Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i tried opus 5.5. for 15 years my bio has said "artist working with code". today i changed it to "artist". 6432
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026i once walked a docent through an installation, he asked how it worked and i rattled off the internals to nods of understanding. but then i said "it also has a raspberry pi inside" and his eyes got so so big. i realized that he thought i meant an actual pie. 1375
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026new article about icespy.org! DOJ has been using my 2018 art project as justification for arguing with states that ICE agents need to be allowed to wear masks 😩 172
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026we built a tool to traffic private jet emissions during the world cup and other events. it's pretty bad 🤮 1235
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026absolutely fascinated by what fable counts as a biohazard 580
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026i've had a pet technical problem for ten years. i know the solution space inside and out. a few months ago gpt-5.5 made a massive leap that broke new ground, but the solution was not elegant. last night, fable found the elegant solution 😳 2100
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026it's my first time making merch! binary stacks (2008) knit shirts and sweaters now available in collaboration w glitchwear.store 🤗 180
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026just had a flashback to approximately 2004 when digital photography bloggers discovered unsharp mask. those images felt so intensely detailed. i didn't have that feeling until i saw a retina display 5 years later, then HDR displays 10 years after that. 050
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026if you’ve ever wondered what my salary is, @businessinsider.com just published it along with some info about my apocalypse early warning system www.businessinsider.com/programmer-a...businessinsider.comI vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weird.Kyle McDonald's jet tracker exposes wealth inequality by monitoring private jets, and questions who has access to critical information. 0161
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net 12556174
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗 511299245
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026i made an app that checks if your contacts are in the epstein emails myepstein.com apple rejected it from the app store because it “capitalizes on current events” but you can still try it on testflight 1144
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026i'm vibecoding a 3d model that is generative but needs to meet certain topological requirements. i was having trouble asking for what i wanted, so i asked for a face selector and copied IDs to the clipboard. i pasted the IDs with a request ("merge faces like this"), now it works 2130
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026imagine twitter, but there's a bot is crawling all the tweets and when people post "add an edit button", the bot implements it. what would a fully crowdsourced social media platform look like? and what constraints would keep it from breaking apart? 280
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026after 2.5 years of vibe coding, my biggest takeaway? native apps are dead. iterating for the web is so much faster, has better tooling, and lower overhead. low-latency, multi-projector, 3d, spatial audio, custom hardware—ai will continue to have trouble with these. 1130
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 18/10/2025a short trip from alotau to lumolumo with an incredible welcoming 070
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025“transformirror” with daito manabe will be at cinekid this year 🤗 031
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 06/10/2025i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc 2344
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025icespy.org shows the identity of ICE employees using face recognition against hundreds of scraped linkedin profilesicespy.orgICESPYFind ICE employees using face recognition. 110642
Reposted by Kyle McDonaldCreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 04/05/2025The Augmented Hand Series – Playful, dreamlike and uncanny (2015) by Chris Sugrue, Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social, Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry → www.creativeapplications.net/project/the-...creativeapplications.netThe Augmented Hand Series - Playful, dreamlike and uncannyThe Augmented Hand Series is a real-time interactive software system that presents playful, dreamlike, and uncanny transformations of its visitors’ hands. 071
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers. 1305
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025@michaelnielsen.bsky.social i would love to hear your take on the latest quantum news azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/q...azure.microsoft.comMicrosoft unveils Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum processor powered by topological qubits - Microsoft Azure Quantum BlogMajorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more. 061
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025the cross-disciplinary technical mastery in this project is off the charts. if you spend any time thinking about strange sensors, this is a must read. 1112
Reposted by Kyle McDonaldMike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is) 11546812052
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 14/01/2025are there any citizen science efforts to figure out what is actually in the air and in the ash in LA right now? 4142
Reposted by Kyle McDonaldCreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Roadmap@CAN––V6 ~ % Join us!▍ Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge! 🦾 → www.creativeapplications.net/support-2025/creativeapplications.netSupport CAN in 2025Maintaining the momentum and fostering unrestricted access to ideas and knowledge —— with your support! 22712
Reposted by Kyle McDonaldMolleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/01/2025✨JOB ALERT✨ You still have this weekend to apply for our position in Experimental Animation and Emerging Media Practices. It's open rank, candidates of all experience levels are welcome. Work with us, Pittsburgh is cool! art.cmu.edu/employment/#... 02513
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024i'm building an experimental tool for exploring 25 years of my old sketchbooks, with image and text recognition powered by gemini 718522
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024one of my biggest concerns about LLMs is their ability to smother marginalized cultures with homogenizing hallucination. gemini 2.0 flash (released today) is one of the first models to explain the fijian wind compass clearly, succinctly, and accurately. 1111
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024DID YOU KNOW??? 🤔 a SINGLE AI image 🤖🎨 is equivalent to burning down 🔥🔥🔥 an ENTIRE rainforest!!! 🌴🔥🌲🔥🌳 ☠️☠️☠️ 🤯 4100
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024if you're deep in machine learning and excited to work on something that's not ethically ambiguous, this postdoc bioacoustics job at the san diego zoo looks incredible us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...us242.dayforcehcm.comJob opportunity at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance - Post Doctoral Associate - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance 27613
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024openai has a closed program where artists are helping them evaluate their video generator sora, and some of the artists just leaked access to draw attention to their “unpaid labor” techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/a...techcrunch.comOpenAI's Sora video generator appears to have leaked | TechCrunchA group of artists appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what they're calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part. 153
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024i’m hiring a part time studio manager 🤗 forms.gle/nd4xBhGTAFY3...forms.gleSeeking Studio ManagerAbout you I am looking for someone who can help me with scheduling, finances, production, email correspondence, proposals, and general logistics and coordination. You will be based in the US. You wil... 097
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 06/03/2024twitter alternative poll results! posted on twitter (36k followers): 252 votes for twitter / 420 total mastodon (2k): 262 for mastodon / 313 threads (1k): 33 for threads / 97 bluesky (350): no poll feature, but 16 likes, 12 replies in short: i underestimated mastodon 040
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 05/03/2024how many people have actually mainly migrated to bluesky? 6180
Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 06/05/2023does being a millennial just mean rebuilding your social graph every few years until you die 0162
