Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 01/08/2026my latest for Mud and Dust! This one's about websites, LLMs as a driving force for online enclosure, and various other toxic incentives threatening the open web open.substack.com/pub/isthisan... 051
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 29/07/2026Please enjoy this short perverted text I wrote about daytrading, systems art, and uhh ... End of Evangelion open.substack.com/pub/absdigit... 050
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 31/05/2026All computational systems contain a model of time and all of them are wrong open.substack.com/pub/isthisan... 0143
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 06/05/2026Danger Testing, a fun new team launching an app a week (“dropping apps like songs”) are a perfect example of my software-becomes-content thesis www.dangertesting.com 1185
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 03/05/2026has anyone tried sortition for the art world? serious question www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 3112
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 16/04/2026as you salivate over the shoe company Allbirds making its pivot to AI and its frothy 582% valuation increase, remember this all already happened 040
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 31/03/2026MeetMarket, the new decentralized privacy-respecting alternative to Grindr from @donjackoghue.bsky.social is a great example of vibecoded software serving new demographics meetmarket.io 051
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 29/03/2026Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding open.substack.com/pub/isthisan... 812623
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 12/03/2026new example of secret feminine lore just dropped, because everything Claude told me about how to use this was deadass wrong 180
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 05/03/2026when people say artists need to work with emerging technology more in order to be relevant, it's not a controversial new take. it's an old take, literally an ancient take for most of human history painting was the state of the art of image-making technology 272
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 19/02/2026Sadie Plant, Zeros and Ones, 1997, quoting The Economist, "The World in 1995" 030
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 18/02/2026New substack today 💥 I started seriously asking myself "do I actually take steps towards cognitive defense when interacting with AI, and what are they?" substack.com/pub/isthisan... 1111
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 21/01/2026One big thing I did in 2025 was finally receive a huge upgrade to my cyborg parts-and I decided to write more about it to get started on one of my 2026 experiments: writing about software Read the full post on substack: open.substack.com/pub/isthisan... 0100
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 08/07/2025wondering today if the current rise of the online "critical internet researcher" (I support them) is a product of the first truly social media literate generation with useless graduate degrees now being out of the academy 080
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 25/05/2025Remote Viewing, a new sculptural work that displays (to scale, one-to-one) what Google Earth sees of the location it's placed in currently on view at the Fellbach Triennial Kleinplastik 🛰️ 1131
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 07/04/2025imagine thinking this was going to bring manufacturing back to America 1110
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 05/04/2025questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog blog.isthisa.com/decentraliza... 071
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 28/03/2025I don't know specifically, I don't work there - but last night @arkadiy.bsky.social was getting a lot of this, and the only thing that worked was describing the Ghibli style in a long paragraph that didn't use the word "Ghibli" 010
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 28/03/2025when they write text books about the fall of the "west" 50 years from now, they will blame the personal automobile and its associated ideological apparatus 191
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 15/02/2025catch our whole convo: theblockchainsocialist.com/how-to-die-a... 060
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 15/02/2025spoke about my research into death in digital spaces and the death of digital things with The Blockchain Socialist in an unexpectedly high end interview set up at Devcon full episode below 👇🏻 1245
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 19/01/2025don't live in the US and I'm not American and I'm still banned apparently 191
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 07/01/2025I'm on the jury for this fellowship with @metagov, applications currently open for artists and researchers interested in experimenting with governance 🪺 Due Jan 20 metagov.org/join/jobs/go... 051
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 08/12/2024I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it openread.academy/en/paper/readi… 4307
Sarah Friend @isthisa.com · 22/06/2024maybe I should have called it e-sports in the expanded field outland.art/sarah-friend... 020
