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Chicago based artist && creative technologist It's an "art project" macpierce.com bgfa.us/artists/pierce

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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.

05.03.2026 20:49 👍 2851 🔁 428 💬 82 📌 34
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04.03.2026 18:58 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

At target, in the toys section, of course.

04.03.2026 04:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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.

04.03.2026 04:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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

03.03.2026 15:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Exhibit A -

20.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

20.02.2026 22:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

20.02.2026 21:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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/...

20.02.2026 21:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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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

18.02.2026 19:18 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3

@theverge.com @reckless.bsky.social

20.02.2026 00:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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.

20.02.2026 00:17 👍 41 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

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

16.02.2026 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bob was a speed painter
@benadavis.bsky.social

02.02.2026 21:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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19.01.2026 23:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

My money is on the V-tuber FPV aces.

06.01.2026 18:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Absolutely amazing show at the Renwick gallery in DC. All about state fairs and American craft - one of the best curated exhibitions I've ever seen.
americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/...

01.01.2026 22:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At the risk of anthropomorphizing them futher - if a random guy was walking past my house a dozen times a day with 4 cameras strapped to him, I'd be pretty concerned about what he's using those cameras for.

11.12.2025 16:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For instance - the data collected by these robots could be used in the exact same way as the company Flock. They're perfectly situated to read license plates of cars, and the only thing that would need to change to enable that is a bit of software in the companies servers.

11.12.2025 15:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Normalizing private delivery drones (which is what they are) on public sidewalks sucks.
As it stands, the public has absolutely no promises that the information they collect is held in a secure way, and that the company has any sort of responsible privacy policy.

11.12.2025 15:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They are the property of large companies that are actively trying to get rid of one of the few remaining jobs for younger people and immigrants - delivery work. On top of that, these things are rolling surveillance machines, with at least 4 cameras on each.

11.12.2025 15:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@madewithlayers.bsky.social
Was going through old photos and found one where I was working on my i3 build in 2015, and guess who's tutorials I was watching to help with the process.

10.12.2025 17:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You.

You are filled with high capacity batteries.
5G networking equipment.
Cameras.
High torque motors.
Screens and drivers.
Heaters.
Wiring.
High traction wheels.
Lidar scanners.
LEDs.

And many, many other components I could make much better use of.

08.12.2025 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.11.2025 11:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NA has come a long way from "We only have O'Douls."

27.10.2025 14:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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✅ Game Matt
✅ 3D Printed Terrain
✅ Flyer in reserves

This mf playing Warhammer on the Resolute desk.
www.newsweek.com/proposed-tru...

10.10.2025 14:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Episode 19: Mac Pierce Podcast Episode · Airing Out the Archive · 10/07/2025 · 1h 24m

Spoke with Jake Leech of Airing Out the Archive in depth about the themes and work in my show up at @bgfa.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

07.10.2025 15:30 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It has been heartening to see the number of people that have been dunking on this atrocious design.
What a 12 year old would think would be cool.

06.10.2025 17:03 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just fucking call his bluff. Oh, you're gonna send troops everywhere? Gonna do Zero Dark Thirty on random Chicago apartments? With what money, bozo?

06.10.2025 02:20 👍 854 🔁 84 💬 13 📌 3
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W.I.P.
The closing of DEATHMATCH is going to be wild.
@bgfa.bsky.social

22.09.2025 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0