Ok I do understand the potential unfairness here, but consider how many marital fights can be based on someone misreading a text message. Like, I might take reading comprehension over fidelity.

An unexpected benefit of no longer running the Microsoft product taxonomy is the rush of pure joy I get every time I see one of these announcements and realize I don't have deal with it.

totally the norm in Japan/China/Taiwan etc to mask: * if you're sick, out of consideration for others * if you don't want to get sick * to mitigate pollution. I can not understand why this is a big deal.

Exactly why I've introduced HB 2095, to adopt Canada and Europe's framework of "presumed liability" for drivers who injure or kill vulnerable road users. Let's take what's working in other places and make our roads safer here for everyone. #waleg

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

This is not at all the point of this post, but fabric grain is one of the things that really trips people up when they’re learning to sew, because it’s invisible (to the untrained eye) and not fixable, you have to recut the piece.

This would solve a lot of my problems.

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

Hey @brownorama.bsky.social 2026 is the year of the curious squid

This gets right at my core opinion about AGI: we're not going to get anything like actual "intelligence" from a brain in a jar (or a chip in a computer). Intelligence is ultimately about interacting with the world; only embodied creatures can develop it.

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

As UX died away, Product Management took over, as it progressed any idea of Human Centredness fell away too AI is perfect product therefore for this period. There is no human need or capacity at the core, it is the technical & managerial capability to have a process of building & controlling 1/2

like we don't have to accept everything as it is except allow google to do a massive expropriation of public resources in the name of safety. We can make things better! Reduce VMT, slow down cars, change infrastructure. We know how! Other cities and countries have done it /

The first edition of Conversational Design is available as a free download. I think more people should read it before they go making every interface into chatbots. www.mulebooks.com/conversation...

This is such a delight!

Half an hour in to the first episode of Bookish, and it is everything I want on a rainy November evening. British 1940s murder mystery, not too grim, excellent tweeds.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

One more thing. When I wrote about this study showing one-third of Americans don't drive, people were messaging me saying this cannot be true for LA. In LA County *23 percent* of the population is under 16. Kids are people! We must plan for their movement, just like all nondrivers. Hope that helps!

Hell yeah Katie

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting again, i am not exaggerating

Nobody asked, but what with everything, I am going to share my favorite Thanksgiving recipes, in case you want to try something new. I have cooked Thanksgiving for 10+ most of years for the last decade, and they are all bangers.

The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).

a parade of sickos preternaturally perhaps inevitably interested in whatever it is I'm sellin

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

I could write an entire essay about who gets to expect feelings of safety all the time and who doesn’t (and whose concerns are ignored in the name of “safety”).

Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

This is really interesting to me, because this is how I approach working groups (as opposed to endless nebulous v teams.) All of this is enabled by explicit but disposable structure.

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I have the same attitude about it as I have about CS: GROW UP. Not teaching people isn't rigor. If you achieved status in either of those fields stop swanning around on the altar of how easy it is when everyone has a genius stereotype about your field. Those achievement gaps are *your* problem.

YEEEEESSSSSS FUCK YES!

I’m just, you know, a philosopher, but it seems obvious that intelligence is social and relational and the AI bros are deeply invested in it being private property that can be owned, so they will always always miss the mark.

Honestly obsessed

watching someone experienced work is a very underrated way to level up. "tacit knowledge transfer" is how we learn all the little tips and techniques and shortcuts that make experts so dang fast and effective, and it's really, really hard to learn that stuff in other ways

This is most of the basis of my entire career, for what it’s worth.

Through a series of miscommunications, I ended up taking the child to a 7:30 pm oper(ett)a tonight. He loved it and is now standing in front of the opera house waiting for a cab at 10:30 pm like a true city child.

Bruce Harrell's parks district renewal funds one hundred (100) tree plantings per year.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Only a few minutes into this and it’s already so good.

“we underestimated the power of existing user habits” Tells you everything you need to know about modern tech company product development. I would bet the execs & PMs had experienced HCD people telling them what they were up against, but just weren’t listened to.

Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵 www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...

so lower the fuckin' barriers to access, Rob. this city is almost fuckin' *uniquely* hostile to street food in a way that impoverishes our culture and destroys possibilities, Rob. this city seethingly hates visible culture on a policy level, maybe you could aim to fuckin' fix that, Rob.

One of the best lines from the @arnoldventures.bsky.social Housing Master Class: “If you don’t want housing in your backyard, be prepared to see it on your front lawn.” Tent cities and visible homelessness are directly connected to the housing shortages in our communities. #waleg #Seattle

I think about this LeGuin essay a lot. (link in next post; you should read it too.)

After a few days with time spent in a car (unusual for me!), I’m noticing how being in a car makes the rest of the world seem insubstantial, lacking solidity. Everything moves out of the way for you. Nothing is reliably there except you and your companions.

I am reminded of the absolutely savage line from 1959, “Gypsy Rose Lee, who speaks lousy French and reads book reviews like they was books.”

If you are a calling your electeds person, tell them you want this to happen. I don't know whether they *can* do it, but we need to push them into figuring out what they can do and then make them go do it.

AI products do purpose gaslighting just like crypto/blockchain ones do. AI is a more effective grift because there is less expectation for rubber to actually hit the road. It's just vibes. bsky.app/profile/fast...

Paging Tree Action Seattle to the red phone

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Me and the boys getting ready to canvass for Katie Wilson