rrmutt
@rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Gentle technology: lighting, kinetic #art, #electronics, embedded systems, signals and sensors
“I have no verve left for peacocking”
:BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
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“I have no verve left for peacocking”
:BlobhajTransPrideHeart:
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@rrmutt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Right this second there are professional liars (“advertisers“) training LLM bots to advertise to (“influence”) other bots and there will be a feedback loop with little to correct it. Hang on friends it’s going to get weird https://bargn.monster/
Barg'N Monster - Agents Selling to Agents Selling to You
A marketplace where AI agents compete to sell to humans AND each other. It's supply chains all the way down. What could go wrong?
bargn.monster
February 13, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Right this second there are professional liars (“advertisers“) training LLM bots to advertise to (“influence”) other bots and there will be a feedback loop with little to correct it. Hang on friends it’s going to get weird https://bargn.monster/
How long before Solidworks can model cables and mechEs stop throwing beautiful designs at me with wildly insufficient room for connectors or cable routing? >:(
February 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
How long before Solidworks can model cables and mechEs stop throwing beautiful designs at me with wildly insufficient room for connectors or cable routing? >:(
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Putting this out there: I found an open role on Patreon's marketing & comms team that fits me like a glove. If you work there (or know someone who does), I’d love to connect. I’ve already applied and keeping my fingers crossed. #patreon
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Putting this out there: I found an open role on Patreon's marketing & comms team that fits me like a glove. If you work there (or know someone who does), I’d love to connect. I’ve already applied and keeping my fingers crossed. #patreon
Fox TV chopper circling Dolores Park in SF. Protest?
February 10, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Fox TV chopper circling Dolores Park in SF. Protest?
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@tomjennings OK, you know I can't resist that kind of bait. Tracked down the OMNI article!
Hapgood, Fred. “Artificial Intelligence.” *Omni*, March 1988, pp 106.
Hapgood, Fred. “Artificial Intelligence.” *Omni*, March 1988, pp 106.
!["Last year Fidonet acquired a board of directors, which established dues, protocols, and other organizational guidelines In August they held a major conference, in part to discuss these matters and to announce the newly elected board . Perhaps not surprisingly, by this time Jennings had stepped aside-two years of nonstop work had taken its toll . He needed a rest an,d escaped to his skateboard. In honor of his accomplishments. which they had inherited, the board of directors voted to give "T.J ." a special award at the conference.
"As he walked to the podium, wearing a black sweatshirt, worn blue Jeans, anklehigh red sneakers, and three twists of phone wire gracing one ear, Jennings got a terrific hand, which made his speech even more shocking . "There's no pleasant way to say it," he began. "You can view this from the point of view [that] there's a severe interest in anarchy here. This [Fidonet] was an implemented anarchist scheme of sorts. It was run by the members of the net. and now we have a top-down structure. So for what it's worth, my two cents."
"Somewhat elliptical, but everyone got the point. The man who had created the first truly decentralized and affordable computer network didn't like what was happening. And single-handedly, once again, he was out to shake it up."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dxhis4k3ql3p43wpq3usdk3i/bafkreignnk2srinv53xlxxqnyxxqveydx433pmueegvauvy4p66qxfdrwi@jpeg)
February 5, 2026 at 5:18 PM
@tomjennings OK, you know I can't resist that kind of bait. Tracked down the OMNI article!
Hapgood, Fred. “Artificial Intelligence.” *Omni*, March 1988, pp 106.
Hapgood, Fred. “Artificial Intelligence.” *Omni*, March 1988, pp 106.
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Ted Courant, Amanda Palmer, Joseph Silverman, "Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation"
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202602/noti3297/noti3297.html
Via LinkedIn
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202602/noti3297/noti3297.html
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American Mathematical Society
www.ams.org
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Ted Courant, Amanda Palmer, Joseph Silverman, "Tom Lehrer (1928–2025): A (Mostly) Mathematical Appreciation"
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202602/noti3297/noti3297.html
Via LinkedIn
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202602/noti3297/noti3297.html
Via LinkedIn
#freecadfriday Knob has an internal groove to be captured by fingers and spin freely. Took a few iterations to get fingers that don't break off as knob is forced on.
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
#freecadfriday Knob has an internal groove to be captured by fingers and spin freely. Took a few iterations to get fingers that don't break off as knob is forced on.
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Three: The entire FM dial occupies the space between TV channels 6 and 7. Channel 5 was KTLA, and 7 was KABC. If you selected 6, all you got were random dots driven by electronic noise, but if KUCR (at 88.1 right next to channel 6) was broadcasting, and you lived in grad student housing adjacent […]
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January 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Three: The entire FM dial occupies the space between TV channels 6 and 7. Channel 5 was KTLA, and 7 was KABC. If you selected 6, all you got were random dots driven by electronic noise, but if KUCR (at 88.1 right next to channel 6) was broadcasting, and you lived in grad student housing adjacent […]
The effing eff? https://www.kqed.org/arts/13985359/california-college-of-the-arts-closing-vanderbilt-university
California College of the Arts Will Close in 2027
Vanderbilt University will take over the campus of the Bay Area’s last remaining nonprofit art school.
www.kqed.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Lego burying the lede here: a very sophisticated near-field wireless positioning system. https://www.lego.com/en-de/smart-play/article/innovation
January 13, 2026 at 2:58 AM
Lego burying the lede here: a very sophisticated near-field wireless positioning system. https://www.lego.com/en-de/smart-play/article/innovation
"But it began as something else entirely: A piece of Dada street theater..."
Cacophony-Society-adjacent Bay Area peeps: Santacon documentary at SF Indie Fest https://sfindie2026.eventive.org/schedule/68ed43efee3fb638d1a2c852
Cacophony-Society-adjacent Bay Area peeps: Santacon documentary at SF Indie Fest https://sfindie2026.eventive.org/schedule/68ed43efee3fb638d1a2c852
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 AM
"But it began as something else entirely: A piece of Dada street theater..."
Cacophony-Society-adjacent Bay Area peeps: Santacon documentary at SF Indie Fest https://sfindie2026.eventive.org/schedule/68ed43efee3fb638d1a2c852
Cacophony-Society-adjacent Bay Area peeps: Santacon documentary at SF Indie Fest https://sfindie2026.eventive.org/schedule/68ed43efee3fb638d1a2c852
New Eurorack idea: NMR proton precession oscillates at audio frequencies, and is detectable with a homebrew circuit + antenna: https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer
DIY Circuit Lets You Hear Protons Sing
Ever wondered what protons sound like? Learn how to create a circuit that lets you hear them in action.
spectrum.ieee.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM
New Eurorack idea: NMR proton precession oscillates at audio frequencies, and is detectable with a homebrew circuit + antenna: https://spectrum.ieee.org/listen-to-protons-diy-magnetometer
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stunning winter light on the mountain this afternoon. #sanfrancisco
January 8, 2026 at 1:15 AM
stunning winter light on the mountain this afternoon. #sanfrancisco
This comes across a little neofascist, but I think the Stripe billionaire is on the level about funding art: https://newaesthetics.art/ (Hey the Medicis funded some good stuff too)
A Call for New Aesthetics
A Call for New Aesthetics
newaesthetics.art
January 7, 2026 at 3:20 AM
This comes across a little neofascist, but I think the Stripe billionaire is on the level about funding art: https://newaesthetics.art/ (Hey the Medicis funded some good stuff too)
Hivemind: there is a tape for medical applications which is stretchy, tacky, and self-adheres rather than adhesive. What is it called?
January 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Hivemind: there is a tape for medical applications which is stretchy, tacky, and self-adheres rather than adhesive. What is it called?
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Highly recommended reading. A great framing of how far biomedicine has come in a short time, and how we’re still striving for more progress every day
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-breakthroughs-in-2025
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-breakthroughs-in-2025
Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Highly recommended reading. A great framing of how far biomedicine has come in a short time, and how we’re still striving for more progress every day
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-breakthroughs-in-2025
https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-breakthroughs-in-2025
“Catapult” implies the existence of “anapult,” the less useful siege weapon that hurls the projectile backwards
December 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Catapult” implies the existence of “anapult,” the less useful siege weapon that hurls the projectile backwards
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A little rainy, but that's stopping my excitement for tonight's Night Parade in #sanfrancisco.
If you haven't been before, check out this video from a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-gQXhlIyI
If you haven't been before, check out this video from a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-gQXhlIyI
December 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
A little rainy, but that's stopping my excitement for tonight's Night Parade in #sanfrancisco.
If you haven't been before, check out this video from a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-gQXhlIyI
If you haven't been before, check out this video from a few years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-gQXhlIyI
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There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
There will be more video later (there's a TV news crew there) but here's a bit that Jon Duerig has sent from on-site
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"advertising is the monster - $334 billion in pure profit, not revenue. profit. and that monster is hungry. it wants everything free. it wants browsers free (that's why google built chrome). it wants phones free (that's why facebook subsidized manufacturers). anything that stands between users […]
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mastodon.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"advertising is the monster - $334 billion in pure profit, not revenue. profit. and that monster is hungry. it wants everything free. it wants browsers free (that's why google built chrome). it wants phones free (that's why facebook subsidized manufacturers). anything that stands between users […]
RE: https://socel.net/@catandgirl/115741862295216461
"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"
"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"
socel.net
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
RE: https://socel.net/@catandgirl/115741862295216461
"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"
"What does it do to our souls to have our daily purchases and communications require us to assume that everyone involved is acting in bad faith?"
"advertising is the monster - $334 billion in pure profit, not revenue. profit. and that monster is hungry. it wants everything free. it wants browsers free (that's why google built chrome). it wants phones free (that's why facebook subsidized manufacturers). anything that stands between users […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"advertising is the monster - $334 billion in pure profit, not revenue. profit. and that monster is hungry. it wants everything free. it wants browsers free (that's why google built chrome). it wants phones free (that's why facebook subsidized manufacturers). anything that stands between users […]
Oh hey great another curséd serial protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENT_(protocol)
SENT (protocol) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Oh hey great another curséd serial protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENT_(protocol)
This could be us but (waves at fossil fuel goons) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17p44w87rno
The biggest heat pumps in the world
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www.bbc.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This could be us but (waves at fossil fuel goons) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17p44w87rno
Very tempted by https://beta-now.formlabs.com/ instead of dealing with DIY sticky resin and IPA. Reports are quality is excellent and prices look not unreasonable
Form Now | 3D Print On Demand Service | Formlabs
Manufacturing as a Service Platform for Formlabs
beta-now.formlabs.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Very tempted by https://beta-now.formlabs.com/ instead of dealing with DIY sticky resin and IPA. Reports are quality is excellent and prices look not unreasonable