Christian
@christian.bsky.social
Design research & research design. Complex systems and cybernetics. Critical AI praxis. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle mostly, sometimes Maine.
🌐 caj.io · Book-shaped thing about cybernetic decision-making: @strategytheory.com
📍 Seattle mostly, sometimes Maine.
🌐 caj.io · Book-shaped thing about cybernetic decision-making: @strategytheory.com
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Christian
@christian.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Our Social Internet Atmosphere 🦋 | Christian Alden Jacobs
An alternative social internet atmosphere (AT Protocol) is emerging. Bluesky is the future of online social networking. And the future is now.
caj.io
Our Social Internet Atmosphere 🦋
Recently updated, now with more hot bluesky tips, starter packs, and feeds
caj.io/atmosphere
Recently updated, now with more hot bluesky tips, starter packs, and feeds
caj.io/atmosphere
More aptly, what is the science of science in your book? Is there a better definition than Von Foerster’s?
What’s the best video you’ve seen about what second-order cybernetics means today?
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
More aptly, what is the science of science in your book? Is there a better definition than Von Foerster’s?
What’s the best video you’ve seen about what second-order cybernetics means today?
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
What’s the best video you’ve seen about what second-order cybernetics means today?
Do people not realize polls are funded by the people who design the incentives of the polls?
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Do people not realize polls are funded by the people who design the incentives of the polls?
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December 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.
I personally believe anthropomorphism of software is Very Unhealthy and has Very Bad nth order effects. Also, using transduction (machine translation or summarization) has valuable use cases, when certain standards and guardrails are respected.
Feels like a lot of folks conflate real harms commensurate with the perverse incentives latent in the current AI hype cycle with the type of technology (transduction software) and its capabilities.
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I personally believe anthropomorphism of software is Very Unhealthy and has Very Bad nth order effects. Also, using transduction (machine translation or summarization) has valuable use cases, when certain standards and guardrails are respected.
Anyhow, this was an outta nowhere conversation that was fun. Tempted to explore one or more topics further in a more structured format. What resonates with you?
After a rousing @hantohoncomb.at stream, @doriantaylor.com and I got together for an impromptu video call to riff on ... stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
Account portability is what we want
YouTube video by Christian Jacobs
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Anyhow, this was an outta nowhere conversation that was fun. Tempted to explore one or more topics further in a more structured format. What resonates with you?
After a rousing @hantohoncomb.at stream, @doriantaylor.com and I got together for an impromptu video call to riff on ... stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
Account portability is what we want
YouTube video by Christian Jacobs
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 AM
After a rousing @hantohoncomb.at stream, @doriantaylor.com and I got together for an impromptu video call to riff on ... stuff.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGk...
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moratorium on manifestos until we can figure out what the hell is going on
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
moratorium on manifestos until we can figure out what the hell is going on
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Our Human in the Loop operations is really about quality. It’s making sure that there’s a quality bar in automation to maintain trust with our users and customers. Complete automation isn’t some badge of honor. But maintaining quality is.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our Human in the Loop operations is really about quality. It’s making sure that there’s a quality bar in automation to maintain trust with our users and customers. Complete automation isn’t some badge of honor. But maintaining quality is.
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Well well if it isn’t JavaScript, the cause of and solution to all of my professional problems.
Happy 30th Birthday JavaScript!
On December 4, 1995, Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, announced JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on the Internet.
#WebDesignHistory
On December 4, 1995, Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, announced JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on the Internet.
#WebDesignHistory
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Well well if it isn’t JavaScript, the cause of and solution to all of my professional problems.
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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team is the founder & ceo Blacksky Algorithms, building the intercommunal net, scaling safe communities with shared resources & democratic tools
You can support @blackskyweb.xyz on OpenCollective opencollective.com/blacksky
You can support @blackskyweb.xyz on OpenCollective opencollective.com/blacksky
Blacksky - Open Collective
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
opencollective.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team is the founder & ceo Blacksky Algorithms, building the intercommunal net, scaling safe communities with shared resources & democratic tools
You can support @blackskyweb.xyz on OpenCollective opencollective.com/blacksky
You can support @blackskyweb.xyz on OpenCollective opencollective.com/blacksky
To go paper coffee cups should have fill lines well below the area of imminent spillage
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
To go paper coffee cups should have fill lines well below the area of imminent spillage
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There are all these articles written about how to run Design Reviews. When Reviews go awry it’s bc: there is a lack of clarity on the goals, the hypothesis (why this over that), trade offs, and depth of knowledge from varying altitudes. You can shape the review based on these.
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There are all these articles written about how to run Design Reviews. When Reviews go awry it’s bc: there is a lack of clarity on the goals, the hypothesis (why this over that), trade offs, and depth of knowledge from varying altitudes. You can shape the review based on these.
Transduction — a powerful and important concept that few have heard of
Courtesy of @antlerboy.com
antlerboy.medium.com/transduction...
Courtesy of @antlerboy.com
antlerboy.medium.com/transduction...
Transduction — a powerful and important concept that few have heard of
Have you heard of transduction?
antlerboy.medium.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Transduction — a powerful and important concept that few have heard of
Courtesy of @antlerboy.com
antlerboy.medium.com/transduction...
Courtesy of @antlerboy.com
antlerboy.medium.com/transduction...
(i just renamed the app folder where i keep all the transduction engines i test regularly from Assistants to Transduction because i am that level of petty)
Popular software systems that use GPT — generative pre-trained transformer — architectures belong to a class of software we could label "transduction engines" (and be correct in doing so). Modern search engines are in the same class.
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
(i just renamed the app folder where i keep all the transduction engines i test regularly from Assistants to Transduction because i am that level of petty)
Popular software systems that use GPT — generative pre-trained transformer — architectures belong to a class of software we could label "transduction engines" (and be correct in doing so). Modern search engines are in the same class.
December 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Popular software systems that use GPT — generative pre-trained transformer — architectures belong to a class of software we could label "transduction engines" (and be correct in doing so). Modern search engines are in the same class.
Apropos of something, anyone know who owns the authenticatedtransfer.com domain? #atproto
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Apropos of something, anyone know who owns the authenticatedtransfer.com domain? #atproto
This is what I'm thinking, too. Until PDS adoption is ubiquitous, a flagship shared account picker experience could be a boon to atproto brand recognition and adoption.
Create a charitable foundation whose sole purpose is to host a secure intermediate page that remembers what atproto login you used last time, and then bounces you back to whoever sent you there.
I’m sort of kidding but sort of not
I’m sort of kidding but sort of not
December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is what I'm thinking, too. Until PDS adoption is ubiquitous, a flagship shared account picker experience could be a boon to atproto brand recognition and adoption.
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I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Request to be an advance reader of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks
Thank you for your interest in being an advance reader for The Psychology of Software Teams (working title) by Cat Hicks. I am selecting some interested readers to receive a free advance copy of this ...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Phone number portability was mandated through legislation in the United States in 1996, and implemented in 2003. Online social graph portability legislation when?
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Phone number portability was mandated through legislation in the United States in 1996, and implemented in 2003. Online social graph portability legislation when?
Maserati is the cybertruck of sports cars
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Maserati is the cybertruck of sports cars
huh i really like the question mark as a user interface affordance for returning a summary query from a search engine. good work, Kagi
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
huh i really like the question mark as a user interface affordance for returning a summary query from a search engine. good work, Kagi