the missing vocabulary of copyleft design
How To Write With An LLM
Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. [...] I think that …
English ↔ Claudish — the over-engineered translator
A bidirectional English and Claudish translator powered by compiled neural programs.
AI’s Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
Better Than Free
[Translations: Belarusian, Chinese, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to … Continue reading →
Why I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Say precisely what you mean.
The words designers use when they know what they’re looking at.
A folksonomy of lexicons - Chris's Corner
On the design and intent of different lexicons
OpenDeck · Learn languages you own
Learn languages with spaced-repetition flashcards you own.
The Ontology Layer of Design
Why words are the most important design tool in the AI era
The state of the copyleft license
In this post, I want to go a little deeper into one important type of license: those that require sharing of modifications under certain conditions, often called “copyleft” or “reciprocal” licenses
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation
Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame reading as...
Sound & Vision
Explore the future of type with the Re:Vision 2025 typographic playground—an interactive showcase of emerging type trends. Dive in and shape the next wave of visual language.
Better Than Free
[I’ve revised and condensed this short essay into an updated version, which you can read on my Substack here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we … Continue reading →