#memex

#memex

Aesthetic inspiration is social and collective, but aesthetic results are deeply personal. What works for one face, skin type, or bone structure won't always work for another.

Librarians have been actively collaborating and talking about it almost every day, whether it's creating tutorials and digital learning objectives or thinking about the conversations to have with instructors. It can feel like cognitive dissonance to be actively working with AI on a regular basis and also saying we're constantly thinking about the harms and the biases.

Meta was recently granted a patent in Dec, 2025 that would essentially allow the social media platform to post on a dormant user's behalf-whether they took a break from social media or long after they've passed away. The patent, first filed in 2023, describes a large language model that "simulates" a user's social media activity, using a user's comments, likes, or content to respond to other users and also references technology that would simulate video or audio calls with users.

I furnished my last design studio with bespoke Danish shelving, three Eames desk units, nine glass tables, 12 chairs, etc. When I closed the studio I moved the furnishings plus a few hundred design books-including books I'd written, foreign translations of my work, books by other designers that I'd published, translations of some of those books, oversized and rare design books, books signed by their authors and sent to me, and so on.

AI-synthesized faces are now perceived as more trustworthy than real human faces. Let that sink in for a second: the fake version of reality is more believable than reality itself. Meanwhile, misinformation spreads six times faster than true information on social media. During a crisis, when stress and fear impair our ability to think critically, the information ecosystem becomes a minefield.

Four generations, MTIA 300, 400, 450, and 500, have been produced within less than two years, with several already in production and others scheduled for mass deployment in 2026 and 2027. The quick pace is deliberate. Rather than betting on a single chip generation and waiting years for results, Meta has adopted a roughly six-month cadence per generation, using modular chiplet architecture to enable incremental upgrades without replacing entire rack systems.

Here's the sad truth about sports score apps: Most of them aren't all that interested in actually telling you the score. After all, where's the money in providing straightforward information like that? The modern sports score app has to do more. It must bombard you with banner ads and betting odds, implore you to create an account and opt into notifications, sell you some tickets, and show some videos to keep engagement up. The scores themselves are an afterthought.