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Sarah Friend
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dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good
telling my kids this was waymo
September 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
wondering today if the current rise of the online "critical internet researcher" (I support them) is a product of the first truly social media literate generation with useless graduate degrees now being out of the academy
July 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
June 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I think this image would literally kill Theordor Adorno
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Remote Viewing, a new sculptural work that displays (to scale, one-to-one) what Google Earth sees of the location it's placed in

currently on view at the Fellbach Triennial Kleinplastik 🛰️
May 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
imagine thinking this was going to bring manufacturing back to America
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech

originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog

blog.isthisa.com/decentraliza...
April 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I don't know specifically, I don't work there - but last night @arkadiy.bsky.social was getting a lot of this, and the only thing that worked was describing the Ghibli style in a long paragraph that didn't use the word "Ghibli"
March 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
when they write text books about the fall of the "west" 50 years from now, they will blame the personal automobile and its associated ideological apparatus
March 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
key exchange, 2025

process video
March 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
March 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
February 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
spoke about my research into death in digital spaces and the death of digital things with The Blockchain Socialist in an unexpectedly high end interview set up at Devcon

full episode below 👇🏻
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
don't live in the US and I'm not American and I'm still banned apparently
January 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I'm on the jury for this fellowship with @metagov, applications currently open for artists and researchers interested in experimenting with governance 🪺

Due Jan 20

metagov.org/join/jobs/go...
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it

openread.academy/en/paper/readi…
December 8, 2024 at 3:46 PM
maybe I should have called it e-sports in the expanded field

outland.art/sarah-friend...
June 22, 2024 at 3:45 PM
biblically accurate survivorship fallacy diagram
August 12, 2023 at 6:48 PM
July 27, 2023 at 6:40 PM