Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 30/04/2026How cool is it to have a Starbucks latté named after you!?media.tenor.coma man with a mohawk is smiling with his eyes closed .ALT: a man with a mohawk is smiling with his eyes closed . 000
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 28/01/2026I'd just like to thank the people of Minneapolis for reminding us all what CITIZENS looks like. Caring about the wellbeing of other people who you share a city with. That's an essential starting point if this democracy thing is going to work. 130
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Really thought provoking essay. Its fasciniting to hear what people were thinking at the advent of debt financed capitalism. aeon.co/essays/why-h...aeon.coWhy Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx | Aeon EssaysIn 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions 020
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I just had this strange dysphoric experience—flipping through videos on a social app I encountered one stated to have been created by gen AI (Veo). The fact that it was “fake” was nearly imperceptible but there were a few things that felt “off”. 100
Reposted by Kurt McCullochAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I just got word that this federal transportation grant was terminated today, despite us removing the word "climate" from the title. The moral of the story? Obeying orders doesn't keep you safe with this administration. 24861311
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Before we stress about AI alignment too much, can we solve capitalisms alignment problems? That might make the other thing easier. 040
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Read (most of) #AI2027 this weekend. My intuition is that no single vector, no matter how influential, can lead to civilizational collapse in 2-5 years. The planet and human systems are just too complex for that. Historians, sociologists, economists, help me out. 140
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The rationalists and other techno cults , like religious movements to political revolutions really over-dramatize change narratives. Why? Because these narratives offer something powerful: a sense of belonging and certainty in uncertain times. 000
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Tech discussions today swing between two extremes: breathless promises of AI utopia or warnings of inevitable doom. This pattern of thinking—called millenarianism—has appeared throughout history whenever societies face rapid change. 000
Reposted by Kurt McCullochSam Morey @pensandlighters.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Every word I read about congestion pricing reminds me of when they reintroduced wolves in Yellowstone and the whole ecosystem started working correctly again. 131404310
Reposted by Kurt McCullochSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As Musk decimates federal agencies that provide critical services to Californians & ransacks people’s personal data, his personal wealth & companies should be financially responsible for that harm. Call it a coup tax. 38215
Reposted by Kurt McCullochMike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Today’s news… and the steady and depressing drumbeat of ignorance to come leads me right back to Jane Jacobs. 093
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Masculine energy: teaching with care and emotional intelligence, using physical and social power to protect rather than dominate, engaging in self-reflection and accountability, supporting women's leadership without feeling threatened, practicing vulnerability while maintaining healthy boundaries. 100
Reposted by Kurt McCullochMike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Paris doubled its cycling rate in a single year (2022 -2023) by sustained and increased investment in infrastructure (read: political will). NYC will likely have a new mayor at this time next year. Which one has the guts to articulate and deliver a similar outcome? momentummag.com/paris-cyclin...momentummag.comParis cycling numbers double in one year thanks to massive investment and it's not stoppingThe report delves into the nuances of Parisian cycling culture, exploring the vibrant community of riders who navigate the city's streets 318436
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Coming back from vacation and thinking about how we “spend” our time. In capitalist societies our lives are governed not by simply quantifying time—hours, days—but by the time value of money. Obvious, perhaps, but really struck me at this moment. There are still worlds where this doesn’t apply. 000
Reposted by Kurt McCullochErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A thought that actually helped this when I was doomscrolling inside my mind on my bikeride this morning was: "OK, you've been sent back from the future to fix the timeline starting now. What do you do?" 513938
Reposted by Kurt McCullochashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/01/2025as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder: we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now. the climate crisis is here, all around us 762413069260
Reposted by Kurt McCullochNicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Shout out to @caseynewton.bsky.social for: A) the clear-eyed, cutting analysis of Meta's policy changes today. B) the very ethical disclosure of his new boyfriend, who works in AI, and the lines they will draw. (psa: the below photo is part of A, not B) www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...platformer.newsMeta surrenders to the right on speech“I really think this a precursor for genocide,” a former employee tells Platformer 719231
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025The bicycle, vaccines, radio, the early internet… in different ways had wide-spread positive impact on education, health, and community. How do we want to use AI to make life better for more people? Examples? 010
Reposted by Kurt McCullochOshan Jarow @oshan.bsky.social · 28/12/2024The idea that humans could be motivated to labor by finding their work meaningful, or by releasing their “creative impulse” through work, was, at least in part, a product of early 20th century social engineering (Erik Baker’s excellent “Make Your Own Job”) 142
Reposted by Kurt McCullochnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Increasingly it feels like the only way to think about algorithmic media is that it’s a game normal people don’t even know they’re playing 501973260
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 31/12/2024This man is making good sense. www.instagram.com/reel/DDNSjrO...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 110
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Every few years around this time I like to re-read Jay Ogilvy’s Facing the Fold or From the Eclipse of Utopia To the Restoration of Hope. The gist; optimism and pessimism are two sides of the same modern/post-modern coin. In our time, what Ogilvy calls a tragi-comic time, we need a new stance. 100
Reposted by Kurt McCullochSenator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 27/12/2024There’s a huge double standard when it comes to funding public transit vs funding highways. It plays out in various ways in how society looks at the costs of building & operating transit vs highways. The result is massive under-investment in transit. 🧵: 9589121
Reposted by Kurt McCullochCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 20/12/2024"All intuition about AI capabilities will need to get updated for o3," says the founder of the ARC prize — designed to be very difficult for LLMs to solve — after OpenAI took the benchmark from 5% with o1 to 85% today with o3 arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-... 1315218
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 21/12/2024“Them that got shall get” seems to be the law of capital. In this case race and gender bias around what constitutes a “risky” loan no doubt plays a part. 010
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 19/12/2024a trip with 1 person in an ICE vehicle is the worst. After that more people < EV < AV < transit < biking < walking—for people and planet. Anything and everything we can do to move up the chain is an improvement. 010
Reposted by Kurt McCullochsiddharth ☻ @sid.st · 17/12/2024curious how others do it if you have a dedicated design systems team at work, are the designers and developers in the same org? or they in different design and engineering orgs orrr a secret third thing? 15233
Reposted by Kurt McCullochJeff Holcomb @jeffholcomb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Never confuse activity with accomplishment. 011
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Did anyone in SF actually experience anything tornado-esque? When can I go back to sleep? 000
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Does it bother anyone else when the song on the radio is in a different key than the hum of the wheels on the road? Makes it so I can’t hear melody properly without cranking the volume. 000
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It’s hard, but not impossible. A worthy effort. 000
Reposted by Kurt McCullochCalifornia YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The price of housing is set by supply and demand; so the ONLY way to make housing broadly affordable for the middle class is to build enough homes to satisfy demand in the places people want to live. 210016
Reposted by Kurt McCullochCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a... 1818928
Kurt McCulloch @dimbluelight.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I am now in possession of about 300 lbs / half a dozen big boxes of photographs, yearbooks, and documents that several branches of my family forebears have left behind. Some photos are from the 1800’s even. What should I do with them? 020
Reposted by Kurt McCullochPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Heck yeah we A/B test all our designs: 𝗔sk stakeholders which idea they like 𝗕uild that one 1529749
