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Boris Smus ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ @borismus

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Just finished The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley. We're "walking sacks of seawater" carrying a Precambrian tide pool in every cell. Half evolutionary philosophy, half poetic memoir. "Here time becomes space." Best read outdoors, slowly. smus.com/books/the-immense-jโ€ฆ

The Immense Journey by Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey is a collection of personal naturalist story-essays from the 1940s and 1950s. It's hard to classify, but I would describe it as a highly imaginative intersection...

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New on invention.cards: Stories are branches inside the full tech tree โ€” follow a curated chain of discoveries without losing the surrounding context. Plus 1,500 new era-styled images and a mobile swipe UI. smus.com/invention-cards-3-sโ€ฆ
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E-ink isn't nostalgia but a line of defense for cognitive sovereignty against feeds and AI overreliance. I just open-sourced supernote-cli to pipe distraction-free thinking from Supernote straight into digital workflows. smus.com/notes/2026/supernotโ€ฆ

supernote-cli: pen, paper, and a pipe

A recentย  NYT piece ย argued we need a mental fitness revolution to combat the cognitive decay caused by algorithmic feeds and generative AI. It's an efficient one-two punch. If you're not brainrott...

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Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench. โ€ข Own your history & memory: everything is plain text. โ€ข Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread. โ€ข Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors. No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-first-aโ€ฆ
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ACM UIST@ACMUIST
19 Jun 2025
๐Ÿ“ฃ #UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This yearโ€™s theme is โ€œThe Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.โ€ ๐Ÿ”— details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ deadline: July 18, 2025
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Boris Smus ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ retweeted
DataFeel@datafeeltech
8 Jul 2025
The UIST 2025 Student Innovation Contest is ON! Design visionary new ways to interact with multi-energy haptics. Think XR, AI, robotics, storytelling, wellnessโ€”your creativity, no limits. Submit a 2-page proposal by July 18 at: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ @ACMUIST @TheOfficialACM
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ps. get fucked elon
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Boris Smus ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ@borismus
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Authoritarian LLMs typically ship with a censorship layer which rejects unwanted queries, but how many minds are being subtly shaped without noticing? DeepSeek lavishes praise on Mao while slamming Ai Weiwei. smus.com/large-and-oppressivโ€ฆ
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Authoritarian LLMs typically ship with a censorship layer which rejects unwanted queries, but how many minds are being subtly shaped without noticing? DeepSeek lavishes praise on Mao while slamming Ai Weiwei. smus.com/large-and-oppressivโ€ฆ

Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)

Authoritarian governments have latched onto open-source LLMs like Llama to craft their own models, complete with censorship rules. In places like Russia and China, these censors manifest as an abrupt...

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hi webdev friends, anyone have experience building client-side video editing tools with webcodecs? please hmu boris@smus.com
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Horsing around with invention.cards ift.tt/WDngVXb

Invention & Discovery Cards

A Civilization-inspired tech tree but for the real life history of science and discovery. Inventions and discoveries presented in illustrated Magic-style cards.

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Invention & Discovery Cards work complete ift.tt/jgimyb8

Invention & Discovery Cards work complete

I'm pleased to have completed transforming Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery into a deck of Magic Cards. Over five years later, all 1477 entries from Asimov's encyclopedia are now repres...

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John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv ift.tt/IRbkO21

John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv

I liked this book, although it could use a bit of additional structure. It came across my radar from a podcast conversation between Rick Rubin and Jason Louv about the book. Although it exaggerates...

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Use of Weapons by Iain Banks ift.tt/oZ2dSkz

Use of Weapons by Iain Banks

This book meanders and takes its time building up to a double twist of a conclusion, leaving the reader winded. Its unusual structure is disorienting and leads to moments of annoyance, but it's...

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Unintended Consequences of False Equity ift.tt/maODL7e

Unintended Consequences of False Equity

What if our pursuit of educational equity is perpetuating inequality? Just as a rising tide lifts all boats, true educational equity must lift all students, regardless of background or ability. In a...

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psa: get off hellsite
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamรญn Labatut smus.com/books/when-we-ceaseโ€ฆ
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Seattle Public Schools accountability problem ift.tt/A41BlxN

Seattle Public Schools accountability problem

Imagine if Microsoft's company guidance was that it would make $100 billion this quarter. The end of the quarter rolls along and as it turns out, they only made $10 billion. This surprising result...

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Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami ift.tt/KVhLx7m

Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami

This book situates the reader as a fly on the wall during multiple personal discussion between Haruki Murakami and his friend Seiji Ozawa. Ozawa was an accomplished classical conductor who was the...

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Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel ift.tt/8L4DcZh

Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel

This book came to my attention because of S's interest in

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