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A beautiful show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography - "If Emmett Till Lived" - drawn from their archive, it lays out scenes from a life that could have been, and the life his memory inspired after his murder.

Black text on a white wall that says "He did live."

(in the style of the fjord) "Shut the fjuck up."

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Jolly, you are a soulless construct composed of code running across dozens of server racks.

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Cutewashing - Little dude is running on conflict minerals in chips and the stolen creative works of all of humanity, but sure, talk to him because he's got a funny little hat on. It's the same reason why the food delivery robots have eyes on them - the cute as a trojan horse for accepting the tech.

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If that last sentence is doing you psychic damage, congratulations - you're too online.

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Marek Poliks of the Disintegrator podcast talking about Exocapatalism - Solid talk, but damn I am not ready for a Kiwi-Farms as Vanguard in its style indexing lolcows.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reinventing wheels over here.

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Fuck the Bears. I don't even care that Vikings won - the traffic around the stadium makes everyone's life worse. Go to Indiana or something.

Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Simulated fruit flies, much like their organic versions, seem to be flourishing this summer.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Was riding around in The Loop on my scooter and found this lodged in the back wheel - the end that was stuck in had a point to it. Would have popped my tire if it wasn't a run-flat.

Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A gallon of gasoline has about 32,000 calories, which is why I cut it out of my diet entirely.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Update: it took over a month to arrive and had a manufacturing defect.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Another one down. Did you know that Mantraps are used in both datacenters and freeports? Financialization through a remove in play at both.

Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oi, you got A loicense for that, mate?

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

What is decidedly less sick is the surprise $20 in import and duties on top of the $30 shipping I had to pay to get it in from the UK - for a hardware order that totaled $39.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(Impulse) Purchased some clear polycarbonate M3 screws for a project. Didn't strictly *need* them, but come on - clear hardware is pretty sick.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Copper mesh at <0.2mm openings. Nuts.

Richard Serra (b. 1939), one of America’s most renowned living artists, created this large-scale minimalist sculpture. The son of a San Francisco pipe fitter, Serra worked for several years in West Co...

Maybe it doesn't get the same respect as other downtown public sculpture because it's not *chrome*, but come on - the parks department should be taking better care of this piece. www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-facili...

chicagoparkdistrict.com

Reading Cones | Artwork

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And, much like the rest of the park, it suffers a lot of damage during that time.

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It's placement in the back of the stage means that between the approximately 3 week setup and strike of the festival, it gets fenced in and becomes completely inaccessible to the public - much like the rest of the park.

A view of Reading Cones surrounded by heavy machinery and construction workers

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Reading Cones has the unfortunate habit of being enveloped by the annual circus of Lollapalooza, where because of its proximity to Monroe it is fully enveloped by one of the major stages - this year the "Bud Light" stage.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not too long ago the @chicagoreader.com did an excellent piece about the James Turrell on UIC's campus and how it's falling apart - I'd like to nominate another public sculpture for the most neglected in Chicago - Richard Serra's "Reading Cones" (1988) - located in Grant Park, North of Butler Field

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Sometimes I really love art.

Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Jesse Bond @ Sawhorse gallery in Chicago.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sure, he was good - but not 6 fingers good. Slop.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And in a dish best served cold, this squarely includes the food delivery robots.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/07/2026

Reposted by Mac Pierce

the art museum should give me a walking around cup of coffee license. i can be trusted near the paintings with a big cup of coffee

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Got a response email with this at the top: "Here’s a response that is friendly, appreciative, but also sets a clear boundary without closing the door." Frankly more insulting than if they'd just cursed me out.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it." "How much like it? Was it the same cat?" Multiple cats, same image.

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One of the fun things about starting more projects than you can finish is that every so often you can take a project off the shelf and realize that you now know the right way to finish it. That if it had been completed earlier, it wouldn't have been as good as the new direction you have for it.

Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did I just get Attie bombed?

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Mac Pierce @macp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

x6 PCBs, double sided, 1" x 1.5" JLCPCB: $33 board production + $43 shipping + $12 import duties + $5 sales tax = $93 OSH Park: $17 + free shipping. DOMESTIC CIRCUIT BOARD PRODUCTION IS SO BACK

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Oh, it's 500+ AQI and you want non-carcinogenic air in your house? $400 upfront for a whole home filter and $60 biyearly for replacement filters. Fuck you, that's why.

Socialized state that provides free open-source air filter replacement to citizens during wildfire smoke. vs. The razor & blades model proprietary filter lock-in we have now.

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When I expressed interest in "How to See Like a Machine," I didn't mean "How to See Like a *Killing* Machine."

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