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Jack Rusher

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Ex-Bell Labs/AT&T Research'er making art & technology in Berlin. 🐘@[email protected] 🐦@jackrusher

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · Apr 15

Intro. I’m a multifaceted weirdo, so in three parts:

① Homeschooled child prodigy, early/pre-web Internet’er, contributed to software used by ~2/3 of the world. Worked at multiple labs, including Bell/AT&T. Many successful startups.

Currently building tools to move forward science and computation.

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Jasmine Otto @jatazak.bsky.social · 1d

Bay Area UX/PL folks - I'm organizing a get-together the morning of Sat, Oct 25th. Come chat about the joy and despair of making software tools for humans!
partiful.com/e/Fs3AD41RUM...

RSVP to Feeling of Computing // Downtown SF | Partiful

Get coffee, chat convivial tools, and hang out with folks in human-centered computing. This month, special guest Ivan Reese is joining us! (Location is outdoors, near transit and multiple coffee shop...

partiful.com

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 1d

Meet me in Berlin on Tue, Oct 21:

I'll speak at the "Öffentliches Gestalten" meetup on my data design projects for the German government.

Hope to see some of you there 🤗

www.meetup.com/offentliches...

Meetup #11 — Visualising data, Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

The public sector has vast data. Data helps government and the administration drive decisions in policy-making, service development and procedural improvements. Making sens

www.meetup.com

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 2d

One of the tragedies of the Aralqum is how cool it looks in photos…

I’m standing in the Aralqum, which was a sea within living memory.

Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 2d

While traveling in Central Asia we rode in various Chinese electric cars (BYD is trouble for Tesla) and drunk speciality coffee made with beans grown in Yunnan province. A very different sense of what’s happening in China vs the “cheap shit from AliExpress” stereotype held in Europe and the US…

Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 4d

I wonder how Richard Serra would feel if he knew that his sculptures would eventually exist solely as selfie backdrops 🤔

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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 7d

i regret to inform you that the next 700 programming languages are going to be "types with baggage"

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 7d

Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers

Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.

this.weekinsecurity.com

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Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 8d

Extant decentralized solutions (Mastodon, etc.) demonstrate that the kinds of social problems that decentralized networks are supposed to resolve simply emerge in different forms due to the properties of the networks in question.

Decentralization isn't a bad thing, it's just not the silver bullet.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 8d

It's that time again: ✨we’re hiring✨

We're looking for a @godotengine.org IDE Engineer to help us build the next generation of collaboration tools inside the engine itself! More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-ide-engineer

(Remote role 🌍🌎🌏)

Godot IDE Engineer

Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot

inkandswitch.com

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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 8d

I'm not a global, or even local politics expert. But when I figured out how to map GPS jamming a few years ago my eyes were opened to the scale of Russian hybrid warfare against the west. Usually with limited awareness or response by western governments. And it's only gotten worse since then. 1/

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 8d

We made a pilgrimage to the Aral Desert, which was still the world’s fourth largest inland sea in 1970. They say the future is here but unevenly distributed, and this is the best proxy I’ve seen for the future we are currently making.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 12d

Holidays with an old and dear friend from Kazakhstan 😊

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 13d

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 extremely gullible

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 12d

Staying in the Ichan-Qаl’а of Khiva, the historical capital of the Khorazm region.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchan_...

This is where (by most accounts) Al-Khwarizmi (“algorithm”, “algebra”, numerals) originated before settling at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...

A turquoise dome seen through the window of a minaret in Khiva

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 14d

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 14d

Nice teeth

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 15d

the intern swears everything was normal at the Office of Geometry when they left last night.

and now this

abstract architecture. a glass sculpture hanging from a tall tiled ceiling. light shining in from high windows on the left. reflective glass like floor. actually the office of geometry, but upside down somehow. no orbs.

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brennan @brennan.computer · 14d

the curse of decentralization nerds is they keep trying to build tools to do more decentralization instead of more tools to keep normal people interested in being on, engaging with, contributing to a platform that happens to be decentralizable

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 14d

Last day in Bukhara…

A view of central Bukhara with domes and a minaret

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 15d

très raisonnable

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daniel 🫠 @dholms.xyz · 15d

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back!

hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network!

docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

Enabling Account Migration Back to Bluesky’s PDS | Bluesky

One of the core promises of AT is the seamless account migration between PDS hosts. Since federation opened up in the AT network, it has been possible to migrate away from the Bluesky PDS and between ...

docs.bsky.app

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 15d

And then Bukhara…

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 17d

Collecting patterns from the past for future generative art projects…

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