Creativerly 344 is out now with @pagecord.com - a super simple and easy way to publish your thoughts online, @detahq Surf 1.0 launching today, lovely articles by @tante.cc, @asmartbear.com, @taramcmullin.com, #TheTinyWisdom, + more. Read it here: creativerly.com/tiny-steps-a...

Note-taking does not have to be complicated, messy, and system-driven, it should be smart, seamless, simple, and fun. @Popt is an iOS app that auto-tags contacts, places, and dates, making notes fast, fun, and effortless. creativerly.com/as-smart-and...

Quick @capacities.bsky.social appreciation post: I love the fact that AI features are turned off by default, there's a note on what it means if I turn it on, AND I can hide the AI features at all. While other apps are forcing this stuff on their users, Capacities demonstrates a lovely approach!

Here's the CEO of Vercel chatting with Netanjahu about AI _today_. Great that Mr Rauch is now "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors". People in Gaza will be very happy. You still deploying all your shit to Vercel and using their software stack?

Cosying up to a genocidal war criminal, man. It’s the Vercel employees I feel most sorry for here. Working there is nothing but shame and a lot will be trapped there. Do everything to help them move on if you can.

Ich möchte kurz auf etwas Wichtiges hinweisen: Die steirische Antidiskriminierungsstelle steht vor dem Aus - aufgrund der Kürzungen der FPÖ-geführten Landesregierung Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle hat sich bisher übrigens auch gegen Hass im Netz eingesetzt, man konnte ihnen Hasskommentare melden

Starting a publication on September 16 2025, and deciding to use #Substack, is not only a weird choice, but a provocative and political one. Peep the news about Substack over the past couple of months (and if that is weirdly not enough, go back further). If you still decide to use it, you are lost.

If you're frustrated with the absolute garbage pouring out of prestige media today, great time to support indie media! Consider subscribing to @theflytrapmedia.com @404media.co @defector.com @flaminghydra.com @hearingthingsco.bsky.social @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social and other fine publications!

Wenn eines wichtig ist in diesen verstörenden, beängstigenden Zeiten, gerade auch für queere Menschen, dann das: dass wir nicht leiser werden. bsky.app/profile/claa...

At the racist, nationalist Tommy Robinson rally in London, Elon joins via livestream wearing a “What would Orwell think” T-shirt. And Elon, Orwell would think you a racist, fascist, nationalist who is clearly inciting violence.

lmao get her

My excitement and anticipation for an #Apple event have never been as limited as they are today. And the biggest reason for it might be that Tim Cook, among other elites, has been kissing Trump's ass that much recently. I mean, Tim was in there, like really deep.

Uff, opening up #Balatro after a couple of months of taking a break from the game and I already have goosebumps just listening to the music.

#Creativerly 340 is out and packed with a new deep dive about @poptapp.bsky.social, fresh news and updates from @anew.social, #Chaps, #DetaSurf, and lovely articles by @Annie Mueller, @philipptemmel.com#Creativerly#Chaps#DetaSurfnd others. Read it here: creativerly.com/seeding-for-c... Thank you Popt for sponsoring this

This new publication for "the left" is funded by $4 million from people and groups associated with Peter Thiel, Mercatus, Abundance, and Third Way Tom Scocca and I raged about this and related matters at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-386/

Attention chumps: If you, despite all our dire warnings, decided to put your newsletter on Substack, the untrustworthy asses who run the company just did what we all knew they would, and made it impossible to take your subscribers with you if you want to leave. support.substack.com/hc/en-us/art...

"The worst possible situation is to have a non-programmer vibe code a large project that they intend to maintain. This would be the equivalent of giving a credit card to a child without first explaining the concept of debt." blog.val.town/vibe-code #AI #Vib#AId#Vibecode

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Remember how I keep saying you have no business on Substack? You have no business on Substack. www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

This is the most personal post I have ever written and published. I was hesitant to publish it but I thought sharing my thoughts, feelings, emotions publicly makes other feel seen and heard, who are experiencing something similar. I am overwhelmed by life right now.

Duolingo share price since their "AI first" disaster - down ~35% Daily active user (DAU) growth down 25%

#Substack continues to out themselves as a nazi bar, yet high profile "independent" writers continue to publish there. Why? Do they have no other choice since Substack is the cheapest, most comfortable option? It can't be that, and I wrote about why in @creativerly.bsky.social

Don't mind me, just watching Substack writers who called people "self righteous" for saying it's a Nazi bar get a push notification from Substack telling them they're hanging at a Nazi bar

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

OpenAI will, starting in 2028, have to start paying $30bn a year to Oracle, $28bn to Microsoft for Azure, and also $2.9bn to CoreWeave for compute. That’s $60.9 billion *in compute costs alone*. This company is an absolute joke and should be treated as such. www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

It's Monday, it's rest day at the #TourdeFrance, what am I supposed to be doing? 🤷 #TDF2025 #TourdeFrance2025

Right-wing billionaires continue to funnel money into Substack. The Chernin Group? Owned by Rupert Murdoch's former right-hand man. If you're on Substack, you're on the platform equivalent of News Corp.

Nach außen hin präsentiert sich der Alpenverein klimabewusst. Ein anderes Bild zeigt sich in Vorträgen und internen Papieren: Da wälzt die Organisation Pläne, wie Vorhaben der Energiewende zusätzlich erschwert werden könnten. Von @kernjulian.bsky.social​

Been watching the #EWC x #ALGS mid-season playoffs, and it's a bummer how bad the production quality is: wrong face cams for players, unsynced audio after scene switch, constant drone footage while important fights are happening, casters having a hard time to comment cause of that, etc #ApexLegends

It‘s depressing that I immediately identified this as a quote from Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie. Imaging following this sentence with a „But“. Anyway, get off that Nazi-platform: creativerly.com/the-best-sub...

I mean, forcing something into your product, that has been heavily denied by the majority of your users, and then being surprised by a blowback because you still forced that thing into the product, makes you look pretty dumb, like, seriously dumb. #Duolingo

Every tech CEO after they realize the current scope of their product isn't going to yield exponential growth

Here is a piece by @philipptemmel.com detailing Sahil's, at best, dubious practices running gumroad: creativerly.com/the-dark-sid...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

$6.5B acquisition of a company that has yet to launch anything, building in a product category that has consistently failed at delivering on its promises, by another company that hasn't made a single cent of profit ever in its entire existence

The production quality of #Netflix has been on a downfall for some time now, but it feels like they also became the place-to-be to consume all sorts of conspiracy theory bs. Platforming #TheLiverKing in one of their newest "documentaries" proofs this fact. Disgusting.

Imaging attending a Startup School event by #YCombinator, where Elon Musk will speak about Business and Startup advice, and you did not enter that room by accident. Crazy. Also, love the domain for the event, cause yeah, AI is sus af. https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus

It's always about creating shortcuts — a race to ship. This *will* be used and it'll make designers feel empowered. It's just sad that the perceived empowerment chips away at the value of the craft. My hope is the good designers are gonna see this for what it is: a gimmick or at best, a prototype

wooahh Figma's new Sites thing produces no semantic HTML at all. Every single element is a div. Incredibly inaccessible Example: plugin-value-scrum.figma.site

For @creativerly.bsky.social I wrote over 7,000 words about apps that make it even more joyful to interact with @#Mastodon and @bsky.app#Mastodon No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, apps to cross-post, edit and update threads, or other things, I hope I got you covered.

For @creativerly.bsky.social I wrote over 7,000 words about apps that make it even more joyful to interact with @#Mastodon and @bsky.app#Mastodon No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, apps to cross-post, edit and update threads, or other things, I hope I got you covered.

This week, I spoke with one of the Duolingo contractors impacted by its 'new' AI strategy, and they clarified that 1) it's not new. Duolingo has *already* fired an estimated 100 writers and translators. 2) they worked for months training an AI system that still makes egregious mistakes.

Hear me out. We should stop this. Like, who enjoys reading blog posts that are written like that. What is the purpose of such a layout? Please, leave this to LinkedIn tech bros. I just got exhausted and tired writing this. One sentence. Each on its own line. Ever heard of reading flow?

GrAz mUSs AuTO-sTaDt bLeiBeN 🫠 Die Parkplätze in der CvH-Straße in #Graz sind immer wieder ein Highlight. Autos müssen hier so weit in die Parklücke fahren, damit sie nicht auf die Straße ragen. Das passiert auf Kosten der Fußgänger:innen, da wir es dann schon mal eng.

Oh that was reason I had to translate complete nonsense sentences, makes sense now.

okay, yes, this entire approach to “ai” in the workforce is yet another instance of a tech CEO beclowning himself at the same time: when a leader says human workers are a source of “bottlenecks”, and that automation is the source of “solutions,” pay attention www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

I didn't think it was possible, but they're making Duolingo worse aftermath.site/duolingo-ai

The company has chosen shareholders so the only right thing to do is stop giving them money. Until people do that, this will continue.

Well, I guess it is time to say bye to my 1352 day streak. https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers #Duolingo #AI

right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled