shri

shoutout to a lot of people's work in this space that was really helpful to learn from

@cwarzel.bsky.social
@lizpelly.bsky.social
@adamneely.bsky.social

this triggered something deep inside of me

Is Music Just Sound? A creative technologist's perspective on AI-generated music

I wrote a lot of words and built a lot of interactives around AI-generated music!

I'm so glad we got together as a society and saved daylight

Calico cat in a bag

Good haul at the grocery store!

aaabsolutely

A calico cat with her toes stretched out

rainy day

maybe restructuring modern society around gambling was a bad call

Prince quote about it being cool to use the computer but not letting the computer use you

mood

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Is AI Making Us Dumb? What the research tells us

great read IMO

few things scarier than Tech Guy who thinks all of the world's problems are Tech Problems

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

How do we reclaim what it means to be American as progressives?

In my opinion, liberalism and pluralism are extremely American values that I'm proud of, but I worry that patriotism has somehow been culturally coded by people that don't believe in those things.

Thank you for doing this!

a rare banjo solo

my partner: are they hugging or holding each other back

me: yes

Lots of folks asking me who I’d like to vote for in 2028 and my answer reminds the same: it’s AOC.

But I’ll vote for whichever Dem the primary voters choose as their candidate.

fun fact: BLOB stands for binary large object!

Diagram showing “Understanding” (blue) and “Execution” (orange) over time. For most of history, they rise together from the same point. After a dashed horizontal line labeled as the present, execution curves upward more steeply than understanding. Text reads: “With AI, execution increasingly outpaces understanding” and “For most of history, what we could do was evidence of what we understood.”

using LLMs for certain types of coding tasks has made me crank output faster but I can actively feel my understanding and my sense of craftsmanship diminishing, and I don't like that feeling at all

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

we're surrounded by systems built with tons of invisible complexity and tradeoffs that "just work"

I love learning about and trying to explain them!

here's one of my favorite pieces I've ever made, all about QR codes: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

incredibly excited for his performance especially given the moment, as well as Green Day's and Brandi Carlile's!

here it is with a bit of extra context 😮‍💨

a chart showing a search trend spike every year for "roman numerals" around the super bowl

maybe my favorite all time correlation

U.S. and global steel production over the past decade. The highlighted year-over-year increase in U.S. output is real but small, and looks very different when shown in context versus a tightly cropped comparison.

another look at this generational chart crime

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech YouTube video by Brandon Sanderson

We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech youtu.be/mb3uK-_QkOo via YouTube

a misleading bar graph with a compressed y-axis showing US steel "doubling" when in reality it went up ~1%

Charts showing US and global steel production over 10 years, indicating a pretty steady output

a truly generational chart crime...

(plus one I made for comparison)

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Congratulations to my friend and our newest State Senator from Tarrant County, Taylor Rehmet! I met Taylor years ago through labor organizing.

Don’t tell us what can’t be done in Texas. When we show up #TexasTough, we change the game. Today we proved what we’ve known all along: Texas is in play.