Micah Alex
@khattamicah.xyz
I sometimes think about community technology, archives, novel interfaces and tech histories
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Applications for Trimester 01 is open!
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We are excited to create a learning space that is collaborative, practice-based, and open to diverse ways of learning engagement. Our application process is designed to ensure meaningful alignment bet...
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September 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Applications for Trimester 01 is open!
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The knowledge-keepers and communities in Bidar, Channapatna, Kundapura and Chennai who've generously shared their wisdom
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The knowledge-keepers and communities in Bidar, Channapatna, Kundapura and Chennai who've generously shared their wisdom
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LAUNCHING: Living Labs Institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions.
Made with care.
livinglabs.institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions.
Made with care.
livinglabs.institute
Living Labs Institute
Living Labs Institute is a place-based institute fostering transdisplinary learning-collaborations to imagine, construct and pursue alternative pathways of differential development.
livinglabs.institute
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
LAUNCHING: Living Labs Institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions.
Made with care.
livinglabs.institute
We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions.
Made with care.
livinglabs.institute
Am I imagining it or are FOSS android apps having a cambrian explosion?
July 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Am I imagining it or are FOSS android apps having a cambrian explosion?
A list of alternatives to enshittified systems
1. bookshop.org
1. bookshop.org
April 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A list of alternatives to enshittified systems
1. bookshop.org
1. bookshop.org
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To address this, the next thing we could try is, rather than sending inputs over the network, sending STATES over the network.
That is, instead of sending "P1 pressed jump", the client sends "Mario is at position X: 20, Y: 34, and has 5 coins", and so on.
At first, it looks the same as before...
That is, instead of sending "P1 pressed jump", the client sends "Mario is at position X: 20, Y: 34, and has 5 coins", and so on.
At first, it looks the same as before...
April 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
To address this, the next thing we could try is, rather than sending inputs over the network, sending STATES over the network.
That is, instead of sending "P1 pressed jump", the client sends "Mario is at position X: 20, Y: 34, and has 5 coins", and so on.
At first, it looks the same as before...
That is, instead of sending "P1 pressed jump", the client sends "Mario is at position X: 20, Y: 34, and has 5 coins", and so on.
At first, it looks the same as before...
The multiline thread doesn't work for a mobile interface.
What we really need to see from that line is where all do other thread emerge and how do i get back to where i started from
@bsky.app
What we really need to see from that line is where all do other thread emerge and how do i get back to where i started from
@bsky.app
April 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The multiline thread doesn't work for a mobile interface.
What we really need to see from that line is where all do other thread emerge and how do i get back to where i started from
@bsky.app
What we really need to see from that line is where all do other thread emerge and how do i get back to where i started from
@bsky.app
We have much bigger Leviathans to worry about
Paul - who also drew the below image that is part of a panel says "Surveillance capitalism will make sure that Trump isn't the problem. There's no opt out for this social contract, that's why resisting is dangerous"
Paul - who also drew the below image that is part of a panel says "Surveillance capitalism will make sure that Trump isn't the problem. There's no opt out for this social contract, that's why resisting is dangerous"
April 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We have much bigger Leviathans to worry about
Paul - who also drew the below image that is part of a panel says "Surveillance capitalism will make sure that Trump isn't the problem. There's no opt out for this social contract, that's why resisting is dangerous"
Paul - who also drew the below image that is part of a panel says "Surveillance capitalism will make sure that Trump isn't the problem. There's no opt out for this social contract, that's why resisting is dangerous"
Adblock based templates might be an amazing idea to directly start tweaking interfaces
Experimenting with uBlock Origin rules to un-social social media today:
www.reddit.com##[data-post-click-location="comments-button"]
www.reddit.com##[slot="title"]{pointer-events: none;}
www.reddit.com##[slot="full-post-link"]
This removes the link to comments on reddit.
1/x
www.reddit.com##[data-post-click-location="comments-button"]
www.reddit.com##[slot="title"]{pointer-events: none;}
www.reddit.com##[slot="full-post-link"]
This removes the link to comments on reddit.
1/x
April 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Adblock based templates might be an amazing idea to directly start tweaking interfaces
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YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a complicated task. Micah investigates how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.
gfsc.community/can-you-subv...
gfsc.community/can-you-subv...
Can you subvert YouTube's battle for your eyeballs?
YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house.
Exposing its design principles is a surprisingly complicated task. ...
gfsc.community
April 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
YouTube's homepage is a slot machine: brightly lit, loud, ephemeral, provacative, uncertain, and there to make money for the house. Exposing its design principles is a complicated task. Micah investigates how a browser extension might take away the house's edge.
gfsc.community/can-you-subv...
gfsc.community/can-you-subv...
"Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space." #art nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
April 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
"Nightshade, a tool that turns any image into a data sample that is unsuitable for model training e.g. a prompt that asks for an image of a cow flying in space might instead get an image of a handbag floating in space." #art nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
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The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).
April 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The transformer was invented in Google. RLHF was not invented in industry labs, but came to prominence in OpenAI and DeepMind. I took 5 of the most influential papers (black dots) and visualized their references. Blue dots are papers that acknowledge federal funding (DARPA, NSF).
Looking forward to recession Hollywood
m.youtube.com/watch?v=auJc...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=auJc...
How To Train Your Dragon | Official Trailer
YouTube video by Universal Pictures Philippines
m.youtube.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Looking forward to recession Hollywood
m.youtube.com/watch?v=auJc...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=auJc...
This is a really good way to undercut insureflation. Have others done/found similar mechanisms?
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Contact your Doctor to Send in Prescription | Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs Company
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March 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is a really good way to undercut insureflation. Have others done/found similar mechanisms?
www.costplusdrugs.com/contact-your...
www.costplusdrugs.com/contact-your...
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I, @khattamicah.xyz, wander among waking dreams of digital lifeworlds and the unevenness of the future. I do things in sporadic bursts of energy: art, poetry, code, and writing as making practices. I think about media culture, science communication, and infra resilience.
gfsc.community/i-micah/
gfsc.community/i-micah/
I, Micah
I wander among waking dreams of digital lifeworlds and the unevenness of the future. I like doing things in sporadic bursts of energy - art, poetry, code-bashing, and writing as making practices. I th...
gfsc.community
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I, @khattamicah.xyz, wander among waking dreams of digital lifeworlds and the unevenness of the future. I do things in sporadic bursts of energy: art, poetry, code, and writing as making practices. I think about media culture, science communication, and infra resilience.
gfsc.community/i-micah/
gfsc.community/i-micah/
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GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from founder @kim.town.
gfsc.community/the-future-o...
gfsc.community/the-future-o...
Introducing the future of Geeks for Social Change!
GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimi...
gfsc.community
March 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
GFSC are a collective imagining hopeful post-billionaire technology and finding scraps of pleasure in a crumbled social order. Read about our new plans and support our tentative (but necessary) optimism in an update from founder @kim.town.
gfsc.community/the-future-o...
gfsc.community/the-future-o...
I wrote about counter-designing for large platforms
khattamicah.xyz/portfolio/re...
khattamicah.xyz/portfolio/re...
How to do counter-UI/UX design
Interfaces help manipulate your sense of reality. As a designer/developer who is part of the plural “user” being manipulated, you need a better curriculum than “Design Thinking”
khattamicah.xyz
December 10, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I wrote about counter-designing for large platforms
khattamicah.xyz/portfolio/re...
khattamicah.xyz/portfolio/re...