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"There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”
— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 17: Systems and Boundaries
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— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 17: Systems and Boundaries
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Advent(ure) in System Seeing
Pick a (socio)technical system to focus on. Write a brief description of its primary purpose (or role or identity in the ecology of systems).
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December 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”
— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 17: Systems and Boundaries
www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...
— Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems
#AdventOfSystemSeeing Day 17: Systems and Boundaries
www.ruthmalan.com/Advent/2025/...
Latest StoryTime Alpha development update. buttondown.com/storytime-te...
November Update
Hello! Nat here, with the latest news from StoryTime. If you’re reading this, you signed up to get monthly updates about our development process. If you’re...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
No. He would never.
I mean, maybe only from floofy cuteness overload.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
No. He would never.
I mean, maybe only from floofy cuteness overload.
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
No. He would never.
I mean, maybe only from floofy cuteness overload.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
No. He would never.
I mean, maybe only from floofy cuteness overload.
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There is so much good work out there on embodied cognitive science.
But it really hasn’t hit mainstream understanding.
But it really hasn’t hit mainstream understanding.
This gets right at my core opinion about AGI: we're not going to get anything like actual "intelligence" from a brain in a jar (or a chip in a computer). Intelligence is ultimately about interacting with the world; only embodied creatures can develop it.
The most basic is that Cartesianism, broadly speaking, is false. The mind is embodied and embedded in the physical world. Meaning is not in the head. Reference, truth, and rational belief require the right kind of causal relationships to the world.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
There is so much good work out there on embodied cognitive science.
But it really hasn’t hit mainstream understanding.
But it really hasn’t hit mainstream understanding.
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When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products?
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November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products?
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Hype pins the blame — unfairly — on you.
Hype says, "by spending the money on magic beans instead of the things you need, we are actually helping." Hype says, "the magic beans are magic. if you still have problems, you must be prompting it wrong."
This is about AI, but not *just* about AI.
Hype says, "by spending the money on magic beans instead of the things you need, we are actually helping." Hype says, "the magic beans are magic. if you still have problems, you must be prompting it wrong."
This is about AI, but not *just* about AI.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Hype pins the blame — unfairly — on you.
Hype says, "by spending the money on magic beans instead of the things you need, we are actually helping." Hype says, "the magic beans are magic. if you still have problems, you must be prompting it wrong."
This is about AI, but not *just* about AI.
Hype says, "by spending the money on magic beans instead of the things you need, we are actually helping." Hype says, "the magic beans are magic. if you still have problems, you must be prompting it wrong."
This is about AI, but not *just* about AI.
Want to teach your kids the glory of search engines before AI summary trash happened?
scholar.google.com is actually ideal. All the results are just the articles of other curious minds urging you to go get out there and learn for yourself.
scholar.google.com is actually ideal. All the results are just the articles of other curious minds urging you to go get out there and learn for yourself.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Want to teach your kids the glory of search engines before AI summary trash happened?
scholar.google.com is actually ideal. All the results are just the articles of other curious minds urging you to go get out there and learn for yourself.
scholar.google.com is actually ideal. All the results are just the articles of other curious minds urging you to go get out there and learn for yourself.
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A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
My kids love this movie.
It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My kids love this movie.
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From a banger paper written in the wake of Enron. The last thing Ghoshal wrote before he died.
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
October 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
From a banger paper written in the wake of Enron. The last thing Ghoshal wrote before he died.
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
Fancy Man Enjoys Tea https://theonion.com/fancy-man-enjoys-tea-1819569438/
October 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The male loneliness crisis will never end until men are willing to hear loved ones tell them "bro you are wrong."
The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The male loneliness crisis will never end until men are willing to hear loved ones tell them "bro you are wrong."
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Picked this one off the pile to read on the bus and holy shit just the introduction.
Image Control by Patrick Nathan
Image Control by Patrick Nathan
October 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Picked this one off the pile to read on the bus and holy shit just the introduction.
Image Control by Patrick Nathan
Image Control by Patrick Nathan
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💯🏆
Lots of us work in these fields. Selling an LLM chatbot and saying it's "AI" is like selling a Slinkie and saying it's "physics" while also strongly implying to your customers that it can levitate.
September 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
💯🏆
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
@erikahall.bsky.social I wore the DESIGN IS MY P̶A̶S̶S̶I̶O̶N̶ JOB t-shirt today and my middle child asked "do you not like your job, daddy?".
September 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
@erikahall.bsky.social I wore the DESIGN IS MY P̶A̶S̶S̶I̶O̶N̶ JOB t-shirt today and my middle child asked "do you not like your job, daddy?".
Design Blinking
Disservice Design
September 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Design Blinking
Ruin a book with a car:
For Whom the Buick Tolls
For Whom the Buick Tolls
September 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Ruin a book with a car:
For Whom the Buick Tolls
For Whom the Buick Tolls
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Oy Story
Oy Story
May 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.
Oy Story
Oy Story
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I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.
wrd.cm
February 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”
Huge.
Huge.
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Oh no they've invented a much cheaper Bluetooth radio before any of us figured out how to make a product as useful as AirPods with our expensive Bluetooth radios
January 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Oh no they've invented a much cheaper Bluetooth radio before any of us figured out how to make a product as useful as AirPods with our expensive Bluetooth radios
Oh to be in the SNL writers’ room this year
January 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Oh to be in the SNL writers’ room this year