All I want for Christmas is a NYC that accommodates bicycles half as well as it accommodates out-of-state 2-ton trucks.

The difference between “engineered” and “over-engineered” is a matter of opinion.

New rule: if you're tempted to send me generated prose, copy, or positioning, just send the prompt instead. Signal-to-noise matters, now more than ever.

It'd be great if I could use a software product that costs $100/user/year for without the constant, in-app notifications suggesting I upgrade for features I do not want. My response? I downgrade and churn. 🤝

Not even enough to cover my 2025 Claude Code bill.

Today’s inbox: Remember we exist? Happy Thanksgiving! Buy our shit.

Wordle 1,615 4/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I share this only because my grid looks like a cross section of the solution. 💀

I am so very happy to be on leave right now. www.cloudflarestatus.com Good luck out there, fam.

It’s not immediately clear why a 10+ year annual 5K at Yankees Stadium—which raised funds for cancer research—couldn’t get things going again since the pandemic. What is clear is that the @yankees.com decided to run their own, non-philanthropic 5K in its place. I guess that’s to be expected. 👎

Why don’t parking wardens ride along with street cleaners to direct re-parkers and issue tickets to unoccupied vehicles? They’d (both) clean up. (And maybe save our ears.)

Sometimes doing the responsible thing isn’t the responsible thing.

Can you name any mayor who govern the next 9 largest American cities? (Can you even name yours?)

Would be great if the news covered more about what good people are doing rather than casting 24/7 hot takes on the horrible ones. You too, independent journalists.

I see you, Claude

cc @raffic.bsky.social :) I solved the 10/29/2025 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:45! www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g...

Did no one on that mayoral campaign realize that they created a political party whose acronym is FAD? As in: fad – n. – a temporary interest or practice of exaggerated zeal #votenyc

Co-signed.

To the box.com executive who approved that: 1. the signup TOS require auto-enrollment in marketing e-mails, with 2. no way to unsubscribe in the admin interface, requiring me to have to search to find this article: community.box.com/end-user-for... This is asshole design. You should feel bad.

When the computer switches to dark mode, perhaps it's time to consider going home.

The older I get, the more I care about cable management.

3 down in today’s mini is misspelled. K?

I can't believe I'm saying this, but: can't LLMs replace all IVRs?

“Contestants test their knowledge of sandwich ingredients.”

The first cattle out of a winter barn has first-moover advantage. I apologize for nothing. Moo.

Skeuomorphism was better.

Made In America

Rediscovering joy in RSS

I absolutely love this... just not $500 love this. But I love this. remarkable.com/products/rem...

Am I supposed to take articles that have images like this seriously?

If you ever wondered why EWR is so unreliable.

Six (6) – the number of modals, interrupters, and needless notifications I must dismiss to start using a new google workspace app. Between GMail and Drive: 13 clicks. It's like all these internal teams are competing for everyone's attention and no one is thinking about the core user experience. 👎

One of my favorite parts about BlueSky is how it DOESN’T cater to influencers. Another win is when you DON’T engage ideas that are not worth amplifying. Because I’m not @mcuban.bsky.social, I don’t have an endless onslaught of folks trying to get my attention. Maybe don’t reward bad actors? +1

I've been waiting for the first good protest song to drop, but I wasn't expecting it to be such a bop.

When the AI notetaker shows up but its owner does not.

I know it performs worse, but I judge copywriters who write “less” when it should be “fewer”.

This logo is so ominous

Very cool for Google to do this. (If you have Google Workspace, check it out: admin.google.com/ac/insights/...)

KPop Demon Hunters. Perfection.

TIL the NYTimes hires people to gauge Wordle difficulty, and that there’s a daily review/hint article (just like the crossword) with commissioned art. There’s even a comments section. It’s the good kind of weird promised by the Internet and I am here for it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/c...

A sesquipedality. A floccinaucinihilipilification. Eschew pedantism.

Flibbertigibbeting…

I didn't sign up for this future, Mark.

Commercial concerns aside, I’ve been wondering who to hold responsible when chatbots emit disinformation and slander? If users blindly trust these LLMs—and they increasingly do—how do we go about correcting emergent errant output on an already-trained model?

Who else chuckled at 7-across?

This morning I discovered I can sing along to "The Wellerman" without any meaningful impact to work output. Sea shanties are truly an under-appreciated productivity hack.

The Atlas Shrugged crowd seems to be doing an awful lot of shrugging right now.

When machines can make anything, taste becomes everything.

I love you, but please don't auto-subscribe me to your substack.

Transit nerds love to talk about how great the rail networks are in Europe (and they are) but they should also talk about how much better the roadways are as to reach the average American. Just drove on a northeast thoroughfare after a two week roadtrip in the EU… and the differences are striking.

Maybe BlueSky moves at the right pace. The 24/7 news cycle was a mistake—why would social media be any different?