Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 29/09/2026Dia Compe, world leaders in making objects that radiate "this was made cheaply" and elegance in equal amounts 010
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/09/2026Alameda Point Fields are this weird combination of broken-window dilapidated WW2 base buildings surrounding a lively field full of kids playing soccer. Post apocalyptic Renaissance vibes. Imagining a WW2 officer time dropped here, what they would think. 110
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/09/2026I jailbroke an old Kindle, and wrote a server script that generates an image of our family Google Calendar and weather forecast. The Kindle fetches it & updates every hour during the day. It's e-ink, so we can do this for two weeks without charging. It makes me unreasonably happy. 230
Reposted by Joseph MorrisJoseph Morris @morris.cloud · 18/09/2026Keynes: "By 2026, everyone will be working 15-hour work weeks." Modern Conservatives: "Don't worry, we'll have everyone work 15 hours a week just to heat their house and drive their car" 111
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 15/09/2026In my retirement I'm going to open The Rorschach Cafe where you get random latte art. 010
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 12/09/2026I just got LUKS hibernation set up on my Ubuntu machine and it's super cool. You can power off your computer and have the disk be encrypted (no worries about data loss if stolen) but then when you power it back on it's right where you left off. #Linux 111
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 03/09/2026This is what I've been using for ~5 years. No syncing except what you do yourself but that's sort of a feature also, in that no cloud version of your unencrypted passwords exists. KeepassDX for android; and there's iOS apps. More like adopting a file format (kdbx) than a single app. 110
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 31/08/2026Fridge note to let me know that a child in the house has been reading a lot of fantasy novels lately 110
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/08/2026Just about got run over by somebody in a BMW X4 backing out of their own driveway (had to tell "stop" at the top of my lungs) who then had the temerity to call me an asshole and flip me off as they drove away, after I asked them to please watch for bikes because they almost killed me. 100
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/08/2026Really enjoying Poppy Aykroyd -- an affinity for loops like Four Tet, but is really accomplished pianist and music theorist and so I was able to implement a lot of variation and musicality with it. See also Hidden Orchestra which she contributed to b 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 22/08/2026I knew there was a RAM shortage that was causing it to be more expensive, but I had not realized that the price has quintrupled in a year, until I thought of upgrading about upgrading a laptop 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 20/08/2026I was biking my kids to school this morning at a new campus, and our way goes through an East Oakland park, which can sometimes feel a little bit spooky when it's vacant. So I'm really appreciating the Chinese cultural practice of morning Tai Chi. 120
Reposted by Joseph MorrisUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 18/08/2026A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...wsj.comA Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering RussiaIryna Terekh, 34, used to design benches. She is now the CEO of Ukraine’s largest private defense company. 314825
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 17/08/2026I just spent a little while asking Gemini and Claude whether they think they have qualia or self-awareness, and then screenshotting and posting each other's answers to the other. Gemini is absolutely certain it is a computer and does not, Claude is less certain. Both point to RLHF ... 120
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 12/08/2026I'm dictating nearly everything that I write these days with nvidia's parakeet and canary models, which are fabulous and can run on cpu or even phone hardware. A great open source PC (windows / Mac / Linux) implementation is Handy handy.computerhandy.computerHandyHandy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer 210
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 07/08/2026I've been listening to Lubomyr Melnyk and Charlamagne Palestine recently, playing in one key with long release time (and/or delay, or sustain pedal down) to get an ambient-ish effect. #SoundCloud #Synth #ElectronicMusic #Atmospheric #DroneMusic #Ambient on.soundcloud.com/ocwh9uWbDkkJ...soundcloud.commountain; angstI've been listening to a lot of nails from Lubomyr Melnyk and Charlamagne Palestine recently, which got me to realize that you can just kind of sit down and play things in one key with long release ti 140
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 02/08/2026Broke two spikes in rural France on a rainy Sunday; family let me stay with them and let me take spokes from an extra wheel (which amazingly were the right length). Full story, can start at "I walked the three kilometers" if you're short on time www.cycleblaze.com/journals/nor...cycleblaze.com 120
Reposted by Joseph Morrismeetar @fjord.style · 17/07/2026I’d like to shake the hand of the person who designed the Chocolonely bar shapes, but not in a way which is convenient for them 0152
Reposted by Joseph Morrismaybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 19/06/2026www.newsweek.com/clifford-sto... there's the article link and here's his klein bottle website which is literally among the greatest websites ever and never gets old www.kleinbottle.comnewsweek.comWhy the Web Won't Be NirvanaThe truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works. 2192
Reposted by Joseph Morrismarymoriarty.bsky.social @marymoriarty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Tomorrow, August 1st, prosecutors in Minnesota will no longer be able to charge children under 13 with criminal offenses. These children are in elementary school and are rarely ever competent to be prosecuted. Now they will get the support and services they need more quickly 072
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 30/07/2026Hi my name is Joe and my hobbies are bike touring, rock climbing, and hummus 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 23/07/2026Completed life goal of bike overnight with kids, Amtrak Oakland to Sac, American River Parkway out to Folsom Lake (Beals Point) and back, total 102km over two (hot!) days. Challenging but we had a good time. 220
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 19/07/2026The world I want to live in is one with more concrete between cars and bikes 100
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 06/07/2026Had to miss the last 20 but wow to England to do that with 10 ppl. Didn't go in with a favorite but felt like the red card was over called (as well as both pens) so was rooting for Eng from then on. 110
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 05/07/2026Ronaldo red card: much higher degree of intentionality than Belogun m.youtube.com/shorts/nIaaT...m.youtube.comRonaldo Red Card! Ireland vs Portugal BIG MomentYouTube video by ІФ СПОРТ 000
Reposted by Joseph MorrisElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 05/07/2026not rooting for france so much as I am rooting against paraguay. what do you mean your strategy is to injure the players who are better than you! 0393
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 05/07/2026Paraguay played dirty and are whiners, happy to see them lose; no Cabo Verse vibes from this underdog. 000
Reposted by Joseph MorrisCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Oh, and by the way, Trump is using $1.6 million from national park pass fees to pay for the fireworks. Because we can't afford to use that money to hire rangers or fix up the parks. We need it to pollute the air and water. 11381286
Reposted by Joseph MorrisElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026WAITTTT!!!! www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...npr.orgJustice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retiresAlthough not well known outside the court, Alito played a key role in leading the conservative charge, not just on abortion, but on a host of other issues. 2445341
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 26/06/2026If Ionesco wrote screenplays for Looney Tunes with a robot cast 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 25/06/2026I started this for the USAID hook, but kept reading because this is one of the best stories I've read in a while 001
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 25/06/2026Listening to Charlemagne Palestine and Lubomyr Melnyk, who invented techno/trance on piano before those genres existed; amazing 100
Reposted by Joseph MorrisKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20/06/2026thinkng about the best tweet 2589113
Reposted by Joseph MorrisSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 18/06/2026They did not sign the treaty at Versailles. Get the fuck out of here. 1129723
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 18/06/2026I hereby promote songs I've written; they are good for keeping you moving (albeit briefly, since so far only two of them) nomati.bandcamp.comnomati.bandcamp.comnomatiA guy with synths in Oakland 030
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 16/06/2026Just a amazing inversion of goals by the Trump administration with the Iran war; accomplishing things that they say they don't want to accomplish (push towards renewables); and actively moving away from stated goals (improving the United States' standing in the world, both perceived and real)nytimes.comThe Iran War Permanently Altered the Global Economy 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 10/06/2026"... and I still think it is" The American institution with the greatest positive slope in my personal opinion in the last decade is the jury 010
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 09/06/2026One thing I wish I had done like a decade ago would be to plug in a MIDI keyboard into a computer and start using free sequencers, DAWs, and synthesizers. Start off with a cheap MIDI keyboard and plug it into any computer that you install Surge XT or Zebralette onto. #synths #music 120
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 07/06/2026Such an Onion sentence closing out this NBC piece; parody and fact blur into one www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/... 000
Joseph Morris @morris.cloud · 03/06/2026Very good interview on a lot of different points. Going to be adding "meta-emotions" and "time famine" to my vocabulary. I also really appreciated how she repeatedly described fellow researchers' work as "lovely" like they were bouquets of flowers.nytimes.comWant to ‘Optimize’ Your Happiness? This Happiness Expert Says: Don’t. 000
