Tanuj
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weaving tools for the web, and beyond
Tanuj
organic tech and
I often use the analogy of “AI for social good” being like creating a tank first and THEN being like oh let’s see how we can use this tank for “social good.”
Then why not create something other than a tank in the first place?
Scientists follow the state’s endless in warfare.
@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social)twitter.comAnother essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really means) to measure, manage and control the world. it's a way of colonizing time, which is in many ways even more insidious than colonizing space https://t.co/gbMX3PuPku
Visakan Veerasamytwitter.comBefore you’ve noticed important details they are, of course, basically invisible. It’s hard to put your attention on them because you don’t even know what you’re looking for. But after you see them they quickly become so integrated into your intuitive models of the world that they become essentially transparent. Do you remember the insights that... See more
johnsalvatier.org • Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
Progress Studies and
I feel like for these complex problems, it's basically impossible to design a framework de novo. And people try this all the time, but it very rarely works. Instead, what happens is you have an application that works well, and then basically you copy and paste that two or three times, and then you look at the diffs, and the things that aren't the... See more
Muse • Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59
A technologist makes reason out of the messiness of the world, leverages their understanding to envision a different reality, and builds a pathway to make their vision happen. All three of these endeavors—to try to understand the world, to imagine something different, and to build something that fulfills that vision—are deeply human.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
