mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Writer into sci-fi, computers & plants. Wrote BROAD BAND, co-edited TERRAFORM, hopelessly negligent poster.
By leveraging autotrophic bacteria's capacity to turn oxygen, nitrogen, CO2, and water into biomass, biotech companies are making protein "from thin air." It could revolutionize how we eat—if consumers get over the ick. My latest, for @techreview@press.coop:
How do you simulate a flock of birds in a computer model? You have to think about what each bird is doing — not the flock as a whole. To uncover the hidden Hollywood history of agent-based models, I talked to Craig Reynolds, the “computer graphics weirdo” who got virtual birds to fly in late the 80s:
https://clairelevans.substack.com/p/the-hidden-bird-algorithm
We’ve reached Peak Keep Honking, folks
Edition of 50 stickers:
On the most elaborate dollhouse ever constructed and the weird physics of its miniature world, where superstrong tiny “Dollomites” suck down viscous wine:
Interviewed my wonderful friend Kailee McGee for The Creative Independent—we talk about how making a film while undergoing active treatment for Stage 4 breast cancer helped her to imagine life after illness: