Eric
@hedonisticeric.bsky.social
👨💻Designer | 🍜 Noodle-Lover
📍Vancouver Area
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BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/
Pluribus is incredible. I need to talk to someone about it
November 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Pluribus is incredible. I need to talk to someone about it
I need to remember this
“If a word can heal, a word can wound,” the witch said. “If a hand can kill, a hand can cure.”
October 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I need to remember this
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
Things I never thought I’d enjoy: an exhalation so deep that it created a little crack in my spine where it meets the ribs
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Things I never thought I’d enjoy: an exhalation so deep that it created a little crack in my spine where it meets the ribs
I think I’m long overdue for a cry-wake-up
September 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I think I’m long overdue for a cry-wake-up
I’m begging some of you to get therapy. Please. I can’t take it sometimes
September 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m begging some of you to get therapy. Please. I can’t take it sometimes
Some people don’t actually practice Socratic dialogue, what they do is SoCRAPtic dialogue. These kinds of dialogues give the illusion of good-faith truth-seeking debates. But in actuality it’s an exercise of strong arm wrestle that seeks to put the opponent into submission or humiliation
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Some people don’t actually practice Socratic dialogue, what they do is SoCRAPtic dialogue. These kinds of dialogues give the illusion of good-faith truth-seeking debates. But in actuality it’s an exercise of strong arm wrestle that seeks to put the opponent into submission or humiliation
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The area between oversimplification and inaction
Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The area between oversimplification and inaction
Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
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Thinking about how the tech ecosystem prioritizes all else above longevity
But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2
August 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thinking about how the tech ecosystem prioritizes all else above longevity
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But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2
August 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2
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Counting things is, actually, political. It’s laden with choices about what to count, who gets to count and who gets counted, how to display numbers in ways that shape the possible frames for interpretation or which are more or less accessible, etc
Numbers aren’t political. Numbers are numbers. We INTERPRET numbers in different ways, but after all, they’re STILL numbers!
Speed running the dictator’s dilemma
August 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Counting things is, actually, political. It’s laden with choices about what to count, who gets to count and who gets counted, how to display numbers in ways that shape the possible frames for interpretation or which are more or less accessible, etc
Increasing feeling like this guy these days
July 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Increasing feeling like this guy these days
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This is a great post, and it uses simple, compelling visuals to get its point across wonderfully: elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.
What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is a great post, and it uses simple, compelling visuals to get its point across wonderfully: elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...
What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.
What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.
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i think we face two separate problems here:
1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces
2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor
1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces
2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor
“A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as ‘trip sitters’—a phrase that traditionally refers to a sober person tasked with monitoring someone who’s under the influence of a psychedelic—and sharing their experiences online.”
People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.
www.technologyreview.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
i think we face two separate problems here:
1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces
2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor
1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces
2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor
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And it’s not just ChatGPT. This is the logic of every platform that values retention over reality, clicks over care, and profit over people. We’ve spent the last decade getting hooked — not held. Stimulated — not supported.
These tools were never meant to understand us.
These tools were never meant to understand us.
June 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
And it’s not just ChatGPT. This is the logic of every platform that values retention over reality, clicks over care, and profit over people. We’ve spent the last decade getting hooked — not held. Stimulated — not supported.
These tools were never meant to understand us.
These tools were never meant to understand us.
Just finished watching Let Her Cook. Love this show so much
a woman stands in a kitchen looking out a window with a cakes box in the background
Alt: Brie Larson’s character in Lessons in Chemistry stands in a TV kitchen set, turning towards the audience saying “Shall we begin?”
media.tenor.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Just finished watching Let Her Cook. Love this show so much
It’s ironic that every time I open BlueSky, despite its name, I would feel “This is the Bad Place!” I really need less depressing accounts to follow
June 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It’s ironic that every time I open BlueSky, despite its name, I would feel “This is the Bad Place!” I really need less depressing accounts to follow
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The breakfast of champions:
June 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The breakfast of champions:
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there is a widespread problem of governments taking at face value whatever their tech vendors tell them - often because of lack of capacity to verify, but sometimes because of what I could charitably call wishful innovation
Gavin Newsom bragged that the AI chatbot from CAL FIRE is available in 70 languages, but it failed to provide any useful information to me in Chinese, and then kept asking in English if there was anything else it could help with. bsky.app/profile/sylv...
Not great.
May 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
there is a widespread problem of governments taking at face value whatever their tech vendors tell them - often because of lack of capacity to verify, but sometimes because of what I could charitably call wishful innovation
Perversion is the name of the game
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
May 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Perversion is the name of the game
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Watch and learn. 👀 🧠
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Watch and learn. 👀 🧠
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.
But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.
(Thread 🧵)
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"What if your Magic Eight ball could schedule (the wrong) flights for you? Wouldn't that be fun?" - Life in 2025
I am asking for a complete moratorium on using travel booking as an example of an AI agent use-case
May 21, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"What if your Magic Eight ball could schedule (the wrong) flights for you? Wouldn't that be fun?" - Life in 2025
That feeling when your product backlog starts to feel like Schindler’s List
April 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
That feeling when your product backlog starts to feel like Schindler’s List