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Sarah Friend

@isthisa.com

dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good

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GAI Debord@dylanschenker.com · last wk.

Perhaps if we hadn't dubiously determined making a digital copy necessitated the destruction of the original in a one-to-one transfer to deem it transformative this would not be happening.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 2w ago

I'm starting a Research Group at the protocol institute looking at Personhood and Life We will look at questions like, What is a person and how has that understanding been constituted in different times and places? What is life and how does it intersect with personhood?

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 3mo ago

just wanna go on the record and say I don't buy the permanent underclass narrative at all - despite all odds, I am actually delusionally long humankind

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 4mo ago

one cursed thing about invisible illness is that if you seem to have a healthy lifestyle, no one will believe you are really sick, but if you don't, they will blame you for your sickness

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 4mo ago

as you salivate over the shoe company Allbirds making its pivot to AI and its frothy 582% valuation increase, remember this all already happened

Screenshot of a CNBC headline from December 21, 2017, under the "Bitcoin" category, reading: "$24 million iced tea company says it's pivoting to the blockchain, and its stock jumps 200%."
Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 4mo ago

I believe I told you less than a month ago that we would need euphemisms for "vibe coder" once it went into actual job postings x.com/i/status/204...

Jesse on X: "we're hiring an AI Builder to work on both client and internal projects full-time, remote, $30-48k/year apply here: https://t.co/Mp6Q4SGGsk https://t.co/TFEDD4o2jA" / X

we're hiring an AI Builder to work on both client and internal projects full-time, remote, $30-48k/year apply here: https://t.co/Mp6Q4SGGsk https://t.co/TFEDD4o2jA

x.com

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 4mo ago

the funniest thing about the celebrity releases vibecoded LLM memory project with faked benchmarks is that the celebrity in question wasn't Grimes

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 5mo ago

the popularity of neocities is the ultimate sign of the death of the website as a medium the website is dead enough to be having a nostalgic revival through platform logic

Sarah Friend@isthisa.com · 5mo ago

when people say artists need to work with emerging technology more in order to be relevant, it's not a controversial new take. it's an old take, literally an ancient take for most of human history painting was the state of the art of image-making technology

A close up of the mirror in Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, in which you can see the depicted couple reflected from behind and even a very tiny rendering of the painter himself