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Venkatesh Rao 🔹
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Too long for a note, too casual for a post… so you get a screenshot essay on floors as workspaces
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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HNY!
This is the first year in nearly a decade where the new year arrives without the feeling all the planning and resolutioning either being in the shadow of ascendant Trumpism (even in the Biden years) or an effort to studiously and strenuously ignore it. AI has easily marginalized the Trumpist turn of the planet in the attention stakes, despite it being stronger than ever. It now merely feels like an annoying transient problem that doesn’t even really need to be solved, just outlived. It’s not an enduring existential condition to be adapted to. AI not only is that, it has so far been largely a positive turn of history as far as I’m concerned. The right things are thriving or dying because of it. It is pissing off and energizing the right people. It is creating its own new problems but they are ones that seem interesting and worthwhile to solve. I’m happy and eager to adapt to an AI world, where I merely stoically accept a climate-change world and have been implacably resistant to adapting to a Trumpist world. It’s nice to feel the worldwinds of historical change blowing roughly in favorable directions relative to where I want to go for a change. Happy new year! Feels like the cheeriest one in a long time. May the slop be with you!
January 1, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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New art series titled Birren

Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s

Birren #1
December 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Art 2.2.1

We’re semantic versioning here now
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Art 2.2
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Trained a model on my october/november paintings on titles.xyz and the results are absolutely astounding. Every test I ran produced better results than my own manual efforts. Essay and public access soon.

My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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🙃 #42 in my ongoing art series
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I’m going to run a conference called “HolyShitCon🤯 2026” to talk about AI developments. Who wants to come?
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM