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Or maybe needing.

While it’s interesting to see renderings in past styles graphic design, ultimately it’s going to ring false. Even if it’s executed well it’s just a costume or pastiche, with no real connection to the style.

What made these historical design movements actually memorable was usually a set of newly-possible techniques joined with young people with a set of shared community values.

So if you want to make something that will read as authentically “2026” to future generations, you should make brainrot. :-)

I think you’re right that some of the angst here is due to a fairly insular community having its culture disturbed by commercial forces.

(academic.) Unfortunately the overwhelming majority of outsiders are missing core knowledge (or are cranks), so the optimal prior from a time management perspective is to ignore them. AI just makes engaging more costly because there’s more volume and it’s harder to get signal on whether they know what they are talking about.

The book “Strangers in Their Own Land” covers similar ground.

> Researchers expect it will remain the most comprehensive 2D map of our universe for years to come.

This is Rubin Observatory erasure

The new “concise” output option that just shipper in Claude Code seems to help.

As a young Midwestern nerd in the 90s, getting one of those cow boxes delivered to our home was better than Christmas. (Christmas happens every year!). Somehow I can still remember the new computer smell…

he just...he tweeted it out

At the present moment I think science is way more threatened by the OMB absconding with the grant budget than it is by AI.