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kevin

@kevdog.cool

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what am i doing on another web site? 🤠🌴 long time austinite now in LA 💙 i made a music website during the day 💚 helped make a video store at night 💌 working on something new

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 01/10/2026

you know shit is getting wild when the weatherman is using a matplotlib

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 19/09/2026

a pic of a piano roll on the right side and a bunch of gibberish graphs trying to predict what note the AI should play next

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 19/09/2026

i experimented today w/ using jev to jam, but i think i really need to rethink my approach. it's really cool, but the naive approach which is "figure out which chord to play and then play it right away" definitely does not work with a 100ms delay

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 08/09/2026

4 images: mr bean standing in a field. mr bean checking his watch. mr bean sitting in the field. mr. bean lying down in the field.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 04/09/2026

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 04/09/2026

I think about Godard's ALPHAVILLE often. Much more often, lately. A movie that certainly was of its time, but also 60 years ahead of it.

A still from Godard's ALPHAVILLE (1965) - The subtitle reads: "I see. People have become slaves to probability."

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 14/08/2026

Incredible how these patent applications capture the alienation these glasses surely cause

Fig 5c from Meta’s facial recognition patent. It shows a man viewing a party as if on a movie screen, the glasses highlight everyone else having fun.

The man’s posture is neutral, but expectant. His left arm barely reaching toward the others. He is wearing Meta smart glasses. No one else at the party is wearing Meta smart glasses. He hesitates to join the fun.

He’s at the party, but somehow alienated from it. I’ve added text above his head: “They don’t know I work at Meta.”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 09/07/2026

problematic dude, but Feynman wrote about this in his autobiography. once they got computers, researchers would screw around on them because it was fun and addictive but they didn’t get much done.

A page from “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynmann,” that says:

Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches—if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that—and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly–while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arctangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We had tables of arc-tangents. But if You've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease. The delight in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 01/07/2026

The famous NES baseball lineup with names such as “SLEVE MCDICHEAL”, “BOBSON DUGNUTT,” and “TODD BONZALEZ”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 21/06/2026

At Costco, I saw—but did not buy—this bottle of…cognac?

A front cut display box of a bottle of liquor that is shaped like a perched eagle. The box is red, gold and purple. It says “PATRIOT EAGLE: THE COLLECTION” on top of the cutout and “AGED 6 YEARS” below the cutout.

It is unclear from the box or bottle what kind of liquor the bottle contains.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 17/05/2026

i’m at #pyconus for the first time in many years and it’s at the long beach convention center and i’m having a lovely time and i’m grateful to the organizers, the attendees and the venue, BUT what is up with these chairs?

an egg shaped chair, covered in fuzzy upholstery. amazing.

a high backed blue velour chair on a sparkly rug, in front of a sparkly wall, next to a large potted plant

two high backed chairs, upholstered in what appears to be red latex, placed in front of a giant mural sized painting of a red rose, complete with a golden ornate frame

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/02/2026

wait wait wait the demonym for palantir employees is HOBBIT? that is the real scoop

A screenshot from the article:

“Most of all, Dr. Karp has made clear his commitment to reinvigorating his direct engagement with Hobbits and this discussion endeavors to model the form of rigorous dialogue that should be at the center of Palantir’s prized culture.”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 20/09/2025

oh dear now i see it

a snapshot of the glitch. a tiny little quarter circle missing from the bottom of the McDonald's arch.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 09/08/2025

I wonder if he knows he’s got the same name as that famous ballbasket player?

A sign that says “Jordan Michael Design”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 19/06/2025

a creature

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 17/06/2025

this morning

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 17/06/2025

i saw these little dudes walking the dog this morning

some globe amaranth: 10 red globe-like flowers in a field of grass

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 23/04/2025

What Activity does your music serve? Afraid? Angst? BBQ?

a clip of a music transmission xml schema that lists some activities related to music. they are: Afraid, Angst, BBQ, BibleStudy

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/04/2025

A screenshot from a SNES game that had fake baseball player names like “Jeromy Gride,” “Bobson Dugnutt,” and “Todd Bonzalez”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 08/03/2025

my LG washing machine sent me this message: “To celebrate International Women’s Day, let’s make More Work For Mother”

A push notification from LG ThinQ that says: “This International Women’s Day, take a moment to celebrate and enjoy what matters most. Let ThinQ handle the laundry—schedule a cycle now!”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 11/02/2025

omg this is his…career

Another column from the same author, Stefano Hatfield. Headline: “We boomers have more than paid our dues - so stop whining”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 17/01/2025

idk man looks pretty cold

a crop of the JFK inaugural speech photo with a woman who has pulled a fur around her face, leaving only the top of her nose and eyes exposed

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 29/12/2024

try true inner liberation

A picture from a book of a poster that says “run away to sea” and a caption that reads “Many people may want some change from a containing pattern of life; but the freedom gained by travel (urged by the “run away to sea” poster) is no substitute for a true inner liberation.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 22/12/2024

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 06/12/2024

it is friday

a picture of a weird little mouse-like proto mammal. it is brown with a light colored nose and whiskers and it has 4 feet with long toes and a thick tail

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 05/12/2024

sometimes i search the internet for 'ancestor to all mammals' so i can look at this little bud

An image from wikipedia, captioned: "Restoration of Procynosuchus, a member of the cynodont group, which includes the ancestors of mammals"

It looks like a little furry dinosaur.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 24/11/2024

yo check this out

an image of bluesky’s moderation controls, showing that i have muted the phrase “echo chamber”

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 25/10/2024

i canceled my subscription today because of your craven decision to avoid endorsing a candidate in this important election. if your ownership cannot take the heat that good journalism sometimes requires they should sell the paper to someone who can.

A screenshot of an email confirming my cancellation of the washington post.

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 25/07/2024

if you die in the game, you die in real life

a picture of a headline from the washington post: "virtual reality players are suffering real broken bones, other injuries"

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 02/06/2024

oh..

a screen shot taken from the New York Times front page that reads: "Hunter Biden to Go on Trial in Gun Case, Days After Trump Was Convicted"

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kevin @kevdog.cool · 02/06/2024

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