“Etiquette” might be a somewhat outdated term when it comes to human relationships. But our technology products are not people — they’re even nowhere close to deserving the same love we have for our pets. Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette: open.substack.com/pub/caseorga...

bendenzer.com/RISD-MFA-The... very large MFA Thesis

Absolutely amazing!!

Welcome to the Thinnernet inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/im-b...

The Contractor Special: Here's a house that's cute on the outside and completely soulless on the inside. Lowest-cost, lowest-quality items from Home Depot, paired with the bright-as-balls overhead grid lighting, make the inside of the house feel more like a cadaver prep room in a mortuary.

Dopamine Fracking igerman.cc/blog/dopamin... We're in an era of great change again, and thankfully, to the part of it where useful word pairings are seemingly spontaneously arriving.

What if the object didn’t just start with the letter — what if it looked like it too? labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_car...

The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpa...

pudding.cool It's great!

Why does it need to ask for it twice? Two gnats to bat away upon an app opening. Every time.

The future works great

What can you do with a graph? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYub...

I don't want to pay a subscription fee to access my brain.

Yay, a car with physical buttons! www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/f...

Argh.

Water Hyacinth with Marbled or Veined Tree-Frogs and Giant Water-Bugs from from Maria Sybilla Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.’ Amsterdam: Gerard Valck, 1705. I saw this at London Natural History Museum Library & Archives. #naturalhistory #sciart #hernaturalhistory

Work with the garage door up notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_th...

I do not like the cloud today; I am building a cloud crawshaw.io/blog/buildin...

Refinement Culture There has been a subtle shift in the last 20 years in a some aspects of life. It has to do with refinement of things, games, products and aesthetics. It’s easier to show some of these changes you may or may not have noticed. medium.com/@lindynewsle...

This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price wheelfront.com/this-alberta... Ursa Ag, a small Canadian manufacturer, is assembling tractors powered by 12-valve Cummins engines for roughly half the price of comparable machines from established brands.

My friend @arielwaldman.com has an amazing TV show on PBS and you can watch it!!

@todepond.com wish you were here!

We don't really want to have to use computers all the time. jsomers.net/blog/the-pap...

If you want to go to one of the best conference ever, this is highly recommended. Also the aesthetics and community is like the best of an era we all create but can rarely step into.

I just completely knocked out my Pinterest account. Over 160K pins. Not gone forever, because I used pintoolbox.com and GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture chromewebstore.google.com/detail/goful... To get the images of the collection pages. Now I have my own offline archive that I'll self host.

Anemoia: longing to live in an era you were not born. Is there a term for wishing to live in the social class you were not born?

The air around us deeply affects how well we think, and one invisible contributing factor is CO₂. Research shows that for every 100 PPM of CO₂ over the baseline (around 550ppm), decision-making decreases by 10%. At 1500 PPM, decision-making drops by 50%. www.calmtech.institute/post/breathi...

my 2019 corolla is worse than my previous 2006 corolla in a lot of ways but the worst is the center console. i used to be able to change the temperature without taking my eyes off the road; now it’s a row of identical buttons and i have to look

Remember this? www.walterwick.com/behind-the-s...

digibarn.com/collections/... The (Xerox Star Icon) World According to Norm Cox

Sony dials and indicators (taken in person CEDIA 2025 in Denver Colorado)

Watch "Waiting for the Future to Load" - starts around 7:45min in #ATmosphereConf vod.atverkackt.de?v=at%3A%2F%2...

A long-used interface becomes a mirror that remembers the versions of you you’ve forgotten.

And then you have to ask, why Krispy Kreme felt the need to add AI to selling doughnuts?

Woah! @woody.fm asks @case.bsky.social for a list of sci-fi books and she delivers!

@case.bsky.social What’s on your shortlist of science fiction books from history that you think had interesting foresight? Any that feel especially applicable to our current time?

finally getting to watch @case.bsky.social's talk on the vod frog

Why I'm betting on ATProto (and why you should, too) brittanyellich.com/atproto

A few people asked about more talks and info after my talk at #ATmosphereConf Here is one I gave about neuroaesthetics and what the minds needs at reMarkable headquarters in Oslo, Norway! remarkable.com/using-remark...

If any of you are interested in standards or governance, you might love joining @metagov.bsky.social! It’s an amazing community that helps incubate Calm Tech Institute and Calm Tech Certified™ since 2024! metagov.org is a laboratory for digital governance.

How Design is Governance

@case.bsky.social giving one of the best talks at #Atmosphereconf! I highly recommend watching this one if you missed it, what a great talk about the future.

@case.bsky.social dropping one of the best talks here at #atmosphereconf

"The future is outdated... They're either trying to make something that they remember from their childhood, or they're trying to make a lot of money." - @case.bsky.social #ATmosphereconf