Aaron Salmon
@aaronsalmon.com
A jovial lad, UX leader, Coffee/bike shop owner, Dad, gamer, Lover, horror fan, pool player in Eau Claire, Wi. (forever Chicagoan) Alumni: Defense Digital Service @ DoD, Northwestern KnightLab, Public Good, Obama‘12 HQ, TechStars, ORDCamp. aaronsalmon.com
"Why did the casting of a Black actress cause so much controversy?" because small gangs of slobbering gutter racists aided by an unprincipled media landscape in the business of selling outrage have been allowed to run wild. there is literally nothing else to discuss.
You heard it here first — 2026 is the year you can finally style a select!! It will be in all browsers by the end of the year 🎉🎉🎉 @jakearchibald.com #cssday
Let's hear it once again for things that were drawn and written by humans for humans just to make something that educates (and promotes prosocial values) more fun to look at
@dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn honor of @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran's plan for launching a public grocery in East Harlem, here's a page on Municipal Markets from a 1937 City Planning Commission report entitled "The ABCs of City Planning"! chpcny.org/the-abc-of-c...
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
A healthier internet isn’t just wishful thinking — our friends at the @prosocialdesign.bsky.social have a whole library of research-backed design solutions for building prosocial spaces online, organized by our Civic Signals research! 🧵
Prosocial Design Network
The Prosocial Design Network advocates for prosocial design: evidence-based design practices that bring out the best in human nature online.
prosocialdesign.org
“Look how they massacred my boy”
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 4mo agoGoogle Just Patented The End Of Your Website: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/ (For once the clickbait headline is accurate: google's planning on swapping their own AI-generated summaries for the website you just tried to view.)
I think about this a lot. Still waiting on my Dad to make his chess move…
laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · 5mo agoI need to write about the thousand tiny heartbreaking digital artifacts that happen when a friend dies
Confiscate 99.8% of Andreesen’s net worth for the public good, wait 20 minutes, and then tell him his memory of ever having more than $4 million is false.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5mo agothe billionaires are not ok
My latest for @hyperallergic.com is on Egyptian Blue—& a new study by Mishael Quraishi which prices out the Roman cost & manual labor needed to paint the “Blue Room” at Pompeii. Shout outs & thx: @hilarybeckertxny.bsky.social , @diffendale.bsky.social , @chapps.bsky.social, @valentinadl.bsky.social!
How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue?
The price of covering a room in the prized pigment was equal to between 50% and 90% of a Roman legionary's annual salary, a new study estimates.
hyperallergic.com
I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States
YouTube video by Olympics
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We’ve been testing how machine-readable our design system documentation is. Turns out, AI agents and humans benefit from exactly the same qualities: gerireid.com/blog/ai-is-a...
AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible
Writing documentation for AI retrieval improves accessibility for humans too.
gerireid.com
Can't wait for this new Extraction Looter game. Like Arc Raiders but you're one of 30 beavers dropped into an out-of-balance wilderness. Dam up streams, collect resources, fight for survival, heal nature.
Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 7mo agoIdaho once dropped 76 beavers from airplanes—on purpose www.popsci.com/environment/...
@dansinker.com Is that one entire town in NW Canada still for sale?
My new thing is running the text of executive orders through AI with the prompt "Assume a bad actor wrote this, how could it be used nefariously?"
It can still be Standard Time if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.
* found a desk to work from * bought crypto * hodled crypto * watched CPAC * bought chainsaw and sunglasses
I don't know what I miss more - Pixel fonts, or the top notch eyesight I had back when we used those lil doods everywhere.
"Ah...welcome to the Frequently Used emoji tray ole' fingers crossed🤞. First time here? Well, hope you're making yourself at home."
Firing all employees with less than a year of experience in their current role is typical of a mindset that just cares about maximizing a metric of loss and that assumes someone will pick up the slack and keep things going. For business, that’s often been government. For government, that’s nobody
Thanks to the support of the Knight Foundation, USDR is hiring a unique role —we are seeking someone *who has recently exited the Federal government* to lead our Generative AI portfolio. us-digital-response.breezy.hr/p/2c75788aae...
Government Gen AI Product & Delivery Technologist in Residence at U.S. Digital Response
About U.S. Digital Response U.S. Digital Response (USDR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping governments and civic institutions respond quickly and efficiently to support the...
us-digital-response.breezy.hr
Not gonna lie, the Super Bowl outcome and halftime has given me a bit of renewed hope today. It was like a glimpse into another timeline. The one we deserve. Today I fight.
Yup that was me crying in the Dog Man movie theater with my boys today. Great message that hit v close to home during these tough times.
I love when music that doesn’t feel like you’re listening to music, rather you’ve turned the dial to your own internal soundtrack or you’re wading in a stream of beautiful humanity. This is That. open.spotify.com/track/3K2O5q... During these insane times it’s key to find these moments. Love ya’ll.
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My Morning Jacket, Merrill Garbus, Brittany Howard · Red Hot + Fela · Song · 2013
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The IRS’ direct file service opened for 25 states today. It’s a historic example of how civic technology can work for good. civic-texts.ghost.io/direct-file-...
Direct File shows how civic tech can work for good
Good evening from Washington, where the news cycles are moving faster than rats on a hot tin roof. Thanks to all of the news subscribers over the weekend and everyone whose become a member since soft...
civic-texts.ghost.io
I'm currently in the AXS waiting room to buy Kruder Dorfmeister presale tix in Chicago. 🤞😱🤞 They'll be touring to play 'The K&D Sessions' in its entirety for a 25th anniversary treat. Un.Real. kruderdorfmeister.com
Kruder&Dorfmeister
kruderdorfmeister.com
why does it look like The More You Know logo is crashing back to earth
BNO News@bnonews.com · 2y agoBREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight
“Now it’s your turn to stand guard - may you all be the keeper of the flame. May you keep the faith.” Lead from the heart. Thanks Joe. 🕶️
