Ben Hollis
@benhollis.net
Software developer with too many hobbies. Posting personal stuff here, work stuff @stately.cloud.
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Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like
December 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like
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Angelenos: Mint Chip is about 6 months old and still looking for a home! He's a perfect boy who adores laps, attention, and other cats so much. Adopt him through Santé D'or! www.santedor.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Angelenos: Mint Chip is about 6 months old and still looking for a home! He's a perfect boy who adores laps, attention, and other cats so much. Adopt him through Santé D'or! www.santedor.org
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I don't know how to tell you it just sucks to struggle your whole life to communicate, find it in a style of art you have developed, and then knowing out there that there's someone scraping everything you did to steal your voice and put it on something you had no choice in speaking for.
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I don't know how to tell you it just sucks to struggle your whole life to communicate, find it in a style of art you have developed, and then knowing out there that there's someone scraping everything you did to steal your voice and put it on something you had no choice in speaking for.
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I finally had enough down time to photograph “ghost forest”, my big sculpture from my October firing. The results were just spectacular!
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I finally had enough down time to photograph “ghost forest”, my big sculpture from my October firing. The results were just spectacular!
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Shop drop on dec 1, 12am pst including a postcard calendar, seconds sale mystery necklaces (my fav), and hand painted wood shields
pamwishbow.com
pamwishbow.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Shop drop on dec 1, 12am pst including a postcard calendar, seconds sale mystery necklaces (my fav), and hand painted wood shields
pamwishbow.com
pamwishbow.com
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59. It’s gotta be gayer. It should be, it won’t be, but it’s gotta be gayer. Give us a Doctor Aphra show that’s like a Space Young Indiana Jones.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
59. It’s gotta be gayer. It should be, it won’t be, but it’s gotta be gayer. Give us a Doctor Aphra show that’s like a Space Young Indiana Jones.
I don’t have any problem with AI/ML stuff that’s used to help people build or create. Better tools. But once it crosses a line to replacing creation, I feel immediately repulsed. And that makes it hard to appreciate the parts that should actually be cool and exciting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I don’t have any problem with AI/ML stuff that’s used to help people build or create. Better tools. But once it crosses a line to replacing creation, I feel immediately repulsed. And that makes it hard to appreciate the parts that should actually be cool and exciting.
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As I have said to students nowadays, the most important thing one learns in school is how to learn, and using LLMs completely defeats that objective. The process matters.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As I have said to students nowadays, the most important thing one learns in school is how to learn, and using LLMs completely defeats that objective. The process matters.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
You don't use a fork lift the gym. The immediate result—weights up in the air—is not always the key reason to do something.
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This little baby, Mint Chip, is the last of our foster kittens to be adopted. If you know anyone in the LA who needs an absolute sweetie who adores laps, blankets, and other cats, they should get in touch with www.santedor.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This little baby, Mint Chip, is the last of our foster kittens to be adopted. If you know anyone in the LA who needs an absolute sweetie who adores laps, blankets, and other cats, they should get in touch with www.santedor.org
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Hey look who's back from firing and will be in the shop Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's our old friends cuttlefish bottle and hissing possum jar.
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hey look who's back from firing and will be in the shop Wednesday at 11am Pacific! It's our old friends cuttlefish bottle and hissing possum jar.
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
Leslielevings.bigcartel.com tomorrow!
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The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The bad news is that *even in the current climate* liberals, capitalists, and mainstream media will form a united front with the fascists to oppose a center-left candidate.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
The good news is that they can be defeated.
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In addition to prepping for a wood firing in two weeks, I did a bronze pour yesterday!
Dang. Things get real pretty when they’re hot.
Dang. Things get real pretty when they’re hot.
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In addition to prepping for a wood firing in two weeks, I did a bronze pour yesterday!
Dang. Things get real pretty when they’re hot.
Dang. Things get real pretty when they’re hot.
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idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
idk why this concept is difficult to grasp for a lot of people and doesn't take priority over wether or not liking wizards makes you a good person. Dont give her money! The money funds evil! its truly that simple
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A preview of one of the pieces that will be in my show, INSIDES.
Opening this Saturday 11/1 at Stranger Factory alongside ARMOR, a show by Shing Yin Khor. Come see it in person in Algodones, New Mexico or online through strangerfactory.com
Opening this Saturday 11/1 at Stranger Factory alongside ARMOR, a show by Shing Yin Khor. Come see it in person in Algodones, New Mexico or online through strangerfactory.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
A preview of one of the pieces that will be in my show, INSIDES.
Opening this Saturday 11/1 at Stranger Factory alongside ARMOR, a show by Shing Yin Khor. Come see it in person in Algodones, New Mexico or online through strangerfactory.com
Opening this Saturday 11/1 at Stranger Factory alongside ARMOR, a show by Shing Yin Khor. Come see it in person in Algodones, New Mexico or online through strangerfactory.com
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I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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It’s hard to see anyone enjoying AI made anything when the people I know and love are building house sized kilns to make their stuff. This is what doing art actually does to your brain.
We just finished up the 6th firing of my train kiln. It was a delight. It was also a lot. I knew that the one thing my 80yr old mother wanted for her birthday was to come help, so she did!
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It’s hard to see anyone enjoying AI made anything when the people I know and love are building house sized kilns to make their stuff. This is what doing art actually does to your brain.
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There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This is simply false.
- UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh
- panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
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Some more on the making of our ILM Rebel Hideout. www.ilm.com/rebel-hideou...
Welcome to the Rebel Hideout: ILM’s Employee-made ‘Star Wars’ Gathering Place
Learn the inspiring story of a group of dedicated ILM and Lucasfilm employees who turned their dreams into a reality....
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August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Some more on the making of our ILM Rebel Hideout. www.ilm.com/rebel-hideou...
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one of my favorite things about this age of Star Wars storytelling is finding out that the Rebellion's victory wasn't just because of one hero in an X-wing but because of all the people along the way who made the choice to do the right thing
May 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
one of my favorite things about this age of Star Wars storytelling is finding out that the Rebellion's victory wasn't just because of one hero in an X-wing but because of all the people along the way who made the choice to do the right thing
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