Adam Messinger

Constant nerd, occasional dork, and web software developer/designer.

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

This is the end of "pics or it didn't happen." Of photos revealing Chinese military brutality in Tiananmen Square or US military torture @ Abu Ghraib. Of amateur video exposing police brutality against people of color. Tech gone wrong. #Pixel9 #GooglePixel
https://t.co/7wF2f24V7c

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

Best take on Blade Runner I've ever encountered. I'm embarrassed to say that this is an angle I hadn't considered before. It brought the movie back to life for me as both an excellent piece of noir science fiction and, now, as a sly antiracist polemic. https://t.co/SqilGL5tmg

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

As much as I dislike Trump (and think the 14th Amendment clause in question *should* apply to the President), let's not throw out rule of law to hastily block a bad politician.

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

This article spends a lot of time on interpretation of the 14th Amendment, but never mentions a key point: Trump hasn't yet been found guilty of involvement in the Jan 6 insurrection. (Read this *short* thread before you reply with a flaming freakout.)
https://t.co/ZNSYzLpGDO

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

"Innocent until proven guilty" is a core concept of equal justice under law. That in turn is a cornerstone of the rule of law, the idea that laws apply equally to the rich & powerful like anyone else.

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

Most folks here probably already know that https://t.co/hUhBTahJCO is Twitter's URL shortener. But tell your less tech savvy friends and fam — if you get a text like this, ignore it. Teach them how to do a whois lookup for suspect links & what *makes* a link sus. #scam #phishing

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

My new hobby: finding public domain images that Getty sells for $500, locating hi-rez scans of their original publications, cropping and cleaning them up, adding metadata, and uploading them to Wikimedia Commons.

First one: https://t.co/GUpgJs6ea0

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

@RespectfulMemes

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

Snapped a photo of my cat this evening and somehow ended up thinking of @matthewmercer and #CriticalRole (credit for "Meow do you want to do this?" goes to my wife, @liz_ad_astra)

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

@Baberscabones I found this while looking for Eshpurta maps for a small campaign of my own. It's fantastic! Did you use the free or paid version of Inkarnate for this?

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

The way @Wizards & @Hasbro have acted lately reminded me of the Goya painting Saturn Devouring His Son, but more people will definitely get this meme. #OpenDnD

[Dimmerdark @DevronAlistar]

#wotc This you ? #dnd #opendnd #OGL

[Zack Applewhite @ApplewhiteGames]

100% accurate 🤣

#OpenDnD #dnd #onednd #wotc #dndtiktok

[Jason Colavito @JasonColavito]

A client informed me that he will no longer pay me to write content for his website because A.I. can write it for free, but he wants to pay me a fraction of my usual rate to "rewrite it" in different words so it can pass Google's A.I. detection screening.

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

The other alternatives Oxford has for vote are "metaverse" — Zuk and other billionaires' half-assed VR monetization schemes — and "IStandWith," which is a hashtag prefix that's meaningless on its own. You know what you have to do. 🧌 #IStandWithGoblinMode
https://t.co/s6QeCvcibW

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

Please, *someone* hack this robot telescope to say a sing-song "are you still there?" as it tracks astronomical objects across the sky. And "nap time" when the battery runs low.
https://t.co/My3ZXBSZ7z

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

The article the headline came from is thought provoking and certainly worth a read:
https://t.co/xSL6wOpDbw

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

I've been running headlines thru AI art generators. This time it's "Al Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare" in the style of a 1950s horror movie poster. The contenders: #Craiyon (née Dall-E Mini), #MidJourney, and #StableDiffusion. Which captured it best?

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

Do these people know Minority Report was a cautionary tale? 😟🙄
https://t.co/ly5VUf64n0

[Adam Messinger @adammessinger]

They come in, they go out.
Unstoppable, eternal, and rythmic
As the tides.
The dishes. 🍽️🍴���🫗☕🚰