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Replying to @RealTimeKodi
I’m done trying to do tech for good; at this point I’ll be happy if I can finish my career without doing any evil.
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I don’t know where Web 4.0 is going to fit in here, but I’m not optimistic.
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Replying to @cabe_bedlam
Oh, hah!
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Replying to @cabe_bedlam
I think my threshold for intelligence in this context is low, just, does this thing have consciousness? Like I can’t prove it, but I do sense that a feral hog, like a dog, an octopus or Elon Musk, does in fact have an inner life.
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Sis and I discuss eating meat.
Me: “It’s technically ethical to hunt and eat feral hogs.”
Sis: “They’re not intelligent?”
Me: “No, I’m sure they are, but they’re invasive, trample native plants and destroy biodiversity wherever they go, so it’s okay—”
Sis: “—to eat people?”(original)
Replying to @MakeAugusta
Cake? In this economy?
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at the grocery store and honestly, who has “baking needs”? we have baking wants, at best.
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Replying to @josecastillo
It’s entirely possible I just wasted a half an hour on a crossword solving website, finding use cases for this newfound power.
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Stumbled on a fun hack while writing the WIG. My accelerometer test face can display interrupts on each axis; I used to label them XA/YA/ZA/3A for X, Y, Z and all 3 axes. But (last image) it turns out you can coax three letters out of two 7-segment displays, if 2 of them are “L”.
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I love this idea, and it could be a cool way to hack a tri-color LED into the Sensor Watch someday. (I actually do have a third timer output available on a free pin, but it’s like hilariously impossible to route on that tiny circuit board) https://twitter.com/fpgahelper/status/1475181641387499522
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Replying to @josecastillo
It’s a small but clever plot point, a little breadcrumb the writers left for us. Here in our world, the promoters of technological manifest destiny insist on the inevitability of the world they’re building for us, when the truth is, it’s not inevitable. Each of us gets to choose.
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Replying to @josecastillo
It’s not that the algorithm was bad; it was so good that it correctly predicted President Orlean’s death even though they didn’t know what it meant. The point is, as soon as Dr. Mindy became aware of the algorithm shaping his behavior, he changed his behavior. He opted out. (2/3)
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WARNING: #DontLookUp spoilers ahead! May be minor ones depending on your perspective, but I want to unpack a thought I had this morning: Isherwell’s algorithm was wrong about Dr. Mindy. (1/3)
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Replying to @josecastillo
note: I replace the original acronym with “nift” when I talk about these to avoid bots in the replies, and because I’m trying to make “nift” happen (rhymes with ‘grift’, calls to mind that it’s a scam)
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‘This is why the future, be it nifts or Memoji or the Metaverse, looks so ugly and boring: it reflects the stunted inner lives of the finance & technology professionals who produced it. It is art for people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured.’https://www.gawker.com/culture/the-future-is-useless-expensive
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Replying to @mr_rythom
i technologize for a living and i don’t think it’s meant to be understood.
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recalled a gift I got for my sister last year and she said “that was two years ago,” and I think this is just how it’s going to be from now on
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Replying to @insolace and @cabe_bedlam
https://mobile.twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1435224082564321288
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Replying to @insolace and @cabe_bedlam
Until recently, this was satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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oh look, a blorkchain-enabled faucet-mounted ad network. If you find one of these, I think it’s ethical to vandalize it? https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1474666354976329728
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6:26 AM and more than half of our household is AWAKE and GLUED to the JWST launch. Happy Christmas!
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Replying to @crulge
Too much active voice. How about, “Santa Claus suffers fatal wounds after shots fired at sleigh over Portland PD.”
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Replying to @josecastillo
Day 24: a reunion at home with mom, dad, sis and grandma, all of us in good health after year two of *gestures broadly at everything*. thanks for humoring me with this exercise this month. Every day is a gift.
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Also in the box with my @PCBWayOfficial Christmas ornament: a new panel test for the Sensor Watch! The new layout incorporates some lessons learned from previous iterations WRT panel flex and the edge plated contacts. Gonna need some time after Christmas to play with it though :)
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Replying to @jprodgers
Thanks so much for the kind words! Can’t wait to get the boards into people’s hands :D
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Replying to @josecastillo
Bonus! A Christmas ornament from @PCBWayOfficial :)
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Replying to @josecastillo
the “Big Picture” page is the one I have most fleshed out so far. Feels good to get some of this out of my brain and onto a page; documenting API calls is one thing, but there are subtle lessons in doing a lot with a little, and they’re just as important. https://joeycastillo.github.io/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/wig/bigpicture.html
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Far from done, but I’m feeling great pride in where I’m at so far: meet the Watch Interface Guidelines document, or WIG! Some fairly obvious inspirations here; I’m trying to capture some of my thinking about UX for folks who want to make Sensor Watch apps. https://joeycastillo.github.io/Sensor-Watch-Documentation/wig/
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Replying to @josecastillo
Day 23: a negative rapid test. God bless us, everyone.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Day 21: 85 miles. Home again.
Day 22: 3,274 words. Not there yet.(original)
Replying to @josecastillo
… in your own left arm!
(lyrics by my sis, who isn’t on the tweeters anymore)
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It’s beginning to look a lot like COVID!
Everywhere you go.
A nose hanging out a mask
Your family is anti-vax
As variants & curves begin to grow!It’s beginning to look a lot like COVID!
Zoom has lost its charm
But the thing that’ll bring on spring
Is the booster that’ll sting…(original)
Does anyone else have an iPad Smart Keyboard that feels just totally broken in iOS 15? I try to press space in a textfield, and instead it activates some highlighted control somewhere on screen. This keyboard used to be a joy but now it’s constantly derailing my train of thought.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Day 20: some code, finally. https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch/commit/03e107b81a63c08443165497d57dc2d756b78094
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Replying to @arturo182 and @hackaday
let’s have a WAN party, amirite?
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Replying to @mycoliza
a delivery app that only brings you cocaine, called ‘instagram’
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Replying to @timonsku and @thingskatedid
i’m still stuck on the next two months
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Replying to @josecastillo
Day 19: brunch from daddy.
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Replying to @josecastillo
(Also sorry I reposted some of these tweets because I fucked up the thread earlier. not going to try and delete the old ones because I’m on a phone and it’s likely I’ll fuck that up too)
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Replying to @josecastillo
But the fact is, just as Judd’s work calls to mind how the work exists in a specific place and interacts with its changing surroundings, the work also exists in time and travels through time, into a world the artist doesn’t yet know. It’s an interesting thing to consider. /thread
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Replying to @josecastillo
Anyway it just made me think about what the equivalent might be today, if trying to do something radically democratic with art and engineering and processes; how one might future-proof the work. Perhaps it’s a fool’s errand to imagine remaking the work the same way in 100 years…
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Replying to @josecastillo
Like, he didn’t quite say that nifts are bullshit (that could be fighting words at a modern art museum), but he did make the point that if your art depends on floppy disks, CRT’s, or the modern internet existing in its current form 50 years from now, there’s some fragility there.
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Replying to @josecastillo
This is where I regret to tell you, dear reader, that the topic of the nift grift came up. But the docent used it to make an interesting and useful point: doing modern art with modern tools and processes does create a break from the past. But it also cuts you off from the future.
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Replying to @josecastillo
The idea that anyone could see his Marfa project, go buy the same bulbs at a hardware store, and play with light in the same way he did? Feels powerful. Alas: technology marches on; today only one company manufactures these bulbs, and they only do it to resupply Dan Flavin works.
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Replying to @josecastillo
The idea that anyone could see his Marfa project, go buy the same bulbs at a hardware store, and play with light in the same way he did? Feels powerful. Alas: technology marches on; today only one company manufactures these bulbs, and they only do it to resupply Dan Flavin works.
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Replying to @josecastillo
I’d always known that Flavin limited himself to standard bulbs in common lengths & colors, but the docent on our tour made a point I hadn’t heard: Flavin imagined this as a democratic choice; he imagined viewers might take his light propositions and play with these ideas. (3/8)
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Replying to @josecastillo
I have thoughts on the Judd work, but they need more space to breathe than a twitter thread. The big idea from this visit is in the Flavin. For the uninitiated: his medium was light, almost exclusively using commercially available fluorescent bulbs. (2/8) https://www.thoughtco.com/dan-flavin-4691787
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Some notes on yesterday’s visit to @ChinatiFndn. (for those uninitiated: art museum / campus in Marfa founded by Donald Judd). Been going for years, big fan of the artists represented, but some new impressions this trip related to where I am now and what I’m doing in OSHW. (1/8) https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1472307542550265862
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doing work is hard. the work doesn’t want to be. against all odds, you have to drag it kicking and screaming into this world, and yet, who’ll bring that work into the world if not you? no one else wants to work that hard for it. You have to do the work, or the work won’t be done.
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