My Dinner with Jeffrey

What the Epstein Files Reveal about Us All

See YouTube monologue here

I got a text from my daughter last week asking, “um…so why are you in the Epstein files?”

Cut to the chase, my name is in the CC field of emails from my former literary agent, who used to publish an online journal in which a bunch of scientists and thinkers would answer questions about the future. Like, “what should we really be worried about?” or “what scientific concept would improve everyone’s cognitive toolkit?” The agent would start by sending the question to a group of maybe thirty of us — people from Brian Eno,...

Детство Фени

Феня появилась у нас полгода назад. Женщина, отдавшая...

Summary of changes for February 2026

Hey everyone!

This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.

At the start of the month, we spent a delightful couple of days deep in the wintry and rainy Spanish countryside, gathered in a medieval monastery with the Ink...

Recently

The snow has been tough for my running schedule in February but it's starting to clear and temperatures have started to lift. Yesterday got in a solid 45 miles of cycling, including up to this point near the George Washington Bridge, and back on the Tappan Zee.

I didn't add any new music to my collection this month. My Swinsian library has 15,562 tracks already so there's plenty to explore in the back catalog. I listened to The Private Press and The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.

I did find a new podcast that I've been...

Anthropic: Stay strong!

I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but hopefully this is self-explanatory.

Regardless of their broader views on the AI industry, the eventual risks from AI, or American politics, right every person of conscience needs to stand behind Anthropic, as they stand up for their right to [checks notes] not be effectively nationalized by the Trump administration and forced to build murderbots and to help surveil American citizens. No, I wouldn’t have believed this either in a science-fiction movie, but it’s now just the straightforward reality of our world, years ahead of schedule. In particular,...

Дом Анны Ивановны Лобковой-1

В Козицком переулке есть старомосковский особняк в стиле...

Знакомство с футурами в Rust и рантаймом Tokio

New tote bag

I recently took an hour or two to stitch together a new tote bag. I have a stash of materials for this because a sewing company in Brooklyn's 'Industry City' (an isolated business park) was going out of business. I regret not buying out much more of the inventory: at that point I was laser-focused on sewing projects for the outdoors, like my Porteur bag v2 and v1.

But there's a lot of fun in sewing with real cloth for less extreme circumstances.

For one thing, cotton is a different material than the laminated sailcloth fabric that I primarily use for bikepacking...

Заработало!

Не прошло и полугода, как я написала, что...

Color dithering

On Friday I decided to revisit the topic of dithering to add color. Back in 2017 I made a lot of interactive examples on Observable showing different kinds of dithering. It was fun: I distinctly remember when dithering was still a concern for computers, and it was one of those things, like the different color grading of the different broadcast TV channels, that gave a little texture to media.

Dithering is such a fun topic that a lot of people write about it: a few articles are linked below:

I don't have anything that novel to...