The cool thing about capitalism is that my house insurance rates go up far more every year due to climate change-related risk management by the insurance companies than my taxes would if my country invested heavily in climate solutions and clean energy infrastructure.

The purpose of business is to provide employment.

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life. It aids fascism.

Don't know what to think about AI? Consult the @wired.com tarots www.wired.com/ai-issue/

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

There are only two types of products and services now: outright scam and pseudo scam (where you're like ehh technically I got something in exchange for my money but cmon)

i just made a cool video

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Alright, I've seen enough ads with an AI face and/or AI voice now. I'm ready for them to go away again.

Screw it. This is ARKEO. Coming 2026. The journey involves interacting with indigenous villages, gathering information, and deciphering ancient clues to uncover the hidden secrets of the Mayan civilization. #gbstudio #gbdev #indiedev #retro #pixelart

🤬 UX should be easy by now. So why isn’t it? Read about three bad UX stories from just one week that brought me close to a complete meltdown, & what I think the reasons might be. And, as always, some UX gems & new tools for our UX toolbox. open.substack.com/pub/todux/p/... #UX #UXfails

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This is the smartest damn thing I’ve heard all year. If nothing else, it might serve to erode employers‘ trust in ChatGPT.

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SERIOUSLY @bsky.app I'M HERE FOR THE VIDEO GAME CONTENT! I LIKE VIDEO GAME POSTS, I FOLLOW VIDEO GAME CONTENT, STOP SHOWING ME PHOTOS OF PEOPLE AT THE GYM! I DON'T CARE FOR GYMS OR PEOPLE, I JUST WANT VIDEO GAMES! ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Serious question: When I've hit "show less like this" on a topic X for the 1000th time, why does your algorithm keep showing me X, and seemingly even more than before?

All of These Statements are true The World is bad The World is much better than before The World could be much better than now --> We can be happy about what humanity has achieved so far --> We must not stop to continue improving it

Wow, that guy Ian from my cyber security e-learning is really, really dumb

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These are not mounting, @cnn.com. They have been answered conclusively, again and again.

🤔 "If it's not tested it's just another opinion"?! I say, "If it's not tested it might be perfectly fine." Why not *everything* needs to be tested and, more generally, "some" research is often worse than no research at all 👇🏻 #research #userresearch #uxresearch open.substack.com/pub/todux/p/...

Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

It makes complete sense to be able to access your Teams recording within Teams, the application where you made the recording. So naturally that's not where it is.

Mike Monteiro's "Ruined by Design" goes very well together with Moshe Y. Vardi's column "I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis," btw: cacm.acm.org/opinion/i-wa...

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Jesus f—ing Christ, WHAT?!

So, speaking from my European perspective, honestly, the perception is *truly* that Trump *really* isn't in charge. Shouldn't he know that? He strikes me as a person who'd be angry about that. Shouldn't somebody tell him? 🤔

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In his inaugural speech, new Secretary of Energy Chris Wright invoked Germany as a cautionary tale. It will perhaps not surprise you to learn that he said a bunch of dumb, wrong shit.

Anyone who says "pick your battles" never picks any battles.

So, one thing I've noticed lately: there are *a lot* of typos in books nowadays. Isn't there proper copy-editing anymore? Anyone else notice this? #booksky

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Related: The insurance industry, according to Nassim Taleb, are the only ones coming close to understanding Black Swans, i.e., how the real world works.¹ ¹ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007).

*Could* Elon's gestures mean he's a Nazi?

If it leads to people shopping/spending less on waste factories like Shein/Temu, Trump has accidentally done one good thing.

Silicon Valley be all like "You didn't want to buy our monkey jpgs and conduct meetings with VR headsets, I guess we have no choice but to start WW3"

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Shelf. Mostly the shelf thing.

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*Extremely* important to read right now: Noam Chomsky's "Power Systems" #booksky #mustread

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