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Did you know that for the cost of one high-end digital embroidery machine, you could get an entire pack of robot dogs?
I just cannot stop thinking about it. Which would you choose?
There's this zany bit of AI nonsense where you can have Kagi translate into anything. I tried this on my most recent article not thinking it would work..... but it did! 🤣 I loooosing it!!! translate.kagi.com
Could it be reasonable to draw sweeping conclusions about a culture based on whether their old people play mahjong or bingo? 🀄️
Thinking about the combination of new wave aesthetic and bathing culture makes me happy
www.wetmagazine.com
Even routine gatherings can become high stakes when they push on something deeply important to the people involved. When that happens, people behave differently as their protective instincts take over. The usual approaches to group dynamics can backfire. uncommonplaces.com/resources/tw...
Cool to see how good LLMs have gotten with supporting data analysis: newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/three-ways... ...and legal work: x.com/zackbshapiro...
Just subscribed to a print publication at full price for the first time in I don't know how long... a decade and a half maybe? You've got me hooked with an upcoming issue on risk. asteriskmag.com @asteriskmag.bsky.social
Every single language I've learned I can use back home in New York City. I just thanked the guy at the bodega counter in Nepali, a language I didn't even realize I remembered any of. I love it.
I probably already have "Photographs of the People of New York Who Look Like Birds" somewhere on my bookshelf. Looks so familiar.
One of the most common missteps I see when people design an event is to focus on the agenda. We think that if we organize time well, all else will follow.
This is so rarely the case.
uncommonplaces.com/resources/de...
- 29% of people say social media makes them feel less alone. - 81% of people say art makes them feel less alone.
I'm digging into the annual Anonymous Creative Futures report, just recently online. I really like everything that @metalabel.bsky.social is doing to create new infrastructure for creatives and artists. This stat jumped out at me. Lots of great things in the report.
acf2026.artistcorporations.com
fun fact! Last year, Zohran Mamdani's wikipedia page got more hits than Elon Musk's. Trump and the new Pope beat out both of them though.
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Really nice radical idea for teaching: "reduce the amount of time you’re in charge." parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/ped...
Posting here to remind myself to come back to this write up whenever I'm teaching regularly again.
I wrote a too-long post on designing better hackathons. I love hackathons and I'll keep going, but it pains me when they are really poorly designed.
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More reasons to be stoked about AI!
I've got a bunch of old family letters in an Italian dialect that need transcribing and translation. Hope this can help!
Great video of investigative research into grocery pricing practices. Thank you @moreperfectunion.bsky.social for doing this work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr...
Is @linamkhan.bsky.social weighing in groceries these days because she's on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's transition team??? I hope so!
Another good conversation with Tristian Harris, has me thinking about the challenge and application of foresight. (the convo gets better half way through, once he effectively cuts down the interviewer's inane belief in techno-utopian abundance)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ZY...
"It felt like an unspoken request or comradely offer to chow down on mutual feelings of outrage, shame, and pity... I found the move memorably weird, like the conversation had been invaded by flying ActBlue spam."
Ugh, yes, very good language for it. Can relate
www.burningshore.com/p/empathy-bo...
Whoever does the creative direction for the Dumbo NYC BID has got some funky flair... The horse voice coming out of the construction cone Christmas tree gives me Beetlejuice vibes.
Also, seems like the "tree" itself might be a pirate radio tower? 🤷♀️🤔
Oh how I gloat when friends send me messages like these. They think AI is some simple bit of nonsense technology that they can surely get a handle of easy peasy.
Sure, sweetheart. Sure...
I just spent a relaxing 90 minutes in a glittering cardboard cave made by a friend with that friend. It was so nice.
i am really sad that i didn't know about this ahead of time.
Cheering on @mosesnyc.bsky.social and all the other great new york nerds, diehards, and creatives on the transition team!
let's hope that what you expect isn't what pans out! I hate to think what kind of backroom deal the OneTaste founders would be up for....
The org I worked for said they couldn't back out because the deposit was non-refundable. I think finances were a big piece of the issue. Thankfully they let me and others not attend with no consequences.
If you need to catch up on this case, the leaders of this cult were convicted of forced labor conspiracy this summer. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...
I've lost friends to OneTaste and had to bail out of a work retreat accidentally programmed at a venue owned by OneTaste founders. Very glad @ellenhuet.bsky.social exposed the manipulation driving it. Here she is in convo with Jules Evans (www.ecstaticintegration.org).
