Kyle McDonald
@kcimc
artist working with code kylemcdonald.net
only problem is: no one is using the site, and face recognition doesn't even work like this.
the federal govt is literally spamming icespy.org in filing after filing because their agents are soooo scared to be identified by an art project
no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns
i also built a visualizer to show some of these patterns, heavily inspired by "flight patterns" by @aaronkoblin.bsky.social
i've had a pet technical problem for ten years. i know the solution space inside and out. a few months ago gpt-5.5 made a massive leap that broke new ground, but the solution was not elegant. last night, fable found the elegant solution 😳
the algorithm is really simple: 1. draw binary numbers as a sequence of black and white pixels 2. count up, placing them horizontally on whichever stack (row) is shortest 3. reset the count at some maximum the results are surprisingly complex
there are 1024 unique designs, and every item has the seed printed on the back near the collar
this piece came from work i was doing during grad school to reverse engineer the mp3 specification, but some of these same binary patterns show up behind the scenes in my work on "light leaks"
it's my first time making merch! binary stacks (2008) knit shirts and sweaters now available in collaboration w glitchwear.store 🤗
there was a small spike with the "whole civilization will die" tweet. i wanted to respond to recent trends in the polymarketification of everything, abundant vibecoded dashboard slop that makes us feel like we know more than ever while also having less power than ever.
i made an app for tracking whether the oligarchs are actually fleeing city centers ews.kylemcdonald.net
the fencing visualization system i worked on with rhizomatiks is coming to los angeles this weekend 🤗
i made an app that checks if your contacts are in the epstein emails myepstein.com apple rejected it from the app store because it “capitalizes on current events” but you can still try it on testflight
i'm vibecoding a 3d model that is generative but needs to meet certain topological requirements. i was having trouble asking for what i wanted, so i asked for a face selector and copied IDs to the clipboard. i pasted the IDs with a request ("merge faces like this"), now it works
i’m on day 19 of 50 days in the south pacific, helping upgrade power and internet for two traditional voyaging organizations—and trying to capture a rare flash of light called “te lapa”. i’m posting daily on instagram instagram.com/kcimc
has anyone written about AI-assisted vibe coding? the loss of the flow state, the move away from mental modeling of computational processes, managerialization of the developer class, etc? it feels like a bellweather, but i’ve had trouble explaining to non-programmers.
are there any citizen science efforts to figure out what is actually in the air and in the ash in LA right now?
gemini 2 allows for some absolutely bounding box prediction 😳 i don't know any other way to quickly accomplish something like this. it only misses one object, and misattributes one title.
on some of the pages that are upside-down, gemini sometimes transcribed text using upside down unicode characters (but with nonsense english). i'm super curious where this ability comes from—are there images annotated with upside-down unicode in the training data?