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In Defense of Fakes An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on MeScott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon WillisonThe Financialisation of The
Communicating
The London Review of TikToks
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Design
@clearmatrix.io 📸 The Origin of Instagram: Built on Simplicity and Timing. Before Instagram became a global phenomenon, it started with a simple idea: what if photo-sharing could be fast, beautiful, and social? Kevin Systrom, a Stanford grad and ex-Googler, had built a check-in app called Burbn, but it was bloated
Noticing
Just floating centristly
Presenting
Listening
Especially good comments
Design
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"Where we are with agentic AI feels a lot like the cloud computing boom of 20 years ago. Marketed on claims of efficiency and flexibility, its big innovation was to remove friction between a company’s operating expenses and revenue lines of Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Whereas project purchasing
Decisions
@contemporary.blueprint Intuition Is the Artist’s Compass // David Lynch 🟠 Intuition isn’t instinct—it’s knowing without needing to explain. 🟠 It’s the overlap of feeling and thinking, a quiet inner signal. 🟠 For artists and innovators alike, it’s your closest ally. The most powerful creative decisions don’t
I've noticed on the socials that people are talking about 'going analogue'. And among other things that means using a digital camera and an iPod. So, really it means 'going inconvenient' or 'going non-phone'. Which is fine. Those are valid things to