At last an AI tool I can get behind

“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.”

antirender.com

omg I love her

To counter my tendency to factor my code in a million different functions, I have configured my editor to gradually reduce the font of each function I create, until they become so hard to read I have to give up. I call that:

Diminishing returns

Was literally in conversation recently with someone referencing major national Events of 2020-21 and I’m basically nodding like I remember any of that (I don’t, since I was just in my house with a baby awake half the night the entire time 🫠)

Map of downtown Boston but the blocks are folded pieces of paper from a novel

Closeup of map

Artist signature, Matthew something starting with P. Dated 2014

A cool take on a map in a Boston One Medical office

Can’t wait to try this out 🪏

deleting a white supremacist dating site live onstage while dressed as the pink power ranger has got to be one of the most cathartic hacker experiences

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :)
antirender.com

Not Django but also something with a translations file. I don't know. We're trying out a Github Action that runs the script to update the translations and commit the results on push to main.

"At minimum, ranking algorithms with this much economic consequence should be auditable. We audit financial markets. We should audit attention markets too."

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

the Eastern European security dudes at the social security office are super kind and helpful

today living in a City is daytime drinking at the tourist trap followed by a visit to the social security office

The :has() CSS selector saved me from having to set up an alternate layout, and for that I am eternally grateful

thecristen.net Things I've designed & built

Finally got around to adding a little gallery showing parts of some nice web things I’ve made. www.thecristen.net/gallery/

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

a “Space Force”, if you will

"AI and the Rise of Fascism" by Kate Crawford at SXSW 2017

accidentally navigated to a random bookmark today and it was this talk ahahahah fuck

Y Oslo - How to draw an orange, Mike Monteiro YouTube video by Y Oslo

Earlier this week I flew to Oslo and gave a talk at Y-Oslo. It’s a talk about the human spirit, believing in yourself, how AI is bullshit, and how capitalism robs us of our confidence. Pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea or whatever makes you happy and enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...

I'm just imagining this very blog post getting ingested into the next training dataset and informing further hallucinations... 😅😵‍💫

Three more weeks until Brooklyn 🥰

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

terminal output showing text from the video

trying OpenAI's whisper to extract text. am well on my way to converting these instagram reels into much more usable gifs + text. too fucking old for this...

using random desktop apps to batch download media off the internet like it's the early 2000s fuck yeah

Wow!!🤩

Saw dahlia flowers for the first time. I understand why people are named after them now, these look awesome

"why isn't this web map I'm building showing up"
(a) forgot to load the map library CSS
(b) forgot to set a height on the map HTML element
(c) it's never any more complicated reason it's probably just (a) and/or (b) 🙃

I still hate moving, but I'm hopeful this (temporary) move will be worth the hassle! 🛤️

My kid's been excitedly telling everyone we'll be able to see the Red Sox stadium from our window! Let me clear the record that this is not true. 😂

Be back soon!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time