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inspired by the great susan sontag

things I like: asking questions, the color red, utilitarian home decor [utilitarian/functional objects that are also pretty], buttons/ties on clothing, interesting phrasing, riffing, theatrical body language, scrolling eBay, card games, my MacBook Pro, conversations with five-year-olds, thoughtful packaging, root beer, long form, sitting cross-legged, high ceilings, open source software, fresh herbs, behind-the-scenes, framing reading a book as just being nosy, whippets in turtlenecks, my label maker, opinionated clothing, archives (digital, physical), colorful band-aids, handwashing my clothes, makeshift objects, b-roll, following rabbitholes, collage/juxtaposition, building over buying, holes in objects, reading a book on a walk, vacuuming, the feeling of freedom when you drop off your iphone at the genius bar, running in the cold, Connect Four, the look of rough denim

things I dislike: burning my tongue, zippers on clothing, a blank page, apple watches, long lines, “the gap,” overuse of exclamation points, legalese, pressure, overuse of exclamation points, legalese, the feel of rough denim

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via lucas harger

“I use them as tools; I employ them for very specific things and they do that thing very well; so I have my little arsenal/toolkit of these AI service

who out there is building a video editing tool that optimizes for manipulation rather than generation

I think an under-looked aspect of the ai creative tool landscape is a focus on identification & manipulation > generation

when creating - taking photos, editing video, writing, etc - part of the fun (+ source of ideation / creative direction) is the process of sifting through the materials. the 50,293 photos in my camera roll, the 32 hours of footage in my timeline, the turns of phrase I like and save.

where ai can help

(1) at scale, certain workflows a need to be implemented to organize the chaos and enable easier referencing and

the essence of editing is ~molding~ raw material, not generating it. i think an under-looked potential of ai lies in tech that empowers manipulation rather than creation; upscaling, compositing, speech enhancement, stem separation - technical interventions that let editors shape their footage with greater speed and precision; while keeping them close to the source material

timeline scrubbing is part of the process; but functionality like “take me to x gesture” removes the bottleneck friction to allow smoother creative friction

bottleneck friction = roundabout workflows that don’t add to the creative process, just distract from it

creative friction = the creative process itself

import * as React from "react"; import type { Override } from "framer";

// e.g. /notes-app/my-post -> "my-post"

function getCurrentSlugFromPath(): string {

const parts = window.location.pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean);

return decodeURIComponent(parts[parts.length - 1] || "");

}

// Works for absolute or relative hrefs ("/notes-app/foo")

function extractSlugFromUrl(url?: string): string {

if (!url) return "";

try {

const base = url.startsWith("http") ? undefined : window.location.origin;

const u = new URL(url, base);

const parts = u.pathname.split("/").filter(Boolean);

return decodeURIComponent(parts[parts.length - 1] || "");

} catch {

const parts = url.split("?")[0].split("#")[0].split("/").filter(Boolean);

return decodeURIComponent(parts[parts.length - 1] || "");

}

}

/**

• Attach to the List Item instance inside the CMS list.

• It will try props.slug if present, otherwise derive from props.link/props.href.

• Keep variants named "Default" and "Active".

  */

  export function noteItemActive(props: { slug?: string; link?: any; href?: string }): Override {

  const [currentSlug, setCurrentSlug] = React.useState(getCurrentSlugFromPath());

React.useEffect(() => {

const onPop = () => setCurrentSlug(getCurrentSlugFromPath());

window.addEventListener("popstate", onPop);

return () => window.removeEventListener("popstate", onPop);

}, []);

const itemSlug =

props.slug ||

extractSlugFromUrl(typeof props.link === "string" ? props.link : props.link?.href || props.href);

const isActive = !!itemSlug && itemSlug === currentSlug;

return isActive ? { variant: "Active" } : { variant: "Default" };

}

via billy oppenheimer:

• series of small efforts / contributions day-to-day become drastic

• “where’s your follow up? there’s your personality… file next to what david white says: ‘you’re harvesting your identity in whatever it is you’re dedicating yourself to in the hours of the day… the things you’re spending time on are working on you.’”