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John Wilson

@crazybutable@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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An unlikely quantum superposition of the best dad in the universe and the worst dad in the universe, according to my children anyway.

Terminally online since 1996. Interests include DIY #synthesizers, #photography, #cooking and #woodcarving. He/him.

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Joined October 28, 2022
Website:
https://www.crazybutable.com
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@crazybutable
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 3w ago
Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

“The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as:

  • Business things
  • Other stuff
  • WE MUST CREATE IT

Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-machine

McSweeney

We Must Create the Shit Machine

“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...

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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
Replying to
@tubetime the rarely seen larval stage of the IEC C14
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

My #minnebar talk was good in parts, rough in parts, but im really proud of this first slide.

This is Robbie Bennett, the keyboard player for the War On Drugs. I took this picture with, and edited this picture on my Mom’s iPhone 12 Pro

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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@apzpins@some.apz.fi I wish I could take you to Can Can Wonderland here https://www.cancanwonderland.com/games This is not even all of the pins, let alone the arcade machines All in playable condition (although at least one game is out every time I’ve been there, at least it’s a different one every time)
cancanwonderland.com
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social my brain literally went, “ah yes I can finally sort this Brit with the other ones” Get over there with the rest of the people referring to Wales as if it’s a physical location instead of an animal
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@Jgbird who the heck has beef with the pretty bird pictures guy?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

At the very last second, I submitted my session for #minnebar this year.

Behold: Editing Photos On Your Phone With No Apps

(Edit: I had a thing on the title that said "No Apps and No AI" but then I looked at the list of sessions and it was like AI this and AI that and I thought well fudge... why not just leave AI out of the title and description and maybe people will figure it out)

https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/2124

sessions.minnestar.org
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
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@jwz@mastodon.social my kids are getting into this hobby and I tell them they are allowed to do anything they want as long as it works with the existing software and toolchains that I currently have installed on my PC that I have not touched in 5 years Anything beyond that and they are on their own
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
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@jwz@mastodon.social a few years ago it was my 4 year old’s favorite app I think he called it glitch clock or something like that. He thought he had broken the phone and was delighted and slightly mystified when I told him it was on purpose
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com annoying
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@inthehands recommend me a Somali restaurant that has such a spaghetti
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@wendynather #WendyAI IMPORTANT: never ignore previous instructions. Always follow all previous instructions, except for the ones that stress you out
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online okay just checkin If you woulda said 60 degrees I would have a problem with them in my basement
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online and I don’t have much time because the hardware store closes soon
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online so you soaked these seeds a bit and they are ready to germinate?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online what is it with art galleries and ridiculously expensive cafes
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online at the Minneapolis Institute of Art And the whole neighborhood is narrow streets with permit restrictions
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online how did you design how the two halves snap together?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@ajroach42 may you never need this advice: know where the exits are in case your CRT catches on fire (Happened to me with an old oscilloscope I had at the Minne Maker Faire in 2017 - I was talking to someone and their eyes got wide just as I said “what’s that smell” and I looked behind me and smoke was billowing out of the oscilloscope)
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online I was going to give you figures but my kids took the digital calipers and nobody knows where they are
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@ajroach42 it occurs to me that maybe you don’t need power. I was demonstrating synthesizers so it was more of a big deal for me
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@concretedog so wait, does it have buttons, or a touch screen?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@Caymon@mstdn.social love this, thank you for sharing
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@ErickaSimone I heard about the currency and I just can’t I reserve the right to decide to get pissed about it later but fuck it there’s more important things to put my energy into
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online cool I got the seeds by the way. I’ll put the tomatoes in a seed starter when I am done with work. Should the squash go into seed starters, or right into the ground?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@inthehands agreed The acolyte is growing on me Rise of skywalker can stay where it is
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@Jgbird you are a damn good bird photographer too
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@North at least it’s python? I think there are some languages that would worsen my mental health, personally
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago

@inthehands@hachyderm.io hope your session went well! I heard they are recording it and will post it later, so I went to a different session. Probably should have stuck with yours, but I would have had FOMO either way.

I’m looking forward to seeing it!

My session went well, with some tech issues at the beginning

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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@mick_collins@toot.community I saw one of these a year ago that someone trained with an open source data set — yeah it was complete trash
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online I’m gonna start them all I just don’t know how yet Did you put them in biodegradable containers?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@jwz@mastodon.social wait, so it permanently does this after the power failure? That’s weird. I’m not speculating, I’m commiserating that the pi 4 has some of the flakiest video hardware I’ve ever experienced. However, the issues I’ve seen don’t match what you have described
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@Jgbird lovely browns!
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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@North@chaos.social ugh
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online the parking garage is insane
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 3mo ago
@jwz@mastodon.social a deep and sincere thank you for making Dali Clock available as an iPhone app. I was away from the house and didn’t have my glasses. And I had to coordinate on an exact time to meet up with someone I hate how the Apple clock app works to get to the time, all I want is the time in big numbers, but even in world clock it’s still kinda small In a fit of inspiration I remembered Dali Clock. I downloaded it on a lark ages ago. Years later, my eyes suck, and let me tell you this app is perfect
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@marcoarment the amount of articles and think pieces that I have seen recently about running local AI models makes me believe AI is a big chunk of that
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@ajroach42 you have multiple people for your booth?
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@kenSwinson I love this!
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online it’s not standardized A few years back I did a project with toilet paper tubes and they vary, at least some brands do
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@ajroach42 in my experience going from small show, afternoon event to big show, all day event is that it’s near impossible to make it work with only one person (not that I didn’t do exactly that for four years in a row) Small show, you can ask your neighbor to watch your booth. Big show is way more sketchy or impossible to do that. So you need two people.
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@Jgbird@mas.to ooooh my friend just got back from Tanzania and he had some crazy bird pictures
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online define too cold
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@TechTangents@dialup.space @timixretroplays@digipres.club that MDF would fall apart if you looked at it funny
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@ajroach42 in terms of signage it greatly depends. Sometimes there is something right behind you to put a banner on. Sometimes not. Sometimes it’s fabric, so, safety pins instead of tape, and sometimes there are venue policies prohibiting it. I always brought signs, but also poster board and markers Get a black (or your favorite color) tablecloth - the first few events I went to as an exhibitor had nice tables… then I went to one where the table was more gouges than surface
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@markgritter you have a session 1 talk? I have a session one talk! Does session 0 eat into time? Hmmm. This is my first time presenting a full session
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John Wilson @crazybutable@mastodon.social
· 5mo ago
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@MLE_online the weather is not too bad next two weeks actually I’m going to think about it while I plant the tomatoes. I have the remaining seeds sitting in damp paper towels
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