Angelos Arnis 🏴
@arn
Designing for the last earth • Opinions are my own, I think... (he/him/hän) 📌 Helsinki • 🇫🇮 (from 🇬🇷) Portfolio: Cofounder: @jointfrontiers.com Practice: Thoughts:
It also involves creative methods (Conveniently you can’t find such videos in the gif section of Bluesky)
After watching the Backrooms I kept thinking about the subtle messages & critiques towards our zeitgeist. The folkloric aspect of our deepest fears are found now online, in places that otherwise seem mundane.
Schismogenesis in motion (From a workshop for the design community we run with @jointfrontiers.com on the topic of the designer identity)
Making a talk is a painstaking process for me. I just spent 2 hours creating the intro slide. For context: We are organizing an event for designers who recognize that the liminal space they are experiencing currently is not a personal failure of vision or a problem of insufficient adaptation.
Waking up to the news of a random unidentified drone flying around Helsinki.
People need to finally understand that AI is not here to bring any sort of efficiency or betterment but it’s here to replace you. I’m not saying it’s better than you. But it will replace you. The exec who’s gonna lay you off doesn’t give a flying fuck about your empathy skills. They will replace you
You encounter the last boss of a design interview. What's your next move?
A different kind of event advertisement in the neighborhood… (Finland has one of the world’s most extensive civil defense shelter network)
Vibeholic (n.): An individual exhibiting an ever-increasing compulsive reliance on generative AI systems for cognitive tasks, characterized by the systematic outsourcing of reasoning, judgment, and creative production to large language models.
Going well still. At least now the error message is non-legible but doesn't blame the user. Or does it?
Did Bluesky vibecode another change to production? Also how fun is it to throw the blame towards the user when your platform is broken... huh? "You can't access our website? Sounds like a you problem!"
In a month there’s been at least 3 major supply chain attacks on critical packages that everyone — and most importantly vibecoders who don’t understand what they are building — are using. The latest has been on Axios (100m installs per week).
Bluesky had a very broken but still working translation technique and they substituted it with a not broken but subpar (not supporting many languages, rendering it unusable for many) translation technique. 👌👌👌
This is how people now talk on Linkedin. No doubt many think AI is sentient.
Today’s find. I walked into a new bookstore… so I had to. The Nietzsche book is a cheap copy but I thought I’d give it a proper read. Radical antiquity was a book that intrigued me when I saw it online so I had to grab it.
Professional design choices encode political positions through organizational structures and tool adoption. And so in order to do that we need to change the material conditions of how design operates through prefiguration. This might be the only solution and the most difficult solution to escape BAU