Last snow cone day of the season.
Phones, shadows, taxidermy, and peanuts from Bucky Miller and Hannah Spector at Shed Shows in 2023. 📷
Thinking about this late night putt putt excursion at a neighborhood park in Arkansas with my cousins a few years back. Curves, ramps, and ghosts. 📷
Hopping on the micro.blog June photo challenge with a close-up of some puzzly hackberry tree bark on the St Edwards Greenbelt trail. 📷
If you’re craving more coach whistle in your experimental music diet, do I have a treat for you! Tidligere Den Dagen written/produced by Smerz, performed by GAEA - smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/album/tid…
Just listened to the How to Fix the Internet podcast ep Love the Internet Before you Hate On It feat Molly White. She made an awesome criticism of blockchain’s distribution of compute passing as distribution of power, and a great argument for passionate, open web communities like Neopets, Wikipedia.
Here’s a super useful guide from Texas Tribune for tracking state bills this legislative cycle. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/2…
Brought my 16mm direct animation loop, Petal Film, to bring your own beamer night at dadalab last Friday. Was fun to dust off the project and show off some film work again.
Section 230
Learning about Section 230 today, which has held internet platforms (social media sites, forums, podcast apps, etc) immune from liability for user-posted content since 1996. Like “the views expressed here…” disclaimers you hear on public media.
There have been pushes for its removal in the past, in 2020 and 2021.
“Democratic proposals have sought to make it easier to hold platforms accountable for harmful content they allow to spread on their services, while Republican proposals have sought to punish platforms for restricting certain kinds of content.”
It’s on the chopping block again, which feels dangerous in the current climate with organizers, artists, and anyone speaking out against the current government’s voices potentially on the line.
“Big Tech will survive 230 changes just fine, but the spaces we use for organizing won’t.”
Tesla Takedown Organizers Letter: “Democrats, don’t kill the tools we need to organize!”