A letter on robotic librarians, knitting your own yoghurt and embracing whimsy . . . The topics I like to write about here just got a new chapter & push: courtesy of Andrej Karpathy. His new idea moves the
By the end of March, I promised myself to write and publish the next chapter of the Mirage Mir story. So I went to the best kind of office I have known in recent years: a
I embed my real-world inspirations into an invented (constructed) world, and that way I remember them better. Books, ideas, events & experiences, people, etc... At the same time, this invented alternate reality helps me model and
It feels mostly awful to go online these days + AI is getting better and scarier. But I'm optimistic. Everywhere I look I can see people joining a movement protecting and choosing human made art
Hello and welcome. Mirage Mir /mɪˈrɑːʒ mɪər/ is an experimental publishing project. It is centered around a book, supported by newsletters and a growing library of notes = you can move through in different ways and speeds:
‘Border as Interface’ is a video by Petra Szemán, an artist focusing on the borderlands of real and fictional, and the kind of lives and experiences that are possible there | interesting exploration of emotions and concepts around digital, linguistic, cultural and infrastructural interfaces | more details here | or play a game version here 🕹️
Recommended for "(...) sitting behind the desk and writing, in eerie calm, detached from the urgencies of the everyday, accessing the forces which govern mundane reality but which are ordinarily obscured."