John Michael Swartz
@graphographer.bsky.social
Musician, photographer, cyclist, computer coaxer, lazeabout, flaneuriste. Hire me! https://jjoohhnn.com
My first trip to the Prospect Park Zoo. Reminiscences about hippos and humor. Thoughts on reapplying for a landscape photography fellowship. jjoohhnn.com/photo/prospe...
First Visit to the Prospect Park Zoo
On 10/7/25 with a friend. Hippos, Wittgenstein, humor. And maybe I influenced the NYBG landscape photography fellowship verbiage.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
My first trip to the Prospect Park Zoo. Reminiscences about hippos and humor. Thoughts on reapplying for a landscape photography fellowship. jjoohhnn.com/photo/prospe...
TIL "Slartibarfast" started out as "Farty Fuck Balls". @flophousepodcast.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
TIL "Slartibarfast" started out as "Farty Fuck Balls". @flophousepodcast.com
"The App Store Was Always Authoritarian: High-modernism as handmaiden to autocracy is depressingly predictable."
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The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend it...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"The App Store Was Always Authoritarian: High-modernism as handmaiden to autocracy is depressingly predictable."
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
I am easily distracted and sometimes my photo output lags. A post about a trip to Harriman from just before the harvest moon. jjoohhnn.com/photo/biking...
Difficult light and textures at Harriman
Beautiful day, so-so pictures
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November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I am easily distracted and sometimes my photo output lags. A post about a trip to Harriman from just before the harvest moon. jjoohhnn.com/photo/biking...
I'm so relieved to have learned there's a way to turn off the swipe-right Google dashboard.
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm so relieved to have learned there's a way to turn off the swipe-right Google dashboard.
i just went to reheat some coffee and almost entered my PIN number into the microwave
November 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
i just went to reheat some coffee and almost entered my PIN number into the microwave
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's address to Muslims resonates with me because 1) I'm capable of empathy and 2) sympathy: my mom is a Filipina immigrant and I remember all the times she worried I might be mistaken for a terrorist because of my appearance, imploring me to shave and look "meek as a lamb"
October 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's address to Muslims resonates with me because 1) I'm capable of empathy and 2) sympathy: my mom is a Filipina immigrant and I remember all the times she worried I might be mistaken for a terrorist because of my appearance, imploring me to shave and look "meek as a lamb"
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Worth your time:
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
October 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Worth your time:
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1...
(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)
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AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats
science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251015-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251015-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 57 sec
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
I found this article after @doughenwood.bsky.social quoted Iggy on Reagan. I like rock well enough but it is entirely believable that so many of its (white, male) lyricists would be attracted to the triumphal (often incoherent) polemics of the right. SAD.
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/22/r...
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/22/r...
October 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I found this article after @doughenwood.bsky.social quoted Iggy on Reagan. I like rock well enough but it is entirely believable that so many of its (white, male) lyricists would be attracted to the triumphal (often incoherent) polemics of the right. SAD.
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/22/r...
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/22/r...
Apple says it has removed an app that allows users to track ICE agents
YouTube video by NBC News
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October 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Reminds me of a clip I saw of Rubenstein giving a master class. The student played a brief passage and he said "Too much Czerny!" Meaning the timbre was too strident and the notes sounded too separate.
phys.org/news/2025-09...
phys.org/news/2025-09...
Pianists' subtle finger movements influence variations in timbre, according to new study
While it is known that auditory characteristics like loudness and tempo are associated with the physical movements of musicians, more subtle features, like timbre (also known as the "tone color" or to...
phys.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Reminds me of a clip I saw of Rubenstein giving a master class. The student played a brief passage and he said "Too much Czerny!" Meaning the timbre was too strident and the notes sounded too separate.
phys.org/news/2025-09...
phys.org/news/2025-09...
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Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown
The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.
www.motherjones.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals
In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to the Schrödinger equation
www.chemistryworld.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
Photo Dump - August & September 2025
Odds and ends from around the city
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September 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This isn't about you know who or who you know. It's about putting my hand in Prospect Park Lake to take pictures of duckweed at sunset.
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Prospect Park Lakescapes
Putting my hand in it so you don't have to
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September 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This isn't about you know who or who you know. It's about putting my hand in Prospect Park Lake to take pictures of duckweed at sunset.
jjoohhnn.com/photo/prospe...
jjoohhnn.com/photo/prospe...
Camped at Tom Jones shelter in Harriman in 2020. Was very insistent with my buddies to do a proper bear hang. Disappointed to hear there are more bear encounters since the uptick of bad camping/littering since the pandemic. abc7ny.com/bear-attack-...
September 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Camped at Tom Jones shelter in Harriman in 2020. Was very insistent with my buddies to do a proper bear hang. Disappointed to hear there are more bear encounters since the uptick of bad camping/littering since the pandemic. abc7ny.com/bear-attack-...
Writing up the 4 days I spent on my bike riding up through western MA and the Green Mountains. Researching AT shelters, somewhat unrelatedly. The Kay Wood shelter is named after a beloved ATC member and the plaque on the side ends with "Enjoy - Please Remember Others".
September 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Writing up the 4 days I spent on my bike riding up through western MA and the Green Mountains. Researching AT shelters, somewhat unrelatedly. The Kay Wood shelter is named after a beloved ATC member and the plaque on the side ends with "Enjoy - Please Remember Others".
So is "Malwario" NOT a bad guy?
August 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So is "Malwario" NOT a bad guy?
Relistening to Cindy Lee's beguiling 2024 "Diamond Jubilee". So unusually generous and beautiful. Within the first handful of tracks, I can't help but to hear little bits and pieces of "Here Come the Warm Jets". The first verse is reminiscent of "On Some Faraway Beach" lyrically and melodically.
August 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Relistening to Cindy Lee's beguiling 2024 "Diamond Jubilee". So unusually generous and beautiful. Within the first handful of tracks, I can't help but to hear little bits and pieces of "Here Come the Warm Jets". The first verse is reminiscent of "On Some Faraway Beach" lyrically and melodically.
Some new underwater selfies (patent pending).
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Underwater Selfies III
Monday at Riis
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July 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Some new underwater selfies (patent pending).
jjoohhnn.com/photo/underw...
jjoohhnn.com/photo/underw...
I just wrote way too much about my experience with the Midea AC recall. jjoohhnn.com/blog/midea-s...
The Saga of an U-Shaped Air Conditioner
My experience with Midea's recall situation
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June 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I just wrote way too much about my experience with the Midea AC recall. jjoohhnn.com/blog/midea-s...