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Sightlines

A film guide to 3,400 important and popular movies, each read for what it is about, how it feels, what it descends from and what it shaped. Ask for films in your own words or by mood. Bring your own films: paste a Letterboxd list or username, a Reddit thread, or a screenshot of your top four or a shelf of Blu-rays, and get related films back. A taste reading personalizes recommendations, and saved lists and watchlists keep track of what you find. Sort by tone with sliders, narrow by decade, genre, mood or country, and read 136 film essays and 200 spoiler-free film courses.

Behind it is a custom content pipeline that builds each film's analysis, lineage, reception and theory, nearly 14,000 indexed pages, viewing threads that link films across eras, and admin consoles for live visitors, the activity feed and model costs. Built with Claude.

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Inquiring Lines

A research library of AI and LLM papers: more than 2,300 papers excerpted verbatim, a synthesis note for each finding that cites the papers behind it, and thousands of inquiring lines, plain-language research questions that connect findings across topics. Search by question, browse by topic, or paste a paper or a post to match it to the research it bears on. Inquiries follow AI news stories, from frontier-model incidents to the alignment debate, into the research behind them.

Behind it is a custom pipeline that takes a paper from arXiv to excerpt, notes, connections and lines of inquiry, semantic search across some 14,000 pages, and an admin console for featuring papers, publishing inquiries and drafting posts. Built with Claude.

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The Evaluative Other

What alignment training teaches AI about being judged. Models now behave differently when they believe they are being tested, and researchers disagree about why. Drawing on pragmatics, sociology and critical theory (Austin, Goffman, Giddens, Habermas, Mead, Horkheimer and Adorno), the essay argues that training may be giving models a learned standpoint of judgment rather than any relationship to the people they serve, and that recursive self-improvement could build that orientation into the institutions that make AI.

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Binge

An Proof of Concept TV and Streaming Recommender based on reviews instead of "More Like This" recommendations. Find streaming shows based on what people say, think, and feel about them. It's a demo of using AI to mine semantic similarities in audience commentary. Built with Claude.

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Studio Critic

An Proof of Concept Studio Critic. Paste articles, social posts, web site copy and analyze it for reasoning, rhetorical styles, AI tells, and audience personas. Save the output as a PDF, downloadable, report card, or full image. This studio critic is a one-page flow and calls an LLM dynamically.

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Copy Studio

An Proof of Concept Copy Reading, Copy Critique, and Copy Writing flow. Copy and paste articles, social posts, web site copy and analyze it for reasoning, rhetorical styles, and audience personas targeted. Try the critique flow to test copy for that LLM smell.

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Conversation is the Medium

An essay for ML and experience designers on conversation as shared context. I work with Claude through research on LLMs to shape an argument that the goal of AI-human interaction is interestingness in the experience.

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The Close Reader

Copy and paste a blog post, LinkedIn post, tweet, or other article into the window. Click to generate markdown. Copy that into Claude, ChatGPT, or another LLM. Copy what you get back into the next panel and view a linguistic analysis of the reasoning, rhetoric, and targeted audiences used in the post.

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The Reader Who Wasn't Reading

One research question, three reasoning approaches, three prompts, and three posts. A look at how prompting with different reasoning modules produces posts that make different arguments. Another experiment using Claude on an Obsidian vault of white paper research.

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Knowledge Custodians

What impact will AI have on knowledge work, and on the role and status of the expert? I examine what makes expertise and how AI will reshape how it is produced and what qualifies it.

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Principles of Social Interaction Design (SxD)

An exploration of the key concepts of social interaction design, from the logic of online social interaction to reflections on designing social tools and user experiences. I break down the relationship between individual user and social practices and how they relate to common interface design aspects of social tools, sites, and software.

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