Toronto - come get feral with us :) Saturday June 6 from 5.30 - 11.00 pm at Allan Gardens, as part of Toronto Climate Week. UKAI Projects is doing some of the best work out there on tech and culture, if you don’t know them come out and change that, you’ll be happy you did. luma.com/tocw-zu1d?tr...

Honestly I think this might be possible to think about as an extension to the open cost project. Imagine this level of costing transparency for everything in your stack; that’d be neat (I get the difficulties. Pricing visibility is genuinely hard. But I think we should try anyway) opencost.io

you either die a developer or you live long enough to see yourself become product management

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Thank you! I deflate the term, so technically I also conclude it is meaningless. I do then reinflate it, like so, however! doi.org/10.3390/bs16...

ODINI Malware Uses CPU Magnetic Emissions to Breach Faraday-Shielded Air-Gapped Computers cybersecuritynews.com?p=149570 Coming soon to a spy thriller near you.

"There was no moral panic about the internet" yet I was not even allowed to access the internet unless it was a rare strange treat because something really bad happened. The meeting my parents had when I told them I wanted to visit the American Girl website was like a nuclear safety council

Over 300 attendees (including staff & speakers) registered for Toronto Product Con now! This is so exciting!

putting the problems with harris aside, they really couldn’t find a canadian to talk about ai policy?

Perhaps you have thought to yourself, *I'm* on board the Psychology of Software Teams train, but how can I identify fellow POST fans in the wild?? Well if you find me at a 2026 conference or book reading you can get a TINY PROPAGANDA STICKER

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

The govt is paying farmers $9M to destroy hundreds of thousands of peach trees that took 20 years to cultivate because a Del Monte factory closed.. Del Monte claims people are shifting to fresh fruit vs sugar-laden canned fruit. Why don't they just sell the f**king fruit? Free markets my @$$.

Most of the people in my life aren't in tech. And they aren't academic theory professors. It's been really interesting to ask them about where they see AI impacting their jobs and tasks.

The more experienced people in my design research workshop have the "I was hired for my expertise, but no one seems to care about my expertise" problem, which like the language of film, is universal.

We're not starting at operations and talking about AI, which would make sense. We're starting at AI, then talking about operations, which doesn't. newsletter 5: time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/meeting-hype...

Can't wait to read this -- our podcast episode on math learning barriers including math anxiety is one of the most popular ones we've ever done. This is a massively common experience! www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Excellent! wheelfront.com/this-alberta...

Someone's family can't cook and they're dragging an entire vegetable.😄 When you were raised by people who grew food, you never hear them denigrating what they worked to grow. "Povery food" disrespects people who grew and SHARED greens, okra, beans, sweet potatoes, beans, etc. and feels anti-black.

Hearing aids. They fucking suck. They SUCK. So fucking hard. The engineering details required to pump 65-70db volume boost out of a thing the size of an AirPod is ridiculous, but I’m confident that the Apple of its prime days could figure that out

Dev working with blackskyweb.xyz is exploring implementing the "mute boosts from this user" feature

Toronto Product Conference - May 28 - speaker announcement! Hype! Some of my favourite product people are speaking! @johncutle.fish @thatandream.com @focusedchaos.co Tickets: www.tpma.ca/conference/t... #Toronto #TorontoProductCon #productmgmt

"Are you here for the diversity?" 💀💀💀

Toronto Product Conference - May 28 - speaker announcement! Hype! Some of my favourite product people are speaking! @johncutle.fish @thatandream.com @focusedchaos.co Tickets: www.tpma.ca/conference/t... #Toronto #TorontoProductCon #productmgmt

Ecological awe is a thing I’ve mentioned about in a few talks, but I don’t think it has a super solid definition anywhere @grimalkina.bsky.social introduced me to the idea and I fell in love with it To me, ecological awe is a deep respect of and ability to articulate the nuances in an ecosystem

This damn post has absolutely ruined my brain every time I hear someone mention "for the time being." Major kudos to the poster, if I ever meet you in person I will congratulate you and then punch you in the face.

I had a link in the previous issue that really stuck with me, about the real bottlenecks of the process that vibe outputs completely overwhelm

My dad called this second order consequences.

And then attaching this to ideals of craft, mastery etc, and lots of applause from tech folks including some folks I know. I worked for a long time with many students who experienced profound discrimination and exclusion from tech so it's hard to see

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Every time something like jira or gmail asks me to fill out an NPS survey, I'm like, "What exactly do you think the choices in this space are?"

We’re losing the ability to make computers and helium balloons because society maxed out its tech tree Earth can no longer earn more skill points, only reassign them. Discovering a new technology requires forgetting an existing one

Your company doesn't need an "AI strategy." It needs a business strategy that happens to use AI where it makes sense. The difference is everything. #ProductManagement #AI

someone like doctorow will never take the extra step this writer is very kindly inviting them to take because foundational to their worldview is the idea that digital tech is liberation. seeing it as emerging from oppression invalidates everything they’ve ever advocated for.

there are real experts on the Iran War geopolitics & geographies & i'm very far from one! (the human & ecological costs that people in that region are paying/will pay are unconscionable) but: there is something like a force field of empire in my back yard bsky.app/profile/inqu... (lazy 🧵 incoming)

Los Angeles has been a major hub in petrocapitalism for about a century This is an aerial view of oil tanks, Los Angeles Harbor area, 1924 (📸 is LA Public Library)

Next up in CAT TALKS: I will be speaking at CTO Craft Con Toronto, coming up May 19-20. And it's going to be a very special BRAND NEW keynote from me: What To Do When You’re Measuring It Wrong: A Software Scientist’s Guide to Designing AI Evidence that Actually Helps 😄 😱

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

OK! Toyota is ready to fight!👍🏿 Everyone looks at the number of cars that are sold in China each year, and begins to salivate. Their eyes turn to dollar signs!🤑 Then they get in market, and realize how much quality and value you need to pack into a tiny price.🤯 It's harder than spaceflight!

i liked this essay (specifically on the topic of saas): thebaffler.com/latest/sprea...

indeed a "product" is quite distinct from a "technology" and those of us who understand the distinction should continue to aggressively foreground it

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

One of the rowers celebrated her partner's (also a rower) birthday by bringing tiramisu for their team this morning, on the grounds that tiramisu has all the necessary components of breakfast. I told her about @kateatherley.bsky.social's theory that trifle is breakfast food, and she agrees.

Holy sh*t. Wab Kinew's government just made using data to increase prices an unfair business practice. This is historic for Canada. *Proposed bill bans suppliers from charging higher prices to certain consumers based on personalized or algorithmically determined information. t.co/ZugFOj7983

Went to the doctor today, was asked to select my language, these were some of the choices

Someone has been pitching me to do a thing that boils down to me paying for the service, enhancing the service, and they will take pictures of that work I did & use it for their promotion. I was being nice for awhile but I finally asked, “why would I do this?” He glitched out.

Structurally, a failure. Access is capture. clalliance.org/blog/roderic...

Southern California would run out of fuel in about five days if it were not importing oil whether or not the US is a net exporter doesn't matter given that supply chains have constraints

SO! we got some Ring-necked pheasants in at the rescue which has been a learning curve (for me) bc they are extremely high strung/easily stressed, and can hurt their beaks freaking out and pecking at their enclosures But YALL they make special “spectacles” to help reduce harm to their beaks and.

Let me just say that having been there, the idea of being a Black woman in labor in America and having to go before a judge is terrorism.