The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

To Opus 4.5: "Artifact, no react, with an interactive explainer of how octaves work - should include buttons to press to make sounds and frequency visualizations, make the design minimal, but have a lot of subtle puns" tools.simonwillison.net/octave-expla...

From BBC, an innocuous still from a new TV show. The show is about a brain getting hacked but image has hacked my brain. In the right corner, optical illusion or gen AI outcropping slop? If the show is about ai slop dripping into real life, bravo.

Can’t download @wnyc? Is anyone else having this problem?

Closing the loop, paper prototyping the AR prototyping on the prototyping architecture.

Prototyping software architecture in actual Lego, let's see if it's just cute or actually help.

If the Apple Watch gets a camera, it would be cool (though probably impractical) to have it on the wristband somehow. I don’t use the phone camera much, but I would use a wrist cam all the time.

To be fair, whenever I see “lawmaker” I hear “lawn maker.”

People with glasses and contacts have to realize that we have a disability that just happens to be highly accommodated for in modern society and that accommodation is the only reason why poor eyesight is not considered a disability.

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org

Let’s play a game. I’ll hide a button using different techniques in HTML and CSS, and you have to guess whether it’s still focusable. matuzo.at/blog/2025/is...

According to a WaPo article Luke Farritor is manually blocking @altusaid.bsky.social HIV/AIDS care funds in violation of court orders. Paused/stopped HIV treatment means more babies born with HIV, more infections, and more deaths. Let him know your thoughts. [email protected] [email protected]

What if Trump and Musk are Wallfacers?

The internet age is characterized by extremism of all kinds at all times, including highly secular, cultural extremism. One cannot simply enjoy, say, pickles anymore. Pickles must become an obsession, a first principle, an entire worldview.

If you define “social media” as interactions with people through a (digital) medium, than Libby is my favorite social media platform. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/libby-by-overdrive/id1076402606