Not "by design" in the abstract sense of 'deliberately', but "by design" in the very concrete sense of "by the designs designers designed" – designers who are and should feel complicit.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Courts are finally starting to treat feeds and chatbots as products and to address harmful design, writes Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Media & Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute—a turn with consequences for Meta, TikTok, and the AI companies now facing wrongful-death suits.

One of the worst games of football I’ve ever seen, and I was at France 0–0 Denmark in 2018, where the fans booed both teams off.

Yes, Argentina the first ever World Cup finalist to not have a shot in the 90 minutes.

"i just do math" is something a cs phd student studying AI at stanford said to me once. i think about him a lot.

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

Guy In Philosophy Class Needs To Shut The Fuck Up https://theonion.com/guy-in-philosophy-class-needs-to-shut-the-fuck-up-1819568055/

Very sad to learn of the death on 18th July of Margaret (Maggie) Boden, a titan of cognitive science and AI. I met her many times, and respected her greatly. www.theargus.co.uk/memorials/de...

Our sweet, silly cat Beemo died yesterday. One of those slowly-then-quickly illnesses turned out to be an irreversible kidney problem. She was loving, easygoing and vocal, and a dear companion to us both. We’re in bits – but this is the price of love. Hug your nonhuman friends, all.

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Only now noticed that Aftersun is on iPlayer for the rest of the year. It broke my heart at a parentally significant time of my life. Deeply recommended. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Aftersun

Sophie is beginning to remember a formative holiday she took as a child.

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Anywhere you can get to on a Transport for Wales train is a part of Greater Wales

This Boer/Grok fiasco is funny, but it previews how AI chatbots will be used more subtly to manipulate public opinion. They present decontextualized authority: unsourced, unauthored, always confident. And we are being trained to trust them as objective or as the Wisdom of Crowds.

During a recent interview with Theo Von, Zuckerberg admitted a startling revelation. While talking to his daughter about the news, he realized understanding politics and law is important to fully understanding technology. What a discovery! www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-zucke...

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Giovanni Colantonio@marioprime.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey RickyP. Saw your high scores on Aer Lingus’ in-flight version of Tetris. Just want to let you know that I have fucking embarrassed your ass so fucking bad dude.

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

I posted this on twitter ~3y ago and it struck a chord. Still relevant?

Babe are you ok? You've hardly touched your actions willed in such a way that they could become a universal law

‘How much Weltschmerz is too much? We ask five people who’ve scrolled so much that they’ve cast aside any prospect of personal happiness and instead wallow in the pits of other-directed despair.’

I gave some thoughts on skeuomorphism for Digital Frontier, a new magazine on humanity & technology. Kudos to the writer and mag for engaging with the term’s actual meaning (a once-functional feature retained ornamentally), not just parroting the false equivalence with physical metaphor.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

It might seem madly decadent just now, but planting seedlings, reading, walking, birdwatching, getting into some kind of exercise or craft, making models from a kit, perfecting the world's best tomato sauce, making music, sketching are all actually extremely important, joyful things to do

Good news guys

One reason to write: it forces even the most terminally hypertextual thinker to form linear, coherent opinions. Sometimes that’s enough to justify the effort.

Someone please pay me $1/word to write a weird and earnest piece on Rory McIlroy as moral archetype, proof of the banishment of evil etc

Opening day of the cricket season. Usually I’m quad-layered, shivering, clutching an outsized hot chocolate. Today, 21 °C, sunburn. Hasn’t rained in a month. Early April. Probably fine.

Married ten years today. Life tip: marry the kindest person you know.

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

Vulgar Display of Power

Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

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Alright dorks, it’s official—I’m doing this. wil.to/megamanathon/

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GET YOUR WALLETS READY!

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Do you hate your job as a designer or do you hate capitalism

Trying to min/max your degree for employability will just potentially make you miserable and ruin what could have been one of the best times of your life, and there’s no guarantee it will even work. But otoh you should pick up some basic skills that will be useful while your mind is malleable.