Liam Spradlin 🌻

₊˚✧ designer focused on the future + philosophy of design | ☕️ | 📻 | 🧑‍💻 boardmember, queer coding camp ✧˚₊

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

every post on the “for you” tab is a video captioned like “soap can be used for washing dishes” and the replies are 30 AI accounts going “that moment when you put the soap on the dishes 😂”

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today I've seen:
1) a post about how an LLM finally "understood" the poster's idea no one else understood
2) a post in which incoherent output from the LLM represented obscured, information-rich communication that must be decoded

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“corner smoothing” annoys me so much because look at the control points...

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sorry but I think I cooked here

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people are confused on “taste” because, in the current content-maximizing environment, it means curation rather than creation. from that vantage point, taste will always be brittle and fleeting.

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the emergence of the term tasteslop is a stepping stone to understanding capitalist desire

[Old Ric @old_ric]

The daily mutating bible of indefinite length whose existence makes you insane

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“the ___ trap” is becoming another slop-tell

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the work is mysterious and important

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I guess what I'm saying is that if you base your idea of taste on the ability to curate (rather than making something from your own internal drive) you'll always be catching up

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people are confused on “taste” because, in the current content-maximizing environment, it means curation rather than creation. from that vantage point, taste will always be brittle and fleeting.

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and interestingly, the thing that has sparked all this conversation about taste is built from (and for) that vantage point, creating a self reinforcing cycle.

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I can't stop thinking about the concept of a goose containing a mechanical factory that creates eggs.

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*forgets to turn mic on* I suspect building for screens we feel like we need to move everything around because everything being stuck behind glass keeps us from feeling like we’re really manipulating the interface.

[The Wizard’s Liaison @DylanLathrop]

*leans as far back from the mic as humanly possible* not everything in design needs to move

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add me to your company slack, it'll be a new paradigm

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also on a more basic level I'm fascinated by the concept of an “asi provider.” like once the imagined quasi-spiritual posthuman subject emerges out of the gpu, there will be various providers lol

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we could be looking at the next “pepsi universe” PDF here

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is perfect.

https://t.co/sk9cDhdWIE

[acervo lara croft @acervylaracroft]

lara croft tomb raider anniversary caminhando de forma serena sem preocupações desfilando já quase ia sendo esmagada mas não foi sem preocupações sem um pensamento na cabecinha dela encarando os desafios do dia de cabeça erguida nada abala ela mais menina solta risonha confiante

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

Beige backgrounds, rust-red text, overzealous italics and underlining, pointless news tickers — I wrote about the increasingly annoying generic style of Claude Design websites and AI-induced homogeneity for my @NewYorker column

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"I love talking to my agents"

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Liam speaks with Ryan Snelson about redesigning MySpace, championing a gritty and expressive experimental aesthetic, and understanding the constraints of design.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/RO68OSWJ9S

#WebDesign #Aesthetics #MySpace