Ever seen those cool tiny teacups from China? No handle? Don't worry, it's genius! Too hot to hold = too hot to drink. Simple, elegant, makes you wait and appreciate the good stuff.

Design Lessons from Chinese Tea Cups

https://www.sanju.sh/thoughts/design-lessons-chinese-tea-cups

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Bush with flowers and many snails attached to it

A disturbing AI-generated cartoon image of a superhero mom

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Daylight Computer (DC1) is a new kind of calm computer, designed for deep work and health.

Daylight | A More Caring Computer

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Letters to Shenita

Why don't Chinese tea cups have handles?
https://www.sanju.sh/thoughts/design-lessons-chinese-tea-cups

I always say this, posts it’s a great place to share, connect with amazing people, without any rush.

Techbros can't take their imagination beyond the most basic sci-fi reference. It gives me a lot of thinking how we have begun to confuse inventors with producers.

Hi Posts! I wrote and directed a short film about a salesman’s fight for relevance against his artificially intelligent replacement.

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Tired of working/studying/reading at coffee shops and libraries? Or live in a city where those places close early?

Big brain move: Use hotel lobbies as a third space. Buy some coffee or food from the hotel and chill. 

📍Palace Hotel (lobby), San Francisco

With the recent news of Apple training their models on youtube data, MSFT’s AI CEO claiming that Open Web training is under free use with MSFT firing their whole DEI branch, it just comes to show that there is no real or ethical alternative, regardless of shifting “paradigms”.

In regards to AI, if companies can steal from creators, I think its fair game for creators to steal from such companies, right?

“Creative Al tools can be seen as sophisticated plagiarism software, as they do not produce genuinely original content but rather emulate and modify existing works by artists, subtly enough to circumvent copyright laws.”

— ChatGPT (via Rick Beato on YouTube)

@cindywu  was right, coding should feel like laying brick and it bloody does. Except that instead of getting back pain you get burnt retinas 👍

I call myself a generalist with a rabbit hole disorder

I’ve heard every designer has to read these, so here goes.

I don’t think a lot of people realize. Ignorance is bliss.

How are dawgs blocking me after a semantic argument on tech? I logged back on after two weeks- 🚶if you’re gonna have the last word, at least let me see it

between this announcement and read.cv/sites I’m hopeful for an internet that rejects the walled-garden model and instead fosters an archipelago of fun personal sites to build and share

Jesus was crucified 2000 years ago.

Here's what it taught me about Him being the first volunteer before anybody else…

all technology is either harmful or useless

→ Generating anything from scratch? Bad

→ Augmenting existing work or content?  Actually maybe good

It’s a fine line and no one has gotten it right yet because it requires restraint

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you stand for, you’re right to write 🌱 giving code that protects 🌱 giving frequencies is welcome.

What we don’t give you a right to do is write code that kills ☠️ people.

Dune quotes that hit home:
"It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma."
"Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning."

lol yeah you’re probably right. I really need to spend less time online haha

What happened to the guy who was buying all of the ai hardware, feel bad for him😭 with the absolute shitshow recently. ANYWAYS, ive heard no one on here speak about the Daylight tablet, maybe for good reason but you lot have any opinions on it? https://daylightcomputer.com

Ok, xtool screen printing thingie is pretty damn dope.

It’s confirmed AGI by 2025.
It’s confirmed AGI by 2027.
It’s confirmed AGI by 2029.
It’s confirmed AGI by 2032.
It’s confirmed AGI by 2069.

I think i made the only good instance of that iOS icon tinting feature.
*They also enabled to hide the text too!

But then I realised that it doesn't matter. Just use the things you like, and don't use the things you don't. The whole browser debate is stupid imo.

Also I didn't want to completely fill up Charlie's notifications lol (2/2)

😤🫸: figma's releases
😌👉: read's releases

I got blacklisted in 4th grade for putting a curse word in my AIM personal profile

our dependency of certain technologies are out of control.

Woke up this morning to an attempted hack of my iCloud/Apple account. Luckily I had 2FA authentication set up and a few redundancies in place.

Here's your reminder to secure important accounts and set up 2FA if you haven't already.

"Don't make me think" has become a far too pervasive guiding principle

This is very true and already demonstrated with how broken the internet is already.. Worried that it's going to be worse before it gets better (ex: when people inevitably want better experiences because the most basic interactions are a headache)

I sometimes wonder how Mac Miller would've continued to evolve as an artist if he was still alive today. His discography is such an amazing example of someone who kept going deeper and perfecting his craft, and I felt like he was just getting started. Swimming + Circles are gems.

built a thing! https://letterstoshenita.com/ lets you send digital (& real, physical) letters to your friends and loved ones over the internet :)