Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-eng @Patreon, @Microsoft, @honor | @ITP_NYU @cmuhcii educated
San Francisco & Brooklyn
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Hello world! 👋
I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)
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Did you know that Japan had its own version of the Dutch tulip bubble...but with rabbits?
When Japan reopened trade with the West at the end of the Edo period, they started purchasing foreign goods in droves and were introduced to domesticated European rabbits. (1/5)
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The craze went beyond rabbit sales and into art, textiles, and more.
Eventually the craze went so insane that it attracted high crime so the Japanese government had to get involved and both taxed and required rabbit sales to be reported. This burst the bubble. (4/5)
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Karina Chow retweeted
Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan
took a humble California wildflower
and planted 5.3 million of them
to turn an entire hill into an ocean.
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This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong
[📹 Johann Hari | TED]
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You know you have obscure interests if the last 4 things you looked up on Amazon literally produced 0 results...
Time to go back to Japantown! 😅
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WAIT! EBAY TO THE RESCUE?!
ebay.com/itm/178155308707
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What happens when artists get access to compute at the scale industry runs on?
Scaling Intelligence: Modal x Gray Area AI Commissions opens Wednesday, October 28 at Gray Area. Thirteen artists debut new work built with AI and large-scale cloud computing, moving between scales that rarely meet: a satellite’s planetary view beside a microbial colony, the inside of a neural network opening onto forests and watersheds, a day of visitor conversation becoming a creature’s memory.
Rather than using AI to make more of the same, these artists treat it as a translation layer, letting intelligences of vastly different sizes and speeds sense one another.
Featuring
@CezarMocan
@colin_odonnell
+ Justine Sun Dela Cruz + Will Gardiner
@graysonearle
@ideeplistening
@iragreenberg
@TinaPulejkova
@xMiguelNovelo
@pkmital
@rashedhaq
Sasha Sorokina
@spencerc99
Presented in partnership with @modal
🌐 Opening Night
Wednesday, Oct 28, 7–10 PM
RSVP: luma.com/5j93bc4c
#ScalingIntelligence #GrayArea #AIArt #NewMediaArt #SanFrancisco
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