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Honor Harger @honorharger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve just published Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience, a short reflection on why physical, embodied encounters matter in an age increasingly shaped by AI, computation and data. honorharger.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/b...

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Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience

Beyond Computism: The Power of Embodied Artistic Experience By Honor Harger 20 September 2026 We live in an age increasingly governed by the assumption that if something can be measured, it can be …

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 17/09/2026

How do we decide which version of a design is better? In this Essay, the designer Liam Spradlin @iamli.am investigates the origins and true cost of ‘computism’ – an ideology in which human subjectivity is being replaced by data analysis buff.ly/in7Yu1k

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If computers count all the petals, who tastes the cherries? | Aeon Essays

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world

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hedy bach @hedybach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No matter how many data points are collected, data alone cannot reproduce – or even accurately represent – embodied experiences.

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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026

“You will know that we are a company that is doing good by the exciting things we continue to not do and money we do not make,” they gurgle, uncomfortably pulling their human skin back into place.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fascinated by the responses here. Seems important to establish that surveillance is still surveillance when people are aware of it and when they, in principle, have the option to opt out. People often agree to surveillance given the trade-offs. But that does not mean we can ignore the consequences.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

a "liminal space" is any place where there's no one there and the carpet looks kind of weird

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 15/08/2026

Amazing call to action at the end of an Instagram post

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 06/07/2026

thinking about every fish that's ever swam up to my goggles to look at me while I'm snorkeling

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emily s. @emily.news · 18/06/2026

UI means user interface and UX means user exerface

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 05/06/2026

I just gotta point out that a successful framing of a tech (and by extension the business behind it) as an inevitable natural force creates a certain permission structure...

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 04/06/2026

I'm not sure if I can explain it, but “quietly” is a slop tell for me. I think because it's inserted too often and in all kinds of places that don't quite make sense

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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 27/05/2026

Bethany Fong, the design director behind many of Material's signature components, unpacks the mechanics of design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/fab-componen... #MaterialDesign #UI #ComponentDesign #DesignSystems #Podcast

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Design Notes Podcast | Bethany Fong

How the heady early days of Material unfolded.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/05/2026

I DO NOT WANT TO 'CHAT WITH MY FILES'

E Create a PDF Space

Chat with your files and links to get
quick insights

Dragand drop, or elect afile

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 14/04/2026

integrating ideas and examples I developed for an essay as part of a talk

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

what if you could navigate unicode characters by visual similarity?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

frustrated, you leave twitter and turn on MSNBC. but 80% of its programming is now about big pants. so you open the new york times and it too is just about how you should wear big pants. you watch the new paramount film and every character is wearing the biggest pair of pants you've ever seen

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 13/03/2026

taking the time to isolate a few details from the work I've done on the DN and AFK sites recently.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 13/03/2026

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 11/03/2026

obsessed with this apparent note at the start of a book I found on archive.org

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 10/03/2026

I wonder if trees post memes on the mycelium network

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 08/03/2026

Using "putting the genie back in the bottle" as an explanation for why something's inevitable is so funny to me because isn't the bottle their house

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 06/03/2026

I am no longer certain my tamagotchi isn't conscious

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 21/02/2026

Update: The wavy audio player's amplitude now responds to the audio being played. Also moved all platform/share links into the radio button, and updated how episode cards are shown so they look more like a connected list :)

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 20/02/2026

not sure exactly how to explain this but I think the narrative of ai hype is rhetorically like the shepard tone.

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 19/02/2026

bug fixes and improvements

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 19/02/2026

playing with a wavy audio player on the DN site :) design-notes.show

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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 17/02/2026

In a new ep, I spoke with my friend Louise Macfadyen about her upcoming book, “Designing AI Interfaces.” We cover a bit of computing history, why the text box might be holding us back, and how to design honest interfaces in an era of hype. #designsky Tune in: design-notes.show#beyond-the-t...

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.myatproto.social · 12/02/2026

We're live! @trustfnd.com is now in public beta. Newsletter bundles for independent journalists! Help us spread the word by giving this a repost, a like, or a comment 💙

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 06/02/2026

just one more layer of abstraction bro I swear one more layer of abstraction will make it work

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akshay oppiliappan @oppi.li · 06/02/2026

what you want is an MCP. oh wait have you tried installing a skill? no you don't have an agents,md file. actually what you want is a plugin. have you tried agent orchestration? you have gotta try hooks.

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 06/02/2026

putting up some new work today 🧑‍🎨

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

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FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 04/02/2026

Contacts ... Contacts if they slayed

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 04/02/2026

I have been feeling really... uninterested in posting on social media lately. But I remembered I have a blog ✌️

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I am suffering from a bout of insomnia that might finally end me but I'm thinking about how we're very casual about chameleons. that they exist, that they look like that, and that they can do what they do. but then again every creature is bizarre and miraculous

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 30/01/2026

ah, to be taken to one's most whimsical extremes...

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 21/01/2026

Alright, I'll admit it, I'm a booster now. Here's 14 ways to supercharge your workflow with AI bell.bz/14-ways-to-s...

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14 ways to supercharge your workflow with AI - Andy Bell

To celebrate valentines day, here’s 14 ways you can supercharge your workflow with AI

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 22/01/2026

One thing I like about Mayhem is how, halfway through the album, we've already gone from "dance or die" to "dance until I feel alright" to "dancing until I'm dead"

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Liam Spradlin @iamli.am · 20/01/2026

I understand in theory why every computer I've ever had tries to force-update itself when I least expect it but, like,,, stop.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/01/2026

I got into tech in 2008 and I have seen this headline like 8 times

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

off-brand for me: I don't think the Voynich Manuscript means anything... I think it was someone just sort of doing whatever....

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