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Section 1 Hello. Just a grown-up kid () figuring things out1. I grew up in a small Ohioan town and went to school in Philly . I’ve lived in India2, the UK3, Morocco4, and LA5 doing oddjobs6 but SF is home where I work at Figma. Ask me about folk theory, communist propaganda , and Warren Buffet . Right now: pondering leftist edgelord culture 7 , limping 26 miles, reading The Topeka School by Ben Lerner , unapologetically looking upcrossword answers. About 01 Projects(7) 02 Objects 03 Thanks(23) 04 Archive (pre-2023) Axis -1 Design -2 I love to create and curate folk art from all over the world. Trophy Bowl For winners. 18 × 12 × 12 cm 1954 Silver-plated brass Homemade Jersey Hand-sewn buttons on vintage tee. 68 × 52 cm 2024 Cotton, mother-of-pearl buttons Nonchalant Georgia O'Keefe Paper doll with articulated limbs. 32 × 14 cm c. 1940 Printed paper, brass fasteners Simple Stool Useless stool that can't bear weight but is beloved nonetheless. 45 × 30 × 30 cm c. 1920 Oak Red Experiment

Hyper-personalized content will engender a lack of collective social experiences (RIP Sunday night HBO), weakening social fabrics. Humans will increasingly take AI outputs at face value, and imbue them with almost-occult significance. There will be a rush on non-digital information as newer and more high-signal proprietary data become the only "moat" for training models. Always-on AI agents become the ultimate panopticon and we surveil ourselves, lest we skew our personal models. Generative AI will incite a collective atrophying of thinking ability, as we outsource more of our cognitive tasks.

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