♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: The Midnight (11) Death Cab for Cutie (10) Starletta (8) At 1980 & Josh Dally (5) FM-84 (5). #myweekcounted 127 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

I miss having fun with work. Last week I publicly relaunched SpeedyU. For 3 years I've been tracking speed and a11y performance of higher ed websites. This new v2 of speedyu.com includes way more data. For free. And soon I'll be offering paid deep dives and competitor insights.

SpeedyU — University website rankings

SpeedyU is a free, independent ranking of university and college websites on speed, accessibility, best practices, and SEO, measured weekly with Google Lighthouse across 4,690 institutions. The typica...

speedyu.com

it's safe to say that dark patterns won. all the dark patterns won and we lost and that's that.

I really need a sabbatical. Anyone want to fund a sabbatical for me?

This book is so good. Can’t wait to listen to this convo.

The Maybe@themaybe.org · last wk.

@alixdunn.com sat down with @carissaveliz.bsky.social to talk about her new book, ‘Prophecy.’ She walks us down the well-worn path of prediction as a political tool: power brokers using forecasts to bend the future towards their will by convincing the rest of us that it’s destiny, not marketing.

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Starletta (11) Drive!Drive! (3) Hotel Apache (3) dreamfone (2) Honestly (2). #myweekcounted 41 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

The goal of AI isn’t actually to make your job easier. It’s to extract your labor and our resources faster to increase their corporate and personal profits.

I really wish someone more researched than me would do a giant campaign on failed right-wing strategies for economic growth. Seems all (most of) the theories Republicans have touted for decades have been proven wrong in just the past two years.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Billy Strings (13) Radiohead (3) Kingfishr (2) The Jayhawks (2) Amble (1). #myweekcounted 33 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

[linkedin voice] not using ai as good as other people? you’re already hopelessly behind. in fact you are truly desperate, like a pathetic little worm wriggling helplessly in the dirt. reply WORM and i’ll send you the link for $3000/month

yep. almost my entire career has been in enterprise software, trying to understand how people made things and especially made decisions and using those insights to make people's jobs a bit easier, and then the last few years have been about how to just cut the humans out of the equation completely.

Derek Powazek@fraying.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some of us didn’t get into tech for the tech. The tech was only interesting because it connected us with our fellow humans. Seems like there’s no place for us anymore.

Remember when we won a trophy and then wasted that momentum because we apparently wanted to sit bottom of the prem table for at least two more seasons? #coys

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Coast Modern (1). #myweekcounted 1 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

I really enjoyed @reckless.bsky.social's responses to the 'Software Brain' comments in this most recent Decoder mailbag episode. He summed up a lot of what I've been processing about the assumptions these LLM companies have made around usability. Lossy over good.

Why the current tech backlash feels different

Answering your Decoder questions about surveillance, AI coverage, and the Nilay rant.

theverge.com

Remembered that once song I wrote and recorded in college and listened to it. I still like it. Might need to tweak some lyrics and remaster it this year.

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Copeland (10) Ellie Goulding (10) Death Cab for Cutie (5) FLORES (4) Tears for Fears (4). #myweekcounted 79 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

For the better, yes.

If Passed, This New Flour Ban Might Change NYC's Bagels And Pizza Forever - The Takeout

New York is about to pass a law which would ban several food additives, including potassium bromate, which bakeries say would change the state's iconic foods.

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Spurs look like a group of players who, not only haven’t played together, but appear to have never even met before.

Squinting hard to find that ROI #COYS

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Idle County (10) Bon Iver (7) The Midnight (6) Jimmy Eat World (5) Orbital (4). #myweekcounted 120 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm-butialabs.bsky.social

My first ever real VP boss used to say “you can’t fix stupid” a lot and I’ve been really feeling that sentiment lately.

Watching S7E1 of Mad Men for the 15th time and I’ve never related to Peggy Olsen more. This has to do with working for the man.

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

Help, I have too many content ideas and a job that doesn't leave me time enough to do them!

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor? AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ seems great content really is ubiquitous.

Ron Bronson@ronbronson.com · last mo.

Can confirm @joelgoodman.co has been talking about GEO before it was GEO joelgoodman.co/letters/did-...

AI is a marketing term. What is being sold? GHOST IN THE MACHINE is coming to @pbs.org and YouTube September 14th at 10pm ET / 7pm PT!

I like my new hat.