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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“nostalgic design”: the tendency to create something for their idealized childhood www.goodreads.com/review/show/... via @omar.website
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
“Centuries of pedagogy, defeated by a chat window.” ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“standup update: […] i won't be able to make any further progress on this project: i need to walk in my neighborhood and listen to the breeze as it whispers through my chest and the ribs of the sugar maples, and i need to watch the blue sky fill with gold” stillness.digital/posts/2025-1...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“Linux […] is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“his head is filled with iron and bronze, not neurons and God.” Matthew Olzmann, Replica of the Thinker
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“What if AI models could figure out answers to your questions BEFORE you even ask them?” letta.com on arxiv.org/abs/2504.13171
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
“My Coworker, The Programmer. More of a parrot than a person. A chaos monkey disguised as a teammate. A one-man bug factory. Whispering half-formed solutions into the ears of juniors like a sick, twisted full-stack Rasputin.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Like many other self-styled thinky programmer guys, I like to imagine myself as a sort of Holmesian genius, making trenchant observations, collecting them, and then synergizing them into brilliant deductions with the keen application of my powerful mind” blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-th...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“the world’s most brilliant, competent, and empathetic people […] spend their lives serving Marl”, a user persona that “only has one working thumb, and the only thing that thumb can do is flick upwards in a repetitive, zombielike scrolling motion.” nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyrann...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Why study semiotics when I could be building a portfolio site?” www.terrain.com/design-liter...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Current AI creative tools are built by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative” twitter.com/weberwongwon...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"LLMs are good at the things that computers are bad at, and bad at the things that computers are good at" www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Perhaps the most significant finding was how early architectural decisions become nearly immutable in pure AI development.” towardsdatascience.com/zero-human-c...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Biotic scripts: where “botanical forms serve not merely as formal typographic inspiration, but as active authorial or designerly agents” asapjournal.com/node/graphic...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“For us, computer is the specific feeling of artifacts that allow for intimate systems of personal meaning.” github.com/timhwang/nyr...
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👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com · 16/11/2024
🤞 robhorning.substack.com/p/blue-sky-m...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
“AI automates 57% of ‘idea-generation’ tasks, reallocating researchers to the new task of evaluating model-produced candidate materials.” aidantr.github.io/files/AI_inn...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 11/10/2024
“it’s easy to confuse usefulness of a tool with the enjoyment derived from its upkeep” chrisdone.com/posts/tamago...
chrisdone.com
Tamagotchi tooling
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
“Unfairly”, “expressing creativity meant mastering craft”. “AI solves this.” It is “a means of fashioning an artefact from a creative impulse without having to master the craft of expression.” www.thebookseller.com/comment/craf...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
“I just mutated procrastination into a taste for curiosity in itself and would search not for answers to any specific problems but for further questions.” robhorning.substack.com/p/commodifie...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
“The plausible destination that LLMs conduct towards is not entropy, but a cluster of cultural strong attractors that increase conformity, and makes it much harder to find new directions and get them to stick.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
open.substack.com
After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?
Malkovich. Malkovich. Malkovich?
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
“the author of a web framwork that tries to abstract how the author thinks a browser works, is complaining about the amount of work it takes to conform their abstraction to how a browser actually works” bitworking.org/news/2024/09/abstrac…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
“We simply do not have the institutional capacity to cope with that much more infrastructure coming into existence all at once.” berjon.com/infrastructure-shock
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
“a Google Alert pointed me to a paper I wrote with Cheryl Brown quite recently. Which I did not remember us having written. Although we quite plausibly could have, as we have written many papers together, and this one is close enough to a topic we could have written about”
czernie.weebly.com
I have been hallucinated!
My guess is that most academics have a Scholar Alert to their names. It can be intriguing, or pleasing, or surprising, to see how one’s work is referenced and for what purposes. Sometimes it is a...
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
“Maybe you can just pytorch pipette your way to papers.” www.argmin.net/p/linear-doesnt-mean…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
A completely backwards understanding of the centaur metaphor: caseorganic.medium.com/a-centaur-so…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
“The prompt to create the micro-app is about the same length as the search query to find it from last time.” interconnected.org/home/2024/08/09/…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
“We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” from Ellen Ullman’s Life in Code
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Eolithicism: “the idea that objects don’t need to have unique, stable, pre-determined functions. This is how ordinary single-function tools can become toys with infinite, unstable identities.” www.sense-of-rebellion.com/text/eol…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-stag…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 24/06/2024
“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity” jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-data-center-…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
Carving at the joints: “Joints are opportunities for you to modify, to splice in or switch parts.” garden.grantcuster.com/2024-05-31-0…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
"These core competences that were inherited from graphic design have been replaced with a poor man’s version of an anthropology major where the act of design is mostly based on averaging user opinions." designsystems.international/ideas/p…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
VCware - subsidized, short-term, over-hyped, growth and exit oriented software stephango.com/vcware
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
“AI-first web design”? pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/politi…
pressgazette.co.uk
Politico embraces generative AI web crawlers with website redesigns
Politico explains the thing being a redesign of its European website editions which makes them more readable for AI.
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
“Understanding societal imagination as infrastructural project highlights the political & power dimensions of who gets to participate in shaping the future. Who[se] ideas about the future matter? Who gets to play / experiment?” anticiplay.medium.com/transformativ…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
“We don’t write things down to remember them. We write them down to forget.” www.reproof.app/blog/notes-apps-hel…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
"[They] asked a simple...question: can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A? The shocking (yet, in historical context... unsurprising) answer is no" garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-a…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
“The user [..] must not be afraid to misuse.” cristobal.space/writing/carts
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
“Could computing be less like a 24/7 supermarket thing and be more seasonal — like you would go to an orchard to pick fruit once a year, you could go to this space where one special computational task is happening which would be dormant the rest of the time?”
solarprotocol.net
Sun Thinking
A group exhibition hosted on Solar Protocol
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
"What happens when it becomes even easier to make mashups—will we drown in a SoundClown sea flooded with industry-made detritus? Robo-remixes and Ice Spice posse cuts, posthumous AI albums, mood-optimized song-smoothies and tragedy-of-the-Cartis a capella clonery"
nobells.blog
The manic spawn of mashup mayhem
How speed remixes and wacky mashups are taking over the music industry and forming a giant musical landfill.
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 18/08/2023
“Influencer content reflects […] an economically contingent demand for training ourselves in how to co-exist with algorithms and ultimately how to seem more socially valuable than a bot” overland.org.au/2023/08/authentic-l…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
A list of computer architecture papers of the last 50 years: sites.coecis.cornell.edu/isca50retr…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
Considering the physical properties of displays when designing graphics and taking advantage of these characteristics when producing content can improve energy consumption: www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-08-susta…
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 09/08/2023
“the philosophies and ways we’ve educated ourselves aren’t up to the task of truly, ethically handling many of our contemporary technologies or sciences of the quantum echelon. Our egos are simply too fragile, our horizons too short, our systems too rigid.” craigmod.com/roden/082
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sorin @sorin.bsky.social · 07/08/2023
“You fall in love with something — skyscrapers, letterforms, robots, websites, cars — and dedicate yourself to its craft, only to run headlong into the cruel depravity of its mode of production.” reallifemag.com/middle-management
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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 07/07/2023
Wolfram: “Writing an essay turns out to be a computationally shallower problem than we thought.“ writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02…
writings.stephenwolfram.com
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language s...
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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 02/07/2023
"I characterize what we have today as a wonderful bike with training wheels on that nobody knows they are on so nobody is trying to take them off" -- Alan-Kay
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