Andrew Hinton 😷🧡

@andrewhinton

“Lacks self control” Mrs Duncan (2nd grade) Product Design + IA + UX etc ATL / PHL Love your neighbor as you want to be loved. Everyone is your neighbor. 🕸️: andrewhinton.com 📖: contextbook.com 🦣: #ND #ADHD

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Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 5h

Making pupusas for the first time. Turned out quite nicely. 😋

Seven pupusas — thick corn pancakes about six inches wide each — cooking on a griddle.

Two cooked pupusas on a small blue earthenware plate, with some pickled onions, chow chow relish, and Serrano sauce sprinkled on each

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 3d

I’ve never seen this Harryhausen quote about why stop motion animation is its own aesthetic form & trying to make it feel like smooth live-action is a category error. ❤️

As Harryhausen summed it up in 1981:

To me, the ultimate aim in making our films has never been the smoothing out of stop-motion animation. To try to duplicate live action in every way seems to me like asking a painter to paint a landscape so it will appear like a photograph. Our pictures are more of a surrealistic experience rather than an excursion into technical perfection. I’m certain technical perfection has its place and its advantages, but could you really make a sequence such as the skeleton swordfight in Jason and the Argonauts … with a computer?

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 11d

Warmed some miso soup I made a couple days ago — which is perfect because the soft tofu chunks have absorbed more flavor — added leftover rotisserie chicken, mushrooms, green onions, and some Szechuan chili crisp for zing.

A wide white bowl of soup — involving the ingredients mentioned in the post — with two chopsticks propped on the rim

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 24d

Just tried searching for a gif in iMessage to send to my spouse about something good and instead now have a screenshot that feels evergreen

Search field shows a search for “Good shit” and a result below saying “there are no results for “Good shit”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 26d

Scooby Doo meme
Frame 1 Fred is about to unmask a tied up villain dressed as a ghost labeled Silicon Valley
Frame 2 the unmasked villain’s real face now labeled Uncanny Valley

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· 29d

AliExpress has a hat showing Sisyphus rolling his stone inside an ouroboros, in case you need some relevant metaphor gear to wear in zoom meetings

A gray “dad hat” with a white screen print of a snake in a circle eating its own tail, and a human figure trying to roll a boulder up its interior surface.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jul 11

"It's Heirloom Tomato Season, Motherf*ckers" - our farmers market right now

A table full of colorful heirloom tomatoes in various shapes and sizes with yellow green purple and red coloration all mixed together

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 30

This lede 🔥🔥🔥🏆

Writing during the carnage of the first world war, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist & plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of freedom & democracy…indelibly marked by their long captivity to the money counters & owners of human chattel.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 26

Just ran across a PDF of the first real conference talk I ever gave, just over 20 years ago.

A powerpoint slide titled “Questions = Scissors”
Underneath the title, on the left, a photo of William S Burroughs (the author) — an elderly thin-faced white man in business dress and a flat brimmed hat, and on the right a photo of a set of scissors.
Above the photos, and under the title, a quote: “When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 23

Amazing archive of cutaway drawings showing the innards of various starships, space bases, and giant robots from the venerable Perry Rhodan franchise. www-perrypedia-de.translate.g...

A cutaway line drawing of a giant flying saucer, half of it removed to show a complex variety of rooms and floors and machinery inside.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 21

First tomato salad of the season. Now to get some good bread for this.

A clear storage bowl full of yellow and red chopped tomatoes, fresh basil, and oil & vinegar.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 21

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"

Highlighted passage from the novel: “So that’s how the largest manufacturer of androids operates, Rick said to himself. Devious, and in a manner he had never encountered before. A weird and convoluted new personality type”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 20

Made a quick mango pico, and put it on top of chips and an off the shelf tex-mex beans thing. Plus some cherry tomatoes. Very pleased.

Top-down photo of a colorful plate of nachos with brown tex mex beans, some chopped red cherry tomatoes, and a fine-chopped mango pico de gallo with mango, onion, serrano, and cilantro visible.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 20

This is exactly grim calculus I’ve been bracing myself for — mass acceptance of seething & suffering of the unlucky millions of people who are harmed by a new technological “convenience”

Screenshot of a section of the quote-posted link: “Over the past century-plus America reshaped the landscape for cars rather than people. This transformation of the physical landscape was so dramatic, it made us overly dependent on them, which helped feed a culture that largely accepts those deaths and injuries as the necessary cost of mobility and a vibrant economy. Today, Americans are killed by cars at a rate four times that of the UK or Germany.”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 19

Post a robot that is not from Star Wars or Transformers

Teddy the sentient teddy bear robot from Spielberg & Kubrick’s “A.I.” - a brown densely furry teddy bear

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 15

Things I'd forgotten about the 1979 Buck Rogers pilot film: - John Portman may be the reigning king of architects whose buildings are in sci-fi movies - This was the first place I'd encountered the "our future is run by computers who programmed themselves & are wiser than we" 😬 - Twiki was horny

A scene from Buck Rogers where Buck (Gil Gerard) is speaking with Deering (Erin Gray) in futuristic white outfits, standing on a concrete walled walkway. Behind them are the five cylindrical silver glass covered tower buildings clustered together with the taller one in the center, the Westin Bonaventure hotel designed by John Portman architects. (As are many buildings seen in Marvel and other films)

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 11

“Human in the loop”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 9

Just looking at "Gentle OS" makes my brain relax. github.com/luke8086/gentleos

Photo of a vintage “Libretto” laptop made of chunky gray plastic and a small low-res screen, on which is displayed some simple pixel-based design UI graphics reminiscent of original MacOS or early generation Linux window GUI.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 3

Gods bless @wxpnfm.bsky.social

Photo of a car stereo console screen showing that WXPN in Philadelphia is playing the entire first side of Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick over radio waves in the year 2026

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Jun 3

A moment from the balcony tonight

A photo from a balcony. At dusk. Striations of wispy clouds against a dark dark blue sky. Balcony has some Edison style string lights, and silhouettes of a few potted plants. Beyond the railing is a theater with multicolor neon marquis, in an old 1920s brick facade.
Streetlights speckle the surroundings.
Taken with the “Hoga” simulated camera in Dazzcam.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 23

A Star Trek series opening scene showing the episode title above the Enterprise ship as it orbits a planet. The fake episode title made with the quote-skeeted web site says: “…EARTH’S HAUNTED”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 21

It is May 2026 and Microsoft Teams still only gives you 240 characters for image alt text.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 20

I’m hearing this quoted skeet in Disco Elysium Electrochemistry voice

Disco Elysium’s illustration used to represent Electrochemistry: A haunting painting of a red thin and vaguely human figure from the back, with strange bone-like protrusions where arms should be. Half its head looks similar to a swollen brain, the other hairless with a somewhat pointed alien-like ear. A zigzag stitch-like pattern down the middle of its back.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 20

I can smell the rain coming in

Dusk on a balcony with some flowers and herbs, and the colorful neon sign of an old movie theater in the background

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 19

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 16

1 - Shot. 2 - Chaser.

Photo 1 (the “shot”) Reddit post from r/InfoWarriorRides, titled “just had the pleasure of seeing this at work”.

It shows the back of a Toyota sports hatchback.
Words written on the back window:
“MAGA 2026. Black votes don’t matter. Women votes don’t matter. America 4 white Americans”.
On each side of that message are a cross and a six pointed star also written in white.
Additionally the bumper has a sticker that says “I brake for emo girls”.

Photo 2 (the “chaser”)
A comment on the post saying: “hey look, a Toyota Incelica”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 16

Post a meme made by you

The “young man turns away from his date to whistle at another young woman walking by” meme but all three people are labeled as “UX”

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 8

Every time I grab this lens-cleaning cloth Zenni included with my glasses, I wonder what market research led to advertising facial-recognition blocking as a feature. I totally get it btw—but have assumed this is more of a niche concern at least among US customer base? #cyberpunk_not_a_manual_etc

A lens cleaning cloth spread on a table. The cloth is printed with an ad with a woman’s face in the center & various bits of text and graphics about “ID Guard (TM)” such as “Your ID on lock” and “AI tracking detected”.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· May 8

So many mobile apps with puzzle-box interaction mechanics just make me think of Pinhead asking me "do you want to play?" And I'm like .. nah bro. Nah I'm good.

Pinhead from Hellraiser — a bald pale man with metal pins sticking out of the whole surface of his head, wearing black shiny leather, and holding the mysteriously figured puzzle box in his hand offering it to the viewer.

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton· Apr 24

I made the opioid comparison a couple years ago in a talk. But likened it more to the 1800s unregulated tonic industry. Of course I also see the parallels with how tobacco & oxy were marketed. andrewhinton.com/2024/11/14/t...