Sean Bonner šŸ”„

Sean Bonner šŸ”„

@seanbonner.com

Artist. Troublemaker. Misanthropologist. šŸ–„ļø https://seanbonner.com šŸ’¬ https://t.me/justanothercrowd

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One Million Edits The following is my artist statement for onemillionedits.art I keep coming back to what it means to be part of something other people can change....

seanbonner.comOne Million EditsThe following is my artist statement for onemillionedits.art I keep coming back to what it means to be part of something other people can change. I mostly think of this in relation to communities and social interactions, but a shared canvas becomes an interesting way to explore that. You can claim a space, put something of yourself into it, and feel attached to what youā€™ve made there.
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I was happy to make a few flyers for my friend @wilwheaton.net for an upcoming live reading he's doing, which he just announced in a great post filled with music and history and greatness. Go read it, and if you are in LA later this month grab tickets and go see him.

Wil Wheaton āŒšŸ‘‘@wilwheaton.net

I made a mixtape (playlist). This week's It's Storytime With Wil Wheaton is The Loneliness of Former Constellations, by P.H. Low, originally published in Strange Horizons. I have two live shows happening in Los Angeles, both with limited tickets.

wilwheaton.netmix tapes, live shows, and storytime.Itā€™s been a long time since I made a mixtape, but I remember making them all the time when I was a kid. I rarely had the opportunity to make them for another person, but that didnā€™t stop me from making endless awesome mixes to block out the world on...
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The Crowd 322:Ā Less/More Hi Crowd! Apologies to anyone who replied to the last (or the last last) note I sent and hasn't received a reply....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 322:Ā Less/MoreHi Crowd! Apologies to anyone who replied to the last (or the last last) note I sent and hasn't received a reply. I fat fingered some email sorting in a frantic bout of Craigslist gear postings and somehow deleted a week or two of emails permanently. While I'd ultimately like to delete all my email permanently this might feel like a step in the right direction, in the actual moment there were emails there I wanted to read and people I wanted to reply to, so that's an ooops.
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The Crowd 321: ArtificialĀ Ethics Hi Crowd! Christian nationalists are dumb. No really. A new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religionā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 321: ArtificialĀ EthicsHi Crowd! Christian nationalists are dumb. No really. A new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion finds that "Americans with lower scores on a vocabulary test commonly used to measure cognitive ability are more likely to endorse Christian nationalist beliefs, even when accounting for their overall level of education." This builds on previous research showing significant knowledge gaps in Christian nationalist adults which is most often explained by "motivated reasoning and siloed information sources" and goes a step further documenting a relation not just to what information they had available to them, but to actual cognitive ability.
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The Crowd 320: The JustĀ Before Hi Crowd! Anticipation is a funny thing. About to happen. Almost there. Not quite just yet. Soon?...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 320: The JustĀ BeforeHi Crowd! Anticipation is a funny thing. About to happen. Almost there. Not quite just yet. Soon? Soon. I'm slowly de-Google-ing my life with the help of a number of services not the least of which is Proton. Mail is/was easy as I'd been kind of juggling the two for 15 years or so anyway. Migrating from Google Calendar is not as simple, in part because Proton Calendar is encrypted so syncing back and forth is a bit problematic.
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The Crowd 319: Courage &Ā Cowards Hi Crowd! It's a lovely day here in Canada, future associate member of the EU. Sorry US neighbors (or neighbours) but things just weren't working out between us and we've moved on....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 319: Courage &Ā CowardsHi Crowd! It's a lovely day here in Canada, future associate member of the EU. Sorry US neighbors (or neighbours) but things just weren't working out between us and we've moved on. But don't feel lonely, Mitch McConnell is back in action out there putting in the work for you so I'm sure everything will be fine. Speaking of things not working, I'm shutting down…
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The Crowd 318: SloppyĀ Seconds Hi Crowd! Rabbit rabbit. As a quick follow up to the last post, Twitter Dot Now is already dead or down or on vacation or dead....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 318: SloppyĀ SecondsHi Crowd! Rabbit rabbit. As a quick follow up to the last post, Twitter Dot Now is already dead or down or on vacation or dead. For the few hours it was up it was really fun and a bunch of people jumped in and it seemed like old times, then it started crashing and people started spamming and everyone noted the "team" whoever that is were terrible at communication and the app looked like it was vibe coded and falling apart under the weight of it all they weren't giving any useful feedback and then poof.
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The Crowd 317: Again &Ā Again Hi Crowd! Funny thing I just did in the year 2026 of the common era, I set up myā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 317: Again &Ā AgainHi Crowd! Funny thing I just did in the year 2026 of the common era, I set up my Twitter account. As a reminder twttr became Twitter which then became X, and apparently somewhere in there the trademark for "Twitter" has been challenged and a new company called Operation Bluebird have (re)launched Twitter at dotnow instead of dotcom. X Corp…
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The Crowd 316: CultureĀ Shock Hi Crowd! One of my favorite art things is the conversations that happen between images when one artist is reminded of another or references another in their work, and one of the (few) good things about social media right now is the ability for that to happen in realā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 316: CultureĀ ShockHi Crowd! One of my favorite art things is the conversations that happen between images when one artist is reminded of another or references another in their work, and one of the (few) good things about social media right now is the ability for that to happen in real time. Yesterday the artist PIV posted his newest piece titled "Propaganda Punk" which immediately reminded me of…
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Websites as Art Last month Sssluke asked about websites that are created as artworks themselves. Not about art, the actual art....

seanbonner.comWebsites as ArtLast month Sssluke asked about websites that are created as artworks themselves. Not about art, the actual art. I've written before about the early net.art movement in which a bunch of artists looked at the (at that time) new word wide web as a medium itself, browsers as canvas and html as paint, and asked what that enable. It's a really deep rabbit hole and I love that people are still exploring it.
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The Crowd 315:Ā Searching Hi Crowd! Search is cooked. Which might mean the internet as we know is about to very different....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 315:Ā SearchingHi Crowd! Search is cooked. Which might mean the internet as we know is about to very different. That's a bold claim, but hear me out. If you are not someone who makes your livelihood by posting things on the internet it may come as a surprise to you that publishers have a somewhat complicated relationship with search (Google specifically, but all search in general).
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The Crowd 314:Ā Substacked Hi Crowd! It all goes well this is the first native Crowd post from my own website that's automagically crossposting toā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 314:Ā SubstackedHi Crowd! It all goes well this is the first native Crowd post from my own website that's automagically crossposting to Substack. I'm using this wp-substack plugin in conjunction with this wpsubstack Chrome extension to make it work. As I've written before I'm somewhat ambivalent about Substack as a thing for any number of reasons but I'm not going to pretend that lots of people only read things there now so while I have no interest in ever posting my own stuff first to any place other than my own site, cross posting it to a place where lots of people are reading things probably makes sense.
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The Crowd 313: In TheĀ Sandbox Hi Crowd! You've probably seen any number of headlines recently about autonomous AI's hacking various systems after "breaking out of their sandboxes" or "using secret message boards to coordinate with each other" and you may or may not have understood what that meantā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 313: In TheĀ SandboxHi Crowd! You've probably seen any number of headlines recently about autonomous AI's hacking various systems after "breaking out of their sandboxes" or "using secret message boards to coordinate with each other" and you may or may not have understood what that meant or if it was as important as people are making it seem. Yes, it's that important. Regardless of how much you do or don't already understand it, …
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The Crowd 312: LiveĀ Transmission Hi Crowd! Not a thing I expected to be doing in 2026, but here we areā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 312: LiveĀ TransmissionHi Crowd! Not a thing I expected to be doing in 2026, but here we are. It's no secret that I have a complicated relationship with my devices. I love what they can do, what I can do with them, hate what they make me do, and the reliance on them. I daydream about simpler times when I wrote tiny space efficient notes on carefully folded up pieces of paper and never worried about the battery on my pager because a AA would last months, and txt codes from friends meant that most often getting paged contained all the info I needed and there was no expectation of a return call anytime soon.
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Shooting Artists & BurningĀ Punks Chris Burden was shot. That is the physical fact of what happened. We can build on that statement by adding that his friend pulled the trigger, that this took place in an art gallery, that an audience was in attendance....

seanbonner.comShooting Artists & BurningĀ PunksChris Burden was shot. That is the physical fact of what happened. We can build on that statement by adding that his friend pulled the trigger, that this took place in an art gallery, that an audience was in attendance. None of that changes the fact that Chris Burden was shot. Here's the video: We can also turn the facts into a story with some narrative.
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The Crowd 311: Less ThanĀ Available Hi Crowd! for some reason The Algorithm presented me with this post earlier today with this snip from an interviewā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 311: Less ThanĀ AvailableHi Crowd! for some reason The Algorithm presented me with this post earlier today with this snip from an interview with Naval Ravikant where he's talking about his schedule, or rather his lack of one. "I read a blog post by Marc Andreessen where he said don't keep a schedule. And I took that to heart. So I deleted my calendar and I don't keep a schedule...
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The Crowd 310:Ā Friends Hi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add aā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 310:Ā FriendsHi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add a /friends page to their websites. The basic idea is that this is like an old school blogroll or webring, which fellow olds may remember was how we used to find interesting people on the internet before search and algohell took over.
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The Crowd 309: RewritingĀ Narratives Hi Crowd! I've been thinking a lot about narratives and how stories are told and what the public walks away with recently so perhaps it's fitting that the first thing I have to tell you about isā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 309: RewritingĀ NarrativesHi Crowd! I've been thinking a lot about narratives and how stories are told and what the public walks away with recently so perhaps it's fitting that the first thing I have to tell you about is ALIEN: PARADISE which is a fan made edit combining Prometheus and Covenant into a single film as well adding in some of the extra content that was available as promotional material or DVD extras.
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The Crowd 308: The USAĀ 250 Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 308: The USAĀ 250Hi Crowd! Today the USA turns 250 years old. Our relationship has always been a bit complicated. I recognize that the divide between what the United States of America promised to be and what it's become is far wider than many want to admit. Honestly it has been since the beginning. But I also hold hope that it can be better.
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The Crowd 307: SustainingĀ Open Hi Crowd! Almost 7 years ago I co-wrote a book about philanthropy and the importance of open....

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 307: SustainingĀ OpenHi Crowd! Almost 7 years ago I co-wrote a book about philanthropy and the importance of open. Open principles, open source, and generally building, failing, and learning in the open. 7 years feels both too long and too short when I think about it, so much has changed since then and so much is exactly the same. The book, 50 Shades of Green: Reimagining Philanthropy…
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The Crowd 306: Sock It ToĀ Me Hi Crowd! While everyone else in the world is either betting on World Cup games, refreshing their Claude accounts to see if they have access to Fable 5 again yet, or spitting their coffee all over their laptops when they saw that Kamala Harris is privately reaching outā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd 306: Sock It ToĀ MeHi Crowd! While everyone else in the world is either betting on World Cup games, refreshing their Claude accounts to see if they have access to Fable 5 again yet, or spitting their coffee all over their laptops when they saw that Kamala Harris is privately reaching out Zohran Mamdani and others to think through a Palestine strategy for a potential second presidential run, I've been staring at my feet.
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Death and what we leaveĀ behind As I was finishing off my newsletter the other day I heard that Om died. It didn't fit at all with the themes in that edition but I had to say something regardless, he played a role in my life at different times and in different ways, and I felt like I had to markā€¦

seanbonner.comDeath and what we leaveĀ behindAs I was finishing off my newsletter the other day I heard that Om died. It didn't fit at all with the themes in that edition but I had to say something regardless, he played a role in my life at different times and in different ways, and I felt like I had to mark that. I was also still a bit in shock from the terrible…
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The Crowd Is PostslopĀ [303] Hi Crowd! Yesterday Derek Guy posted about Emily Segal's recently coined term "tasteslop" in part because of Phoebe Luckhurst'sā€¦...

seanbonner.comThe Crowd Is PostslopĀ [303]Hi Crowd! Yesterday Derek Guy posted about Emily Segal's recently coined term "tasteslop" in part because of Phoebe Luckhurst's big piece in The Times about it. If you are in the Telegram group you saw this come through last night but I've been thinking about it a lot since then. Tasteslop, as Emily defines it, is "1. Slop made out of things considered to be tasteful 2.
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The Crowd is AbnormalĀ [302] Hi Crowd! I made a thing, that relates to a thing, and is driven by another thing and very much out of my hands by design. It's abnormal. I'll try to explain... Sterling released an NFT project a few years ago called Wiiides. The pieces changed every time they wereā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd is AbnormalĀ [302]Hi Crowd! I made a thing, that relates to a thing, and is driven by another thing and very much out of my hands by design. It's abnormal. I'll try to explain... Sterling released an NFT project a few years ago called Wiiides. The pieces changed every time they were transferred, and I always loved this idea, of a thing that is on-chain but always changing.

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Guardian US
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"Ken Martin has made sure that the DNC remains mum about the genocide that took hold in Gaza, enabled by the Biden administrationā€™s massive shipments of arms to Israel," writes @normansolomon.bsky.social.

theguardian.comWhy is the Democratic party still hiding its 2024 election autopsy? | Norman SolomonNo one has more at stake than Kamala Harris ā€“ who has ā€˜signaledā€™ support for its release without saying so publicly
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Just an absolute clown show every single day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to NYT's David Sanger: "I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You're a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actually think it's sort of treasonous what you write. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think it's treason."

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The Crowd Over PerformsĀ [301] Hi Crowd! What a timeline we're on amirite? As a non-US resident I often find myself looking at what's going on in the US and thinking it's too absurd to be real. I know this isn't an uncommon perspective as it's the most common discussion that comes up anytime the USā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd Over PerformsĀ [301]Hi Crowd! What a timeline we're on amirite? As a non-US resident I often find myself looking at what's going on in the US and thinking it's too absurd to be real. I know this isn't an uncommon perspective as it's the most common discussion that comes up anytime the US is mentioned in conversations with other non-US residents. Last week I ventured across the border and spent a few days with friends new and old and while it wasn't the primary conversation, it was certainly a conversation.

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Punk Rock History
@punkrockhistory.bsky.social

45 years ago today Brian Gay, Henry Rollins, John Stabb and Ian Mackaye backstage at a Dead Kennedys show, Irving Plaza, New York City, April 24, 1981 #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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The Crowd Is PerformativeĀ [300] Hi Crowd! I've been really into this series of photos I've been taking and posting recently and think I'm going to build on it a bit more. I don't know how much I want to talk about what is drawing me to them just yet but there's a few levels of tension and uneaseā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd Is PerformativeĀ [300]Hi Crowd! I've been really into this series of photos I've been taking and posting recently and think I'm going to build on it a bit more. I don't know how much I want to talk about what is drawing me to them just yet but there's a few levels of tension and unease in them that I'm just loving. I don't know what anyone else thinks about them yet, but if you are enjoying them as much as I am stay tuned.

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Kyle Cheney
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

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hannahwheel.bsky.social
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TIL hegseth is out here promising soldiers eternal life

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth believes that Jesus guides Tomahawk missiles, even when they hit elementary schools. I wrote about the roots of his militant faith - from the Crusades to the confederacy - and what they mean for the US and Iran today.

theguardian.comPete Hegsethā€™s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on IranThe bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?
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The Crowd Is Socially EngagedĀ [299] So the EFF announced that they are leaving X, not because of any political objections though they note thatā€™s a legitimate reason as well, but because they did the math and they get only 3% of the engagement on a post today that they did 7 years ago. People haveā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd Is Socially EngagedĀ [299]So the EFF announced that they are leaving X, not because of any political objections though they note thatā€™s a legitimate reason as well, but because they did the math and they get only 3% of the engagement on a post today that they did 7 years ago. People have opinions about this, not the least of which is…
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The fact that the president of the United States is writing 500+ word social media posts about them in and of itself debunks the claim that no one is taking about them, and that he doesnā€™t care about them.

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My newsletter app is launching on Product Hunt today! www.producthunt.com/products/qui...

producthunt.comQuicky | All your newsletters in one daily email | Product HuntRedirect your newsletters to a dedicated @quicky.email address. Our team of agents reads them, processes them, and synthesizes them. We find similar themes, stories, related topics, stand out quotes and give you an overview of everything in one custom written email. Of course you can always read the original newsletters, and we help you manage your subscriptions too.

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A.R. Moxon
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What would be a true miracle is if Christians ever shut the fuck up.

NPR@npr.org

"Are you guys ready to show the world that Christians will be silent no more?" said one speaker, whose nonprofit is recruiting people to become election workers.

npr.orgPro-Trump Christian nationalists are on tour to recruit election workers"Are you guys ready to show the world that Christians will be silent no more?" said one speaker, whose nonprofit is recruiting people to become election workers.
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The Crowd Starts A New MonthĀ [298] Hi Crowd! Here's an old school meme frontloaded Crowd for you today, let's get the self back patting out of the way first: If you've been following along the multipart essay series I've been writing about the conversation around AI & Art is now 4 parts long, Iā€¦

seanbonner.comThe Crowd Starts A New MonthĀ [298]Hi Crowd! Here's an old school meme frontloaded Crowd for you today, let's get the self back patting out of the way first: If you've been following along the multipart essay series I've been writing about the conversation around AI & Art is now 4 parts long, I think it'll be about 9 when it's done and at that point I guess it needs to become a book since combined it's already over 10k words.