The Onion CEO posting this may make you wonder, but unfortunately this problem is very real — 42% of Lays customers don't know that it's potato

Literally had to reverse engineer a work ethic by copying the kids who had been working hard the whole time

My friends were saying how it was weird that it was my birthday but I was doing all the work by making the food, but making food to be shared and enjoyed by people I cherish is a special kind of alchemy to me. Very little brings me more joy than seeing others eat and love what I’ve put together.

One year ago I published this post, which has been one of the most shared I have done ... and it remains (alas), relevant and evergreen ... whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/to-cis-peo...

Watching people cycling through the tunnel of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from inside the museum. Turns out it’s not just a tunnel but also an overpass.

This kinda thing makes it tough for me to feel confident (or even informed) about the true state and potential of autonomous tech

honest, just get whatever mark making tools you have and make some weird shit.

My gifts, smarts, talents are hard earned. The blood sweat and tears that fueled me are not metaphorical. They are the embodiment of effort, of support, of vulnerability, of resilience of the curiosity and courage to explore, experiment, and fail, over and over and over again. Creation is love.

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

HOW IS HE SO FUCKING GOOD AT THIS

Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...

What a useful resource for organizing.

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you. piccalil.li/blog/the-ope...

AI is like every other extractive technology: built on the proletariat of the neocolonial economies of the global South. Do not look away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

you will get to work with Cyd! and help San Francisco! wow!

How can we ensure every person moves freely and safely through their entire journey—from first mile to last? This introductory toolkit is a resource for designers, planners and policymakers seeking to integrate gender-inclusive mobility into their processes. www.genderinclusivemobility.com/toolkit

Okay sure, but what folks fail to understand is that institutions have inertia: they keep going in the direction of the accumulation of habits from previous actions. Replacing a leader won’t matter: you need to replace enough people that the habits of the institution changes.

I carry so much internalized shame and guilt from not understanding why I couldn’t do anything right as a kid. (Not only an ADHD thing, but a common experience with it.) Prints / Comic archive adhd-alien.com Patreon patreon.com/adhd_alien/

"Accessibility is where infrastructure failure shows up first. ...We are in a moment of real political and institutional backsliding, and that reality deserves to be named. But meaningful action is still possible." Will be thinking about this post for a long time. Thank you @annaecook.com!

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...

I know everything is overwhelming for a lot of folks but I have never, NEVER been in a moment in tech when so many people have *actually* been talking about people's need to learn and questioning the needs of their own minds. And that is really cool. It is a moment of flexibility to make new demands

Most people are worried about climate change - but most don't hear or talk about regularly. That's why I started my free newsletter Talking Climate. Every week I share good news, not so good news, and what people can do. If you aren't a reader yet, see below. I have 6 different ways to subscribe!

"Never underestimate the ability of a single individual—no matter how seemingly unimportant or obscure—to really fuck things up for you once they set their mind to it." — @erikahall.bsky.social, Just Enough Research

www.tableau.com/blog/how-web... W.E.B Du Bois's data visualizations of the Black population from his 1900 Paris Exhibition are still stunning, still peak dataviz.

Today's @hammerandhope.bsky.social nwsltr (not archived online 🥺) is from their editorial art director, Alexandra Zsigmond, who describes the power + poetry of what an art director *does* — part of which is "supporting artists as political thinkers... Editorial art is a form of public art."

Art!

I am NOT saying that there are no white judges who would decide the case in this way, or who would write w vehemence against the regime's lawlessness. But without a diverse judiciary, white men judges who only interact with white men judges would never rule this way. Judicial diversity matters.

Best column I have read about what is happening so far. And maybe it's because the headline says it right: ethnic cleansing.

Fun fact: in the 1940's a unit of computation was the kilogirl. 1,000 hours of work by a woman whose job was literally: computer. That was how you'd measure how much computing you were doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_i...

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

AI is an extension of this flex We don’t believe the plebes deserve their IP or access to art

this is beautiful and harrowing...

What a sign off too. "With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, IT IS SO ORDERED." Phew.

"A small business cannot strike. A single worker cannot call a strike. Nor can a union president, a politician, a celebrity, say the magic word and have it be so. A boycott is not a strike. Shopping small is not a strike. Working slow is not a strike."

I like this quote from Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: 'If transness is working correctly, it is pushing for a world where anyone can express themselves in any way and not be deserving of violence: that no expression of any self becomes a reason why someone may incite harm.' We all need this.

New Epstein drop shows that Bill Gates got an STD from raping kids with Epstein, which would be a very big part of the reason for this very big divorce. A reason which the media completely, 100% memoryholed. Odds are you didn't hear Melinda started the process in 2019, citing Epstein as the reason

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Nothing is a distraction when it’s all meant to harm, but it sure does break your brain

Good evening you handsome and gorgeous lot. As we are surviving, thriving, and/or organizing. I encourage you to consider and reflect on your circles of influence

Making a complicated design based on vibes and bringing it to a stakeholder to ask "hey what do you think?" is the behavior of a junior UX designer, and wastes everyone's time until they are trained out of it. With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

I would interview this person. I must know about the olive oil.

Whoa, this is a fantastic archive of tangible media objects (like gramophone records, punch cards, 8-tracks, floppy disks, etc.) Prepare to lose many minutes/hours to this trove. [kottke.org]

Suggestions for the next few weeks. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

ICE / CBP never left Los Angeles and have continued to terrorized our communities. Over and over we have seen local police collaborate with the feds. abolish ICE = abolish the police

With adverts like these, ICE is not recruiting for law enforcement, but recruiting for an all-out culture war, I say in the Independent. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

I broke my website a bit—nothing big. So, I'm not writing this in my digital garden's /journal (where I'd typically write). Trying something new.

New from me: FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm Bluesky's decision to verify ICE's account shows that it not set up well to deal with threats where the presence itself is the harm connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...