"AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our technological society..." doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Why businesses lie about AI
Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy.
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Phillip Lovelace
@pixelflips.com
enjoys flippin' pixels into web products. made my own humans². facial fuzz cultivator. permanently drawn on. sr. ux developer, design systems. human. california. views are my own. #resist https://pixelflips.com
Copenhagen, it’s been real. 🇩🇰 Will definitely not wait 17 years to come back again. Next stop Stockholm. 🇸🇪
OpenAI releases health bot one day after a man alleges ChatGPT almost killed him www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
OpenAI releases health bot one day after a man alleges ChatGPT almost killed him
If ChatGPT were a doctor, it would be "guilty of medical malpractice," a lawyer says.
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Headed to Warsaw tomorrow 🇵🇱. Excited for a a couple of days in the city before heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰.
Thought we didn’t have money in the USA for healthcare. Yet the Defense Department’s latest estimate puts the cost of the war with Iran at $37.5 billion. Funny how we’re always told we can’t afford to invest in people’s health, but somehow tens of billions of dollars for war can be found.
Spent a few days in London 🇬🇧. Wow what a city. Next up Berlin. 🇩🇪
We’re well into the hype cycle and so far the only clearly-measurable changes we’ve seen are that laptops and gaming consoles now cost considerably more. Truly a transformative technology! 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22651
[1/7] For the last 6 months, while searching for a Spotify alternative, I’ve tried all the streaming services, slowly writing a blog post about my experience with each. Now that post is finally live! And here’s a brief thread if you’d like the main points summarised. (Views are my own, obviously.)
Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative
Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography
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“The value was never really about how many components were in the library. It was always about all the knowledge and decisions your team built up over time…” #designsystems medium.com/@rahul.rajwa...
Design Systems Are About to Start Thinking
Why the next version of your design system won’t just store things, it’ll help you decide things
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“In the years ahead, the strongest design systems won’t simply support designers. They’ll support intelligent collaborators too.” #designsystems medium.com/@Rythmuxdesi...
AI Is Breaking Design Systems — Here’s How the Best Teams Are Fixing Them
AI can generate beautiful interfaces in seconds, but speed comes with a hidden cost: inconsistency. As AI becomes part of everyday product…
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Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma
Goodbye, forever, probably.
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
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The official launch event for The AI Resist List is finally here, and you can join in person or online! The airesistlist.org has met a seemingly urgent public need for examples of ways communities around the world are moving against extractive AI and exploring more equitable technology futures.
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
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Malware found spreading through sponsored ads on X
Malware found spreading through sponsored ads on X
Jamf Threat Labs, the company’s security research arm, recently shared details of a ClickFix-style attack it spotted running as a sponsored ad on the social media site X. The ad, originating from a well-known account, promoted a malicious domain under the guise of a popular Mac app.
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Here's my full interview with CNBC, covering my bear case against generative AI, OpenAI's questionable finances, AI's lack of ROI, and how all of this is a symptom of the tech industry running out of hypergrowth ideas. It's great to see the mainstream media discussing this. youtu.be/TtmPccUTDP8?...
Ed Zitron on CNBC: Generative AI Doesn't Work, And Big Tech Is Out Of Hypergrowth Ideas
YouTube video by Ed Zitron
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Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.Had a great time on CNBC talking OpenAI’s sovereign wealth fund play, AI ROI, the capex bubble, and how the tech industry has run out of hypergrowth ideas. www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
The Roots at Blue Note I haven't seen The Roots live since I lived in Berlin many years ago. That sentence covers more time than I want to think about. So when I heard they... https://pixelflips.com/blog/the-roots-at-blue-note
The Roots at Blue Note
I haven't seen The Roots live since I lived in Berlin many years ago. That sentence covers more time than I want to think about. So when I heard they were coming to LA, I immediately knew I wanted to attend. The band and the venue did not disappoint. Last night I was at the...
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Please help if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/deep-root-...
Donate to Help Deep Root Prevent a Tax Sale & Preserve Community Land, organized by Sheldon Callahan
Prevent a Tax Sale & Preserve Community Land Help Protect… Sheldon Callahan needs your support for Help Deep Root Prevent a Tax Sale & Preserve Community Land
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“We also see evidence that domain expertise, and not coding proficiency, amplifies effective use of the tool. In particular, domain experts succeed more often, and more easily recover from errors and misunderstandings.” #ai www.anthropic.com/research/cla...
Agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise
This report provides evidence on how Claude Code is used in practice, based on a privacy-preserving analysis of around 400,000 interactive sessions from around 235,000 people between October 2025 and ...
anthropic.com
“When the dust settles on the history of hip-hop, Black Thought will remain sitting quietly at the absolute summit…” #hiphop www.honortheculture.com/blogs/honor-...
Black Thought: The Pinnacle of the Pen
In the eternal debate of "Top 5 Dead or Alive," one name consistently serves as the ultimate litmus test for hip-hop purists: Tariq Trotter. Better known as Black Thought, he is the engine that drives...
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“Building a design system is not a milestone. It is not something you finish and move on from. It is ongoing work that compounds over time when you treat it seriously and decays rapidly when you do not.” #designsystems medium.com/@sicarlos/wh...
When You Actually Need a Design System
Last time I said the system can wait. The product cannot.
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“Generative AI’s gifts come with a hidden danger: decay in the accuracy and quality of organizational knowledge…” hbr.org/2026/06/dont...
Don’t Let AI Slop Muck Up Your Company’s Processes
Generative AI’s gifts come with a hidden danger: decay in the accuracy and quality of organizational knowledge. This decay is the organization-level version of the “workslop” problem. When workslop oc...
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Delete your info from data brokers. #california www.kcra.com/article/cali...
New free California privacy tool lets residents delete personal information
The California Privacy Protection Agency is spreading the word about DROP, a free online tool that allows Californians to request the deletion of their personal information from all registered data br...
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“The future problem is a non-human teammate generating UI at scale. Fast. Confident. Wrong in small ways that compound.” #designsystems www.designsystemscollective.com/what-breaks-...
What breaks when AI starts writing your design system
I opened my own Figma file last week to grab a screenshot, and I couldn’t read the Cancel button.
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Watching the Roots perform at the Obama Presidential Center opening and omg the sign language interpreter is interpreting the instruments themselves, not just the lyrics. I've never seen that before! 🤯
The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced: Stevie Wonder John Legend Jennifer Hudson The Roots Bruce Springsteen Christina Aguilera Marsai Martin Common U2’s Bono and The Edge Eddie Vedder Marc Anthony Tems
“An unowned design system does not stay frozen in a good state, things change all the time, and the gap between the system and the codebase widens until the system is no longer trustworthy and people just copy whatever is nearby instead.” #designsystems #ai mandy.dev/posts/design...
Design Systems Are No Longer Optional
Frontend notes, type experiments, and web things by Mandy Michael
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“UFC Freedom 250” on the white house lawn on his own birthday is not the first time trump has invited a crowd to dc to watch people get the hell beaten out of them. at least this time there’s a ticket and 494 port-a-potties i guess. #clownShow #whatAreWeDoing #ufc