minute TSA line.

It’s so cool how we’re in a large-scale military conflict and the President is spending his time building a ballroom.

This rocks. I finally know what being a Roman must have felt like.

At target, in the toys section, of course.

M16 becomes the primary US Military service rifle in 1964, based off of the Armalite AR-15.
It's a distinct gun, for sure - which is why it's a little surprising to see it as a fucking Nerf rifle - FortNite branded no less.

If you aren't paying for it, you are the product, a product is being sold to the worst person you know.

Exhibit A -

Trying to channel a bit of @reckless.bsky.social

Aaaand it's live.
bsky.app/profile/macp...

After learning about Meta's planned facial recognition feature for their Ray-Ban smart glasses, called Name Tag, I've decided to delete my entire presence on their platforms, and wrote 2,500+ words on maybe you might want to as well -

www.macpierce.com/blog/2026/2/...

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

“In San Francisco the world automatically assumes that instead of wanting food or drinks or a new phone or car, what you want is some kind of arcane B2B service for your startup. You are not a passive consumer. You are making something.” —Sam Kriss

@theverge.com @reckless.bsky.social

I got so mad after listening to today's Vergecast that I sat down and wrote 2,000 words.
I went though the whole of grad school never being able to focus enough to do that and I think it's some of my best writing to date.

Excited to share, it's spicy.

Sanitize your links, for the love of god.
I never want to see another "?si=" in a URL again.