If you are in Toronto, I'll be up next week for 4S presenting a paper on the AI+ conference series here in DC, what specific technical imaginaries are at play, from whom, and how you can tell. LMK if you wanna hang!

On a lark I decided to look up ‘ai’ on tiktok and I was not prepared. I just can’t even describe how not prepared I was. The convos about AI I have are like “is it ever ethical to use AI to develop tools to speed up your asset pipeline” and people are out here pumping out fruit people soap operas.

this is pretty much _why_ its bad the USDWS is gonna get ate. Also why i love teaching/research/writing and lowkey hate my field, which is "the machine persuades"

Dorothy@catandgirl.bsky.social · yesterday

The past. Sept 25 2018

same creature energy

I still say the reason Qanon style thinking keeps spreading in very online spaces is cause its native to it and its origin is online TV fan forums

I just used the USWDS in training _today_ to talk about how design systems encode ideological goals this is _bad._ Like, i know everything is bad, but this is _bad._

Alt18F@alt18f.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

Recent Events have me once again considering: the cube

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · 2y ago

realizing i never posted it here….but too long have we been limited by the 2-dimensional political alignment chart. i think by using my new tool we can truly map another person's politics. here it is: The Ideology Cube

here are my top 9 v tubers who shaped me: -baby tittymonster -doopy doop batmom -normal steve -scrungo childbreast -the vtuber formerly known as 'dragonpants' -racehate janice -[unintelligible high pitched squealing] -inugami korone -jungulo succubus, crusader for greater serbia

I'm basically a soothsayer. Comic from 2007 which was NOT 9 years ago turns out

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

Sweet Shop@sweetshop.app · 6d ago

We are so incredibly proud to carry the undeniable @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social on Sweet Shop. To celebrate our launch and them, we're having a sale where all their books are $1. sweetshop.app/publishers/i...

Good god. Not sponsored, but @sweetshop.app kicking off its launch with a Massive-Verse bundle at this price is insane!

Pick this up! sweetshop.app/bundles/its-... #Hellboy #comics

It's ya boy!

If you wanted a lot of Hellboy, we have a lot of Hellboy and some friends he made along the way.

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A spectre is haunting Southern Ontario--the spectre of 『DIRTY RECTANGLES』!!! Hope to see you there for our usual October spooktacular <Count Floyd Werewolf howl> T̵̖̏̀ḩ̴̢͚̞̗̜͕͔̉̐̂͆͝͠e̷̘̙̐͒̔̅͒̽̍̐̚͠ý̸̪͑͂͒̅́͆͝'̷̣̫͋̊͆̇̌͛͘̕͝r̴̤̲͔̻̥͙͇̆͂e̸̻͕̮͂̀͠ ̵̝̝̣̰͔̞̲͐̈͗c̴̢̝̫͍͒̇͒̏͛̑͝o̴̯͎̜͈̙͋͑̐́́̅͝͝m̸̨̼̞̫̜͓̣̃͑̾̅̄̈́̀̽̑̏i̸͕̰̳͑̏n̶̼̋̈́̎̾̍̌̊̀͂͝g̵̨̡̠͈̝̼̀̄͆͌̋̄͒̂̅͝ ̶̰̞͕̐͒̅͆̂̒́̕t̶̡̥͈̠̩̔̾̈́̀̃͋ő̵͖̮̠̦̮̰͍͆͜ ̴̝̰͈̘͈̱̝̐̚g̵͖̠̝͉̺̲̝̪̣͒̒̀̅̌̄̐̈́̚ḛ̶̞̭̖̺̩͙̐̄́̈̈́̉͗̀̽ṱ̴̬͕́̕ ̸̛̫͇̝̩̮́͂͋̅̆̀̓̚̕ẏ̴̨͎̻̮̟̀̎͐̅̒͋̎͂ō̵̗̭̤̘͚͎̬̗̄̏̏̈̀͜͜͝u̶͍̮͑̿̑̓͌̈̄̓̕ To come to Dirty Rectangles on October 14th!

when I see a bad take

was literally just referencing this—the “who is having the most fun, the player, the designer, or the computer” question—earlier today. it’s such a core concern when making something heavily systemic or relies a lot on procgen

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 6d ago

thinking about this again today, and not even in the context of procgen. The thing about systems design is that it's so easy to get excited about making little sandboxes for yourself that you forget the player needs insight into it, lest it simply appear the same as complete randomness.

you see a product at a store one day and it's uniquely revolting. you turn it over in your mind and finally come to the conclusion that "not everything is for me." within an hour you realize that nothing made by industry is For You. all products in all stores are For Oppressor

I’m sure some people in academia have actually studied the remarkable US shift from optimism about tech to intense pessimism, and I’d love to read that research if anyone has links.

Happy Dolly Parton Day! For this 9/25, the Bitter Kitten Movie Club is diving deep into "9 to 5," with a podcast talking about its queer influences and liberal polemic and a costume post outlining all of the tropes and motifs you might have missed: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...

Bitter Kitten Movie Club: 9 to 5 (1980) - Tom + Lorenzo

9 to 5 (1980) Directed by: Colin Higgins Starring: Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Dabney Coleman Costume Designer: Ann Roth Happy Dolly Day,

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A few making of photos taken in my chaotic studio

This is one of the best essays I have ever read.

Stephanie Insley Hershinow@sinsleyh.bsky.social · last wk.

One of the best things I’ve read in a long time, an essay by my friend Sarah. pshares.org/issue-articl...

today i once again learned we have _no clue_ what insta's worth to facebook because they don't disintermediate it or whatsapp in their 10K filing truly i would like the SEC to make 'em! my "the phone makes the content becomes the ad sells you things through the phone" lecture is missing a step!

I'm at the gambling den. I'm at the loan shark hut. I'm at the combination gambling den and loan shark hut.

Semafor@semafor.com · last wk.

Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

any time i hear something has unseated All I Want For Christmas all i can hear is Topic Of Professional Interest: how are the bots doing it is it: - clear channel radio capture or - algo push through spotify

After a nine-month campaign, the Ellisons have won the right to dictate the future of American entertainment and media. defector.com/states-settl...

States Roll Over And Show Bellies To Paramount, Will Allow Warner Bros. Merger | Defector

On July 13, California state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he would lead a 12-state coalition in mounting a supposedly bold legal challenge to the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros.…

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So what *is* WIRED Women? It started as a joke at our weekly happy hour; we laughed at the idea of turning a historically dude-loving publication into a women’s rag—a tongue-in-cheek way to highlight the sorry state of women’s advancement in fields like tech and science.

Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue

No one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will.

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If you want to judge people for moving to your city wrong you should have been born in DC

Emily Nussbaum@emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 2w ago

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

rabbits, an accurate depiction

harp@haaarpb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yeah, I feel that

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/