I've joined some Figma files in my day but nothing shocks me more when a designer uses EEE as their canvas color. animals

Discussed malm’s pipeline with 10-12 ppl yesterday. Overall mood is resignation, reluctance to waste time with ineffective strategy. Immediacy or urgency determines prioritization of social causes. Climate change too far away in geography and time. Great book tho

Divisive advertising is good advertising.

Do we have a term yet for ai generated design slop?

Go dubs!

My toxic ADHD trait is always raising the stakes. Small gathering? Why not invite my whole social world instead? Deadlines? Oh yeah I can get it done in a day.

Certain cheese and cured meats (imported?) were out of stock at my local Costco yesterday. Coincidence or early signal of tariff effect

The “compete with China in AI” directive ruins any chance of IP protection and data sovereignty. It’s war on terror 2.0. It’s now a “matter of national security” that we take all your content.

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

541430 Graphic art and related design services 541511 Web (i.e., Internet) page design services, custom

FPO never works does it

Instead of federal government stimmies xanax would be appreciated this time around

i want our digital spaces to be like a neighborhood kitchenette: get fed a snack, help out with the dishes, and speak to a matronly or patronly or they-tronly figure about what troubles ail me.

How do you estimate, plan and coordinate a design initiative on a large technically complex product, with vague and potentially misaligned requirements in a remote international team with impatient stakeholders who have no desire to engage in interim design processes? Asking for a friend

Just heard the phrase “Beef tallow MLM” Now I know why oxtails have shot up in price.

Tariffs won’t fix trade deficit because of USD hegemony But maybe it painfully forces consumers into a more local-centric economy? Or breathes some new life into DIY/repair movements? (Coping with bad situation by imagining potentially beneficial second order effects)

Much of design is invisible labor.

Agree that my/our political imagination is stunted. Hungry for fictional & historical examples of alternative/cooperative/generative resistance

Dan Lockton@danlockton.com · 2y ago

But so often their defeat depends on superheroes with special powers/tech, Bond-style operatives, or essentially just violence. Which (I think) makes it hard for us to see (in popular imagination) how we can excise this dangerous tissue. Are there are good examples of other models—other stories?

Palantir’s Ontology grid

this this this 1000 times & believe me there have been a ton of people, often led by Black women, pushing back on the idea of all-powerful engineers over the last 20 years, but the industry has disempowered critical people & disciplines (eg QA & UX) ruthlessly over that time

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2y ago

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

It’s worth exposing bloated foundations, yes. But techno optimists fail to absorb that there is no “cheap tech fix” to international development. We can’t airdrop internet, computers, blockchain and expect development. It requires resourcing communities, infra, institutions. That requires money

Jonathan Hung@jonathanhung.bsky.social · 2y ago

Americas test kitchen method: - boiling water, short level (doesn’t cover 50% of egg) - Add eggs - 6.5 minutes COVERED (steam) - Stop cooking with cold water

Cyd Harrell@cydharrell.bsky.social · 2y ago

hahaha saved you a click (and 17 minutes) transferring the eggs between two bowls, one of boiling water & one of lukewarm water, every 2 minutes for 32 minutes no thank you, the regular method is good enough

Pahlka acknowledging the importance of federal gov improvement, and even the need for boldness. We are in a rut. Wrecking crew is maybe needed but this period could still be quite bad. overcast.fm/+AA5AWMwX3AE...

Why Government Hiring Is So Inefficient — Odd Lots

overcast.fm

Probably nothing particle.news/story/google...

Google Removes Ban on AI for Weapons and Surveillance in Policy Shift

The tech giant updates its AI principles, dropping a commitment not to develop applications for military or surveillance use.

particle.news

People on Twitter seem keen to be calling this period of “waking people up” So we’re all woke now?

Regular reminder that apocalypse means revealing or unveiling — from the Greek word apokálypsis, which means "revelation". It literally means "to pull the lid off something”

info environment on SM is at peak pollution, beyond salvage, schizophrenic, no way to ascertain ground truth. Xitterati seems intent on reposting rage bait

My latest project at Readwise is an interesting one. I built it from end-to-end and I loved learning about AI, vector databases, etc. So many users have called it a 'game-changer' that we've joked about renaming it that 😅

what could be a moment to reform international aid to a more effective vehicle for achieving colonial / climate reparations and equitable prosperity instead will become an indictment of the project or its aims.

If you are surprised by the NgO industrial complex being exposed then you haven’t worked for an NgO