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Casey Gollan

@caseyagollan.com

https://caseyagollan.com • https://cag.wiki • https://social.coop/@caseyg (formerly at https://twitter.com/caseyg before the implosion)

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

Screenshot of the website featuring a cubist image of three figures engaging in art experiments; title: Fall 2026: Public Study; text Our Fall course, “Public Study,” will examine the past, present, and future of popular, alternative, and radical education — particularly as they shape the intellectual, political, and cultural landscape of New York City; and as they’ve intersected with established cultural heritage and educational institutions. Applications are due August 7 at 11:59pm ET.
Nick Seaver@nickseaver.website · 3mo ago

I feel like people are not familiar with the office worker drawings in Zuboff’s IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE, showing what their jobs were like before and after computerization.

Two stick figures, before and after. Before is smiling. After is pulling out her hair and looks frazzled. "There's a lot of tension now, and that makes people get mean. We had more control before and less confusion. You could get things done. Every once and a while my head starts to throb. I can't take it."
Omar Rizwan@omar.website · 10mo ago

"*I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine" (it reminds me of Minecraft or Roblox or Web 1.0 or early PC BASICs, how you need to have stuff around you that is unpolished and feels achievable to copy)

noé@celechii.itch.io · 10mo ago

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out
Aaron Straup Cope@thisisaaronland.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wrote up the notes for the talk I gave to a museum studies class at USF / titled "everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels" – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels

It is difficult to separate the issues and questions that contemporary machine-learning and “artificial intelligence” technologies raise in the context of museum without addressing the long history of...

aaronland.info

Gregg Bernstein (he/him)@gregg.io · 10mo ago

User researchers already document findings at a faster velocity than orgs can act on them. It strains credulity that tech leaders are clamoring for even more yet worse AI-generated findings. My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play." gregg.io/the-only-win...

The only winning move is not to play – Gregg Bernstein

Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further

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Gregg Bernstein (he/him)@gregg.io · 10mo ago

New from my blog: The only winning move is not to play https://gregg.io/the-only-winning-move "Let’s not debase ourselves as user researchers further"

Scott Jehl@scottjehl.com · 10mo ago

When youmightnotneedjquery.com launched, some felt it was early, but most agreed on the goal. Even the team shared that ethic: make our library obsolete by influencing standards. It worked. With React it is different: many devs understand it to *be* a standard. A social problem, not a technical one

winston@winston.cc · 12mo ago

it is deeply annoying to have worked so hard to understand complex systems and learn so many ways to navigate complexity and the punchline of everything is: once you map things out you realize you were underestimating the stupidity by an order of magnitude

Matthew Varona@matthew.wiki · 12mo ago

Unreasonably excited to present THEORY IS SHAPES at alt.vis this November! Read on to find out what the "BLT Sandwich Theory of Visualization Consumption" (and other shape-based shenanigans) can teach us about theorycrafting in research 🥪🧲🧊♾️

Matthew Kay@mjskay.com · 12mo ago

to appear at #alt.vis 2025: THEORY IS SHAPES sure "theory figures" are great, but @matthew.wiki, @maryamhed.bsky.social, me, and Carolina Nobre wonder: why always a 2D plane or a flowchart? why not icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, or BLT sandwiches? arxiv.org/abs/2510.01382 #ieeevis #hci

Abstract and teaser figure of the paper "Theory is Shapes" by Matthew Varona, Maryam Hedayati, Matthew Kay, and Carolina Nobre. The teaser figure is an "iceberg" theory figure, showing four levels: the tip of the iceberg, containing a nested set diagram and a Cartesian plane. The next level down (just under the water) has a complicated flow charts and a combination flow chart and matrix. The next level down has the iceberg figure itself and a horseshoe. The final level contains a Möbius strip and a BLT sandwich. The abstract reads: "Theory figures" are a staple of theoretical visualization research. Common shapes such as Cartesian planes and flowcharts can be used not only to explain conceptual contributions, but to think through and refine the contribution itself. Yet, theory figures tend to be limited to a set of standard shapes, limiting the creative and expressive potential of visualization theory. In this work, we explore how the shapes used in theory figures afford different understandings and explanations of their underlying phenomena. We speculate on the value of visualizing theories using more expressive configurations, such as icebergs, horseshoes, Möbius strips, and BLT sandwiches. By reflecting on figure-making's generative role in the practice of theorizing, we conclude that theory is, in fact, shapes.