Nick Caves (from Issue #190 of “The Red Hand Files”, as read at Stephen Colbert)»Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, Valerio, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes, keeps the devil down in the hole. It says the world and its inhabitants have value and are worth defending. It says the world is worth believing in. In time, we come to find that it is so.«
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tags:»The Poetic Web is a practice and process towards a place: a web that is more handmade, expressive, and intimate; where site-making is a political, personal, and poetic act. This is a growing collection of projects, tools, and teachings around it.«
(Of course) I like the idea of a Poetic Web.
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»ShildFont is an open-source creative technology intervention developed to protect human writing from unauthorized AI training. Why? Writing makes us human. But at some point, we lost ownership. AI learns from it and uses it without explanation.«
Danish type foundry PlayType teamed up with Brazilian creative studio Seneda & Abrucio to develop technology (and a font) to make text look perfectly normal to humans but poison the data that LLM bots scrape from it without permission. Fascinating! (via fastcompany.com)
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as seen on Figma’s Instagram account
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»LLMs drift, fabricate tokens, and start every session from scratch. Here’s how to feed your design system to AI coding agents so they stop guessing.«
On my quest for a healthy way to integrate LLMs into my own design process a little more often, I stumbled across Hardik Pandya’s Expose your design system to LLMs. Noted.
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»Yet, I want to know these tools, these new tools of increasing weirdness and danger. So I use them, daily, amid a constantly fluctuating state of bafflement and delight and horror (pessimistic, optimistic, manic). Over the last couple of months I’ve continued to use mostly Claude to work on a bunch of projects.«
Author Craig Mod wrote about his most “Recent adventures in using LLMs”. For example sending out A Swarm of Blood Robots, to learn more about his ancestors based on his adoption papers.
I would love to deep-dive into the specific use cases that great creative people come up with for this technology more often. Any recommendations?
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via electricgecko.de»Die Perspektive, die wir einnehmen ist wichtiger als die Dinge, die wir betrachten. Die Möglichkeit, eine Perspektive gemeinsam zu finden, zu entwerfen, herzustellen, und die Welt verändert vorzufinden — weil es nun eine andere ist, Deine und meine.«
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»Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast is discontinuous, slow is continuous. Fast and small instructs slow and big by accrued innovation and by occasional revolution. Slow and big controls small and fast by constraint and constancy. Fast gets all our attention, slow has all the power.
All durable dynamic systems have this sort of structure. It is what makes them adaptable and robust.«Lately, I’ve found myself repeatedly coming back to the concept of Pace Layering as laid out by Stewart Brand years ago in an essay for the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), a sadly discontinued joint venture of the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press.
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more work-in-progress documentation on instagram.com/ldtlab
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via electricgecko.de»Macht schöne Dinge. Macht Dinge, die man benutzen kann. Macht einfache Dinge. Hütet Euch vor zu viel Kunstfertigkeit. Hütet Euch vor zu viel Wissen. Das Werk sollte gesund sein. Achtet die Handarbeit. Seid darauf bedacht, den Preis niedrig zu halten. Macht Gefäße, die Ihr selbst gern benutzt. Das Werk sollte bescheiden sein. Innere Klarheit ist die Grundlage der Schönheit. Beachtet die Eigenschaften des Materials. Beobachtet die Natur intensiv. Das Gefäß zu formen entspricht der Formung der eigenen Persönlichkeit.«
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tags:»Heavy projects are the lifeblood of creative fulfillment — and creative longevity. And for now, no platform truly offers that kind of weight on its own. Platforms are built to amplify, not anchor.«
I love this essay by Anu Atluru: Make Something Heavy.
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tags:©Login.jp ©Login.jp ©Login.jp I love everything about this YouTube channel called Login.jp, which collects DJ sets being played in everyday settings in Japan. (via testspiel.de)