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Sophia Liu

@blue-phia.bsky.social
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dame @dame.is · 02/10/2026
Please stop anthropomorphizing computers. They can’t “cut”, “copy”, or “paste” anything, because they don’t have scissors and glue.
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OOOO!
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
its emphasis on clandestine information-flow and logisitics - and finally, over all, the 1:1 map of the creative imagination, aesthetics, values. The resultant grid comes to life, animated by unexpected eddies and surges of energy, coagulations of light, secret tunnels, and surprises."
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Psychical nomadism - Wikipedia
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"These nomads chart their course by strange stars, which might be luminous clusters of data in cyberspace, or perhaps hallucinations. Lay down a map of the land; over that, set a map of political change; over that, a map of the Net, especially the counter-Net with ...
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Psychical nomadism - Wikipedia
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Undead Sarah @lepidopterane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🌟 catch my augmented reading work at HT ‘26 🌟 @blue-phia.bsky.social is first author on scaffolding reading for transformation, she’s presenting this at 11 tmr in session 4 I’m presenting Tompkinsia this Thursday at 11 tmr in session 12 links to papers below!
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ill bring crayola
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
incredible... how dare you cut up our paper?! kidding, thank you for this beautiful reading artifact.
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"... our desire and attention falls to certain things because of the way that we feel about the person, place, or thing that introduces it to us, so in that way, taste is a lot more similar to love than it is to education." -Daisy Alioto
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 01/09/2026
Extremely luxurious to go to the library, make a beeline for the oversize shelves, and wallow in endless gorgeous, impractical books
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
got this one too! yay trails 🥾🪨
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Wesley voted in Vancouver's Municipal Election @wesleyfinck.org · 26/08/2026
Some preliminary product insights from our recent onboarding launch: It's no coincidence that the most popular suggested link is "From Feeds to Trails". People are ready for a new kind of social media experience! leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:ld...
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From Feeds to Trails
To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.
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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 20/08/2026
Mesmerized by Dennis Hlynsky's overlapped timelapses of starlings, crows, fish…https://vimeo.com/dennishlynsky/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
WE WANT YOU 🫵 if you’re a senior HCI researcher (senior PhD student, postdoc, professor, industry researcher, etc) for a study on reading & finding inspiration from literature! 📖🤔💭 More info + sign up here: bit.ly/research-reading w/ @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social @bjo3rn.bsky.social
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Research Reading Study Screener Survey
Thank you for your interest in participating in this research study! We are researchers at UC Berkeley interested in exploring how researchers of all experience levels read and gain inspiration from a...
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"a common problem for junior researchers is that they try to solve the whole problem they’re thinking about, or act on the idea they have, as if it’s a project spec—something to be implemented—rather than an undefined space to explore"
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
i love this a lot. barthes quote especially. i'm also reminded of michael bernstein's lecture on velocity and vectoring (well, andy matuschak's notes on it): notes.andymatuschak.org/z2V5DSG69GLa...
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Michael Bernstein - CS 197 - Vectoring
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
yess producer-consumers... reader-authors and such
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
hi ronen! i think science social media opens academic thought up to the non-academic "masses." i've been thinking of this as little 'r' research in contrast to big 'R' research, the research anyone can do and does every day on wide-ranging topics from academic to non-academic and anything in between
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
creative reading spotted 😆
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
took this snowshoeing in yosemite in 2017
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Creight Photo 🌱☮️ @afewfromtheforest.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#SundaySilence "The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness." ~John Muir 📍 PA
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
🤔
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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
i'm giving a talk on Artographer (shmuh.co/papers/artog...) next week at ACM C&C 2026 and as I've been working on the presentation i keep,, opening the system, zooming into random areas and staring at the public domain artwork . it calms me
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Artographer
Artographer: A Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed — to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience."
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Ronen! The concept of reading for transformation may have emerged from my repeated reading of the Wikipedia page for Heinlein’s “grok,” but we hadn’t consciously written the piece with that word in mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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Grok - Wikipedia
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 16/06/2026
How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thanks, Ronen! The concept of reading for transformation may have emerged from my repeated reading of the Wikipedia page for Heinlein’s “grok,” but we hadn’t consciously written the piece with that word in mind. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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Grok - Wikipedia
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“I saw the whole earth as an icon, mainly,” he said, “one that did indeed replace the mushroom cloud as the main image for understanding our world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...
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Opinion | A Dose of Wisdom From Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
longnow.org/ideas/whole-... Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole web yet?
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shm garanganao almeda @sh1m.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
we're running a study on how people use wikipedia! no experience necessary, just curiosity. please consider signing up & sharing with your network! forms.gle/JJpaa93GiU8Z...
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Sophia Liu @blue-phia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
By giving non-technical community members the ability to deliberate and design their own AI agents, Botender places collective self-governance directly in stakeholders’ hands. 🤲🤖💜 I am so proud to be a part of this work and looking forward to attending my first CHI!
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
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Artographer: a Curatorial Interface for Art Space Exploration
Relating a piece to previously established works is crucial in creating and engaging with art, but AI interfaces tend to obscure such relationships, rather than helping users explore them. Embedding m...
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 25/09/2025
1/ Exciting paper by @sh1m.bsky.social & Sophia Liu 🔥 “hypertext systems emphasize provenance, associative thinking, and user-driven meaning-making, while algorithmic systems tend to obscure process and flatten participation” arxiv.org/abs/2507.235...
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