New on invention.cards: Stories are branches inside the full tech tree — 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-card…
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Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦
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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/sup…
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Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench.
• Own your history & memory: everything is plain text.
• Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread.
• Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors.
No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-fi…
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@aboodman Intrinsic motivation > extrinsic motivation (recognition) > extrinsic motivation (money) > no motivation
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I spent a lot of my career being overly motivated by external recognition. It’s still something I have to consciously avoid.
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I realized today why there’s so much churn in the js community.
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Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 retweetledi
📣 #UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This year’s theme is “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.”
🔗 details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/
🗓️ deadline: July 18, 2025
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Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 retweetledi
The UIST 2025 Student Innovation Contest is ON! Design visionary new ways to interact with multi-energy haptics. Think XR, AI, robotics, storytelling, wellness—your creativity, no limits. Submit a 2-page proposal by July 18 at: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/
@ACMUIST @TheOfficialACM
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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-oppr…
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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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John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv ift.tt/IRbkO21
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@LMSacasas qq: wtf are you still doing on twitter?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Kind of wild that our standard email terminology still refers back to "carbon copies."
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@tim_minto How'd you do? nonprophetspod.wordpress.com not so well
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Turns out that putting your absolute-certainty faith in a 13 parameter model built on a few dozen observations is not a great idea.
Allan Lichtman@AllanLichtman
Unlike Nate Silver, who will try to squirm out of why he didn’t see the election coming, I admit that I was wrong. I will assess the election and the keys on my live show this Thursday at 9 PM Eastern. @allanlichtmanyoutube.
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut smus.com/books/when-we-…
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Seattle Public Schools accountability problem ift.tt/A41BlxN
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