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As founders race to make their companies "legible" to AI, they must keep the things that make them hard to copy "illegible", or risk commoditizing their moat (Brian Halligan/@bhalligan)
https://x.com/bhalligan/status/2051388275756339493

Brian Halligan (@bhalligan) on X
The Case for Strategic Illegibilty

#WWDC drinking game
Whenever someone says "Apple Intelligence" you have to drink a Newton*.
*½ apple juice and ½ of something from a bottle that just has illegible handwriting on it

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Olga Wojciechowska:
🎵 Images Imprisoned Within You
#OlgaWojciechowska
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MmFZGNiu5LCvuqegFkvn0

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #FemiKoleoso
KAYTRANADA & KAYTRANADA:
🎵 LITE SPOTS
#KAYTRANADA
https://illlijahbeats.bandcamp.com/track/kaytranada-lite-spots-flip
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Fc7k96EGOGiJBMZUxbpq7

Just noticed the (Computing Within) LIMITS 2026 workshop papers are on arXiv already. A selection:
Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17360
Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of ima…

Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
Computing's dominant concepts - innovation, efficiency, resilience, professionalism - often migrate from reflective ideals to instruments that limit behaviour, redirect responsibility, and foreclose critique. We call this drift weaponisation: the discursive repurposing of professional concepts so that they stabilise business-as-usual while making structural alternatives appear unreasonable, illegible, or out of scope. Using collective autoethnography across education, justice, public administra…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Manu Dibango:
🎵 New Bell «Hard Pulsation»
#ManuDibango
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iLZpaNabTcUVrw2UTX39M

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
De La Soul:
🎵 Itzsoweezee (Hot)
#NowPlaying #DeLaSoul
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

RE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/world-c8sqdvr9z/-/a-i3LSVlLeTWSyWlm-catdaw:a:3199692-/0
Crime boss kills rival crime boss

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Dave Brubeck Quartet:
🎵 Take Five
#TheDaveBrubeckQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YQWosTIljIvxAgHWTp7KP

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE