Technology and market capitalism are trend amplifiers. Suddenly we have hundreds of delivery drivers, or AI bots, or military drones. Instead of solving problems like social isolation, extremism and environmental problems, they are making them worse.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Technology and market capitalism are trend amplifiers. Suddenly we have hundreds of delivery drivers, or AI bots, or military drones. Instead of solving problems like social isolation, extremism and environmental problems, they are making them worse.
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Game Design is Simple, Actually: "fun is basically about making progress on prediction" and the nature of good problems
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social
Game design is simple, actually
So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Game Design is Simple, Actually: "fun is basically about making progress on prediction" and the nature of good problems
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social
www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social
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"because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us, now it is something that we do…" - Zohran Mamdani 11/4/25
excerpt from "Ing" comic from 2020: "Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing" spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/
excerpt from "Ing" comic from 2020: "Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing" spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us, now it is something that we do…" - Zohran Mamdani 11/4/25
excerpt from "Ing" comic from 2020: "Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing" spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/
excerpt from "Ing" comic from 2020: "Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing" spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/
Are there any good diagrams or models for visualising nested problems and solutions to them in planning, design, strategy etc? I could have asked the AI overlords or Google about this, but today I don't feel like that, so I thought that perhaps a fellow human would know something about this.
November 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Are there any good diagrams or models for visualising nested problems and solutions to them in planning, design, strategy etc? I could have asked the AI overlords or Google about this, but today I don't feel like that, so I thought that perhaps a fellow human would know something about this.
Before AI/LLM:s people asked questions on Twitter for things that they were pondering. I assume people do less of that now, what do you think?
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Before AI/LLM:s people asked questions on Twitter for things that they were pondering. I assume people do less of that now, what do you think?
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To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.
October 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.
Price of both gold (yellow) and stocks (sp500 in red) going up steeply. Perhaps both an AI and a gold bubble? 🤔 Markets are strange, and so is the economy in general. www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-go...
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Price of both gold (yellow) and stocks (sp500 in red) going up steeply. Perhaps both an AI and a gold bubble? 🤔 Markets are strange, and so is the economy in general. www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-go...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
:o
the Macintosh System 7 was the first W I D E S C R E E N Macintosh.
October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
:o
"The only safe way to run LLM agents is to run them on someone else's computer." This is actually quite interesting, since to make this practical, one should be able to generate disposable credit cards, email accounts, etc for LLM:s as well. simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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October 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"The only safe way to run LLM agents is to run them on someone else's computer." This is actually quite interesting, since to make this practical, one should be able to generate disposable credit cards, email accounts, etc for LLM:s as well. simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Neat ideas on visual programming languages and LLM:s by @szymonkaliski.com szymonkaliski.com/notes/vpls-a...
VPLs and LLMs
VPLs and LLMs
szymonkaliski.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Neat ideas on visual programming languages and LLM:s by @szymonkaliski.com szymonkaliski.com/notes/vpls-a...
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Interesting how commoditization makes general-purpose building blocks better. But at the same time, incentivises everyone to use those instead of specialised parts, since they are cheap, readily available and familiar. I'm sure there is a parallel to this in biological evolution.
October 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Interesting how commoditization makes general-purpose building blocks better. But at the same time, incentivises everyone to use those instead of specialised parts, since they are cheap, readily available and familiar. I'm sure there is a parallel to this in biological evolution.
I'm using a usb-c/headphone adapter for my wired headphones. Today I learned that a weird fade-in/fade-out I get in audio books is most likely caused by the cheap adapter. Sigh. Not something I expected.
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I'm using a usb-c/headphone adapter for my wired headphones. Today I learned that a weird fade-in/fade-out I get in audio books is most likely caused by the cheap adapter. Sigh. Not something I expected.
Realised something almost obvious today: when a domain has matured, it is much more tempting to use ready-made components, since they are cheap and readily available, even if they are not perfect. But in new domains you may get to build ideal solutions, since there is nothing ready-made to use.
October 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Realised something almost obvious today: when a domain has matured, it is much more tempting to use ready-made components, since they are cheap and readily available, even if they are not perfect. But in new domains you may get to build ideal solutions, since there is nothing ready-made to use.
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My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
I wonder how many people die globally due to the current right-wing politics in the U.S.? Gaza, vaccination and climate change policies, gun laws, and also increase in military spending all over the world due to escalation (and away from healthcare, welfare, etc). Must be millons.
September 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I wonder how many people die globally due to the current right-wing politics in the U.S.? Gaza, vaccination and climate change policies, gun laws, and also increase in military spending all over the world due to escalation (and away from healthcare, welfare, etc). Must be millons.
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Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai
Software developer salaries in Europe, interesting. www.levels.fyi/heatmap/euro...
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Software developer salaries in Europe, interesting. www.levels.fyi/heatmap/euro...
I love the full-page video background in the portfolio of Alex Rott. This is also the way I interact with many of my clients: via Zoom, Hangouts, etc. I think I could copy the idea for my portfolio when I do a redesign. :) alexrott.cargo.site
September 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I love the full-page video background in the portfolio of Alex Rott. This is also the way I interact with many of my clients: via Zoom, Hangouts, etc. I think I could copy the idea for my portfolio when I do a redesign. :) alexrott.cargo.site
So you can't make a vertical line fill container (vertically) in Figma, right? Or am I doing something wrong?
September 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
So you can't make a vertical line fill container (vertically) in Figma, right? Or am I doing something wrong?
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Despite a decent macroeconomic environment, only 25% of US Americans agree that people like them have a good chance of improving their standard of life. Source: buff.ly/nb67FVx
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Despite a decent macroeconomic environment, only 25% of US Americans agree that people like them have a good chance of improving their standard of life. Source: buff.ly/nb67FVx
"Let’s link up and make some LinkedIn magic happen." Sigh. Time for cottagecore.
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Let’s link up and make some LinkedIn magic happen." Sigh. Time for cottagecore.
Potentially interesting: "A modern fully open-source textbook exploring why and how deep neural networks learn compact and information-dense representations of high-dimensional real-world data." ma-lab-berkeley.github.io/deep-represe...
Learning Deep Representations of Data Distributions
Landing page for the book Learning Deep Representations of Data Distributions.
ma-lab-berkeley.github.io
September 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Potentially interesting: "A modern fully open-source textbook exploring why and how deep neural networks learn compact and information-dense representations of high-dimensional real-world data." ma-lab-berkeley.github.io/deep-represe...
Areal, an improved version of the Arial typeface. 😮😮😮 www.are.na/editorial/in...
Introducing Areal, Are.na’s New Typeface | Are.na Editorial
An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Areal, an improved version of the Arial typeface. 😮😮😮 www.are.na/editorial/in...