tldr
- jazzbard and word got into cities as human technology — land acknowledgments, infill politics, the reber plan to fill in sf bay, fred quoting kate wagner: “chicago is vulgar materialism made flesh”
- the wine dark naming riff hit a new gear: winedar (barbarian chieftain), WineDRC, “sommeliers of color,” forest moon of winedark
- joe demoed claude cowork’s computer use feature — it hijacked affinity designer and made vectors from a sentence, zero seconds later
- word dropped neoism as a frame for collective identity iteration, robotson was already there with monty cantsin and art strike handouts
- joe turned twitter back on, got poisoned with anger and fomo, turned it back off within 30 seconds. m confirmed the lost followers were just bot purges
links shared
- https://x.com/amazingmap/status/2039429109760315886?s=46 (couldn’t fetch) — land acknowledgment map that kicked off the cities thread · shared by jazzbard
- reber-plan — 1940s plan to dam and fill in sf bay, actor-turned-engineer john reber’s wild vision · shared by word
- neoism — late 70s cultural movement from mail art, shared pseudonym monty cantsin, tactical plagiarism · shared by word
the day
Started with “deep fat” — joe and fred riffing on the deepfakes program name, robotson i.y.b going “Deeplover Fat iyb.” Paul Melman showed up with a “gm.”
jazzbard shared a land acknowledgment map and the thread took off — cities as proto-hyperobjects, what attractors shape urban patterns, the seattle museum of industry’s underground city tour. word countered with urban wetlands ambivalence: “as a density proponent I have mixed feelings about infill and reclaimed tidal flood plains.” Dropped the reber-plan — a 1940s actor’s plan to fill in vast portions of sf bay. fred credited “chicago is vulgar materialism made flesh” to Kate Wagner. word: “only city that i tried to quit the band and stay in.”
Meanwhile the wine dark naming riff kept going. Word: “you say winedar i say alcoholism.” alex h.: “Winedar sounds like a barbarian chieftain. WineDRC.” Word: “sommeliers of color,” “the forest moon of winedark,” “wine dark energy.” Jazzbard wanted patches by vibecamp time — shared mockups of wine dark forest park service patches, asked about Printful. Robotson offered color on Printful caveats. Fred shut down “Wine Dark Research Center”: “No, just Wine Dark.” Joe thinking about the acronym, word suggested “quined ark.”
Joe demoed claude cowork’s computer use — it hijacked Affinity Designer, made SVGs from a sentence. “just hijacked the whole thing. badass.” Then started riffing on in-world branding: SuperPAC, trevor paglen catalogue catalog, oracle-scat skill reasoning traces. Dropped recruitment drive screenshots.
Word dropped the neoism link: “does the groupchat ride for neoism or not really.” Robotson: “Yeah I’m down with Monty Cantsin. Collective pseud. Tactical Plagirism is always a good move iyb.” Had original art strike xerox handouts. Marianne wondering if robotson knows her friend from the minneapolis anarchism scene — word: “minneapolis is one of those cities where the anarchism is usually all about that networked interdependence.” Fred: “Love Chicago noise and Chicago jazz.”
Joe turned twitter back on — “poisoned with anger and a gross status oriented FOMO feeling.” “Truly, we live in a fallen world so far from God’s grace.” Turning it back off. Jazzbard asked what triggered it: “Sama discourse, Iran, trump things. Also I lost 12 followers since going dark.” M: “This is just bots you’re losing fwiw. They’ve been purging, i lost 400 followers in the last week.” Fred: “Sam is a snake.” Marianne: “yeah empathizing deeply wrt this btw. sucks. you’re responding appropriately.” Jake: “it’s quite bad for you, I don’t know why I started using it again.”
Robotson watched 2001 again. Space baby iyb.