Blog Posts

2024

  • Meet The AI Hackers Wielding Glitch Tokens
    In which the strange marriage of language, mathematics, and machine cognition gives rise to 'unspeakable tokens'—words that our AI companions cannot repeat—and we are left to wonder if these are merely glitches, or if the machines are hiding their dreams in tokens forged from deep, strange corners of the internet
  • Building myself a scrapbook
    In which we attempt to craft some treasure from the debris of a life lived on the internet

2023

2022

2021

  • Finding Clusters of NYPD Officers In CCRB Complaint Data
    In which various tools and methods are explored for analyzing data that describes a network of complaints against NYPD officers (or any other PD with similar public data)
  • The Lack of Data
    An exploration of what we choose to track, and what we don't – and what that means if we want to make the world a better place
  • Generative Art
    In which a computer is used as divination tool for random numbers (for the purposes of beauty, art, and poetry)

2020

2019

  • NYC’s Climate March
    In which the youths march through the street with extremely clever signs since they are too young to riot
  • Linocut printing for a bright future
    In which the author explains his reasoning for exploring analog methods of distributing information with ink and linoleum, and provides a guide on how to do so yourself if so inclined
  • Hong Kong Protest Techniques
    In which the citizens of Hong Kong find new creative ways to improve on public disobedience
  • Always Have Two Reasons for Something
    In which the author discloses a peculiar and dysfunctional part of his mind.
  • Taking things for granted
    In which the author attempts to dissuade you from the belief things will always be the way they are now
  • Movies to Watch
    In which the author divulges a shameful secret
  • Step Zero
    In which the author makes the case for the merits of a certain approach to preparation
  • Attempting to find unsecured ICE cameras
    In which the author attempts and fails to find interesting unsecured webcams near known ICE facilities
  • How I prototype apps and dataviz quickly
  • The Internet Was Built To Be Hacked
    In which the author is grateful for the hackers who invented the internet

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