Pavel

When communist enbies call socialist enbies liberals, call that none binary with left beef

How the "era of AI" feels

Paladin: Foul villain! I will never yield! Villain: Ah, but if you look under my feet, you'll see that I am a PEDESTRIAN in a CROSSWALK Fallen paladin: fuck

Happy subway day to those who celebrate

NYC Neighborhood Complaints. Tag yourself. I’m “Illegal Posting”. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

cheesecake factory reset

An @oaklandside.org journalist did their own survey for a few hours at 52nd and Shattuck after a cyclist was struck there and found the same thing.

cheesecake factory reset

never mind why I searched it but I just searched this site for the phrase "soup time" and it is one of the most wholesome things I've ever experienced bsky.app/search?q=sou...

99% of authoritarians retreat shamefully from their ruinous wars of choice just before the enemy regime ultimately falls to a devastating direct strike on its leadership paired with military measures never used before

Ok but whether or not the statute of limitations has expired isn't really an opinion, it either did or it didn't. "Comey says" makes it sound like a suggestion instead of, like, the law.

After I spent years mastering the Kamehameha technique, I am gutted to find out that it is not applicable to the majority of the problems in my life

Go to a factory pub and talk about how much you made from shutting the local factory down, you're going to get punched in the teeth. The witnesses will all think you deserved it Brag about "AI" near people who know illustrators, translators or copywriters and you'll get the social media equivalent

Can someone turn the vibes off and on again

Who do you believe: me, or your bank app (coded in commie leftist California)?

Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

Curtains for Zoosha? K-smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt

If you look at what corps are doing and not just saying, "human in the loop" is more of a blame strategy than a real principle. The human is outnumbered by computer processes and overwhelmed by design. If we actually want to empower humans we need Less Computer

there are 4 kinds of bluesky user

Design Thinking has evolved

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Usually that combo -- young people whose education and energy are underutilized by the job market -- leads to political upheavals. Why not here?

In their quest for velocity, managers identified a critical bottleneck: themselves. Now they are automating away the very work of leadership - determining what is most valuable to work on, and aligning everyone around those goals. The result: worse outcomes, delivered faster than ever before.

Banning trans kids from sports is fucked up. And you better believe there are terrible people and parents who see "Fairness in youth sports" as a much bigger battlefield that will include girls who are too tall, black kids who are too fast, etc etc

The problem with having missed a couple weeks of newsletter is that my backlog of open tabs is absurd

Tag yourself I'm "gradient towards least effort"

Looking forward to the first show that uses a brief glimpse of a character's phone set to light mode to foreshadow that they can't be trusted

no joke I think a lot of people rush into the wrong marriage because they don't realize this. get a cute outfit, have a theme party. whenever. buy yourself flowers. etc. good parties don't have to be that expensive.

They should come up with some sort of weekend that is 3 days long

studies show that petting a cat increases the amount of times you’ve pet a cat

root beer float implies the existence of root beer int

not the right country but the right language

If you read this thread and think "x programming language is popular for rapid prototyping" or "a ui component library is great for a quick prototype" you've already assumed that software is the best material to satisfy a purpose. You're operating under design constraints.

Something I try to illustrate with these annoying threads is that design is not business, but business is a constraint on design. The responses "it can be an advantage to be faster" are not unexpected. It's the implication that they are *part of* design that is incorrect.

No, I get it. Not because I find the Grinch attractive, but because I'm attractive in exactly the same way as the Grinch.