can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

At #CSSday the Google Chrome team are asking developers “What’s missing from the web?” …I needed a few post-it notes for my answer. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22602

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

"AI colonizers" available to oppress you soon!

I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.

I'm not saying we should abandon electrical technology, it's very good. But I will say I think we should return to mechanical means for many things. You do not need an app for your door lock. You do not need a smart fridge. You do not need a coffee machine with a camera. Bring back the mechanical.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

On the tube

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

ohhhh now it makes sense

ChatGPT: Hold my beer

Being exposed to many talks and conversations about AI, I wish I had an keyword filter in real life. This combination of everyone talking about AI and the economy being fucked is messing with my mental health. Now I understand why people appreciated Web Day Out not featuring a single talk about AI.

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Adults too tbh.

i'm not a hardcore anti-AI guy, but i cannot think of a single benefit of genAI that could possibly outweigh the harm it is doing to our social fabric, shared reality, and most basic abilities to parse information and learn.

BREAKING: Claude Mythos discovers 60-year old computing bug, PEBCAK, that's been silently plagued the tech industry for years. It suggests resolving it by eliminating the entity in the middle and replacing it with a more efficient model.

the DDOS is coming from inside the house

not the only reason i’m burnt out but a Significant Component knowing that you can’t share your work without it being used to feed the systems you despise fucking sucks.

see, this is technically feasible and it can be done

what the actual fuck????

If I were on a mission whose computer system required me to deal with Microsoft Outlook in space, I’d give up and go back to the slide rule

That sound like an issue to direct to the coding agents more than however create specs. It's like saying that if my word has 3 "R" in it any coding agent should be able to tell me that. Yet.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

This happens so much in tech: People going to big tech and then - after having gotten wealthy off of it - pivoting to being super ethical and moving into the NGO space or something like that. I hate it so much.

It costs $0.00 to uninstall that Big Tech browser you’ve always used and switch to a European browser that has no AI and doesn’t collect your data. 🫶🏻

"AI for fact checking" is a little bit like an orgy for abstinence

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not. 12/12

This is blackout poetry to me

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

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.

If you’re still on ADPList as a mentor, I urge you to stop. They are using you for their own profit. /end

Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.

really wanna get off this planet

Oh honey, is this your first unprovoked war over oil, supported by a fraudulently developed justification for attack?

As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work. For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Substack;DR

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

I believe this is true for so many 'automation' or advanced algorithms. They were there before, but now with AI (LLMs) they are worse.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!