where will you be when 100% of everything around you turns out to be computer generated

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

The history of literacy assumes reading was an elite/upper class skill that was spread thru schooling into mass literacy However, it’s also possible that elite weren’t very literate but employed scribes/secretaries/lawyers and that mass literacy hid their continued lack of skills.

“The smart, actually cool, genuinely interested people will once again have their moment, getting the resources & clearance to design & (re)build a tech ecosystem that’s actually innovative & built for benefit, not just profit & control.” — @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️ Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages! 10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed vole.wtf/doctype/

Why City Benches Are Becoming More Hostile. “It signals to all New Yorkers that these are not social places. These are places to simply pass through.” [kottke.org]

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hypermetaphor

hypermetaphor

you’re telling me this history has ended

you’re telling me this history has ended

Who gets left out when AI shapes design and when design shapes AI? In this episode of Design As, Lee Moreau speaks with Anamitra Deb, Jessica Meharry, and Anne H. Berry about creation, consumption, and designing responsibly in the age of artificial intelligence.

going ontology mode

Gift link for you all. Unfortunately they didn't talk to @bildoperationen.bsky.social for this, still a good summary of the embrace of AI by the White House. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

You wouldn't download a computer.

here lies

nothing hurt more than the slamming door sound aim made when your crush signed off

the design field currently feels like a dark room packed with people grabbing each other’s asses and whispering “craft”

the design field currently feels like a dark room packed with people grabbing each other’s asses and whispering “craft”

Can software express critical reflections on its own nature in the same way post-modern architecture does? I don't have the answers, but I wrote a long text with some early thoughts: tomasp.net/architecture/

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

if you don’t see it yet, you never will

if you don’t see it yet, you never will

here lies

AI is the answer. what was the question?

Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:

Turns out when @hypervisible.blacksky.app called OpenAI a "social arsonist" last week, he had no idea just how accurate that was.

AI is the answer. what was the question?

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it Feels like AI will only make this worse

When bad design isn’t a mistake, it’s the strategy. The “America by Design” initiative isn’t just a messy website. It redefines design itself, away from accessibility and toward exclusion, erasure, and control. Latest essay by @emcg.bsky.social

remember when there were only like 5 fonts

The Infernal Machine

remember when there were only like 5 fonts

Freedom + Books + Speech = America www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

clarity has no facets

the smartphone was successful because it was anchored in a very concrete purpose of communication between people this device would be successful if it was anchored in a very concrete purpose to be a *answer* machine, but we know that the core machine can't be that, so they have to sell it like this

ur aesthetics are showing

After Dark 1.0: City

ur aesthetics are showing

throwing the horseshoe through the overton window

throwing the horseshoe through the overton window

Why are there only 39 stars in the flag in the lower left corner? www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

You can’t build hopeful futures if no one in the present takes responsibility for regretful pasts and lost hopes

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

in the future, everyone will be famous in 15 realities