Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 02/10/2026First published drawing of what would become knows as the Mandelbrot Set. From a 1978 paper on Kleinian groups by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski web.archive.org/web/20190728... 050
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 02/10/2026Come and see my new cantorcore chipfolk band Phyllotaxis Bloom, we're opening for Isometric Noise Field II at the Eigenvenue. bookofshapes.com 010
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 01/10/2026Maybe a good example of a "not recovered since covid" chart where covid might just be hiding a trend that was already going therre 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 26/09/2026Every time you see a real headline (left) that glibly anthropomorphises LLMs, substituting it with a salad makes the point clear: it's a form of the exonerative tense. It's the AI version of headlines that announce an "officer-involved shooting." 073
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 25/09/2026Every time I see a photo of Sam Altman it makes me think the Xenomorphs from Aliens were so appalled by Carter Burke's conduct that they put him on trial instead of cocooning him for the facehuggers to impregnate. 011
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 24/09/2026I thought this classic meme needed an extra frame to showcase recent advances in sustainable mass transit 26715
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026The time is nearly perfect for a movie about the famously chaotic and dramatic 1976 production of Star Wars, starring Ewan McGregor as Alec Guinness and Hayden Christiansen as David Prowse. 251274222
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 23/09/2026Even in the 1990s there was no excuse for this sort of thing. 030
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 22/09/2026That stories detail the composition of Grand Juries to reassure readers everything was fair and above-board is interesting because the underlying problem is Grand Juries being manipulated by prosecutors ("indict this ham sandwich") not the wrong people being on them abcnews.com/US/criminal-... 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 21/09/2026One assumes that the fungus that most resemble delicious gourmet pies are the least wise to eat. 100
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 17/09/2026The premise is impossible, as stated, as there isn't enough water in the ice caps to raise sea levels 7500m, as is implied. But I wanted to see what that would look like, so there you go, based on topographical data published by NASA. 100
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 17/09/2026Waterworld is a fantastic movie. I once made a Waterworld world map. Almost nothing in science fiction is quite this bonkers. 160
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026A woman enters commands using morse code on a then state-of-the-art coal-fired personal computer. Photo: Soeren Schulz/Shutterstock. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026I thought it was a tragedy that we have technology that makes such beautiful writing, yet we keep trying to "humanize" it. So I made a handy Dehumanizer service to restore human-generated text to the elegant synthetic mean. dehumanizer.net 010
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 16/09/2026txt fyi is deluged with AI bots but I could never shut it down so long as people are still posting their earnest and sweet reflections and elegies. 040
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 13/09/2026As great as the arcade original was, the original Macintiosh title screen for Gauntlet is a real wonder. 031
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 13/09/2026Obviously omitting a zero baseline is fine, but compare the AP's chart (left) to "the same chart but it actually goes to zero" (right). They chose a baseline above the points they were going to plot! No shame whatsoever. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 10/09/2026My most successful post of all time, many millions of page views, was "Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes," this convergence was destiny. 620636
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 07/09/2026I finally decided to try out Chat GPT to critique/review my work and got exactly what I deserved . 021
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 02/09/2026The Mr. Beast/James Patterson novel about 1/5 AI text, per Pangram. Not great, not terrible. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 01/09/2026A funny sign of a human writer! I don't think an LLM would say this because it's a truthy human thing, these shows never got near the top 20 on network TV and had maybe 2 watchable seasons each, the magic happened in endless cable tv reruns. 120
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 26/08/2026Personal site spruce up time. Can't choose between these two layouts. 210
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 18/08/2026The entire pitch of this startup is "autonomous organizations without humans in the loop," but it turns out to be about the second thing not the first. 020
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 12/08/2026In the 1910s, women suffragists in Britain learned juijitsu and printed manuals showing how to use it to beat up cops 030
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 11/08/2026The model of government and civil society the UK elite drains toward is Singapore and it's becoming a Homeric epithet in headlines there. 010
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 08/08/2026Infiltration, propaganda and insurrection. But which aesthetic? Pixel vs textmode 140
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 06/08/2026I would like the NES that looks like an obscure industrial adapter 240
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 05/08/2026It's not that they use AI, it's that they don't read what the AI writes. 022
Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 05/08/2026Amazing how many wear wayfarers to court, but only to court. Like CDAs always have one at hand, here, put these on before the jury walks in 150
