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
i found the Attention Is All You Need paper and model architecture diagram useful in wrapping my head around what these things are capable of. since the paper, advances have come from scaling models & training data and applying them to multimedia modalities
arxiv.org/html/1706.03...
arxiv.org/html/1706.03...
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
i found the Attention Is All You Need paper and model architecture diagram useful in wrapping my head around what these things are capable of. since the paper, advances have come from scaling models & training data and applying them to multimedia modalities
arxiv.org/html/1706.03...
arxiv.org/html/1706.03...
In another work arrangement, a chief executive officer said something like: i need my product organization to be a Che-lephant. A cheetah-elephant. We must move fast while doing big things with our legacy tech debt. He showed a slide with this image.
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
In another work arrangement, a chief executive officer said something like: i need my product organization to be a Che-lephant. A cheetah-elephant. We must move fast while doing big things with our legacy tech debt. He showed a slide with this image.
Tempted to put together a browser homepage that's simple, customizable, and dials down decision fatigue
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Tempted to put together a browser homepage that's simple, customizable, and dials down decision fatigue
@harishjose.bsky.social the cover photo for a google search of W. Ross Ashby is a synthetic-looking portrait of Heinz von Foerster’s likeness on your website. The irony!
November 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@harishjose.bsky.social the cover photo for a google search of W. Ross Ashby is a synthetic-looking portrait of Heinz von Foerster’s likeness on your website. The irony!
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Taos, New Mexico visit was a success. Quality brother time and desert time.
October 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Taos, New Mexico visit was a success. Quality brother time and desert time.
View from weekend campsite: a furniture designer built a house into a cliff face in Sedona. There’s a cargo elevator at the base of the cliff. Would love to see what this looks like in fifty years.
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
View from weekend campsite: a furniture designer built a house into a cliff face in Sedona. There’s a cargo elevator at the base of the cliff. Would love to see what this looks like in fifty years.
In Trinidad for brunch before heading south.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In Trinidad for brunch before heading south.
On to San Francisco.
September 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On to San Francisco.
Lower stretch of Oregon coastline ✅
September 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Lower stretch of Oregon coastline ✅
Newport has seals and sea lions.
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Newport has seals and sea lions.
The Oregon coast is nice.
September 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Oregon coast is nice.
And. I have a campfire and a good book.
September 25, 2025 at 4:39 AM
And. I have a campfire and a good book.
At least it’s pretty here
September 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
At least it’s pretty here
Other Networks by @loriemerson.net arrived in my mailbox this afternoon
May 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Other Networks by @loriemerson.net arrived in my mailbox this afternoon
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
safe to say a lot of people really do not like tesla right now
March 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
safe to say a lot of people really do not like tesla right now
and there was a classic car giving R3X vibes
March 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
and there was a classic car giving R3X vibes
i saw #Gustopher and one of their pals
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
i saw #Gustopher and one of their pals
@bmann.ca opened #ATmosphereConf calling attendees a quiet, respectful crowd that complies in advance
March 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@bmann.ca opened #ATmosphereConf calling attendees a quiet, respectful crowd that complies in advance
This evening’s conceit is Gregory Bateson: Essays for an Ecology of Ideas (same journal)
February 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This evening’s conceit is Gregory Bateson: Essays for an Ecology of Ideas (same journal)
Was just reading Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds the other day! Solid table of contents
February 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Was just reading Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds the other day! Solid table of contents
"... Language, as it is actually realized in naturally occurring, everyday talk-in-interaction, may derive its semiotic efficacy more from the active co-participation of situated speakers in creating contexts of relevancy, constraint and possibility for each other's immediate next re-shaping..."
January 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"... Language, as it is actually realized in naturally occurring, everyday talk-in-interaction, may derive its semiotic efficacy more from the active co-participation of situated speakers in creating contexts of relevancy, constraint and possibility for each other's immediate next re-shaping..."