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b-2 spirit preparing for ops (june 2025)

b-2 spirit preparing for ops (june 2025)

buddy, they won’t even let ME fuck the brand guidelines

buddy, they won’t even let ME fuck the brand guidelines

my coldest regards

my coldest regards

“Aesthetics are your problem and mine, nobody else’s.” — Saul Bass

“Aesthetics are your problem and mine, nobody else’s.” — Saul Bass

uncomfy at the war

“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it… so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and …takes its place in the web of nature.” — Christopher Alexander (A Pattern Language, 1977)

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

play is literally research

momentum is oxygen. every day we waste waiting for the moonshot that'll fix *everything* is a future deferred. while we wait to invent new forms, we'll look past the progress we could make today. too caught up in the marginalia. a pity.

I actually have a lot of design anger about this & I do think it's a design choice - polish over clarity isn't an uncommon design choice, but it's a bad one couple that with the chat interface (more design) & the handwaving about "intelligence" & at this scale it amounts to an epic public deception

vaxxed?

what are your favorite examples of the ‘fog of war’

Timely piece from @paddyharrington.bsky.social newsletter about what it means to be a "designer" or whatever magazine.frontier.is/im-a-designer/

what are your favorite examples of the ‘fog of war’

animations are not a fucking prototype

Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy

“programming” and “creativity” will only continue to merge

Wag The Dog

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

it’s not hard to make good graphics! it’s just hard to make graphics good

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

the word ‘experience’ is meaningless

THINKING TOO MUCH CAN ONLY CAUSE PROBLEMS

Computing could be a more harmonious and empowering force in our lives if we could mold it to our needs. We wrote a little about this vision of "malleable software" – past, present, and future. www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

Typing and snapping things together

oligarchy? in this oligarchy?

My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: 30 minutes with a stranger

U﹠I

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liquid glass = slop

i’ve joined florafauna.ai in nyc to work on the next paradigm for creative practice!

Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint

i’ve joined florafauna.ai in nyc to work on the next paradigm for creative practice!