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alearningaday.blog

Everything is television

How the cause for the global decline in intelligence could be attributed to the fact that we now get to carry this box in our pocket.

vsanchezgomez.substack.com

We’ve all bought into technosolutionism, but we can opt out

Dismantling a culture that idolizes privately owned tech as a method of social progress.

cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Cartography of generative AI

What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?

baldurbjarnason.com

The inevitability of anger

Maturity means emotional regulation – not absence or denial of emotion, but regulation.

nathanbeck.eu

Alienation by design

When design to reduce friction risks eroding human connection.

yusufaytas.com

Most of what we call progress

Reflections on why good judgment outlasts tools, and simplicity always wins.

stavros.io

Why is everything so scalable?

We’ve been in “FAANG architecture by default” hell for a while now.

interconnected.org

Cyborgs vs rooms: two visions for the future of computing

Loosely there are two visions for the future of how we interact with computers.

theatlantic.com

Move fast and break nothing

Why Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.

pessimistsarchive.org

Pessimists archive

An archive of historical technological pessimism.

geoffreylitt.com

AI as teleportation

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?

blog.robbowley.net

Maybe it wasn’t the tech after all

What if most of the benefit from successful technology change doesn’t come from the technology at all?

seangoedecke.com

Seeing like a software company

Thinking in terms of legibility and illegibility explains so many of the things that are confusing about large software companies.

lukew.com

Rethinking applications for AI

With every new technology platform, the concept of an application shifts. Now with AI it's happening again.

brajeshwar.com

Designing for ephemerality

The fundamental design challenge, then, is not just about creating useful software. It’s about designing for ephemerality.

rys.io

The hype is the product

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price.

github.com

A periodic table of system design principles

A preliminary taxonomy of system design principles distilled from several domains in computer systems.

securemessagingapps.com

Secure messaging apps comparison

Comparing secure messaging apps from a security & privacy point of view.

joshwcomeau.com

A friendly introduction to SVG

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web.

aresluna.org

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.