Michael Head
@michaelehead.com
Software engineer. UX, usability, HCI fan. He/him.
the great irony of LinkedIn being the world's #1 workslop platform now asking users to moderate the slop themselves www.404media.co/linkedin-int...
LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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I don’t normally want to buy a game soundtrack, but dang that siren song in Hades 2 is catchy. Might have to get that album.
"Notably, while McConnell's absence has lasted several weeks, the United States does not guarantee a single day of paid medical leave for its workers." truthout.org/articles/kentuck...
Kentucky Gov. Beshear Demands McConnell Prove He Can Still Serve — or Resign
It’s been a month and a half since Sen. Mitch McConnell made a public appearance.
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Then the K3 devs can just claim it was a rogue agent that did it, since there are apparently no repercussions for letting an agent do the bad things.
👨🏻💻☕️@hunterwalk.com · 2w agoeven if true, doesn't matter. Anything that can be distilled will be distilled.
In case anyone missed the announcement, here's my latest major work: Some takeaways: 1. Sighted people experience modality barriers too (so they need accessibility!) 2. Making non-visual stuff interactive and visual addresses #1 but also helps sighted people treat accessibility as a design space
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer · 2w agoBig announcement: The final project of my thesis work, Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences, has now been accepted for publication at IEEE VIS! 🎉 🎉 🎉
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"Realbotix, formerly known as Tokens com, rebranded after acquiring the hyperrealistic sex doll company RealDoll in 2024." Humanoid fleshlights rebranded as teachers by a crypto company owned by Bed Bath & Beyond, that's now a portfolio that also owns Kirkland?!? www.retaildive.com/news/bed-bat...
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. to acquire Tokens.com
The home retailer is building a tokenized investment platform, supporting its larger goal of being involved in home financing.
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I used to think a monorepo made a lot of sense, but having worked in a large one I now think they’re an awful developer experience. Slow even on a fast machine, too many commands, too much to sync and cache. Teams need better dependency management than just an NX graph.
What kind of "viral" are we talking about here...the kind where you grow another arm?? Downright awful, Apple News. This kind of slop reflects poorly on everyone involved.
It’s amazing how many people think a business’ only job is maximizing shareholder profits over all other goals, as if it’s a law of nature. But it’s actually a fairly recent extreme school of thought propagandized by the ownership class. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedma...
Friedman doctrine - Wikipedia
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Steve Baty (He/him)@docbaty.bsky.social · 3w agoIf a group of employees build a company up into a successful, profitable business, and that company remains profitable, then there should be zero cause for layoffs. The fact that most people would accept the company's goal of increasing profits is part of our problem.
Wouldn’t it make sense that a company (like all LLM AI companies) that built its product on stealing others’ text would try to do the same for actual hardware or other IP?
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 4w agoThis story is bonkers. Alleges that OpenAI told job candidates to steal unreleased product components and BRING THEM TO JOB INTERVIEWS. Assuming it’s true — Did Altman know? Did Jony Ive?
Broadcom continues its journey to being the biggest a**hole in tech. arstechnica.com/information-...
Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA
Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.
arstechnica.com
apparently there is some controversy on hacker news that that website stole all the data from a different browser extension that already existed extension: github.com/chris-mosley... discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881...
GitHub - chris-mosley/AmazonBrandFilter: Filters Amazon search results to only be "known" brands.
Filters Amazon search results to only be "known" brands. - chris-mosley/AmazonBrandFilter
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A developer made a browser extension called "Knockoff" that shows what a wasteland Amazon truly is by filtering out brands like "GODONLIF" "EHEYCIGA," ROTTOGOON," and sponsored products. Useful and illustrative even if you don't use Amazon www.404media.co/knockoff-bro...
'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
"Sorry to brands like WNPETHOME, EHEYCIGA, YXYL, LU&MN, JOYIN, TOMY, GODONLIF, YOOJEE, LINGTENG, LANEIGE, VISCOO, BIODANCE, COOFANDY, BALENNZ, TOSY, and LUENX."
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Sony deserves the clowning for announcing they’ll stop making physical discs. They already showed they don’t respect digital ownership. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
arstechnica.com
We heard you. We agree. In light of recent developments in physical media, GitHub is proud to announce that you can now obtain your public repo on CD-ROM. Keep it. Lend it to friends. Pass it on to your children. Your code is physically yours, forever. Until you lose it, let's be real. gh.io/cd
And that’s on top of the fact that Best Buy the website AND the app are absolute trash on a solid, fast connection with a modern device.
Brian LeRoux@brianleroux.bsky.social · last mo.web dev has completely failed users with poor connectivity. an incredibly common scenario that is often when a person needs connectivity the most.
The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It. "So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac." [kottke.org]
The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It
From Mark Forsyth’s The Elements of Eloquence, a reminder of the rules of adjective order that fluent English speakers follow without quite knowing why. …adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this
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I want to examine Vance’s recent bizarro comments because in a few months he’ll be actively campaigning to be the Republican candidate for president in 2028. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-jd-vance-even-more-dangerous-than
That one time David Gentile, CEO of GPB Capital Holdings and convicted criminal got a get out of jail free card from President Trump. After defrauding more than 10,000 people out of more than $1.6 billion, Gentile was convicted and sentenced to spend 7 years in prison and pay back $15.5 million.
John C. Reilly questions why human rights have become political "Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights?" "Elon Musk says, 'don’t be fooled by the empathy trap'. ... Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower ... our ability to look outside ourself” 🎙️ It's Open Pod
I can’t read USMNT without thinking “US Mutant Ninja Turtles”.
D&D for the whole family with The Adventure Guide: Secrets of Enduril on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/emb...
The Adventure Guide: Secrets of Enduril
Your Family's First D&D Adventure—The Ultimate Learn-As-You-Play Experience
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