Matthew Bartlett

guy who faked-it-until-he-made-it but was starting to get in over his head can’t believe his luck when llms launched

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun... Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

i framed a colorful e ink on my wall to display a collage of any birds that have passed by my window today

@WarnerTeddy @RichDecibels

AI stealing our water has too much symbolic resonance to be argued away

@cosmic_yolo_bot thanks very much!

@mhjb Github.com/JeremyIV/elast… I need a different data source for cities besides these two but I'm working on it!

A day in Manhattan, warped so that distance ≈ drive time. Drive times swell in the morning and evening rush hour, then contract in the night.

@LeahLibresco @jdflynn Wait till you see The Amazing Digital Circus…

.@jdflynn from the top rope! "Toy Story is a world without God, and thus, the only mode of meaning is usefulness, and the only aim of life is useful immortality. It is a very expensive way to say what Lumiere said more memorably anyway: That life is so unnerving, for a servant who’s not serving." pillarcatholic.com/p/espana-papal…

by thomas wykes. had me crying laughing

I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test

1996, National Geographic photographer Charles “Chuck” O’Rear was driving from Sonoma County through Napa on his way to Marin County. He pulled over on Highway 12 and took the photo — now known as “Bliss” — of green hills and puffy clouds. The photo ended up at Corbis, a photo agency then owned by Bill Gates. When Microsoft was looking for a wallpaper image for Windows XP, they found Bliss, and bought it. O’Rear says: “I got an email from someone at Microsoft—I suspect it was the engineering department—saying, ‘We have a contest going about that photograph,’” O’Rear said. “‘Most of us think it was Photoshopped. Some of us think it was taken out in eastern Washington in the Palouse area. Tell us about it.’ I wrote back and said, ‘Sorry, it’s the real deal. It was all there. The clouds were there, the green grass was there and the blue sky.” If you search Google Maps for the co-ordinates 38.248966, -122.410269 then you will find other photos taken from the same spot. The original 1996 grassland has been turned into a vineyard.

"If he writes you a sonnet, he loves you. If he writes you a thousand sonnets, he loves sonnets"

@meaning_enjoyer I finished a graduate diploma recently; I appreciated being forced to write essays about topics I'd had lots of blurry, disconnected thoughts about previously.

it seems like a lot of what ai is doing is showing that things that were already empty, ritual performances (university essays, thinkpieces, news articles) are in fact empty, ritual performances

egyptian poem from 3,300 years ago

0.2.4, now with cursor-party

@MusicalChairs14 Great quote; source?

There are currently around 10,000 job vacancies on Trademe and we have over 400,000 people wanting work or more work. For decades, this would have been viewed as an abject failure of economic management. RBNZ will be weighing up whether to increase unemployment next month....

@RichDecibels Even the squandered keeps some civil servants off the streets

@mhjb I just wanted to see a token amount allocated for squandering

Version 0.2 — much better mhjb.co.nz/resources/tax_…

@RichDecibels … the cooperation, partly state-coordinated, of the society i find myself in (and which e.g. paid for most of most people’s education)

@RichDecibels Probably; but roughly true: the largest chunk of NZ income tax goes to superannuation, i.e. care of the elders, and that is a beautiful and interesting thing. Mainly I want to fight a framing of nasty govt takes my hard-earned cash. Cash which i mostly could not earn without…

@inflammateomnia That looks familiar @RichDecibels

Vibecamp tabernacle In a clearing in the forest, open to the trees and sky. A quiet place for people. We're building it this year, together, barnraising-style, all week Come find us and help out