John Kellden

Each lesson tells the story of an artist like Vera Molnár or Sol LeWitt, then gives you a tool to make work the way they did scholia.art

Francis Cadell first visited the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in 1912 and returned every year afterwards, frequently in the company of Samuel Peploe. He felt the light was of the same quality as that in the south of France. This is from 1928.

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Brian Eno / Peter Schmidt ~ Oblique Strategy of the Day... #BrianEno #PeterSchmidt

It doesn't really talk about games at all but if you want a more detailed understanding of how and why exactly 'private equity' and its ilk destroy media companies and IP, this book is really good. www.ucpress.edu/books/deriva...

Our (@mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and I) book GAME STUDIES: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD is officially OUT everywhere in the world except the US for some reason. So here is an actual thread about why we wrote it and what we were trying to achieve with it.

A capital finds a technology to make its labour more productive than that of other capitals. It makes a surplus profit. The technology becomes the new norm across all capitals. Surplus profit disappears. Expanding scale now only way to make bigger profit. Next technology comes along. Rinse & repeat.

understanding the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is key to understanding what’s happening right now with AI

when you hear startups constantly talking about their "moats", what they are talking about is a structural factor which will delay this from happening. they know it's inevitable, but the hypothesized reasons for the delay is often the thing that forms the basis for the company's value.

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

Kudos to the @reuters.com team that reported this. "Heat storms" is a great term for what we're experiencing. And I'll never forget the anecdote about the nosebleed 😱https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-heatstorms-science/

In light of recent events it might be particularly interesting to see how far away from Paris you can travel by train within 24h... Source: buff.ly/xn3swc6

Studying to become a medieval priest was a real drag – thank goodness Solomon (?) had a series of mysterious diagrams and chants revealed to him (?), to make things go down easier. Loved working on this excerpt from Anne Lawrence-Mathers' THE MAGIC BOOKS:

A 19th century manual on systematizing life as art and art as life: "Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression" @mathildegm.bsky.social @publicdomainrev.bsky.social (Plus- Wings) Rehearse: roughlydaily.com/2026/08/12/a...

"After John Cage has done four and a half minutes of silence, the task of the avant-garde is not to then do five minutes of silence. That’s kitsch." Going to be thinking about @return2sanders.bsky.social's interview with Tom McCarthy whenever anyone talks about experimental literature:

Compiled by Horace Traubel, The Book of Heavenly Death (1905) gathers choice passages from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass that speak to the poet’s conception of immortality: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-heavenly-death/

when I first got on social media, it felt like a chance to talk to people that I would, hopefully, meet someday (at a conference, at a local thing, etc.). I think online friendships are fine, but I heavily lean toward pulling my online friends together (through CodeTV, friendly gatherings, etc.)

we don’t need to explain atproto. we need to move the Overton Window to get people asking why it’s considered normal that a company can unilaterally control (and destroy) part of our identity and we just… let them

GM. We are going to win. An internet where 4 corporations wall us all into their surveillance state and make us pay rent forever is just incompatible with human flourishing. The only question is how long it takes everyone propping up history's worst billionaires to figure this out.

once again: the open social web is the long game ⏳

I spent the entire day reading Karen Barad

Hello, if anyone has told you you need to increase your uncertainty tolerance or comfort with ambiguity lately, or you find yourself wishing someone else would do the same, here ya go: medium.com/topology-ins...

Antifascist Economics was published today by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Honestly, in a country where you see parties like the AFD rise to power, and when they get hacked, emails about members going on *Hitler pilgriimages* being unearthed, this opening chapter hits pretty hard.

Daily bunny no.3477 can't remember the title

#BeautifulChaos Ferris wheel in Pripyat, Chernobyl, abandoned for 30 years after the nuclear disaster.

"An instant classic. [Data By Design] celebrates data visualization while also casting light on the dark parts of its history ... with rigor and grace." — @albertocairo.com "Data By Design" shows how visualization can lead to a more liberatory world. Out Oct 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

One article after another about Trump allying with the authoritarian bloc of Putin and Xi. All focusing on ephemeral and illusory paranoia, never touching on very obvious corruption, self-dealing, and the influence of oligarchs actively attacking democracy and enjoying deals with all the actors.

Gw\'enol\'e Lecorv\'e, Delphine Charlet, Pierre Adam, Floriane Behanzin, Lionel Delphin-Poulat, Johannes Heinecke, G\'eraldine Damnati, Pelin Kaytmaz, Nourredine Khaous, Charbel Kindji, ... Wolof-Adapted Industry-Ready Open-Weight Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20824

"It's a glitch, women don't move like that" *Well, a woman could in fact move exactly like that, with some dance training, proper costuming and some concentration *It's not an error, it's a glimpse into the authentic model-world of stochastic bodies in stochastic spacetime flic.kr/p/2sG1uSq

subscribing increasingly to what I'd describe as the Chunky Peanut Butter theory of game design, which is that it solves a lot of problems for you if your core game mechanic, in its simplest form, still has something for the player to "chew on" - that they can fail at, be better at, think about

@moomanibe.bsky.social also knows what's up

Here he talks about suspension of disbelief, and how it works. He also makes the incredibly unexpected (to me) leap of understanding that suspension of disbelief applies to the rules of GAMES, too. No biggie, just Tolkien articulating Johan Huizinga's "Magic Circle" just 1 year after Homo Ludens

This man delivers a no-bullshit takedown of Trump and his MAGA supporters, no fucks given. We should all be this mouthy and vocal. And I love his hat.

It’s easy to panic, but that’s just one of the many good reasons to do it

1/ New paper out today in PNAS Nexus! This large-scale study of U.S. book bans started at a summer school 2 yrs ago with @msoligon.bsky.social @isarock.bsky.social Jack LaViolette. This has been such a fun and meaningful project! 🔓Open access paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵thread below...

What they taught in school: GDP up = good. What they left out: The atmosphere has a limit Soil can die Water runs out 8 billion people need a living planet, not just a growing economy.

TL;DR - Find an embedding direction that distinguishes "instructions" and "data" in a single prompt; then measure the 'instruction-ness' of external data token-by-token basis remove that component from their residual stream embedding. This dramatically reduces the ASR of indirect prompt injection.

This is so cool! 10 years ago we did an explicit joint embedding that worked pretty well. Crazy you can just... Train them independently!

I’ve probably doodled this dozens of times, but I just really like this knot.

I'm big enough to admit defeat. 😞