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Case @case.bsky.social · 4h
fluoddity.com
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Fluoddity
An interactive lava lamp? An evolvable ant farm? Explore a world very different from our own.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 4h
Collections are a wonderful thing. Especially this one.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 12h
Some thoughts on what part of the brain chatbots use, and why they're exhausting: caseorganic.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
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The worst problem with Claude and ChatGPT isn’t the apocalypse. It’s how we communicate with them.
By design, chatbots are exhausting -- but our interaction with them can be better designed
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Case @case.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” ― Martin Heidegger (1950s, with caveats)
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Case @case.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Attention is all you have: alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/a...
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Alice GG • Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
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Case @case.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Af... From Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever.
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Scott Jenson: Are we really going to use the same Desktop UX forever?
YouTube video by The KDE Community
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Case @case.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Some tools the body learns. Some tools the body cannot learn. This is the difference between a car and a touchscreen.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every centimeter of distance between the designer's hand and the material that they use is a tax paid by the person who has to live alongside the object.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everything in the virtual world is made for your eyes And you feel like you have agency because you're able to move But that movement is stillness in disguise. You're moving nowhere
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Case @case.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI is a very fast stranger.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A long talk
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Case @case.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the best talks I've ever seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-... If you want to get to some cool parts, you can skip into 15 min or so.
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AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026
YouTube video by Domain-Driven Design Europe
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Case @case.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
colorstudies.neocities.org made a real big site with my collection of colors and textures
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Index — Color Studies
A growing archive of color palettes, photographed and collected.
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civil💚 🫂 🍄 💭 ⌐◨-◨ @civilmonkey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
fantastic keynote by @case.bsky.social on calm tech live now from the @commonshubat.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/K_TlFG_...
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VotC | Amber Case - Calm Technology
YouTube video by Commons Hub
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Case @case.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“Etiquette” might be a somewhat outdated term when it comes to human relationships. But our technology products are not people — they’re even nowhere close to deserving the same love we have for our pets. Sit, Siri! Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette: open.substack.com/pub/caseorga...
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Sit, Siri!
Designing Our Tech to Have Good Etiquette
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Case @case.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
bendenzer.com/RISD-MFA-The... very large MFA Thesis
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RISD MFA Thesis — Ben Denzer
RISD MFA Thesis, 2023.  An MFA thesis book that’s bigger than the RISD library. 200 x 125 ft (opened) 100 x 125 ft (closed). Drone documentation by Stephen...
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Case @case.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely amazing!!
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Case @case.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Welcome to the Thinnernet inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/06/im-b...
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I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet
Since 2020, I've taken on a Steve Jobs alter-ego (on a very, very part time basis, and often for humor purposes ). The firs...
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Case @case.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The Contractor Special: Here's a house that's cute on the outside and completely soulless on the inside. Lowest-cost, lowest-quality items from Home Depot, paired with the bright-as-balls overhead grid lighting, make the inside of the house feel more like a cadaver prep room in a mortuary.
Cute blue tiny house at blue hour. Nice yellow window glow. Terrible atrocity of non-place, reduction of the human soul into splinters of flatness, forgetfulness of the humane.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Dopamine Fracking igerman.cc/blog/dopamin... We're in an era of great change again, and thankfully, to the part of it where useful word pairings are seemingly spontaneously arriving.
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Dopamine Fracking
The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources into a previously casual or complex and layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit
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Case @case.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
What if the object didn’t just start with the letter — what if it looked like it too? labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_car...
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Greek Alphabet Cards
Cards I made to help my kids learn the Greek alphabet through visual associations.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpa...
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ThinkPad History: IBM 700C to Lenovo AI Workstations
A sourced history of ThinkPad from IBM's 1992 700C to Lenovo's 2026 AI workstations: TrackPoint, keyboards, X-series, T-series and P-series.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
pudding.cool It's great!
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The Pudding
The Pudding explains ideas with visual essays.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Why does it need to ask for it twice? Two gnats to bat away upon an app opening. Every time.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.panteek.com/pages/art-de...
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Case @case.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The future works great
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Case @case.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What can you do with a graph? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYub...
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What can you do with a graph?
YouTube video by Sam Young
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Case @case.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I don't want to pay a subscription fee to access my brain.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yay, a car with physical buttons! www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/f...
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Case @case.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Argh.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
www.axios.com/2026/04/26/a...
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AI can cost more than human workers now
When AI labs raise prices, big spending on AI could shift from a flex to a liability.
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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Sarah Finn @romanceofbooks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Water Hyacinth with Marbled or Veined Tree-Frogs and Giant Water-Bugs from from Maria Sybilla Merian’s ‘Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium.’ Amsterdam: Gerard Valck, 1705. I saw this at London Natural History Museum Library & Archives. #naturalhistory #sciart #hernaturalhistory
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Case @case.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Work with the garage door up notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_th...
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Work with the garage door up
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Case @case.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I do not like the cloud today; I am building a cloud crawshaw.io/blog/buildin...
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crawshaw - 2026-04-22
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Case @case.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Refinement Culture There has been a subtle shift in the last 20 years in a some aspects of life. It has to do with refinement of things, games, products and aesthetics. It’s easier to show some of these changes you may or may not have noticed. medium.com/@lindynewsle...
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Refinement Culture
There has been a subtle shift in the last 20 years in a some aspects of life. It has to do with refinement of things, games, products and…
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Case @case.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price wheelfront.com/this-alberta... Ursa Ag, a small Canadian manufacturer, is assembling tractors powered by 12-valve Cummins engines for roughly half the price of comparable machines from established brands.
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This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
This Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price .Read automotive and aftermarket news today on Wheel Front
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Case @case.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
My friend @arielwaldman.com has an amazing TV show on PBS and you can watch it!!
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Case @case.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@todepond.com wish you were here!
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Case @case.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We don't really want to have to use computers all the time. jsomers.net/blog/the-pap...
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The paper computer « the jsomers.net blog
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Case @case.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If you want to go to one of the best conference ever, this is highly recommended. Also the aesthetics and community is like the best of an era we all create but can rarely step into.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Case @case.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I just completely knocked out my Pinterest account. Over 160K pins. Not gone forever, because I used pintoolbox.com and GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture chromewebstore.google.com/detail/goful... To get the images of the collection pages. Now I have my own offline archive that I'll self host.
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Pin Toolbox - Pinterest Board Downloader
Pin Toolbox is a Chrome browser extension thats lets you quickly download images & videos in bulk from any Pinterest board.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Anemoia: longing to live in an era you were not born. Is there a term for wishing to live in the social class you were not born?
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Case @case.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The air around us deeply affects how well we think, and one invisible contributing factor is CO₂. Research shows that for every 100 PPM of CO₂ over the baseline (around 550ppm), decision-making decreases by 10%. At 1500 PPM, decision-making drops by 50%. www.calmtech.institute/post/breathi...
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Breathing Room: Designing Work & Living Spaces for Quality Thinking and Decision-Making
Both Norway and Sweden’s air standards for homes and other buildings are some of the highest in the world. They sit at the high end globally—on par with Finland, Sweden, and Estonia—and are definitely...
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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 05/04/2026
my 2019 corolla is worse than my previous 2006 corolla in a lot of ways but the worst is the center console. i used to be able to change the temperature without taking my eyes off the road; now it’s a row of identical buttons and i have to look
2006 corolla console with physical dials2019 corolla console with identical buttons for control
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Case @case.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remember this? www.walterwick.com/behind-the-s...
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Walter Wick Studio
Explore the world of Walter Wick and his award winning books I SPY, Can You See What I See?, A Drop of Water, Optical Tricks, and Hey, Seymour!
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Case @case.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
digibarn.com/collections/... The (Xerox Star Icon) World According to Norm Cox
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