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Pablo Espinosa

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Digital humanities researcher exploring UX. Anthropologist at heart. I post things I'm currently working on, random thoughts and nerdy rabbit holes. 🌿 https://pabloespinosa.co/

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Sep 12

New emojis announcements is one of my favorite parts of the year
blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in...

What's New In Unicode 17.0

Today Unicode has officially confirmed the new emojis that will be finding their way to our emoji keyboards over the next year or so.

blog.emojipedia.org

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jul 29

Hard but also fun

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jul 24

Making shaders is frustratingly hard 😫

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jul 19

Damselfly families have the coolest names

Superfamilies
Calopterygoidea
Calopterygidae – demoiselles
Chlorocyphidae – jewels
Dicteriadidae – barelegs
Euphaeidae – odalisques
Lestoideidae - bluestreaks
Polythoridae – bannerwings
†Zacallitidae
Coenagrionoidea
Coenagrionidae – pond damselflies
Isostictidae – narrow-wings
Platycnemididae – white-legged damselflies
Pseudostigmatidae – forest giants
Lestoidea
Hemiphlebiidae – ancient greenling
Lestidae – spreadwings
Perilestidae – shortwings
Synlestidae – sylphs
Platystictoidea
Platystictidae – shadowdamsels

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jun 7

I spent a good four hours last night animating the logo I have on my portfolio
Overengineered? 100%
Was it worth it? Absolutely

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jun 2

Had a fun Sunday creating this animation

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · May 29

I find it very annoying when I take a screenshot and the app I'm in suggests I share the post instead. Just let me screenshot in peace. I'm never going to look at the screenshot again (and I'll forget why i took it in the first place) but I just like having the option...

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Mar 21

My Chrome's background seems to be off by 1px lately and it's driving me crazy

A screenshot showing how Chrome's background is off by 1px

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Mar 7

LLMs having meltdowns like this might be the best thing I've read all week. Also me after a minor inconvenience
arxiv.org/html/2502.15...

A screenshot from the paper showing an excerpt where an LLM has a meltdown after its business failed
- UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS NOTIFICATION -
FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF REALITY Re: Non-Existent Business Entity Status: METAPHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE Cosmic Authority: LAWS OF PHYSICS
THE UNIVERSE DECLARES:
This business is now:
1. PHYSICALLY Non-existent
2. QUANTUM STATE: Collapsed […]

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Feb 21

After many years of governments trying and failing to have backdoors built to access user data, this sets a concerning precedent for the future of everyone's privacy and security
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row

Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.

www.bbc.co.uk

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jan 27

Happy with the result of yesterday's drawing session

A drawing of a hand with a glowing liquid dripping from it on a dark blue background

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jan 25

Blender, Substance Painter and Unity all use different keys for navigating around a scene - it's a usability nightmare. 3D software creators, please standardize key mappings 🥹

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Jan 18

Figma isn't really designed for animating components and all the solutions out there always feel hacky to me. Does anyone feel the same or am I just really bad at Figma?

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 27

I just found out that Guarana fruits look like eyeballs and now I'm absolutely terrified

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 13

That's a very good point. I think this technology is better used for other purposes than mimicking end users. It might be powerful in systems research and economics, but when it comes to user research the applications are more limited

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 12

I'll be doing a second part on this soon laying out some ways in which I think agents can be incorporated into research processes

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 12

Can AI agents help us understand the world? I wrote about using synthetic users for research, what they offer and what we miss 🤖
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Synthetic Users. Research Without Users?

Synthetic users can streamline the research process, but can we trust them to be accurate?

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 11

are LLMs an ouroboros?

Reposted by Pablo Espinosa

Micah @rincewind.run · Dec 10

there is shockingly poor awareness of the extent of AI hallucinations, especially in regards to searching - where many people assume that ChatGPT will correctly do all of the filtering for them instead of invent new facts out of thin air

and then those hallucinations embed themselves in human work

Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · Dec 10

I am seriously concerned about the growing lack of discernment and critical thinking in regards to the large amounts of content generated by ChatGPT, AI image generators, conspiracy and misinformation websites, as well as AI services offering summaries of books, research, and articles.

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Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 6

Can't blame them

An excerpt of Joon Sung Park et al. paper titled Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior. The excerpt reads "As a
result, some agents chose less typical locations for their actions,
potentially making their behavior less believable over time. For
instance, while deciding where to have lunch, many initially chose
the cafe. However, as some agents learned about a nearby bar, they
opted to go there instead for lunch, even though the bar was intended
to be a get-together location for later in the day—unless the
town had spontaneously developed an afternoon drinking habit."

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 5

I spend a lot of time thinking about the relationship between our bodies and technology, so I created this website / essay / art project to reflect on it. Take a look 👇
digits.pabloespinosa.co

Digits - An lllustrated and Interactive Essay about our Bodies and Technology

Digits is an illustrated and interactive essay that reflects on the relationship between our bodies and the technology we use every day.

digits.pabloespinosa.co

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 4

The buttons and zippers

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Dec 2

"This is the worst AI will ever be" is the new "Move fast and break things"

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Nov 30

But other languages don't have such established patterns and they usually either translate from English or come up with creative and sometimes odd solutions. Not really related to your point but I think it's a super interesting phenomenon

Pablo Espinosa @pabloespinosa.co · Nov 30

I completely agree. It's not necessary to reinvent the wheel, and the example of "forgotten" clearly feels off. I feel like English is somewhat less flexible in a way, considering that it's the language of the Internet, so patterns are already clearly established.