UX, UI, PX, SVG, IFF, AR, AI, EDU. Mmm mmm good! Professor, Pixel Pusher, AI Optimist. (Not a cartoon, Not a Dutch rockstar. D’oh!) Old school Digital Artist

Joined April 2007
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15 May 2025
Wrestling with my thoughts (and ChatGPT) to grok the latest from @BrianRoemmele on agents. Push is dead. Pull didn’t replace it—summoning did. A recursive, high-resolution feed of intent. Not broadcast. Not curated. It’s your slice of the hive mind nudging toward zero noise.
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The NYC skyline still feels incomplete without the Twin Towers.
Rare footage of The World Trade Center being built and occupied…
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New #siri It sounds great, but who could help but be extremely skeptical
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#WWDC26 I just want search to work, especially in Photos. And, to be able to force it to recognize a pet when it just refuses too.
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“DON’T PICK UP THE PHONE!”
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My grape vines are enjoying the sun. I shall harvest some grape leaves this week for some delicious things.
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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It’s time to start ignoring 99.99% of posts sharing prompts. Just meta-prompt instead… i.e. ask your AI: “What are the best prompts for… fill in the blank” Start by refining your system prompt. All of the AIs are pretty brilliant at this. Claude may have an edge right now
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Fear sells!!
1981, The fear of the Walkman. So many hours of worry in a moment that would transform to something else. We are always transforming in tot something else.
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Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.
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"Surprisingly, occupations with higher exposure to AI have grown faster than least-exposed ones, not slower." Not surprising! Productivity growth -> economic growth -> job growth.
Is AI killing jobs? New data shows that, more than three years after the release of ChatGPT, there is no evidence for a significant impact of AI on overall employment in the UK. In our new report, we break down the labour force into different occupations and use four measures of AI exposure to determine how likely they are to be affected by the technology. Surprisingly, occupations with higher exposure to AI have grown faster than least-exposed ones, not slower. This holds across all four measures, and across two different data sources. The wage picture is different. Pay in AI-exposed occupations has lagged the rest of the labour market since 2019. But that gap opened three years before ChatGPT, which makes AI an unlikely candidate for the observed wage compression. This flattening of the wage structure is visible across the within-occupation distribution and strongest at the top quartile, which is consistent with labour market dynamics that predate generative AI.
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Parade of progress!! Love it! Optimism is important!
America Needs a New Parade of Progress: Before “Anti-Clanker” Hysteria Derails the AI Future If you have anything to do with AI check my accurate insights of the future, I have a 97% accuracy rate. Now read this: - In 1936, at the depths of the Great Depression, General Motors did something audacious. It didn’t just sell cars. It sold hope. Charles F. Kettering, GM’s visionary head of research, launched the Parade of Progress, a rolling carnival of tomorrow that brought the future straight to Main Street America. Picture this: a gleaming fleet of custom-built Streamliners (later the iconic red-and-white Futurliners designed by Harley Earl) rolling into towns from Lakeland, Florida, to tiny Midwest hamlets. No ticket required. No hard sell. Just live demonstrations of jet engines, microwave ovens, atomic energy exhibits, 3D sound, chemical miracles, and concepts for safer, faster highways and homes filled with labor-saving wonders. Over three tours spanning 1936 to 1956, the Parade covered more than a million miles, visited 251 cities across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and even Cuba, and drew 12.5 million visitors in an era when the entire U.S. population was under 130 million. In some small towns, attendance doubled the local population. Families picnicked, kids dreamed of becoming engineers, and a skeptical public left believing progress wasn’t something to fear. It was something to cheer. The brilliance wasn’t just the spectacle. It was the strategy. GM understood that technology only thrives when the public embraces it. The Parade humanized innovation. It showed how new ideas would make life better, safer, and more exciting, not for elites in coastal cities, but for farmers in Iowa and factory workers in Ohio. It turned abstract science into tangible wonder. And it worked spectacularly. It built decades of goodwill for American industry and cemented the cultural narrative that progress equals prosperity. Fast-forward to 2026. The AI and robotics revolution is here, and it’s colliding with a dangerous wave of fear. “Clankers.” That’s the slur you hear now on social media and in the streets, a Star Wars-inspired jab at humanoid robots and delivery bots that’s become shorthand for anti-AI rage. You are about to hear it more than “AI Skip”. oving groups of masked vandals are kicking over sidewalk delivery robots in cities from Berkeley to Chicago. Videos of smashed drones and toppled bots go viral as cathartic entertainment. Polls show American excitement about AI plummeting while fears of job loss, surveillance, and existential risk skyrocket. Paid “doomer” organizations, backed by billions in activist money, are flooding the airwaves with apocalyptic warnings. Their goal? Turn public anxiety into votes. This isn’t fringe noise. It’s coalescing into a political movement that will climax in the 2028 elections. Anti-Clanker sentiment is already being weaponized: calls for bans, heavy regulation, and “robot taxes.” If tech companies don’t act, the U.S. risks handing its lead in AI and robotics to competitors on a silver platter, not because our tech is inferior, but because our culture turned hostile. The contrast with China couldn’t be starker, or more alarming. While American streets see masked gangs attacking delivery drones, China is staging massive public spectacles that draw hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic spectators. Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games featured over 500 robots from 16 countries competing in soccer, sprinting, boxing, and more, in packed arenas where crowds cheered every stumble and triumph like it was the Olympics. Humanoid robots raced half-marathons alongside humans, with families lining the routes, waving flags, and posting proud videos. These aren’t sterile lab demos; they’re national festivals celebrating the future. China’s message is clear: Robots are cool. Robots are progress. Robots are ours. 1 of 2
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This doesn’t surprise me at all.
Neat experiment finds AI fact checks are rated as more helpful & less ideological than human ones "LLM-generated Community Notes can achieve broader cross-ideological acceptance than human-written notes, receiving more positive ratings from raters across the political spectrum"
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This is a solid example of great and creative thinking in AI and building useful tools. A wonderful solution and worthy of monetization. Good work by this @AnthropicAI team!
Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software. It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans. anthropic.com/glasswing
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DirecTV is a streaming service designed by lawyers. We watched half of Elf, got interrupted by a phone call and when we tried to restart it, it wanted a subscription to AMC. Pfffftt
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the morphology of knowledge is inextricably linked to the shape of the containers we use to hold it
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Fascinating!
Imagine you no longer need any network or any radio frequency, just a single photon. Cisco has a working chip that generates 200 million quantum entanglements per second. In theory a single photon can encode the ENTIRE corpus of the world’s information. AI will be a photon.
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24 Sep 2025
So just as the US nukes the cap-exempt H-1B program that universities & research institutes rely on, our largest global competitor is going the other direction: China is making it much easier for young STEM talent to move there.
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Anytime someone takes a picture/video that I happen to be in the background of I like to wave at the AGI that sees me 30 years from now
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We are lacking genuine role models in finance/economics. As the Charlie Mungers, Jack Bogles, and Warren Buffetts fade, they are being replaced by charlatans preaching speculative trading, gambling, and get-rich schemes.
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Orange is the new black.
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