@jmspool.bsky.social Hey there! I was going through my personal archives and realized my original recording of aycl.uie.com/virtual_semi... was corrupted corrupted — is there any chance the good folks at uie.com have a version I could get my hands on?

Features vs. Reality: Lessons from Georgia.gov

Jeff Eaton presents how his team worked to find the right content solution for the state of Georgia. He’ll share what worked, what didn’t work, and how his team persevered to find the right solution.

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@ethanmarcotte.com DOPE headshots, sir

unrelated: Berlin knows how to run a civilized airport. cappuccino machines every 40m or so, and pretzel carts every 120m. it’s like someone planned it.

not sure this is the right line. I’m reminded of @wil.to’s recommendation when I was hunting for a new tool for a project: buy a cheapass version and get it done; if it breaks in six months that’s a signal you’re using it enough to justify taking it seriously, and you’ll know better what you want.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

Online shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.

*takes a biiiiig sip of coffee, opens bluesky*

Kathryn Brightbill ✒️@kebrightbill.bsky.social · 3d ago

This would explain a whole lot about Elisabeth Elliot

[whispering] armitage from the new apple tv neuromancer adaptation looks like @nozurbina.bsky.social pass it on

so, the mega political email corpus — a decade of spam from conservatives and pure fund-raise from the DNC, 10,000+ messages total — is interesting. a bunch of manual batching and sorting and filtering and spot checking has teased out what I think is a rough taxonomy of subject lines.

you know it's a nice, relaxing Sunday when I can sit down, sip my coffee, surround myself with kittens, and start coding political spam subject lines to train a classifier docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

email_coding

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Random question for the possibly-zero number of friends whose interests overlap in data science and far-right religious groups like NAR. …Is there anyone out there who'd be interested in a normalized corpus of ~30 years of "prophetic messages" that were published to a NAR audience of ~250,000?

The right cared about womens’ sports *literally* as long as it took them to gut trans people’s rights, and boy are they ever relieved they can stop pretending to give a shit

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 3w ago

My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 3w ago

So Lindsey Graham is really dead?

for the old-timers, the NYT home page. thirty years ago. three. zero.

When you’re teying to prove your new thing is valuable and you want a metric shitton of VC money, you have to convince those VC dudes that what you’ve created is not just useful, not just effective, but transformative, even destructive to the current order of things.

Arin Dube@arindube.bsky.social · last mo.

The hype that wasn't ... How AI leaders are rapidly changing their tune. (from the WSJ) Link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

It is worth noting that the internal budget rationale for things like publishing “troubleshooting instructions” and “knowledge base articles” often not “customer success” but “contact deflection.” That is, they are worth producing because they reduce the need for expensive human assistance.

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · last mo.

The aim of customer chatbots is not to be useful, it’s to make you give up in despair and go away, having received what can contemptuously be referred to as ‘support’.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Dan Klyn@danklyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Ideology isn’t Fox News, ideology is HGTV

I’d also say that doing this in the opposite direction — saying “hey, these things mean something to each other; I will communicate that using visual/spatial/etc cues” is the heart of designing presentation systems for dynamic content, as opposed to one off artifacta

tfw when somebody wants to say “mine” but knows theyre supposed to say “ours”

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Some people treat laws and norms as the rules of the game; others treat them as the game pieces. If you’re in the first camp and you’re working at odds with a group in the second, you’re definitionally screwed.

VƎX Werewolf@vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Right wingers have long made the choice not to care about what the laws say, and only pretend to do so when it allows them to exploit liberal sympathies. They have a preconceived notion of what they want to be true, and they act upon it, even if - as is usual - reality refuses to conform to it.

Great conversations today with my team about the overlap between “linguistic productivity” and effective design systems / content models. Linguistic productivity is the idea that sub-structures (adding -s to pluralize a noun, adding -er/-or to turn an verb into its actor) can be efficiency hacks:

Fight Club’s “snowflake” monologue satirized toxic masculinity. “Red Pill” comes from a movie by two trans women. “Fake News” was coined to describe right wing disinformation campaigns. “The Weaponized Justice Department” was supposed to highlight Trump’s attempts to steer the DOJ.

last night @heyrocker.com nerdsniped me so hard I outlined a new presentation. Only friends can target with that level of accuracy.

The amazing thing is that it’s always been a grim joke that you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. Now the DOJ has managed to turn quite a few Grand Juries into… deeply skeptical audiences.

lucy@lucyfaria.net · 2mo ago

this is amazing

Cliche as it is, The Invisibles was a formative work for me. Not so much the first volume — it’s a good, bold series that stands head and shoulders above everything else I was reading at the time, but (for me at least) the life-altering stuff came near the end.

Elizabeth Sandifer@eruditorumpress.com · 2mo ago

Just sent the beginning of the first Invisibles chapter to Patrons. www.patreon.com/posts/lwia-4... Next time: 👽🇳🇵🛸 (Yes, first Invisibles chapter. I'll be doing one chapter per volume.)

The first step is to remove the people most likely to shape the ideas :.. which is why I am always going to point out The FIRST thing Weiss did was get rid of Black and Brown reporters which journalism itself has been doing for years And nobody said anything and still doesn’t

‮Jeff Eaton@eaton.fyi · 2mo ago

Reminded again of Jaques Ellul’s definition of propaganda — not a specific message, but the establishment of an information landscape where opposing ideas are crowded out by a cacophony of vaguely pro-regime ideas, none of which need be particularly convincing or even compatible with each other.

Reminded again of Jaques Ellul’s definition of propaganda — not a specific message, but the establishment of an information landscape where opposing ideas are crowded out by a cacophony of vaguely pro-regime ideas, none of which need be particularly convincing or even compatible with each other.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“.. The search implies that if Paramount Skydance's deal with Warner Bros. Discovery goes through, Weiss would oversee all news editorial across both CBS News and CNN.” @axios.com $PSKY www.axios.com/2026/06/09/c...

at its best historical mefi was a community of people who exercised a shared commitment to argue with each other in good faith. at its worst, an enormous dysfunctional polycule where everyone knew everyone’s hot buttons and mentioning the dishes was a MAD event

tfw when shuffle play on a 30y deep music library serves up argyle park’s doomsayer and BOY HOWDY

In the real world, enduring progress comes through non-zero-sum cooperation over time, and anyone who has worked in a professional context knows that nothing makes such cooperation more difficult than the presence of egotistical men convinced they are bold risk-takers possessed of masculine energy.

a fresh round of people faving an old skeet about matt mullenweg can only mean fresh new footgunning