Every Promethean revolution carries the seeds of its own decentering. The telescope, spaceflight, the genome — and now LLMs. Rabbi Bunim, to the AI builders: "I am but dust and ashes." To the rest of us: "For my sake was the world created." smus.com/notes/2026/we-are-a…
Anarchy’s Middle Managers: my review of The Dispossessed
Riffs on power, bureaucracy, and giving the work away, inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s great novel.
smus.com/books/the-disposses…
I gave an AI three classic Soviet invention puzzles. It solved one in six seconds. Was it inventing or recalling? Either way, are we any closer to an invention machine? smus.com/books/and-suddenly-…
When a bridge collapses, blaming gravity is a non-answer. Engineers are supposed to design for gravity, and people who design companies should similarly design for financial gravity. This book is about how to do that. smus.com/books/incorruptible…
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-j…
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-cards-3-s…
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/supernot…
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-first-a…
Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 retweeted
📣 #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
Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 retweeted
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/
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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-oppressiv…
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-oppressiv…
hi webdev friends, anyone have experience building client-side video editing tools with webcodecs? please hmu [email protected]
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Unintended Consequences of False Equity ift.tt/maODL7e