Micah Stephens

Technology skeptic. Storytelling believer. Exploring tools that amplify human creativity without mistaking them for its source.

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@bilawalsidhu The Gaussian splat may outlast the building, but there’s no guarantee it’ll outlast the software required to see it.

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Using AI badly is staring into fog and mistaking its smoothness for clarity.

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Is there still a need to store images in a world where you can create the exact image you need when you need it?

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@tomfgoodwin Berners-Lee’s 1989 proposal was about managing and linking information, not building a social platform.

The early web felt less like “connecting people” and more like “making, sharing, and discovering things.”

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@sweatystartup So when you need to do the dishes, you just record a 60 second video of your sink. Your EA puts it on YouTube unlisted, finds dishwashers in your area, and gets you 5 quotes. For the dishes.

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@Codie_Sanchez A vague, emotionally loaded interview question isn’t proof someone has never done hard things. It may just mean they have boundaries, or they need context to answer well.

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@internetarchive I’m working through an outrage.

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@dickiebush 7. Kill your first sentence

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@businessbarista I wouldn’t join any ‘AI community’ that would have me as a member — Groucho Marx.

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If Mosaic had never supported inline images, what would the internet look like today?

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We forget how strange and abstract familiar technologies once were...

🚲 Bicycle: mechanical exoskeleton horses
📸 Photography: machines that perfectly draw reality
📻 Radio: omnipresent voices radiating through air

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The cloud is just someone else’s basement with better branding.

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Don't use your tools, including AI, to be the creator. Be the creator that uses their tools to make them better at creating.

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Are we solving how creative work finds the right audiences?

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We’ve solved the problem of making content.

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What’s marketed as “for you” might really be “at you.”

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anecdoche n. a conversation in which everyone is talking but nobody is listening

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@perishable 20i is another option to look into.

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We live in an interesting time, just like every time before.

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