Reposted by char stilesGolan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026#Opportunity! The Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology has announced its 2026-2027 residency program, focused on "AGENCY", providing both local-to-NYC as well as virtual residencies for US-based artists. Deadline is Sunday, Oct 11! eyebeam.org/focus/agencyeyebeam.orgCurrent | Area of Focus | EyebeamEyebeam supports artists who make radical, independent work about the way technology shapes our lives. 0147
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026public.nrao.edu/ask/why-do-t... I love the idea that Jeff Mangum inbetween singing whimsically with a janggly guitar is just really into specifically the physics of planet rotationspublic.nrao.eduWhy do the Planets in our Solar System Orbit the Sun Counter-Clockwise? - National Radio Astronomy ObservatoryQuestion: The planets in our solar system are orbiting the Sun counter clockwise, why? Do the laws of physics... 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026what a beautiful face i have found in this place that is circling counterclockwise all round the sun 150
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think you have to make a music album to use this as cover art 020
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Invited to the Anthropic dinner they had us fill out a questionnaire asking us who was the most interesting person we met, the AI listened to our convos, gave us a ranking from least to most interesting; I’m sad to say I got least interesting. Claude took me out back and shot me. 071
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Omg just on Monday I told my friend that scrolling tiktok is just virtual simulation training for biking through time square 011
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I should say the spreadsheet was a hit, we werent compatible in ways and that came out after like the 3rd date :p so spreadsheet is a bona fide way to lure a sweety 110
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I made this spreadsheet to impress a hinge date and it didn’t work out so now i made content about it #outkast 64815
Reposted by char stilesDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread" 6758328
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026when the openAI guy was like “why would you ruin your career” and Buckmaster said “I am an academic” I’ve said it once I’ll say it again: corporatism is a collective psychosis. 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Math drama has existed before written history, and math drama will persist long after we are gone. When all else crumbles, there will always be math drama. cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... (Unsurprisingly OpenAI regurgitated existing unpublished work by researchers)cims.nyu.edu 100
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“But automating mathematics would come at a heavy price. I argue in this piece that AI tools short-circuit human understanding, devalue mathematical knowledge, and threaten the infrastructure that keeps mathematics coherent.” arxiv.org/html/2608.02...arxiv.orgThe crisis of AI-generated mathematics 100
Reposted by char stilesbrent @bront.rodeo · 09/09/2026if you’ve been through the tech layoff wringer its worth looking for software jobs at places that aren’t tech companies. hospitals, municipal and state governments, universities - all of these places need programmers and a lot of the jobs are even union! 061
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is so great! Reminds me I should include nuts and bolts of availability & accommodation to my syllabus (it’s my first time officially solo-teaching!) The first reading leads to a 404, is there another link? 110
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I’m hosting a math club and one of the guys assumed I didn’t know what an LLM is and explained it to me. The life I would have to live to not know what an LLM is and also use my free will to host a math club is one I wish I had. 1141
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026They deeply believe in its everlasting giving yet fear its wrath, its the force that they see as much bigger than anything else: Corporatism 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026How can I play the game with the sex quest intact ? 020
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Topologist: the cup is a sphere 040
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026*Lovingly made Do not construct toots on the go on the wburg bridge 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I want to read more this year & I want an ebook but fuck kindle so I got this open source ebook reader a friend lovely made over 5 years !! Everyone get one it’s a great gift and great price www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specif...crowdsupply.comFrom Sensor Watch to Open Book Touch: A Framework for CreativityCreating a custom framework helped people make incredible things with Sensor Watch, and I want to see the same explosion of possibility with the framework I've developed for Open Book Touch. 3133
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The Kinect I think also falls in this category, where like yes it’s for creating games but people took it so far and now there’s a Kinect on the moon. 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think TE illustrates a genre of tools. Another counterexample genre that’s more fun is where the tool was for making a creative community and then the creative community took it way farther than expected: brother knitting machines, where decades later ppl are hacking then w arduinos 200
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I feel like teenage engineering objects created a community that was the intended size and use. But it’s def like centered around the company as some sort of product demigod. Have I seen a whole bunch of inspiring work? Not really, but every user is stoked to have a TE object 120
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026you’re looking for a counter example as in physical tools that were made to create a creative community around it? 100
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Yes this is what I’ve been saying, a tech employee is regularly asked to make a decision that will affect infrastructure for millions of people, that is more control than a lawmaker 021
Reposted by char stilesSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025As a general rule, I would say that most things we are being told to believe are technology issues are actually civics issues. 5/5 113645
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I had a dream last night that there was a group like the free masons but they were about writing compression algorithms and the right to choose to compress and they had a really long name and didnt allow anyone to use a nickname for them but only they could use their nickname 031
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026SAME! I sent them a last second email being like pls I can make JavaScript sing, I was ghosted, as I should be! 120
Reposted by char stilesSaber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's time to bring back regular #EdChat from the best days of Twitter to Bluesky so educators can meetup regularly, share ideas and notes, and build community. This type of community and solidarity is essential now as education & educators are under threat. #EthicalCS #CSforAll #CSed #EDUsky 042
Reposted by char stilessmh @smarmy.space · 07/08/2026next weekend catch me at HOPE and i’m hosting a jailbreaking workshop saturday night! schedule.hope.net/hope26/works...schedule.hope.netHOPE 26Schedule, talks and talk submissions for HOPE 26 032
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Just typical people who comfortable to ask for help get on top continue to do so even when they’re well off and those who never ask for help who actually need it opt to suffer. No shame on the guy who asked for the community supported membership, smart of him, albeit a little tone deaf 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026While theses ENDLESS amounts of people who actually need it 🤔maybe if they listen to the lyrics of lean on me by bill whithers “Please swallow your pride If I have things you need to borrow For no one can fill those of your needs That you won't let show” 120
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We are announcing a “community supported” membership type at hex and already the people who want to use it as a trial to use to work their high income designer jobs are asking for it. The comfort at which theyre asking to be supported by the community MISSES ME 150
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Heal up ❤️🩹 On the bright side if the wound is on the right spot you could have new fingerprints and now are free to commit more crime 111
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Computa, choose my hopes and dreams then achieve them 072
Reposted by char stilesThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer. 5542114
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Reminds me of the astronaut earlier this year from Artemis II said he has “two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.” 010
char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026im learning french (apologies in advance) there are so many different words for little walk as an american im getting culture shock. Promanade, marcher, balade, faire un tour, à pied theyre all little walks around. They have more words for big walks.. not even getting into that 1110
Reposted by char stilesPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Sojourners for Justice Press July newsletter is here. Read about Black Reading Room and more: 1wr6j.mjt.lu/nl3/Ghi3V_EB...1wr6j.mjt.luBlack reading room, new releases, and more! 0175
Reposted by char stilesvaibhav sagar @vaibhavsagar.com · 23/07/2026why did we stop calling them server farms 2144
