Me, me mum, me dad and me gran? In this economy?

I am tired of reading words nobody cared enough to write. Disseminating slop summarisation is performative communication without heart and with little but contempt for the reader.

They’ll have to call it something else, this will just cause needless confusion www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

Glasgow Subway launches 'tap on tap off' contactless payments

Passengers will now be able to use their credit cards, debit cards, or mobile wallets on entry and exit

glasgowlive.co.uk

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen

Toolmen

Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.

aworkinglibrary.com

everything is the worst but I did just tell my middle schoolers that I ended my presentation on the budget fight with "don't worry, chat, we're not cooked yet" and they're sooo mad, it's great

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

"The sev-2 tickets are P0". Man we really are just saying words now huh?

What's new with me? 2024 has been a bit of a bust. Back in March I dislocated my left knee - somebody who should've knew better attempted a pointlessly dangerous move on me at BJJ and it went wrong. I'm walking around under my own steam now but I've spent about 5 of the last 8 months on crutches.

I've been in read-only mode on social media for the last year-ish. I've still been reading Twitter out of habit. Lurked Mastodon but it never had the critical mass to supplant Twitter. Perhaps Bluesky will be different. Today feels like a good day to replace the Twitter app with this on my phone.