TODAY: Don't miss the inaugural event of Project Liberty partner La Plateforme_'s innovation lab #2, ft. artist & #socialmedia researcher @tinysubversions, Braxton, @cyrilzim, Jacques-Henri Eyraud. Register for access link: bit.ly/356Rfjo At 9:00 PDT/12:00 EDT/17:00 CET.

futurist layering

Web3 is cool but have you tried designing products that are accessible to lower and middle income brackets

Des arts numériques au Métavers, sur la disparition du DICRéAM - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zySGjC8Q via Change.org

I don't think people understand the monumental changes coming to software this decade. Quick thread:

Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump's arrest.

The current 4 ideal-typical forms of design education: - the scammy lifestyle "be yourself" edu - the crafty post-bauhausian "woodblock printing" edu - the pseudo-technical UX methods "set of cards" edu - the (geo)political "our world is complex" artist-activist edu

I'm amazed at how many people think Twitter has copied the X Windows logo or some other logo. The new X logo is literally the 𝕏 glyph from Special Alphabets 4

Before empty signifiers like "design thinking" hijacked the minds of designers & technologists, there was also the possibility of situated political design - one attuned to geopolitical and geoeconomic context. Gui Bonsiepe, working in Allende's Chile, outlined it as follows:

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Great statement from Columbia

Everyone in the world needs to see this. Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel.

Extremists are developing their own hateful AIs to supercharge radicalization and fundraising—and are now using the tech to make weapon blueprints and bombs. And it’s going to get worse. wired.trib.al/cRMBUlP

Going through many historical materials from late 60s/early 70s to research A SENSE OF REBELLION, I've realized that today's Silicon Valley (SV) is no longer the guardian of the counterculture's legacy but, rather, one of its main enemies. Some reflections below.🧵

how close was world history from a dramatically different path? this close. x.com/spectatorindex…

Breaking news: Apple has suffered a significant defeat after the EU’s top court ruled that the iPhone maker must pay €13bn in back taxes, overturning an earlier decision in the Big Tech group’s favour on.ft.com/4cXTSRl

japanese flowers.

So, we went from "Government as a platform" to "Country as a start-up." Soon: Citizens as users. Politicians as founders. Laws as algorithms