Sam
@warnaars.com
Interested in our relationship with technology and how it shapes culture.
Works on digital media products you probably use and certainly know. This isn’t a work related account.
Curious mind.
Works on digital media products you probably use and certainly know. This isn’t a work related account.
Curious mind.
Finished reading: Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde 📚 5/5 amazing stories and perspectives. I’ll need to reread/listen this again some day.
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Finished reading: Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde 📚 5/5 amazing stories and perspectives. I’ll need to reread/listen this again some day.
I’m selling my Daylight DC1 (temp pictures)
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I’m selling my Daylight DC1 (temp pictures)
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I wrote about why “screen time” is an incoherent concept when you live among a proliferating infinity of screens.
‘Screen Time’ Does Not Exist
The first step to recovery is acceptance of this fact.
www.theatlantic.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I wrote about why “screen time” is an incoherent concept when you live among a proliferating infinity of screens.
Finished reading: Ghost on the Throne by James Romm 📚— An actual game of Thrones. Fascinating and even though this is all historical facts, it was a thrill to listen. 4/5
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Finished reading: Ghost on the Throne by James Romm 📚— An actual game of Thrones. Fascinating and even though this is all historical facts, it was a thrill to listen. 4/5
Finished reading: TIME/LIFE by Catherine Mayer 📚 — I have been waiting for this audiobook to become available after reading good reviews on the book. The audiobook is good too, with many accents and voice types done by the narrator. Good story too, and very much set in the now of time. 5/5
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Finished reading: TIME/LIFE by Catherine Mayer 📚 — I have been waiting for this audiobook to become available after reading good reviews on the book. The audiobook is good too, with many accents and voice types done by the narrator. Good story too, and very much set in the now of time. 5/5
@tijs.org is there a way to add locations to Anchor?
August 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
@tijs.org is there a way to add locations to Anchor?
I can’t help seeing AI psychosis and “pleasebaiting” over the past week
August 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I can’t help seeing AI psychosis and “pleasebaiting” over the past week
Finished reading: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 📚suggested by a colleague. I took time to read this book, but should have read it in one go. I like how the story fits together, and enjoyed the book. 4/5
August 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Finished reading: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 📚suggested by a colleague. I took time to read this book, but should have read it in one go. I like how the story fits together, and enjoyed the book. 4/5
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I went to try and track down OpenAI's reasoning behind why they deprecated all of their gen 4 models immediately upon releasing gen 5 and stumbled on this instead. bleak. community.openai.com/t/openai-is-...
August 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I went to try and track down OpenAI's reasoning behind why they deprecated all of their gen 4 models immediately upon releasing gen 5 and stumbled on this instead. bleak. community.openai.com/t/openai-is-...
SXSW 2026 as an indicator of next years general themes: https://www.warnaars.com/2025/08/08/sxsw-as-an-indicator-of.html
August 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
SXSW 2026 as an indicator of next years general themes: https://www.warnaars.com/2025/08/08/sxsw-as-an-indicator-of.html
@sxsw.com it seems like the link in your panel picker email for the promotional toolkit is not working. I found this image elsewhere, is it an official asset I can use to promote my proposals?
August 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
@sxsw.com it seems like the link in your panel picker email for the promotional toolkit is not working. I found this image elsewhere, is it an official asset I can use to promote my proposals?
I’ve been beta testing Macrowave, a peer-to-peer pirate broadcaster. The app launched 2 days ago, so whenever I put on my work music, you can listen along. I’m live now if you like to listen along.
August 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I’ve been beta testing Macrowave, a peer-to-peer pirate broadcaster. The app launched 2 days ago, so whenever I put on my work music, you can listen along. I’m live now if you like to listen along.
The Full Spectrum of Human Responses to AI: Reflections from SXSW London: https://www.warnaars.com/2025/07/25/the-full-spectrum-of-human.html
July 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
The Full Spectrum of Human Responses to AI: Reflections from SXSW London: https://www.warnaars.com/2025/07/25/the-full-spectrum-of-human.html
Presentation proposal submitted! 5 years ago hashtag#SXSW was canceled last minute. I didn’t get to take the stage, but I hope 2026 provides another opportunity 🤞 More on what I proposed in a few weeks…
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Presentation proposal submitted! 5 years ago hashtag#SXSW was canceled last minute. I didn’t get to take the stage, but I hope 2026 provides another opportunity 🤞 More on what I proposed in a few weeks…
John Legend at the O2 hall in London
June 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
John Legend at the O2 hall in London
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they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls
March 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
they made an ai game where you can talk to the patients but forgot to add in prompt safety controls
Finished reading: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse 📚 – Another book that has been on the list of years. I enjoyed the perspectives and expect I’ll continue to think about the ideas from this book for some time to come. 5/5
December 7, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Finished reading: Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse 📚 – Another book that has been on the list of years. I enjoyed the perspectives and expect I’ll continue to think about the ideas from this book for some time to come. 5/5
Finished reading: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier 📚 this has been on my list for years too. It’s a quick read, and maybe longer than it needs to be. While it’s good to have the points repeated, I didn’t learn much new from the book. Maybe that was what I should have expected. 3/5
December 7, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Finished reading: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier 📚 this has been on my list for years too. It’s a quick read, and maybe longer than it needs to be. While it’s good to have the points repeated, I didn’t learn much new from the book. Maybe that was what I should have expected. 3/5
Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman 📚 – I finished this book a few weeks ago after having it on my list for a few years. While it’s about Television and entertainment, and it’s about the world in the mid 80’s, it rhymes a lot with the world we have today. I enjoyed it - 5/5
December 7, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Finished reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman 📚 – I finished this book a few weeks ago after having it on my list for a few years. While it’s about Television and entertainment, and it’s about the world in the mid 80’s, it rhymes a lot with the world we have today. I enjoyed it - 5/5
Why would my Bluesky say I have an invalid handle… 🫣
November 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Why would my Bluesky say I have an invalid handle… 🫣
I’m juggling with my accounts on micro.blog (cross posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and Pixelfed), Mastodon (2 accounts) and omg.lol (cross posting to Mastodon and some.pics). I should think through what goes where and how they link up.
November 17, 2024 at 11:47 AM
I’m juggling with my accounts on micro.blog (cross posting to Mastodon, Bluesky and Pixelfed), Mastodon (2 accounts) and omg.lol (cross posting to Mastodon and some.pics). I should think through what goes where and how they link up.
With SkyBridge, I can check the timeline from the iOS Ivory app. I wonder what the username is like when I post this though.
November 16, 2024 at 9:22 PM
With SkyBridge, I can check the timeline from the iOS Ivory app. I wonder what the username is like when I post this though.