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Bauwerks
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Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time.

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Bauwerks @bauwerks.net · Oct 17
Now's probably a good time to finally make a pinned post. Hey there! Writing for tech is my day job, but I also draw, animate, and take photos when I'm not working. I do all four on my website.

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Drawing of Gotoh from Patlabor parodying Kanamori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits. Drawing of Noa from Patlabor parodying Mizusaki from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits. Drawing of Ota from Patlabor parodying Midori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits.
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One of the early bummers with socialist L.A. mayoral candidate Rae Huang was her doing a walk-and-talk interview with this guy during a recent anti-ICE protest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGLC...
February 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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February 17, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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Finally got around to reading this essay about IFComp (an interactive fiction competition) banning gen AI and LLMs in submissions, and it's really good — its arguments could (and should) apply equally to film, art, and lit competitions too.

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LLM Slop Will Make Us Antisocial - Ruminations on IFComp 2025
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February 17, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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mollyknight.bsky.social
Melrose and La Brea is just a river right now.
February 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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This is Melrose Ave right now in between La Brea and Fairfax. Never seen any flooding here like this in my life.
February 16, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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trentonhoshiko.bsky.social
Dont give your friends and community a deadly and disabling disease! Please wear a mask!
michael-hoerger.bsky.social Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 1d
PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.)

14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.

Minnesota may be at an all-time high.

THREAD 1 of 4 🧵
Heat map form CDC data with PMC estimates of 1 in 71 actively infectious, nearly 700,000 new daily infections.
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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(Here's what he looks like when he's not making that face)
Photo of Daniel Grassl
February 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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One thing I'm just realizing from the Lake Zurich nazi puncher story: that high school allows those Meta glasses with cameras on the premises?

www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/14/v...
The video – which was recorded off of Spud’s Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses – shows him walking through the hallways at the front entrance of the school while holding a sign that said “I LOVE ICE”.
February 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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sorry let me try this again *ahem*

playing doom *on* my cash register
Doom running on a monochrome CRT on an IBM 486 cash register
February 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Most romantic graffiti.
Graffiti that reads No God, No King Only you, with a heart underneath
February 14, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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This will likely drop since follower counts are always off on this site and #100 was some AI bot that I reported and blocked (didn't even get a notification about it), but I might as well commemorate hitting the triple-digit count once again. 🥳🎂
Screenshot of my profile page, highlighting 100 followers. Woo-hoo.
February 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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In regards to what’s going on at the Berlinale film festival, here is footage of Godard & Truffaut shutting down the 1968 Cannes Film Festival in solidarity with students workers & protestors getting brutalized by police in the streets, & probably Godard’s best line about film criticism ever
February 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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This is weird: a volunteer for a popular Python library rejected some AI-generated code, then an AI agent wrote an AI-generated hit piece on the guy. Ars Technica writes about this, but that article had "quotes" by the guy that were AI-generated. The guy calls out AT, and the article is now pulled.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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February 14, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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"Friday the 13th, Valentine's Eve" just has a nice ring to it.
February 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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Is Hollywood becoming conservative? (Spoiler: No. Because it always was)

This week's newsletter
Is Hollywood becoming conservative?
Spoiler: No. Because it always was.
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February 13, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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defrog.bsky.social
Also, even though you can see him working Kermit and doing the voice, your focus is entirely on Kermit, not Jim. Sorcery!
davidjbradley.bsky.social David J Bradley @davidjbradley.bsky.social · 6d
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Black-and-white photo of Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson playing the flute live, hunched over the microphone with his left leg curled up in his famous "demented flamingo" pose.
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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I swear I've learned more about Chicago after moving away years ago than during all the time I grew up in the area. Great read!
ninametz.bsky.social Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 6d
Inspired by a delightful back-and-forth on here recently between @robertloerzel.bsky.social & @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social sharing photos of the Chicago Municipal Device, I thought it’d be fun to write about what the hell it even is and why you can spot it all over town once you look for it

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The Chicago Municipal Device is the city symbol few Chicagoans know about
The backstory of Chicago’s century-old symbol — a “Y” inside a circle — that can be found dotted throughout the city.
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February 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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I somehow wrote a book review during the first two months of my baby’s life.

I am pleased to share my debut in @mekongreview.com, a piece which examines how the life of one immigrant ancestor is remembered and celebrated, but also how we might criticize his choices in the name of survival. (1/)
“I am Chinese” - Mekong Review
Tyrus Wong’s extraordinary 106 years on earth, told in meticulous detail by Karen Fang, is a story of resilience and triumph.
mekongreview.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Among other reasons why the billionaire media owners in the U.S. suck up to the Trump regime...👇

apnews.com/article/hong...
China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed ...
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February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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One of my favorite anecdotes from Proto Anime Cut is the one explaining how GITS background painter Hiromasa Ogura's decision to give the film's scenes a hazy look was inspired by his camera fogging up in Hong Kong's humid summer air after walking out from an A/Ced building during a '93 trip.
A dark, hazy night photo of a Hong Kong street with street signs and a light giving off a halo. There's text written in Spanish and English — the English says: "OG 18–OG 21: Location scouting photography for Ghost in the Shell, colour photography, small format negatives. In preparation for the production of Ghost in the Shell the film crew went on numerous location scouting trips. These images were taken during a location hunt in Hong Kong in the summer of 1993. Hiromasa Ogura went into an air-conditioned shop with his camera. When he came back out into the humid night, the camera lens misted up. The resulting images show large halos around the city lights. This haziness inspired Ogura in the design of the image boards and backgrounds." A large black-and-white photo spreading two pages of signs crammed together on a street (probably in Kowloon). Another black-and-white photo of Hong Kong signage on the street, primarily in Cantonese. Another black-and-white shot, this time a storefront completely covered in ads and "to let" signs. Repeating headshots of a woman and a man in formal wear cover one side of the building.
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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cjterry.bsky.social
The haters said the Japanese opposition couldn't do it. And they were correct. Honestly, great call by the haters
tobiasharris.bsky.social Tobias Harris @tobiasharris.bsky.social · 9d
This map is just...wow.
February 8, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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Forest has made an active study of the goofy ear scratchies and the BAP-BAP contest.
two cats involved in a BAP-BAP-BAP contest. Nothing but a blur of tabby stripes and orange. a tiger-striped domestic cat scratching her head. Another BAP-BAP-BAP contest but this one looks serious
July 26, 2024 at 12:47 PM