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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15h

Wang Bing - Coal Money Wang Bing - Butter Money Allan Sekula - The Forgotten Place Lixin Fan - The Last Train Home Johan Grimonprez - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (mineral extraction is not the primary frame but it underlies everything)

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 15h

What are people's favorite essay films/documentaries/series about global political economy?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/10/2026

Welcome to Somerville, MA, the town with the lowest ratio of coffee places open after 3pm to [pick your favorite signifier of a walking cliche of a liberal/leftist walkable urbanism loving city] in the US!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/10/2026

I'm a broken record on this but literally every workday strengthens my belief in it. 🤷‍♀️

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 02/10/2026

Separated by handclaps: Use LLMs to write deterministic code that get called at runtime rather than asking an LLM to do the thing during runtime. Truly hope this is obvious to everyone here, but, just in case it's not...

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/09/2026

Why would you let an LLM stream rando html, guided by *a skill* 🙄, when you could use an LLM during dev to define a json schema, send it to the frontend, and have it render in a normal-ass deterministic and thoughtfully created set of frontend components? What I am preaching to the choir what?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/09/2026

Unbelievably refreshing to see in 2026!!! Reminds me of the projects that first made me excited about data viz!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/09/2026

NGL, when I started all of this and I kept seeing `foo`, `bar`, and `baz` in Stack Overflow, I was like, are these special concepts/keywords that I just don't understand? That's was reading Claudespeak feels like to me.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/09/2026

Imagine trying to learn and all you get is, "One thing worth holding: SVG text carries the width in its own lane. So the armed version of this is to..."

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 30/09/2026

This is a duh kind of comment, but I really don't know how people will learn the basics of web dev stuff if they start doing it via agentic dev. And it's honestly already having the knowledge of how things actually work that make it an effective tool.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 28/09/2026

AI makes it instantaneous to chase every idea, spin up agents for every stray thought, ask the LLM instead of talking to customers, skip marketing in favor of launching the same AI-generated assets as everyone else easier than ever to go fast. hard as always to do it well

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 29/09/2026

(Brought to you by Google photos reminding me)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 29/09/2026

Happy three years of me pursuing my self-directed, unaccredited, non-enrolled masters degree in Eurasian/former Soviet realm studies. :) It's been a wonderful surprise in so many ways.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 29/09/2026

Happy one year of knowing how cool Riga (Latvia) is to me!!!! :)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 28/09/2026

Well, less <textarea> to be technical about it :)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 28/09/2026

The future of UI design for AI: more <button> less <input>. Said with less than full conviction because as a trained historian/me, I can't make any statements about the future with full conviction :)

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 10/08/2025

Mythical agent month

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have an unneeded cardboard box? A small piece of woolen string? Maybe a dirt? or a used ziploc bag? Donate it to your public radio station and turn that thing you don't need into the stories and music you love and maybe even a tax incentive. Call us today and support your local NPR station

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

Here's an 11 min timeline cleanse: 1976 Hungarian stop motion animation short, Scenes with Beans. youtu.be/_ydbJCyIbIw?...

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Babfilm Ottó Foky 1976 Shortmovie No Language

YouTube video by LANTERNA MÁGICA

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

Fyi If what you've been waiting for all your life is me espousing the virtues of being a beginner/bad at something, or you've wondered whether trying to learn Russian with no real reason has defeated me, you can listen to me talk with @guysegal.com about this here!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

I mean, okay, I can believe it, but I was rooting for it to be on the list!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

Feel like this is the ur actually-use-talent-to-make-something-competion-show??? Though I guess that genre has kind of faded...

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

Kind of can't believe that Project Runway did not make the NYT list of top 100 shows of the century. This is the only show that I have watched socially (i.e. made a social event out of watching together) for, gulp, two decades in so many different phases of my life. (Incl last weekend)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

For example, as a lover of word choice, I loved listening to this episode from OC Media about how they choose language in their coverage of the Caucuses. oc-media.org/how-we-cover...

oc-media.org

Podcast | How we cover conflict in the Caucasus

On how OC Media covers conflicts in the Caucasus.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 25/09/2026

The best part about being overly/weirdly interested in other parts of the world is that when you listen to podcasts about those areas, they actually talk about something other than AI.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 24/09/2026

Eh, already nevermind, this relies on :after. Anyway, this is cool regardless.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 24/09/2026

I uh, just posted about hacky solutions but also.... 👀SVGText labels??? 👀

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 24/09/2026

And people don't seem to either love or learn from "I told you so" for some reason....

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 24/09/2026

Is there any intermediate measure that can be taken between verbally advising someone of the perils of hacky workarounds and having them experiencing the pain for themselves? I do not know a third way to effectively teach/impart this lesson.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 23/09/2026

Everytime I interact in writing/async with another designer (I'm the only one at my workplace), I'm like, "OMG thank you so much for your hyper organized and clear message!!!!" And they are like. "Uh, okay, I just used paragraphs, proper casing, and didn't write it with Claude??"

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 22/09/2026

I know this because BA once cancelled my flight home from Europe once I was already there. :)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 22/09/2026

You probably know this but in case you don't, you are entitled to compensation for this, per EU rules. (Not just hotel, meals, but $ on top of it...it's EU Regulation 261/2004)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 22/09/2026

Turns out it's not that hard at all to be a human Jev if you have enough experience to make a judgement.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 22/09/2026

You know what's way faster than AI? Making a decision without AI and then *delegating the work.* Like 10x faster.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2026

NGL I extra love this because of the opening anecdote -- I'm constantly thinking about architectural drawings as encodings of information.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2026

Just popped back into my feed bsky.app/profile/mike...

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2026

This sounds like I'm joking but I'm not: the idea that this much structured data could potentially get flattened into plain text feels like a major loss. (Someone should write something about web preservation vis-a-vis the history of architectural preservation)

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

Can we start doing WinAmp skins for chat interfaces? Or customize like MySpace? Top 6 prompts and you can show them off and rotate them?

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

Was helpful to have to articulate what I really want to know!

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

The converse of this is little process/no process leads to complete chaos. I'd actually love to talk to people who could do both but wound up picking a lane because trying to do both was too exhausting, primarily to learn how they feels about having picked a lane.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

I have plenty of personal learning goals. My goal here is to figure out how to have a job that uses my skill sets, it personally satisfying, and doesn't burn me out. So...yes.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

Next learning goal is probably more about harnesses, but this is pretty far afield from my specialty.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

I love learning, and always want to be learning, but also am not quite in the phase of my career where I am going to pick up smtg new and it will drive a career. (10 yrs experience on top of PhD + design school, have created internal frontend libs, can write production code with tests, etc)

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

I think the question for me if how I can maintain doing many things without giving so much that I am worn ragged.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 15/09/2026

Very true. I think it's sometimes just hard to find people/places who know how to make use of the breadth. Or people/places that are excited about the breath where the mandate isn't, okay please spray your fire extinguisher across all of our problems/issues, as far as it can reach!

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