mbrock @swa.sh · 19/09/2026yeah mine were really first attempts and I wouldn't use them, I've seen some really incredible stuff recently though e.g. having Opus work with code based illustrations based on reference photos etc 010
mbrock @swa.sh · 19/09/2026to me it looks like the hinting and antialiasing and shaping work in some ways unknown to man and it's actually quite good but keeps a distinct tell at least for people who notice like when the tv aspect ratio is incorrect 011
mbrock @swa.sh · 19/09/2026doing it this way you can also get actual vector files SVG or PDF or even do the design with HTML and CSS and get like responsive web design outputs so I think that the image generation models are gonna have a bit of a niche or kinds of uses they're great for inspiration maybe not for production  120
mbrock @swa.sh · 19/09/2026to me, there is something very distinctive and recognizable about the typography of the image generation models, and the most impressive and interesting artistic output from the models these days seems to come from bypassing image generation, and doing the design in code 200
mbrock @swa.sh · 19/09/2026@ere-i-am-jh.bsky.social these are not amazing. I would iterate on these significantly, but they are generated with ChatGPT and Claude respectively not through image generation, but using actual fonts in code mode 120
mbrock @swa.sh · 09/05/2023trying to strike a balance between making it a safe haven for children and keeping the authentic urban wilderness vibe of asbestos rubble and thickets of toxic thorns 120
mbrock @swa.sh · 09/05/2023I have been blazing trails in my yard with the Makita 2x18V string trimmer and making little shade nooks under trees and a secret place beneath a brick wall where there's sunshine at 8 PM with three tires to sit on leaned up against old half broken stone crosses and ashtrays on a whole 'nother level 110
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023daily life must have its topological pockets where linear todo time dissolves into luscious convivial silence, where preparation precipitates doubtless droplets of valiant valence 030
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023the plazas of old cities are paradigm centers, these molten pockets of freedom and leisure that hinder traffic while being also the essential destinations of all movement 131
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023a landscape shaped for a thousand years by natural process is astoundingly self-adapted like a deep minimum in a manifold, an immense computation that necessarily, ontologically, yields a field of centers like soap makes bubbles 120
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023the stillness and luminous emptiness of centers discloses a dimension of dignity that binds experience and forms its hidden ground, a vast void that is the silent soul of everything 131
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023it's some kind of general pattern of good valence, these focal centrifugal emergent vortex pockets of molten resonance that structure coherent fields of living qualia 140
mbrock @swa.sh · 08/05/2023I am more and more convinced that life must be made of centers, that centers are targets of leisure and annealing, that the centers of life are both geometric and temporal: gardens, temples, festivals, holidays, fire, flowers, meditation, prayer, ritual, gathering, sacrifice, wine, sun, sauna 2142
mbrock @swa.sh · 03/05/2023in my idiosyncratic ontology, what I call the petite bourgeoisie are the local characters who don't even have any money but scrape by managing and working on precious zones of autonomy, like the guy who runs the punk sauna and other post-squat chieftains and bartenders 000
mbrock @swa.sh · 03/05/2023but now I own a little bit of property that seems appropriate to develop according to the ideal of a "precious zone of autonomy" as described in James C. Scott's essay "Two Cheers for the Petite Bourgeoisie" 100
mbrock @swa.sh · 03/05/2023kind of weird how nation states work on a basic everyday ontology level like they are the fundamental regions of reality but they're all kind of deeply fucked up 100
mbrock @swa.sh · 03/05/2023tried to came up with a joke but instead came up with a theory that Camus's "Sisyphus" is a symbol of Europe and so "we must imagine Europe happy" 100
Reposted by mbrockMaggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 30/04/2023Whisper AI and embeddings are the dark horses in this race. Half my input is voice at this point. It meaningfully changes how much I capture and makes it easier to think. Literally out loud. Text generation just spews a bunch of crap we have to read, evaluate, and wrestle into something useful. 5406
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023the hospice rebranding concept is done... we're calling it a co-dying space 110
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023design a kitchen appliance without unnecessary unnerving beeping sounds that wake napping infants challenge (impossible) 010
Reposted by mbrockLucy Keer 🪣 @lucykeer.bsky.social · 24/04/2023I guess I can plug notebook posts here. Normally it's useful to give a simple example of something when you're trying to explain it, but sometimes it's good to give a great big example instead lucykeer.com/notebucket/great-big-e… 131
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023people here are complaining about apparently horrible disasters like "the number thread" and "the thread with thorns" and "the unspeakable eldritch thread of gibbering banshees" like some social media cryptozoologists 360
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023youtu.be/sFv-We9NMMgyoutu.beSwedish Knife Grip Sessions EP14: SpatulaSpatula. Jögge Sundqvist is a craftman through and through. As a wood worker and a woodcarving artist he has become famous for his impressive ornaments and beautiful carved objects. In this session Jögge is showing how to make a spatula! 010
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023wait this must be the actual cause of my severe depression and nihilism 130
mbrock @swa.sh · 30/04/2023ooh this is why people aren't liking my literally unreadable threads of total bullshit 140
