Agree or not, some excellent points for reflection here. First and foremost: would need to be a mandate if it was so groundbreaking? That is, at the very least, odd.

this is what makes my heart hurt when I look at the world: the idea that we can know what the "necessary" things are and do only those.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

I'd rather have Clippy

#PaperCamp review www.iot.io/blog/2025/09... by Duncan Wilson

It was an accident sorry!

Fantastic progress of AI towards the 1900s regulatory frameworks.

The other thing is: a lot of these people are also the ones going “if there’s anything to do to help just tell me”. Then you tell them something like “get off Substack” and you get “Nah something else?”

I’m sure we can do better. I didn’t had a subscription but let me look again if there’s anything under the Disney holding I can avoid.

I don’t know what’s worse: someone intentionally making this choice or (more likely) the engagement algorithm noticing that these images were getting lots of engagement on Threads. I mean, yes, worse is their privacy hole. Still.

“China has caught up and getting ahead, how can we make sure to send them a big chunk of the smartest people we have?”

Has anyone else noticed this? I feel like I see it constantly, with all kind of stories and articles these days. I’ll see progressives, centrists, allies, shouting that’s not as bad as we say because ‘technically’ it doesn’t say what we say, while our lives are being taken away from us step by step.

Get ready for tech executives to realize in the coming months that remote work is actually extremely effective…

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

Oof. on.ft.com/4gxTYSZ Markets hit record highs as ‘Fomo’ infects investors

Oh fuck off. The AI excuse wasn’t enough to push the power imbalance further? www.geekwire.com/2025/reports...

If it was 21% none of these clowns would be in power.

Here's one thing you can do: a disney+ subscription is around 16 dollars. Go on Patreon/Kofi, find your top 16 creators/youtubers with less than a million subscribers and give them each $1 a month. Changes lives, believe me

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Oh you mean it works? < fake shock >

I mean, I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe don’t be complicit with fucking fascists.

The only way forward is to inflict as much financial AND publicity damage on Disney as possible as swiftly as possible. Cancel streaming subscriptions, boycott products, picket, encourage politicians and entertainment figures to shout about this from the housetops. Demonstrate the cost of cowardice.

Which is the more radical idea: everyone should have their basic needs met; or a few individuals should be able to accumulate as much wealth as they can.

Thought terminating cliches are fun like that.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

In London, hate will never win.

I don’t find in itself Liquid Glass bad* as a change but it just feels very incomplete, like if only 50% of the UI has been updated? I get the same feeling when in Windows it randomly opens Windows 3.1 file browser. (*) accessibility concerns aside

Overton window shifted. Next time it will stay in.

Foundation S3 finale: spoilers. We have managed to ignore the science and plot gaps due to the other improvements of the adaptation, but as we reached the scene of the confrontation of Demerzel we just… looked at each other, stopped, closed it, and walked away. It makes NO sense in so many ways.

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I don’t wanna. #comic #cat #no #hold #brat #liquid #flop

“This async-first approach to communication is a very real way to ensure accessibility in the workplace. That may sound like a convenience, but for people with chronic illness, disabilities, or caregiving responsibilities, it’s something closer to a lifeline.”

Also: conservative views don’t need debate or having viewpoints challenged BY DEFINITION. So yeah. One side will always look more fractured because they keep going through these hard topics.

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

While the first layer is indeed how horrific this is… …it’s much worse when we realize there’s a whole system that allows this to exist and happen over and over.

OMG. OMG. OMG.

I’m curious, because I’m not sure if I’m disconnected from it or else… What are today good design consulting companies out there? Not necessarily big. Just, doing good stuff and being established.

33,000+ signatures Just a data point. For your own reflections. futureoflife.org/open-letter/...

I’m curious, because I’m not sure if I’m disconnected from it or else… What are today good design consulting companies out there? Not necessarily big. Just, doing good stuff and being established.

::slowly stands while clapping::

Fuck them all.

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Louder for the people in the front, because clearly they need it. That’s *inherent* in LLMs. It won’t change as long as this is the tech used. Yes there are good uses. But none is hallucination free and any design needs to take that into account.

Wrote a bit more about how the *process of making software* is a social activity before it is a technical activity, and AI tools alienating us from that social activity directly undermine our ability to make software.