iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i would love to do a séance with the ghost Theodor Adorno just for 30 minutes to explain to him and hear his thoughts on the steinway spirio piano

040

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My takeaway from writing this (revisiting DoE) is that i’m pretty sure umineko when they cry is also about the dialectic of enlightenment, i.e. “Witches are real” ⇄ “All the mysteries can be explained with human reason”

050

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Here is my Odyssey review where i am the only brave cultural warrior to have done an explicitly adornite takedown of its ideology so far open.substack.com/pub/zhanpei/...

2214

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It constantly boggles the mind how frequently in my life researchers in “Electrical Engineering & Computer Science” fail to understand the concept of ‘positive feedback’ when it comes to teleconferencing software audio i/o lol

150

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I wrote about how Man Ray is possibly the only guy who has ever ‘got it’ wrt ‘art about math’ open.substack.com/pub/zhanpei/...

0369

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Dude i can think of fewer things i’d rather do than engage with whatever rewarmed art/theorybabble tr*vor p*glen has to say about ‘images after AI’ lol. might hate read it tho

190

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

thinking about the grab bag of countries i've visited in the past couple years (greece, colombia, uganda, sweden, in addition to the usual suspects of china/japan/taiwan).. like why did i do that lol

080

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

may the ameriKKKan people and the leaders they elected one day know a fraction of the terror they unleash on the rest of the world. amen

0172

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

servis cheetah guy hasn't been active on his socials since last august.. anybody know where i can reach him and/or if there are other ppl selling afghan war rugs to the US?

140

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

everybody go get isabel's book to see one of my favorite tweets ever (climate stalin) printed with ink on paper bartleby.life/madness

page of text that contains the tweet:
"[degrowth situation]
climate stalin: comrade, fork over that J
me: be careful, this is gas
climate stalin, eyes narrowing: it's what"

090

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

i have unfortunately started a s*bst**k zhanpei.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

zhanpei.substack.com

welcome to my bower

erlebnis and erfahrung

0121

Reposted by 🎐

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

0151

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

(this is notably not something i would ever associate with growing up in western washington state for 18 years. this is specifically portlandia type shit)

020

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

it happened: I've finally lived in oregon long enough that i've become a "nutritional yeast on popcorn" kind of person

191

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Now that i’ve blocked twitter and reddit on my laptop and deleted the apps (plus ig/bsky) (haven't blocked bsky on my computer since i still find the culture here pretty bleh) i'm at the point where i'm opening the Financial Times app every time i want to scroll a 'feed' of 'content'

0180

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

i bought a couple old nylon magazines in a fit of mid-2000s-nostalgia (dare i say ‘indie sleaze’) pique and flipped open to this fan letter on the feb 2004 issue

0130

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

some of my recent oil paintings, which you can look at on my freshly updated portfolio website: zhanpeifang.com

1144

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

sorry to all my haters and losers

090

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

i booked a work flight to leave 12:40am from pdx next week, which i plan to drive to immediately after the autechre set ends earlier that night.. diva behavior i fear

170

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

just ate a shockingly competent bowl of 螺蛳粉 in Kampala, Uganda

0170

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

w6$$up peasants, I finally got off the Rancho Gordo Bean Club waitlist

2130

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

one of my worst housemates in college (had the most blatant case of yellow fever/weaponized male meekness ive seen) left his phd to work here lol. i will say there was something cathartic about my old coop nemesis (in a group photo of xAI employees) being called ‘evil’ on a QT with >200k likes🤭

040

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

virgin tikz vs chad whatever this is

0111

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

going to be in nyc from 8/24-27 and 9/18-28ish, for those who'd like to drop by👋

040

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

figs from the tree in my housing co-op’s garden

0180

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I'm going to sub-Saharan Africa in a month for fieldwork lol

110

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

in the past 7 days i’ve taken vaccines for: rabies (2 shots), meningococcal ACWY, yellow fever and cholera (last 2 are live virus). basically, what i’m saying is that i’m currently a walking gu jar

190

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

i see that purity ring are also cashing in on the 'low-poly rpg video game y2k nostalgia' trend

040

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

weirdly sophistiqué chart this week

0120

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

RIP Landsat Next, we hardly knew ye

020

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

is it just me or is it that contemporary painting is extremely boring right now lol. last show that left an impression on me was dana lok at miguel abreu around the new year

180

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

is it good that i feel like i'm slowly dying while i've been debugging code for months and while i'm not painting lol. thank god it's almost summer

040

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

thinking about getting into baking panettone purely as a flex

170

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

just described the deutscher memorial prize to bf as 'the Fields Medal of Marxism'

0151

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

i watched the handmaiden and was kind of surprised at how girlbossy/feel-good it was?

2120

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

just discovered some very impressive tikz gore franknielsen.github.io/Divergence/P...

excerpt from Frank Nielsen's poster for "Taxonomy of principal distances and divergences", seemingly written with pure uncut PGF/TikZ

081

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

TJ Clark’s recent essays.. god bless, not all of us are given the privilege of doing our boomer rambling in the London Review of Books

030

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

finally, the first pope who might conceivably know what the de Rham cohomology is😎

041

Reposted by 🎐

聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Everyone talks about his eXisttenz device but never about his evasive answer about having an assistant that’s either “from the neighborhood” or an “acquaintance of his wife” who is obviously a conjoined twin who he was separated from,

1312

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

one of the worst roommates i’ve ever had works for them haha

120

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

portland never disappoints

160

Reposted by 🎐

pleocene.bsky.social @pleocene.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

from a speech of Alexander Grothendieck at CERN in 1972 github.com/Lapin0t/grot...

Talking to many of my colleagues over the past year, I've come to realize that in fact this satisfaction that scientists are supposed to derive from exercising their cherished profession, is a pleasure... which is not a pleasure for everyone! I was astonished to discover that for most scientists, scientific research is felt to be a constraint, a servitude. Doing scientific research is a matter of life and death for any considered member of the scientific community. Scientific research is a prerequisite for getting a job, once you've embarked on this path without really knowing what it's all about. Once you've got your job, it's an imperative to move up the ladder. Once you've moved up the ladder, even assuming you've made it to the top, it's an imperative to be considered in the running. You're expected to produce. Scientific production—like any other kind of production in the ambient civilization—is considered an imperative in itself. The remarkable thing about all this is that in the end, the content of research becomes a second thought. It's all about producing a certain number of "papers". In extreme cases, a scientist's productivity is measured by the number of pages they publish. Under these conditions, for a large number of scientists—certainly for the overwhelming majority, with the real exception of a few who are fortunate enough to have an exceptional gift or to be in a social position and disposition that enables them to free themselves from these feelings of constraint—for most, scientific research is a real constraint that kills the pleasure one can have in carrying it out.

062

🎐 @bowerbird.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

it’s actually breathtaking how awful the CVPR website is, given that it’s..you know..a machine learning conference……… and the official CVF website looks like (maybe is?) a wordpress blog

110