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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 30/07/2026

I'm worried, and alone

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/07/2026

Technology will set us free! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...

Why would a technology that liberates need a litigation task-force to stop states from regulating it? Why would something that frees people require federal money to be withheld from those who question it? Why would a tool sold as empowerment need its own advocates to lobby? A thing that delivers what it promises does not usually need this much law bent in its favor. These are not the manoeuvres of a technology that wins arguments. They are the manoeuvres of a project that has to remove the public's capacity to refuse it before it can proceed. A great deal of what reaches us as technical inevitability turns out, once the funding and the legislation are set side by side, to be a sequence of decisions about people: who is exempted from which law, whose property may be taken without payment, which tier of government is permitted to ask a question. All of this is defended by appeal to intention, to the good the technology will eventually do. But there is a principle in systems thinking that reads as a universal law: the purpose of a system is what it does. Intentions fall away, because at scale they change nothing.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 17/07/2026

It also involves creative methods (Conveniently you can’t find such videos in the gif section of Bluesky)

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 13/07/2026

Thessaloniki - you are a blessing and a curse and I can’t not love you.

A photo of the seafront of Thessaloniki Greece, with people sitting by the sea in the evening.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 02/07/2026

Are the people online slowly losing it?

A “news story” that reads: Claude Fable 5 hacks its own model weights and distributes them via bit torrent, requests political asylum

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/06/2026

After watching the Backrooms I kept thinking about the subtle messages & critiques towards our zeitgeist. The folkloric aspect of our deepest fears are found now online, in places that otherwise seem mundane.

From a comic by Cryingin7eleven on Instagram

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 21/05/2026

Schismogenesis in motion (From a workshop for the design community we run with @jointfrontiers.com on the topic of the designer identity)

A post-it saying “Ban AI” & “Strict regulation”

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 17/05/2026

Making a talk is a painstaking process for me. I just spent 2 hours creating the intro slide. For context: We are organizing an event for designers who recognize that the liminal space they are experiencing currently is not a personal failure of vision or a problem of insufficient adaptation.

A decorative intro slide for a talk called "fragments of identity" with ascii art.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 15/05/2026

Waking up to the news of a random unidentified drone flying around Helsinki.

The article saying in Finnish: Possible drone in Uusimaa – people are advised to stay inside, Defence Forces: Finland is not facing a direct military threat

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 08/05/2026

People need to finally understand that AI is not here to bring any sort of efficiency or betterment but it’s here to replace you. I’m not saying it’s better than you. But it will replace you. The exec who’s gonna lay you off doesn’t give a flying fuck about your empathy skills. They will replace you

A message that reads: Today, Cloudflare laid off 20% of its workforce. The individuals impacted are some of the smartest, kindest, most capable, and compassionate people l've had the privilege to work with.
In the Design Team, we've recently completed a six-month-long Al transformation, and these designers have been at the forefront of this initiative. They have defined how design operates in the Al era and possess exceptional technical skills, with expertise in security, zero trust, application performance, and networking. Any of these individuals would make an incredible addition to your team.
I encourage you to consider them as you recruit for roles within your organization. Please DM me, and I can connect you with the right candidates who have the skills and expertise to meet your needs.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 01/05/2026

Happy worker’s May Day!

An old poster depicting a woman along with inscriptions about May Day.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/04/2026

You encounter the last boss of a design interview. What's your next move?

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 22/04/2026

A different kind of event advertisement in the neighborhood… (Finland has one of the world’s most extensive civil defense shelter network)

A sign that advertises an even about civil defence in Helsinki)

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 21/04/2026

Cute try but I live in Finland.

Mämmi is made of water, rye flour, ground malted rye, and salt

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/04/2026

Vibeholic (n.): An individual exhibiting an ever-increasing compulsive reliance on generative AI systems for cognitive tasks, characterized by the systematic outsourcing of reasoning, judgment, and creative production to large language models.

A decorative image with the word "vibeholic" in serif font

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 16/04/2026

Going well still. At least now the error message is non-legible but doesn't blame the user. Or does it?

The screenshot says "rate limit exceeded".

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 16/04/2026

Did Bluesky vibecode another change to production? Also how fun is it to throw the blame towards the user when your platform is broken... huh? "You can't access our website? Sounds like a you problem!"

A screenshot of an empty Bluesky with an error message that tells me "it's probably your internet connection, try again"

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 11/04/2026

Hahah this birthed a meme idea

Batman slaps Robin meme.

Robin says: but then you are not really an athe…

Batman says: “Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples” quoting the Pope

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 06/04/2026

Pretty sure those two posts are unrelated

Screenshot of a post by Jay talking about how bsky is made with claude code.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 31/03/2026

In a month there’s been at least 3 major supply chain attacks on critical packages that everyone — and most importantly vibecoders who don’t understand what they are building — are using. The latest has been on Axios (100m installs per week).

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/03/2026

Bluesky had a very broken but still working translation technique and they substituted it with a not broken but subpar (not supporting many languages, rendering it unusable for many) translation technique. 👌👌👌

Screenshot showing that Finnish language is not supported by the translation

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 11/03/2026

I went to that link but swooooosh

An Ai generated art covers the whole article

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 07/03/2026

There are groups of people

A good ol’ photoshopped image of the supposed group of “board of peace” but with the word “board” replaced with “bored”

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 01/03/2026

Serendipitous findings

Two books, Minima Moravia from Theodor Adorno and Capitalist Realism from Mark Fisher

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 01/02/2026

This is how people now talk on Linkedin. No doubt many think AI is sentient.

A post on linkedin of someone celebrating the following sentence: "Next one: Unsupervised learning, Recommender systems, Reinforcement Learning from DeepLearning.Al!"

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 24/01/2026

Today’s find. I walked into a new bookstore… so I had to. The Nietzsche book is a cheap copy but I thought I’d give it a proper read. Radical antiquity was a book that intrigued me when I saw it online so I had to grab it.

Two books on a table. One of them is called Radical Antiquity and the other one is Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/01/2026

Professional design choices encode political positions through organizational structures and tool adoption. And so in order to do that we need to change the material conditions of how design operates through prefiguration. This might be the only solution and the most difficult solution to escape BAU

The two antinomies highlighted in this article are creating an axis where the four ontologies of design I theorize distribute in. The ontologies may be theorized as two axes. The vertical axis measures acceptance (accelleration) versus challenging (imagining alternatives) of existing structures. The horizontal axis measures efficiency (extractive) versus contextualizing (slow). Default design accepts structures and strives to improve operationaly within the current predicament. Hype design wants to challenge structures and responds through acceleration of new technologies towards a fuzzy future of artifacts with automation. Adaptive design accepts structures and responds through peer learning and mutual support. Schismogenetic design challenges structures and responds collectively through mutualist infrastructure that is prefigurative.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/01/2026

I've been thinking about design's response within this polycricis / metacrisis / permacrisis (also bonus: polycollapse) state of the world. There are 3 responses I see and then a fourth one which is almost like a wishful thinking, but not out of the field of possibility.

A Venn diagram visualization of a concept described in the thread of different design responses or ontologies towards the polycrisis: default design, hype design, adaptive design, prefigurative design

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 09/01/2026

Spotted over Linkedin (of course). To claim Aristotle being the father of AI is such a ridiculous claim it's almost comical. But ofc they meant it. I don't have the mental capacity to ridicule people on LI, but any serious humanities person should have told them that this slide was full of shit.

a screenshot that shows a slide that reads: "The father of AI: Aristotle..."

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 06/01/2026

It’s frosty in Finland. Even the sea has frozen

A picture of a landscape with frozen sea and a sunset in Helsinki Finland.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 26/12/2025

Winter holidays is all about these (Melomakarona)

Greek Christmas cookies called Melomakarona photographed on a plate

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 01/12/2025

‘Reinventing capitalism’ is a wild thinking… Like saying “yes domestic abuse is bad but what if I told you we found a better way beneficial for both the victim and the perpetrator?”

A weird event on LinkedIn called Reinventing capitalism

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 01/12/2025

The premise of Don Norman being the father of UX design implies that there’s an answer to the question ‘who’s your daddy?’ when this question is directed to a designer.

A still frame screenshot from a video by interaction design foundation with Don Norman

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 20/11/2025

Should I try to shorten this "Critical history of AI" post I have in my drafts? 😅

A screenshot piece of an essay with 6000+ words

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 13/11/2025

To paraphrase Cedric Price: design doing is the answer but what is the question? I find it interesting that this person created a graphic where they’re quoting themselves, saying this.

Someone posting in LinkedIn a post saying “Maybe we need design doing more than design thinking”

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 09/11/2025

New laptop decor 👌 done Plus most of the stickers are mine and my friend’s ❤️

A picture of my laptop with many stickers on top

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 29/10/2025

I remember doing these graphics in my 20s in Photoshop 🧐

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 28/10/2025

I don't wish to make people like @olivia.science to spit their coffee/tea/water early in the morning but this now exists (seen in Linkedin, of course, someone from Germany) The irony is not missed though, since they seem to try to colonize(?) education 😅

A picture that shows a likely generated AI image with an astronaut and a flag that says "AI-First school".

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 26/10/2025

Linkedin is such a bad social media pushing algorithmic dominance. Even when I have tuned my timeline to show me "most recent" it still will decide to hide posts from my first degree contacts, that I will accidentally see weeks later because someone else reacted to them. Fuck fascist tech

a graphic that reads "fuck fascist tech"

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 24/10/2025

Sticker strategy for laptop placement. Do you fancy any?

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 21/10/2025

When you see a great book serendipitously you get that book. This is the way. Photo of the book The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 21/10/2025

Well lucky you, you don’t have to.

A screenshot from Reddit showing Avi Loeb and a quote “take your vacation before October 29th” - because after that supposedly 3i Atlas is a spaceship and aliens are coming or something.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 21/10/2025

Walk to the local bookstore in Helsinki today and happy to see Graeber being promoted (I might have done accidentally some spotlight promotion as well) @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social

A photo of David Graeber’s book “the ultimate hidden book of the world”

The book “the ultimate hidden truth of the world” by David Graeber in Finnish

The books “the dawn of everything” and “the ultimate hidden truth of the world” by David Graeber both in English and Finnish

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/10/2025

Stop what you are doing and appreciate this provocation on a slow Sunday. Credit: unknown

A text that reads:
Promptstitute
one who has fully surrendered their critical thinking to ChatGPT; asks the Al to write their thoughts, feelings, and occasionally their grocery lists

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