Axel Kee
@yagisoftware.com
Indie developer doing apps, mostly Shopify these days https://yagisoftware.com
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
A handful of guys asserting the right to pillage all human knowledge and creative labor to sell it back to people they've convinced not to value human knowledge and creative labor in order to amass personal wealth and power is not only gross, it's profoundly uninteresting.
A thing about the "AI" debate in science is that I almost never see anyone asking, "well sure LLMs or whatever can be useful sometimes—but what if we put all the money spent on 'AI' into hiring more humans, furthering other technologies & invest into research helping scientists science better"
No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.
Theres an old saw about how every pursuit (artistic or otherwise) is really three jobs - 1. the thing itself (writing, singing, baking bread, fixing people's teeth, whatever) 2. bill collector 3. salesman I think lots of people wanting "artistic" lives wish to escape 2 and 3. They cannot.
I’m an artist. My friends kids wanted to be artists when they were young so I took them to art shows in hot weather, they helped me stuff mystery bags, and many other not creative things. They quickly wanted to do something else. Could they inherit all my supplies? Yes. Do they want to? No.
just a reminder that AI graphics in your tech blog posts still look lame ☺️ ❤️
BBC's docus The Story of Science and Chemistry: A Volatile History are a great double-feature if you want to know how science became science
i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin
I think I’ve been trying to put into words how I’ve been feeling about social media lately, and I think the best comparison I can make is to the simple pancake. Easy to make. Filling, but limited. Flat discussions leave us full and bloated. tedium.co/2026/03/23/s... new @tedium.co
Pancakes, Hot Takes, And Social Media’s Flatness
When every discussion feels flat, how do you fluff it up? The answer, to me, is to eat fewer pancakes.
tedium.co
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 5mo agoThey said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
A Wish, Morning Glory — Ernesto Arrisueno, 2016
It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.
The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.
if there’s one thing clients do, it’s constantly change their mind and sabotage their own projects no matter how much you, the consultant, do your best to shepherd them to better decisions how’s an llm going to fix that
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
I don't want to live in a world where we forget how to be kind to each other and that seems to be the goal of those who want to control us.
not to point at anyone in particular, but I have been in and on many different internet communities of various shapes/sizes/technologies and one mistake I consistently see made is assuming the technical part of running a community is the hard part. it's not. it's the social part. it's moderation.
Everyone expects tech support to be a nightmare. What if you turned it into a pleasant surprise? That's an easy way to thrill customers and stand out. For companies of any size. https://longform.asmartbear.com/tech-support-is-sales/
in the future one of the perks of some jobs will be that you're not compelled to use AI, and not challenged to justify not using it at every step.
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
you want a reputation of "that helpful person who also does x" not "that person trying to sell x"
and not just normal amounts of money. radio shack made money. software tools easily make money. we could all have beautiful careers making things that are useful and valuable and make money from doing it. these fuckers just have to make ALL the money, and kill anything that doesn't
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2y agoI hate how much the tech industry (which is actually finance) has made me hate technology. I was a little girl who hung out at Radio Shack. I went to college where BASIC was invented and "artificial intelligence" was coined. And all these fuckheads care about is making money.
There was always something weird about the build in public movement that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. But this framing identifies it for me because those who helped rather than build always resonated more with me (in a positive way)
Alex Hillman@alexhillman.com · 2y agoThis was lots of fun 🤓 I'll take "helping people in public" over "build in public" any day!
