Sarah Friend

in light of the open AI math results I would just like to restate that I am delulu and I love you all

Thank you to everyone who came out in such large numbers for the screening of The End of the Internet, featuring an installation and a conversation with director Dylan Reibling & artist Sarah Friend @isthisa.com. theendoftheinternetfilm.com ➠ panke.gallery, 6 OCT 2026 panke.gallery/event/the-en...

personhood research group first meme drop

The End of the Internet – screening and Q&A with director Dylan Reibling and artist Sarah Friend @isthisa.com panke.gallery/event/the-en... panke.gallery, TUE, 6 OCT 2026, 7 PM The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Dylan Reibling and artist Sarah Friend. theendoftheinternetfilm.com

Everyone's talking about Claudish as a language but they're wrong. Claudish is cross-linguistic. When Claude speaks German to me it is still speaking Claudish. Has anyone studied this?

kinda chic to build your own computer cc @hyperwhisper.net www.eurozine.com/how-punk-is-...

why does it feel like the history of music tech is the history of the internet in microcosm www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/alterna...

the real reason I will probably never move back to North America is that I like trains too much

my latest for Mud and Dust! This one's about websites, LLMs as a driving force for online enclosure, and various other toxic incentives threatening the open web open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

Perhaps if we hadn't dubiously determined making a digital copy necessitated the destruction of the original in a one-to-one transfer to deem it transformative this would not be happening.

Please enjoy this short perverted text I wrote about daytrading, systems art, and uhh ... End of Evangelion open.substack.com/pub/absdigit...

the arc of the universe bends towards the Oxford comma. It's not my fault LLMs have revealed this

I like studying languages because I like everything it requires from me: discipline, humility, persistence, faith

All computational systems contain a model of time and all of them are wrong open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

just wanna go on the record and say I don't buy the permanent underclass narrative at all - despite all odds, I am actually delusionally long humankind

has anyone tried sortition for the art world? serious question www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

one cursed thing about invisible illness is that if you seem to have a healthy lifestyle, no one will believe you are really sick, but if you don't, they will blame you for your sickness

as you salivate over the shoe company Allbirds making its pivot to AI and its frothy 582% valuation increase, remember this all already happened

🎟️ TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE 🎟️ 🏕️ DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems is a five-day gathering in nature for builders and dreamers dedicated to building a decentralized web ( #DWeb ). Early bird ticket sales, volunteer applications, and Call for Proposals are open on dwebcamp.org 🎉 @getdweb.net @dod.ngo

the funniest thing about the celebrity releases vibecoded LLM memory project with faked benchmarks is that the celebrity in question wasn't Grimes

MeetMarket, the new decentralized privacy-respecting alternative to Grindr from @donjackoghue.bsky.social is a great example of vibecoded software serving new demographics meetmarket.io

Some speculations on the future of the software developer as a subcultural figure, post vibecoding open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

Live from #TDA2026: In her keynote, Sarah Friend (@isthisa.com) reflects on digital (im)permanence, online games as worlds, and the impossible longing to evade death through permanent data storage. A thoughtful start to Day One.

the popularity of neocities is the ultimate sign of the death of the website as a medium the website is dead enough to be having a nostalgic revival through platform logic

you know whose business model should afaict be fully over in the age of vibe coding? Linktree

when people say artists need to work with emerging technology more in order to be relevant, it's not a controversial new take. it's an old take, literally an ancient take for most of human history painting was the state of the art of image-making technology

Sarah Friend & Arkadiy Kukarkin’s "The Lives of Infamous Men" generates live video where politicians, clips, and Foucault collide 🎥 Created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions. 🌐 More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/internet-arc... @isthisa.com @GrayArea.Org #Wayback1T

just a reminder that I have a newsletter and if you subscribe TODAY then TOMORROW you will get my first email update of the year buttondown.com/isthisa

Sadie Plant, Zeros and Ones, 1997, quoting The Economist, "The World in 1995"

This, and works by Arkadiy Kukarkin, Chia Amisola, Jesse Walton, @mai.bsky.social , Olivia M Ross, Ophira Horwitz, Raúl Feliz, Rodell Warner, and @isthisa.com turn preserved data into presence & memory into experience. We'll feature them all in upcoming weeks. 3️⃣/3️⃣

spiraling lying in bed thinking about all the times my heart was closed when it should have been open

many esoteric traditions involved cognitive protection rituals that one should engage in before contact with entities that may or may not be malevolent, full of temptations, deceptive, or seducing this is more important now than ever before

anyone who has read Accelerando will know the lobster-themed AI takeover was long coming

One big thing I did in 2025 was finally receive a huge upgrade to my cyborg parts-and I decided to write more about it to get started on one of my 2026 experiments: writing about software Read the full post on substack: open.substack.com/pub/isthisan...

stumpy the greyhound (and a sort of unofficial mascot of the media arts scene here in Berlin) is unfortunately battling soft tissue sarcoma, however this process has revealed his latent divinity, plz pray for his complete recovery