iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

(Of course, I agree that all caveats about easy gender generalizations apply, but we speak more simply to make the claim distinct.)

Interesting. Tracing the idea here. So, men are socialized such they more readily claim expertise on very little experience. When tech & tooling that is entirely novel appears, those who quickly move with confidence in that space tend to be men, while others take more time? An unfair advantage.

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Totally! As someone with little patience to even draw the same character twice—never mind from different angles—I stan! It’s also such a cute choice to make one character so sleek and brooding while the other ranges into total cartoon. Perfect way to show-not-tell the awkwardness & joy of flirting

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wow! This was so good, thanks for sharing. I admire seeing this kind of art style done with such finesse, and for such a sweet story. Lot of skill to nail the anatomy with such simple lines, and I thought the cadence of the flirtation was perfect. I feel invested in these characters now!

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Just looked it up. Thanks for adding to my knowledge in this area!

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

> AI (esp low level hw/sw) Interesting, what does low level mean here? Like, the way that GPUs have enabled certain kinds of AI processing? And the intermediate abstractions that make it easier to leverage the advantages of GPUs? (Speaking from very limited knowledge)

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

…thus sending said someone careening across the room, boinging off walls and furniture as your points accrue

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We can amuse ourselves by making needlessly gendered versions of diagnostic acronyms. e.g. for stroke: Face (chiseled one side droopy other) Arms (swole but inert) Speech (strong, all too silent) Time to (man up)

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Huh. I guess it’s unsurprising if there are fairly rote ways that medical studies segment by gender, so that 1) there are scant incentives to gather statistically significant data on anyone not a cis man or woman, and 2) it’s hard to reason about the role of gender as a mitigation or accelerant 🤔

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Lovely sketch! What kind of lead is in those pencils? The depth of the dark graphite around the head looks like…4B or beyond?

was there any element of interactivity

Huh. So depending on how you hit ‘em—angle of attack, speed, mass—you’ll get an entirely different reaction?

Once I booted an old laptop & saw my old todo app. The tasks still vibrant with urgency, “DUE TODAY.” But with the gap of years, the context no longer held me, so it was just a sweet time capsule. Nice to remind myself that the only time I’ll truly have no to-do’s is when I’m dead.

Periodically I archive items on the list. This is surprisingly gratifying. I have a separate doc where I write, “this no longer matters:” and list the todos I no longer need to care for. Sometimes a relationship or job role shifts and you can toss reams of ‘em.

Less metaphorically tho. I also have ever-growing todo lists, and it’s been freeing to give myself different angles on the practice. I list bc I’d rather know than not know. Much of what I say I’ll do or what others wish me to do prove irrelevant after a while. The list is just a first draft.

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Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Compost pile. The to-do items that sit for an atrociously long time MAY transform into loam—in the best cases, able to give a bit of context for newly seeded to-dos to bear fruit.

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when everything that got you here is only somewhat useful for the next step

Drawing of a large blob with two little eyes, looking dubious as it perches on an upward slope, a bit hesitating as it must move past a little cliff. Drawn by Han with the stamp roller tool in Paper on iOS.

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Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Lack of the expected Korok reassuring us we’re firmly planted in reality

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Makes sense, that WAS a dramatic word choice on my part. Mostly thinking about those moments when I’m zoning out and suddenly realizing everyone is expecting an answer from me, but I only vaguely heard one or two key words before the attention snapped to

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

99% boredom 1% mild spikes of confrontation — in good company with, say, museum guards

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Valiant, considering that the midnight pitch darkness is persuading us all to go to bed, stat

So if whatever mainstream language for The Economy is bloodless, contradictory to a growing unease and precarity that I think anyone sensate would notice these days, it does leave empty sockets vulnerable to explanations that fit the feeling

Here I’m associating to the idea that the contents of, say, a schizophrenic’s fantasies can shift with what’s at hand in the culture to stand in for unaccountable power & inhumane menace (e.g., aliens vs CIA vs Hillary etc), but the fevered fantasy at least speaks to an unbearable somatic experience

In memory of The Time this windshield bird poop looked JUST like a baby owl trudging up a slope, ski mitts wielding poles

Bird poop in focus on a windshield, background is blurred trees and garage. The dark splotches might be interpreted as stated!

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Nice shot! I like how the bright line of illumination across the path, along with the lit verticals, gives a little illusion that we’re looking at a screen, but not a screen.

The tragedy, then, is that anyone in your inner circle will probably see flashes of the Bad Ideas when you’re overwhelmed and unguarded. Parents especially are very susceptible, bc children are keen observers. It does seem like your mom tried her best

It really is unfair to be indoctrinated through one’s most formative years. I think at best you can later retrain yourself, as an adult, to immediately counteract the insidious OG messaging with everything you’ve learned for yourself. But I don’t think you can totally excise those core ideas.

Love that this looks plausibly filmed on VHS

Ok this is inspiring and brilliant. - captcha fill-in-the-blank to complete a deep cut inside joke - one day you’re irritated at the friend and the nav dropdown turns into the kind where you try to open the submenu but the whole thing closes bc you’ve moved 1px off the parent item

Pretty sure that whatever gritty urban sidewalk you side-scroll next will have a switchblade lying on the ground, ready for pick up

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Suffering humiliation, turns out, rarely leads to insight. There are multiple painful steps to insight, which requires introspection into the humiliation you’re probably desperate to escape. MUCH faster to expel the humiliation onto someone—anyone—more vulnerable

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I still have first-person memories from childhood feeling irritable that I was so small. I couldn’t wait to be bigger, so there was always something to anticipate. As an adult I do love emotional growth, but imagine if it was as concrete as getting an inch taller each year?

A drawing of a ferocious yet adorable creature, cross between a bunny and a rat, fur bristling. Blue cartoon eyes and a red tongue revealed mid-snarl. Han drew this in Paper on iOS, with the stamp tool.

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Congratulations on this achievement, no doubt the inevitable outcome of a lot of sustained work. You inspire me!

This was fun to play with but I haven’t yet been able to retrain myself to use it when I’m spurred to take a photo. Have you found a way to replace the default habit of the built in camera?

The underlying truth that makes these contradictory points both hold — “let’s agree that the left holds ALL the loser energy we refuse to confront in ourselves”

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Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This is objectively the perfect consistency and color for a yolk. Nicely done!

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I too have noticed how hard it is to find a basic functional bookend. Perhaps there’s no accessible Muji near you so this is moot, but fwiw I rate this top amongst all bookends I’ve scouted: www.muji.us/products/ste...

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Steel Book Divider

A durable partition plate, made of steel. Great for organizing a bookshelf or desk as a bookend.

Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’m delighted you’re here! Been missing your presence in my scrolls.

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 10/11/2024

Reposted by Han

This is a photograph of my great uncle, Jim Ida, in 1942. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange as part of her documentation of the Japanese American incarceration. He is sitting with his family’s bags, waiting to be taken to an internment camp. (Tanforan, I believe.) He was 17.

A black and white photograph of a Japanese American teenage boy. He is sitting on a large duffel bag tied with string, on the sidewalk next to some suitcases. He is looking out of frame over his left shoulder, his hands folded in his lap and with one foot cocked on its edges. His body language looks anxious to me.

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Han @hanhere.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I like learning what this is! It’s one of those objects that I’ve definitely seen growing up, but can’t exactly place when or why. I also feel like I more often see small reproductions of these lamps, at the scale that can be hung as a charm. Or maybe I’m thinking of the simpler red lanterns? 🤔