I’m looking forward to this event! I’ll be doing a short presentation about how cameras in buildings take screenshots of physical space.

i'm constantly asking my computer this

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the biggest difference between the internet today and the internet when I was a kid is that it used to have geography. you could explore it.

Interesting answer to a random hunch I had. I'm not sure offhand exactly what it means for the philosophical basis of blobitecture. (Screenshots from Wikipedia.)

People invent all sorts of products to work around the problems which the design decisions of other products made by large corporations create for them, and it’s interesting when you stumble across an example of one.

the problem with buying too much "cute" stuff isnt that it's gaudy, it's that cuteness tends to be expressed as giving something a face, and then someone's room is filled with 1000 faces looking back at you

the AI marketing message is still "AI god" as The Verge likes to say. Utopia / dystopia, end of humanity stuff. The reality might be more like refined sugar

Right now I have so many ideas of topics I’d like to write about, and I’m still looking for more opportunities to do writing these days.

for a long time tpot has been torn between: 1. be a place to work on and discuss all interesting ideas 2. specifically solve "the loneliness crisis" (or for some people, the "metacrisis") by scaling belonging i highly, highly recommend choosing 1 over 2. 2 is a false idol.

i love how many consumer electronics products use these super wide displays now because the market has been flooded with the surplus from car displays

asked my 2 novelist roommates “hey is it normal that most of my time doing ‘real’ writing feels like it’s spent solving problems??” and they were both like “oh yeah i spend upwards of 90% of my writing time solving problems”

You know a novel is going to be good when it opens up with “hello nerds: yes I know about inflation, please shut up about it”

Area for OpenAI Short two-week exploration with Sam, back when ChatGPT wasn't even on iOS yet. Many cool ideas here, recommend checking out the full project on the Area site.

Digital twins are often discussed as detailed models of complicated systems, like the operations of an entire building or factory. What do you call a digital world model that’s less detailed & uses limited info, like if an AI knows that there’s someone with brown hair named Jeff?

What kind of physical + technological space could be described as the opposite of an automated warehouse?