Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on.
I wanted to share things I learned as a designer throughout the years, and highlight some of the nuances and great anonymous work but others, but do it in a hopefully interesting way.
Also, I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too.
*a big screen very, very recommended*
This nightmare for every book author.
Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/
Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere.
Do you know anyone at Upwork who could help us reach the right team?
OpenStreetMap is seeing repeated unauthorised spam from Upwork freelancers. It wastes our time and damages the reputation of the businesses using these "SEO" services.
RE: https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/116704173778333410
A few other reasons to avoid the term "hallucinate" in the context of LLMs:
—It anthropomorphizes genAI, which is a harmful reflex.
—It's a popular industry term for a reason. It perpetuates and strengthens the way genAI companies want us to perceive the technology.
—Maybe most saliently: GenAI does nothing *but* hallucinate. Using the word to describe only some outputs implies erroneously that it's not hallucinating *all the time*.
Inventing a new punctuation mark turns out to be very hard. Mostly, they fade away, never to be seen again - but the “quasiquote” does not deserve that fate. Read more about this ingenious but precarious mark at the Shady Characters archive: https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/
(Image courtesy of Ned Brooks.)
RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/116630450277627159
An excellent example of this practice. This is how the pilcrow lost out to the indented paragraph, too.
I think Jeremy Boreing errs on some details –technological, theological, socioeconomic– but overall this is one of the better pontifications on the so-called-‘AI’ age I've heard in a while:
https://youtu.be/MzEY6QlYEY0?si=k2BpUqgZOHhUnVJf
And yet the conclusion has –I believe– at least one non-sequitur.
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