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building software to encourage networked human creativity – beginner’s mind

MPLS, MN
Joined March 2007
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learning to love myself by working on my personal website for the first time in 3 years
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a symbol like quotation marks but for politely indicating you’ve pasted in the response of an llm verbatim
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they’re called ⟪machine quotes⟫ which indicate ⟪verbatim output from an LLM⟫
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tinkering with a webgpu drawing engine inspired by storyboarder’s brush shaders the guts are done, very fast to iterate on weirdo experiments now
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we are all neophytes but some of us have had our identities recreated before, i guess those are the elders in this situation?
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e.g.: engineers compulsively comparing workflows: communitas, an initiation cohort without a ritual leader prompt files, agent configs,
"here's my setup" posts circulating as sacra, which double as status display and advertising
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there are no elders. in traditional rites, someone who had made the crossing guided the initiate. here nobody has crossed. the whole tribe is in the night sea journey at once
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liminality: “the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete”
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limina… (i am subtweeting the entire software industry)
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likely enduring legacy of nolan’s odyssey is that the story now has a modern shared visual language in our collective memory. referring to odyssean situations or themes by analogy now paints a cinematic image in the listener’s head.
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its collection of memes jumping from intellectual allusion into pop culture visual.
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the odyssey is full of great symbolic themes. huge win for cultural communication.
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mel brooks, the first person to EGOTH (emmy, grammy, oscar, tony, hugo)
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eric skogen retweeted
Ableton Extensions will let you code your own tools and actions for Live. Read our detailed, hands-on guide to what this means; public beta is out now from @Ableton. cdm.link/ableton-extensions-…
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happy 10th anniversary of this tweet
Typically I don't take food shots, but I'll make an except for Cinco de Mayo.
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eric skogen retweeted
I've just shipped Aeriform, an interactive ambient techno experiment built with Google DeepMind's Lyria RealTime model. @GoogleMagenta
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