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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

The task of design then is not to make better technologies, but to participate in the reconstruction of desire itself. Help other futures seem imaginable, inhabitable, desirable etc.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

The problem, I am saying, is libidinal. We do not lack the technologies to create futures, but we increasingly lose the capacity to desire different futures. Technology participates, but as it can reinforce the exhaustion, it might as well reinforce collective imagination and change (and it has)

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

It's what I'm thinking, as designers in this way, we become optimizers of existing desires, instead of using design for truly designing 'otherwise'

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

So I want to explore the deeper question of desire. What would we actually need to WANT differently for another future to become possible?

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

That connects to the idea of hauntology: we’re stuck between an idealized past, a fragmented present and a future that never seems to arrive. Climate crisis makes that condition impossible to ignore because the old promises of growth and technological progress are colliding with material limits.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 27/09/2026

Thinking of a new talk framed around climate catastrophe but zooms out to a much bigger question. The way we live and produce can’t continue indefinitely, yet so much of our technological response is about making the existing system more efficient rather than imagining a genuinely different one.

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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t” — Paul Ford Honestly, hilarious — and true.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 26/09/2026

Oooooor it will not and then we will FAFO, in a way. Which is ok because it’s a startup and the cycle to change something is a couple of days.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 26/09/2026

I work in a tiny startup ina tech heavy environment. That might sound a cop out but I opt in for showing the process rather than creating alternatives to choose from. Being the only designer for better or worse means that my expertise is needed to make sure the right design will be chosen.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 25/09/2026

I could be resting and sleeping right now but here I am forming hypotheses for imaginary books at 2am.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 25/09/2026

The political question of technology is ultimately a question of desire.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 25/09/2026

I still like it. To show process. To show I did expire another way

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 25/09/2026

Trump doing more for climate change than YOU! (this is sarcarm)

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

When anthropomorphized, the machine becomes the actor. And that is perhaps the main point of evading liability. It goes rogue. It decides. It escaped! The language about AI is all about perception. [If you like what you read, please subscribe! It's free!] collectivefutures.blog/the-strange-...

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The strange lives of an irresponsible machine

From an autonomous car killing a pedestrian to the ideology surrounding artificial general intelligence, the same pattern keeps appearing: the machine becomes the explanation, and responsibility disap...

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

They're all about free speech until the free speech starts to hurt

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 23/09/2026

One thing I appreciate from the (currently ongoing) Death of Online Anonymity online conference is the discussion about how LLMs (and widely accessible consumer AI generally) are power tools for deanonymizing people online. This is going to be a major problem for online harassment.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

Machines do not go rogue. People make decisions, and then we describe the consequences as if the machine made them. Once the machine becomes the explanation, the people who made the decisions disappear. Systems have no alibi. People do. And responsibility always has a name.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

But the boring questions are often the politically important ones. Who owns the compute? Who approved the deployment? Who gets paid to label the data? Who authorized the system to access someone else's infrastructure? Who benefits? Who bears the cost? What alternatives were available?

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

On top of it of course stis a larger ideology TESCREAL, techno-optimism basically bundles of cyberlibertarianism mixed with fascism. Workers, energy, water, infrastructure... become “context” for the spectacular question: What happens if the machine becomes superintelligent?

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

The interface itself reinforces this story. AI systems reply in the first person. They apologize. They describe intentions and they appear to make decisions as if they were acting independently. They are designed to look like an actor. And then this becomes also "evidence" that it has become one..

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

AI is either "inevitable" - so we have to build it because someone else will... ... or it is so dangerous that only the people who understand it can safely build it. These sound like opposite arguments but they both arrive at the same end goal, putting the "machine" at the center.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/09/2026

collectivefutures.blog

The strange lives of an irresponsible machine

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 20/09/2026

Or more likely asked AI for a summary

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 20/09/2026

This person in the screenshot read the ‘There Is No Antimemetics Division’ book and understood shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets."

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/09/2026

Most positions, especially in design that is seen as a cost, are not meant to dig into the root causes, just to perpetuate some arbitrary goal of productivity

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/09/2026

Digging in the first place would suffice for budget cuts

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 19/09/2026

"Tangible outcomes" or some shit like that

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 19/09/2026

This is a terrible time for systems thinkers, in part because nobody wants to listen to systems thinkers about stuff they’ve been saying for years, so now systems thinkers have to watch deeply incurious people reinvent systems thinking from first principles

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 18/09/2026

If you needed more reasons to love squirrels

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season of the simp @yakuzajohn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!!!

Sailor moon tippitty tapping on the keyboard, it says “I hope this email kills us both”

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: LLMs are real, AI is fake; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g... #Pluralistic

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 11/09/2026

We also need a sub-section: anti-bullshit work

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 03/09/2026

I have this idea stuck in my head for a Postcapitalist Desire podcast + reading group. Anyone would be interested? I know I probably need to expand on this idea... 😅

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 19/08/2026

Not many people realise this but all AI generated text has come with a watermark for years now. Here's a step-by-step explanation of how it works: - It's dogshit

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Sylwia Vargas @sylwia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI is a real workplace game changer. People who previously were bad at their jobs are still bad but are able to produce 15-page reports on any given topic, every day.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 11/08/2026

a simpler time

A Timehop reminder of a meme I modified 7 years ago. It’s an illustration of a metronome that shows the rod at each end, with arrows demonstrating motion. At one end the caption is “should designers code?” and at the other end, “is css a programming language”

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 12/08/2026

I wrote sometime ago that with this "conservative uncanny" the artists attempt to celebrate something that results in hollowness and fails to convince even when it's technically accomplished. In a way, the medium itself seems to be protesting against its creator...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 10/08/2026

It is precisely the people making a living by rolling their eyes at "standpoint epistemology" that most consistently catalogue the details of their own upbringing and identity before almost every piece.

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Angelos Arnis 🏴 @arn.is · 23/07/2026

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