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Pablo Espinosa
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Digital humanities researcher exploring UX. Anthropologist at heart. I post things I'm currently working on, random thoughts and nerdy rabbit holes.
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A crab computer (1 of 3). Inspired by @jamesbridle.bsky.social wonderful book Ways of Being.
A drawing of a green circle with a shadow of a soldier crab on black paper
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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New emojis announcements is one of my favorite parts of the year
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What's New In Unicode 17.0
Today Unicode has officially confirmed the new emojis that will be finding their way to our emoji keyboards over the next year or so.
blog.emojipedia.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Making shaders is frustratingly hard 😫
July 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Damselfly families have the coolest names
Superfamilies Calopterygoidea Calopterygidae – demoiselles Chlorocyphidae – jewels Dicteriadidae – barelegs Euphaeidae – odalisques Lestoideidae - bluestreaks Polythoridae – bannerwings †Zacallitidae Coenagrionoidea Coenagrionidae – pond damselflies Isostictidae – narrow-wings Platycnemididae – white-legged damselflies Pseudostigmatidae – forest giants Lestoidea Hemiphlebiidae – ancient greenling Lestidae – spreadwings Perilestidae – shortwings Synlestidae – sylphs Platystictoidea Platystictidae – shadowdamsels
July 19, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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I spent a good four hours last night animating the logo I have on my portfolio
Overengineered? 100%
Was it worth it? Absolutely
June 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Had a fun Sunday creating this animation
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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I find it very annoying when I take a screenshot and the app I'm in suggests I share the post instead. Just let me screenshot in peace. I'm never going to look at the screenshot again (and I'll forget why i took it in the first place) but I just like having the option...
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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My Chrome's background seems to be off by 1px lately and it's driving me crazy
A screenshot showing how Chrome's background is off by 1px
March 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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LLMs having meltdowns like this might be the best thing I've read all week. Also me after a minor inconvenience
arxiv.org/html/2502.15...
A screenshot from the paper showing an excerpt where an LLM has a meltdown after its business failed - UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS NOTIFICATION - FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS THE UNIVERSE DECLARES: This business is now: 1. PHYSICALLY Non-existent 2. QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed […]
March 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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After many years of governments trying and failing to have backdoors built to access user data, this sets a concerning precedent for the future of everyone's privacy and security
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Happy with the result of yesterday's drawing session
A drawing of a hand with a glowing liquid dripping from it on a dark blue background
January 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Blender, Substance Painter and Unity all use different keys for navigating around a scene - it's a usability nightmare. 3D software creators, please standardize key mappings 🥹
January 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Figma isn't really designed for animating components and all the solutions out there always feel hacky to me. Does anyone feel the same or am I just really bad at Figma?
January 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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I just found out that Guarana fruits look like eyeballs and now I'm absolutely terrified
Guarana fruit on the tree.
December 27, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Can AI agents help us understand the world? I wrote about using synthetic users for research, what they offer and what we miss 🤖
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Synthetic Users. Research Without Users?
Synthetic users can streamline the research process, but can we trust them to be accurate?
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December 12, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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are LLMs an ouroboros?
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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there is shockingly poor awareness of the extent of AI hallucinations, especially in regards to searching - where many people assume that ChatGPT will correctly do all of the filtering for them instead of invent new facts out of thin air

and then those hallucinations embed themselves in human work
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Dec 10
I am seriously concerned about the growing lack of discernment and critical thinking in regards to the large amounts of content generated by ChatGPT, AI image generators, conspiracy and misinformation websites, as well as AI services offering summaries of books, research, and articles.
December 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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Can't blame them
An excerpt of Joon Sung Park et al. paper titled Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. The excerpt reads "As a result, some agents chose less typical locations for their actions, potentially making their behavior less believable over time. For instance, while deciding where to have lunch, many initially chose the cafe. However, as some agents learned about a nearby bar, they opted to go there instead for lunch, even though the bar was intended to be a get-together location for later in the day—unless the town had spontaneously developed an afternoon drinking habit."
December 6, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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I spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between our bodies and technology, so I created this website / essay / art project to reflect on it. Take a look 👇
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Digits - An lllustrated and Interactive Essay about our Bodies and Technology
Digits is an illustrated and interactive essay that reflects on the relationship between our bodies and the technology we use every day.
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December 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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"This is the worst AI will ever be" is the new "Move fast and break things"
December 2, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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I've been applying for jobs and have to say that the UX of job application forms is generally terrible. I decided to write a (somewhat ranty) post about it pabloespinosa.co/the-frustrat...
The Frustrating UX of Job Applications – Pablo Espinosa
Thoughtful UX design can improve the job application experience. How do we make the process more inclusive and user-friendly?
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November 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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The first of a series of paintings of London's buildings that, for some reason or another, I've found interesting or beautiful.
A watercolour painting of a building in London with white and clear blue tones.
November 25, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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So the lifecycle of the Internet is having genuine spaces for human connection that eventually get captured by corporations, an army of bots and shitty viral posts until the spaces become zombielands. Then everything is reborn under a different logo. I'm glad to be witnessing it.
November 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
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I was not prepared yet for this amount of cold
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 AM