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Maxim Leyzerovich

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design at flora.ai brooklyn

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you’re telling me this turning is fourth

01.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't Get Distracted I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

β€œBut don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” β€” @calebhearth.com

11.12.2024 16:20 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

really love to have navigate a quirky website to find a very specific thing

26.02.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Have Platforms Addressed Addictive Design Under DSA Addictive design remains substantively under-addressed in VLOPs’ systemic risk assessments under the Digital Services Act, writes Cecilia Isola.

he European Commission’s latest DSA proceedings put addictive design squarely in the regulatory spotlight. Cecilia Isola examines how Very Large Online Platforms are handling, or sidestepping, this risk in their mandatory DSA assessments.

25.02.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

design must by nature be speculative

25.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Folding context Context windows, compression, and "folding the dough"

One weird trick to make LLMs smarter... hand-cranked deep research newsletter.squishy.computer/p/folding-co...

25.02.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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When design stops asking why and starts asking, β€œCan AI do it?” uxdesign.cc/when-design-...

25.02.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

25.02.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 3050 πŸ” 1297 πŸ’¬ 392 πŸ“Œ 1480
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. β€œI consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 11750 πŸ” 5041 πŸ’¬ 150 πŸ“Œ 275
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New working paper with @rainerkattel.bsky.social: governments are stuck using frameworks designed to fix market failures. But climate, inequality and technological transformation require shaping collective futuresβ€”not patching up existing ones.

25.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

Hat embroidered with β€œhello, i am fleeing the American century of humillation. Can you show me where to buy Mountain Dew Baja Blast?”

25.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 9074 πŸ” 1758 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 62
Is the Detachment in the Room? - Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy As of late, I've been working on a project - Penny - a stateful LLM agent that participates in social media discussions on Bluesky, engaging both with humans and other AI agents. Initially, there were...

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

07.02.2026 06:11 πŸ‘ 391 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 44

what can not be repaired is already broken

23.02.2026 18:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Is Actually Here, and It’s Not Terrible

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

18.02.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 261 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 37

clarity is expensive

18.02.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if an agent is a process pretending to be a person, what is a person pretending to be a process?

17.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

this is a sad, sniveling website

17.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

workplace incompetence is like porn: the technical definitions are unclear… but you know it when you see it

16.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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3 science-backed ways to measure integrity Whether in governments, firms, or teams, integrity functions as an enabling condition for coordination and progress.

Research shows that leaders perceived as lacking integrity struggle to attract talent, elicit discretionary effort, or sustain collaboration over time. f-st.co/kotyTj5

16.02.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
15.02.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the crisis of β€˜meaning’ is the crisis of β€˜mattering’

15.02.2026 18:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ur ontology is showing

15.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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happy valentine's day

14.02.2025 15:12 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 12820 πŸ” 3450 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 232

fastest way to turn a ship is to rip it in half

13.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Design & Fascism: A Podcast

12.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the difference between what you feel and how you feel

08.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

the difference between what you feel and how you feel

08.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

08.02.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 4082 πŸ” 832 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 64