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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The House has only been in session for 72 days this year

Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 29/09/2026

With the end of a car lease, been trying to do the Denver hood on an e-bike. Finding that all the commercial plazas have gotten rid of bike racks. One employee told me that it was coz bike ppl hang out and the businesses want ppl to come and go quickly. Our society is so fucking dumb.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Star Simpson @starstar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To whomever is behind this: well done 👏

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 27/09/2026

more thoughts on code art categories: sometimes a system is carefully constructed and crafted and seeing its effects are the "point"; other times it feels more like the artist is documenting an unknown terrain that they found; other times the code is just the means to get to some aesthetic output.

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QUAX World @quaxworld.art · 27/09/2026

AI can compress utility coding, but creative coding was never only a route to utilities. It trains a felt sense of causality: change a rule, watch a world answer. If it becomes bespoke, the loss may be less technical skill than public access to procedural thinking. What keeps that ecology porous?

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 26/09/2026

lovely Saturday afternoon spent listening to the radio and finishing up construction of the very human, intentionally rough zine @rose-alibi.interferencer.com and I made for the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social: "How to spend ten years repairing a computer and why you should too" #othernetworks

four copies of a black and white zine arranged in a fan on a grey metal table. the cover is supposed to signal that it was designed on an Apple IIe computer using Print Shop and then printed on an ImageWriter printer. the zine has been sewn together using turquoise and pink thread, also clearly visible at the top and bottom of the binding

a pile of unbound zines, several piles of bound zines, a paper towel with a pile of scraps of pink and turquoise binding thread, a zine open to the last page with a black pen holding it open, and a box of finished zines all sit atop a grey metal desk

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 26/09/2026

This thread and some further replies in the comments about coding and being an artist in this moment…

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 26/09/2026

Spent a week thinking about creative coding as a process being different than the coding artists do to achieve tool for a larger artwork and the space in between these since the “utility” coding is “solvable” with AI. 1/?

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 26/09/2026

OH from University Admin: “Time to get the bad AI company money and take it to the bank.” The idea that this moment where AI wants to improve their look, we should take and use that money for good stuff. Vs taking money from rich evil white guy foundation…

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BarbNerdy @barbnerdy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For people who are buying music via #bandamp bc.basdobbelaer.nl Bas, build a small web app where you can listen to all the new releases from the labels/artists you follow on one website. No more clicking through all the emails! I just gave it a try, and it works quite well!

bc.basdobbelaer.nl

Listen to Bandcamp new releases in one playlist

Pull new releases from the artists and labels you follow on Bandcamp. Label what's worth buying.

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Rachel Binx @binx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

project launch! postcardgifts.com create & send postcards for cheap, delight your loved ones with physical mail 💌

postcardgifts.com

Postcard Gifts

Design your own postcards for $1.50 each, send them to multiple addresses, and schedule them to arrive every few days.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.

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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the activity we did with students today, and we'd love to hear your responses as well... 1. Pick an older device you have access to.

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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 24/09/2026

I made this with Ollin, a creative coding framework for Swift and Metal. I wrote it for my sketches and use it every day. It is open source, in case anybody wants to play with it: ollin.art

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Ollin

A Metal-rendered creative-coding framework for Swift on Apple platforms.

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Edgardo Avilés-López @eavl.co · 24/09/2026

Another reimplementation of one of my old sketches from 2021: the ends of two lines move on Lissajous curves, swinging at random speeds. S/N: 2026.011 #creativeCoding #generativeArt #dailySketch #ollin #lissajous

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

8. often, when people say LLMs "can do" something they mean LLMs can produce output that looks like the output of doing something 9. producing something that looks like the output of doing something is not the same thing as doing it

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I made this spreadsheet to impress a hinge date and it didn’t work out so now i made content about it #outkast

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

jerthorp.me

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The next virtual CC Fest is on Saturday, October 17, 2026, the 10th anniversary!. Lauren Lee McCarthy and @shiffman.lol will deliver the keynotes, there’ll be numerous workshops, and a panel discussion. Registration is open at ccfest.rocks/register/. #virtualCCFest

ccfest.rocks

CC Fest — Creative Coding Festival

CC Fest — a free and friendly gathering for creative coding: workshops, talks, and community.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 17/09/2026

Today my 9th adult tooth was “extracted” in the simplest metric of my ongoing decay as a human. I think a lot about my teeth as a visible display of a working class childhood, the cost of braces were very far out of reach. Also the unaffordability of dental care/health insurance from age 18-30.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Raphaël de Courville @sableraph.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to celebrate “A Quarter Century of Processing” with Cassie Tarakajian, Moon Davé, Qianqian Ye, and Xin Xin for this one-time only performance at Ars Electronica tomorrow 🥳 #arselectronica #processing25

Four people standing in front of a digital fireworks projection in an immersive space

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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'The horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right.' The premise of this game is so fucking fun and it's a world full of interesting and absurd things to discover. @molleindustria.org has blazed the trail for all of us who make irreverent, funny, critical games. Get it now!

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 07/09/2026

TFW your brother in law weaves your art into his book about Philosophy 😍 (Also love having my work out there in the world like this…)

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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 07/09/2026

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm co-hosting this conference on Humanistic AI at Duke 9/25-26; more details + speakers + full schedule soon but in the meantime, if you're in the Research Triangle Area, let us know if you want to come by or participate. Just email me - we'd love to hear from you! deeptech.duke.edu/event/humani...

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Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation | Deep Tech

Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 04/09/2026

I am also heading to Linz tomorrow and will be co-hosting the Creative Coding Open House with these great people!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From their perspective, if A.I. isn't going to get them a good job (and the A.I. narrative is boasting about eliminating good jobs) then college should at least match their idea of what it used to be -- personal, inspiring, chats on the quad, experiences. Then their class is all about tech.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's mostly not about the technology, itself. They are angry about A.I. because they are anxious about how to be successful. No one in charge will tell them the new path to upward mobility. No seems to want to even figure one out. All anyone will talk to them about is A.I.

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Chris Coleman @digitalcoleman.art · 22/08/2026

Spent a few hours tonight running a local open model and fighting it to make images of a farm made of repeating permaculture gardens. It is a reminder how difficult it is to fight the patterns embedded in the training and how much models want to give you the most generic results. #innovativemyass

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

PSA: I have updated the p5js+MediaPipe tracking demo for late 2026— this repairs several breaking changes by vendors (ahem). It now uses p5 v2.3.2 and MediaPipe v.1.0.0. Ready for your students! openprocessing.org/@golan/2760298 editor.p5js.org/golan/sketch... cc @openprocessing.bsky.social

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MediaPipe_2026! - Golan Levin - OpenProcessing

Track face, hands, body pose, and body contour with the Google MediaPipe trackers. Uses MediaPipe v1.0.0 and p5.js v.2.3.2.

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Nick Fox-Gieg @n1ckfg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For 20 years, until Newt Gingrich shut it down, the Office of Technology Assessment matched lawmakers with subject matter experts approved by a bipartisan panel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_...

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Office of Technology Assessment - Wikipedia

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Dave Pagurek @davepagurek.com · 11/08/2026

I wrote up a tutorial here about motion design and animation principles in the context of creative coding! Not so much a tutorial on specific p5 features, but how to think about things like timing and easing: www.butter.video/blog/animati...

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Animation Principles for Motion Graphics | Butter

Every animator is an actor. It's a bit more abstract when doing motion graphics as opposed to cartoons, but it's still true! Your motion brings visuals to life, and the choices you make in your animat...

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