some birds I spotted off the coast at low tide today - osprey, spotted sandpiper, gull, and a blur that was too far away to tell
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
some birds I spotted off the coast at low tide today - osprey, spotted sandpiper, gull, and a blur that was too far away to tell
current read!! >> dense and not for the faint of heart but for any science history lovers a definite read >> it is a thoughtful and comprehensive treatment of the subject and something I’m sure will be a continual reference for me
December 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
current read!! >> dense and not for the faint of heart but for any science history lovers a definite read >> it is a thoughtful and comprehensive treatment of the subject and something I’m sure will be a continual reference for me
had some fun yesterday completely frying this image of some seabirds
December 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
had some fun yesterday completely frying this image of some seabirds
photos from a couple months back of a blue heron fishing in the tide pools with onlookers
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
photos from a couple months back of a blue heron fishing in the tide pools with onlookers
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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This year, many of Quanta’s biological stories deeply explored memory. Here are some of the stories worth remembering from 2025:
The Year in Biology | Quanta Magazine
Take a jaunt through a jungle of strange neurons underlying your sense of touch, hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution and the dense neural networks of brains and AIs.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This year, many of Quanta’s biological stories deeply explored memory. Here are some of the stories worth remembering from 2025:
speaking of this exhibition: Omni intelligent @ UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery >> anyone in the area should go see + the film playing in the back is one of the most entrancing and interesting films I’ve watched in a long time - it is Songs from the Compost: mutating bodies by Eglė Budvytytė
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
speaking of this exhibition: Omni intelligent @ UCSD Mandeville Art Gallery >> anyone in the area should go see + the film playing in the back is one of the most entrancing and interesting films I’ve watched in a long time - it is Songs from the Compost: mutating bodies by Eglė Budvytytė
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
sometimes you miss a couple days of drawing and have to doodle your characters on your gallery program just for fun
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Genome sequencing technology is introducing biologists to a world of quasi-life forms that they’ve never met before. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Genome sequencing technology is introducing biologists to a world of quasi-life forms that they’ve never met before. @jakebuehler.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/a-cell-so-mi...
I just saw an ice recruitment ad on youtube >> I think my day has been ruined
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I just saw an ice recruitment ad on youtube >> I think my day has been ruined
slowly working on some hand signs for one of the magic elements of my comic book
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
slowly working on some hand signs for one of the magic elements of my comic book
watched bugonia this week.. wondering if I’m the only one that felt like Emma Stones character fell a little flat and that kind of undermined the rest of the narrative >> I wrote a whole post on it open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
something buGgy about bugonia
I talk about Michelle's character being underdeveloped and kinda spoil the movie.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
watched bugonia this week.. wondering if I’m the only one that felt like Emma Stones character fell a little flat and that kind of undermined the rest of the narrative >> I wrote a whole post on it open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
just watched bugonia and am confused at it being marked a comedy
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
just watched bugonia and am confused at it being marked a comedy
I wrote a reaction to reading Magic by Chris Gosden >> I think this is whats missing from newer imaginations of prospective futures + it’s an incredibly comprehensive and thorough destruction of linear progressivism that currently underpins tech progress narratives
open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
A serious consideration of magic
my rambling reaction to reading Magic by Chris Gosden
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I wrote a reaction to reading Magic by Chris Gosden >> I think this is whats missing from newer imaginations of prospective futures + it’s an incredibly comprehensive and thorough destruction of linear progressivism that currently underpins tech progress narratives
open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
open.substack.com/pub/culdesac...
threw my character sketches into the same doc and made adjustments so they look like they’re all from the same universe >> here’s the before and after
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
threw my character sketches into the same doc and made adjustments so they look like they’re all from the same universe >> here’s the before and after
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Long before the binary 0s and 1s of digital computing, analog computers measured the tides, calculated the position of the planets, and predicted eclipses.
What Is Analog Computing? | Quanta Magazine
You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Long before the binary 0s and 1s of digital computing, analog computers measured the tides, calculated the position of the planets, and predicted eclipses.
speaking of music lately I’ve been getting into + Sunset Rollarcoaster + Bitter Tea of General Yeng + Chinese American Bear
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
speaking of music lately I’ve been getting into + Sunset Rollarcoaster + Bitter Tea of General Yeng + Chinese American Bear
just got a new pair of headphones after using very old ones [ including an old pair of wireless buds ] and I think it’s finally time to fully break up with spotify >> in the early days I really valued their recommendations and curated playlists but it’s such garbage now
November 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
just got a new pair of headphones after using very old ones [ including an old pair of wireless buds ] and I think it’s finally time to fully break up with spotify >> in the early days I really valued their recommendations and curated playlists but it’s such garbage now
finished another character sketch!! >> slowly getting closer to finalizing the character designs for the first bit of the story !! >> this character is charlie, creator of chaos magic who gets shot back in time and is forced to babysit her 17 year old self
November 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
finished another character sketch!! >> slowly getting closer to finalizing the character designs for the first bit of the story !! >> this character is charlie, creator of chaos magic who gets shot back in time and is forced to babysit her 17 year old self
finished another rough character sketch !! >> digital is totally new to me so I’m still playing with styles but I’ve nailed down my characters into a story so I’m hoping to maybe start putting them into the first issue of my comic soon…
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
finished another rough character sketch !! >> digital is totally new to me so I’m still playing with styles but I’ve nailed down my characters into a story so I’m hoping to maybe start putting them into the first issue of my comic soon…
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I keep thinking about the symmetry of Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong both being second games where the original had an emo sadboy protagonist and then the sequel being about a girl who is just incredibly task-focused and direct and probably shops at Athleta
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I keep thinking about the symmetry of Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong both being second games where the original had an emo sadboy protagonist and then the sequel being about a girl who is just incredibly task-focused and direct and probably shops at Athleta
another character sketch !! this is charlie the younger and she’s got a love hate relationship w ants >> I got some new half tone brushes for procreate >> I only used them for the background here but I’ve been having so much fun playing around with them
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
another character sketch !! this is charlie the younger and she’s got a love hate relationship w ants >> I got some new half tone brushes for procreate >> I only used them for the background here but I’ve been having so much fun playing around with them
made another #4panel !! >> I’ve been trying to start with keeping it simple and balancing values in greyscale but this time I tried messing with some color >> ended up with an unintentionally primary palette >> this one is titled “just checking in”
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
made another #4panel !! >> I’ve been trying to start with keeping it simple and balancing values in greyscale but this time I tried messing with some color >> ended up with an unintentionally primary palette >> this one is titled “just checking in”
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My goodness, the last line.
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My goodness, the last line.