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collecting bits & bobs about building alliances with other intelligences

A quick example from my life: Twitter didn’t replace Facebook. The iPad didn’t replace my phone. My phone didn’t replace my TV. Now, I watch YouTube on my iPad, toss the video up to my TV, while checking Twitter and Facebook on my phone. It’s a little constellation of technology. But I keep asking myself: how many more things can I juggle? And for... See more

Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain

"I don't use RAG, I just retrieve documents"

whoami.wiki

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.

Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.

-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein

DeckFlow: Iterative Specification on a Multimodal Generative Canvas

arxiv.org

GitHub - m-bain/whisperX: WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

github.com

crawshaw - 2025-06-08

crawshaw crawshaw.io

GitHub - JeredBlu/custom-instructions

github.com

People assume that generative AI will lead to a tsunami of garbage content. I think the opposite problem is more interesting: what if you were drowning in amazing content? What if you’re so inspired and overwhelmed by awe that it’s stressful and addicting and life disorienting?