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The phrase "high-trust society" is interesting As a rough & incomplete model, western society, with its ad-based media, has constructed a worry- or anxiety-machine, which incentivizes feeding worries to people If you trust institutions enough, though, you may simply decide to trust that...

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websites should look like this

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Field Companions are everyday objects modified to hold memory and share their perspective of our environments. Touching your phone to its soul initiates a 1-min audio memory from the moment and location it was found.

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🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs 🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction 🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens

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The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

submitted 86 days ago • 1335 comments

terrapunk is a thing and it's actually quite good! resolving a lot of the issues with solarpunk: "greenwashed socialism", anti-capitalist, anti-nuclear, anti-markets, "pro-blanketing-mountains-with-solar-panels" nasjaq.substack.com/p/the-terrap...

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Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

What if Truchet tiles were produced with differential growth?

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA... This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

submitted 88 days ago • 83 comments

the information design in evangelion is insane

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

Witnessing a sunrise from space has to be one of the most humbling experiences.

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While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

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We love links because we love the open web

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The phrase "high-trust society" is interesting As a rough & incomplete model, western society, with its ad-based media, has constructed a worry- or anxiety-machine, which incentivizes feeding worries to people If you trust institutions enough, though, you may simply decide to trust that...

websites should look like this

Field Companions are everyday objects modified to hold memory and share their perspective of our environments. Touching your phone to its soul initiates a 1-min audio memory from the moment and location it was found.

🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs 🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction 🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

terrapunk is a thing and it's actually quite good! resolving a lot of the issues with solarpunk: "greenwashed socialism", anti-capitalist, anti-nuclear, anti-markets, "pro-blanketing-mountains-with-solar-panels" nasjaq.substack.com/p/the-terrap...

Thinking With Moss is a project I've been working on for the past few years w/ @eayers0.bsky.social‬ & @aansari86.bsky.social. In collab w/ NYBG, we explore the digitization of botanic collections, and the invisible or under attended histories of the natural sciences. www.thinkingwithmoss.net

What if Truchet tiles were produced with differential growth?

I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA... This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

the information design in evangelion is insane

Witnessing a sunrise from space has to be one of the most humbling experiences.

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

We love links because we love the open web

thread of flourishing futures ✨ images, videos, essays, ideas, ... 🌱 ↓↓↓

imagining an interface that breathes

This is the future I want for us

websites should look like this

talking is a tool for thought

hello void

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