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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12h

Turns out when @hypervisible.blacksky.app called OpenAI a "social arsonist" last week, he had no idea just how accurate that was.

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 14h

AI is the answer.
what was the question?

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21h

Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it

Feels like AI will only make this worse

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 21h

"no in the future people will cryptographically verify what's true and-" no they will not. People are fucking stupid.

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 26d

When bad design isn’t a mistake, it’s the strategy. The “America by Design” initiative isn’t just a messy website. It redefines design itself, away from accessibility and toward exclusion, erasure, and control. Latest essay by @emcg.bsky.social

Authoritarian by design - DesignObserver

The "America by Design" initiative, issued by the Trump administration, pushes a harmful narrative with questionable visuals

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 1d

remember when there were only like 5 fonts

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 1d

The Infernal Machine

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 1d

remember when there were only like 5 fonts

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thedailyheller.bsky.social @thedailyheller.bsky.social · 3d

Freedom + Books + Speech = America
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The Daily Heller: This Week, Ban Book Banning – PRINT Magazine

To ring in Banned Books Week, Thought Matter has created a 'Free Speech Ain't Free' kit.

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 1d

clarity has no facets

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 3d

the smartphone was successful because it was anchored in a very concrete purpose of communication between people

this device would be successful if it was anchored in a very concrete purpose to be a *answer* machine, but we know that the core machine can't be that, so they have to sell it like this

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 3d

> "The concept is that you should have a friend who’s a computer who isn’t your weird AI girlfriend . . . like [Apple’s digital voice assistant] Siri but better”

the “concept" does not matter because it’s chatgpt in a box and everything else is UX design to make it seem like something else

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

Today in luxury surveillance.

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 4d

ur aesthetics are showing

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 4d

After Dark 1.0: City

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 4d

ur aesthetics are showing

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 5d

throwing the horseshoe through the overton window

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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 5d

throwing the horseshoe through the overton window

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thedailyheller.bsky.social @thedailyheller.bsky.social · 7d

Why are there only 39 stars in the flag in the lower left corner?
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 7d

You can’t build hopeful futures if no one in the present takes responsibility for regretful pasts and lost hopes

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 8d

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors