you’re telling me this turning is fourth

“But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” — @calebhearth.com

really love to have navigate a quirky website to find a very specific thing

he European Commission’s latest DSA proceedings put addictive design squarely in the regulatory spotlight. Cecilia Isola examines how Very Large Online Platforms are handling, or sidestepping, this risk in their mandatory DSA assessments.

design must by nature be speculative

One weird trick to make LLMs smarter... hand-cranked deep research newsletter.squishy.computer/p/folding-co...

When design stops asking why and starts asking, “Can AI do it?” uxdesign.cc/when-design-...

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

New working paper with @rainerkattel.bsky.social: governments are stuck using frameworks designed to fix market failures. But climate, inequality and technological transformation require shaping collective futures—not patching up existing ones.

felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

what can not be repaired is already broken

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

clarity is expensive

if an agent is a process pretending to be a person, what is a person pretending to be a process?

this is a sad, sniveling website

workplace incompetence is like porn: the technical definitions are unclear… but you know it when you see it

Research shows that leaders perceived as lacking integrity struggle to attract talent, elicit discretionary effort, or sustain collaboration over time. f-st.co/kotyTj5

the crisis of ‘meaning’ is the crisis of ‘mattering’

ur ontology is showing

happy valentine's day

i often think about this review

fastest way to turn a ship is to rip it in half

Design & Fascism: A Podcast

the difference between what you feel and how you feel

the difference between what you feel and how you feel

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

Weddings should have a prosecutor instead of an officiant and he should be able to cross examine both parties. I also have other ideas

take this moment to reflect on how fucking useless you are without ai

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Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

What inane, meaningless bullshit. That pitch deck is a joke. And despite the lie of "built by creatives, for creatives" it's clear they have zero understanding of how the creative process works. The faster this fails, the better.

The oddest thing about Software Design as a field has gotta be that most “design leaders” are quite shitty at doing any actual design.

Flora, a creative AI startup, has raised $42 million in a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures to tackle fragmented generative AI tools. So how did Flora sell its investors on the concept? See the pitch deck below 👇

Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

“But the network was not to be run from the top down. There was to be no controlling center, no capital, no establishment for the self-perpetuating machinery of bureaucracy and the dominance drive of individuals seeking to become captains, bosses, chiefs of state.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“But the network was not to be run from the top down. There was to be no controlling center, no capital, no establishment for the self-perpetuating machinery of bureaucracy and the dominance drive of individuals seeking to become captains, bosses, chiefs of state.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

you’re telling me this system is thinking

Hand Mirror 4 is out now, you can take a Snap, draw on it, and save it to your Photo Library 📸 Here's some of my favorite UI details:

NEWYORKC.BMF

Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this

Global townsquares considered harmful at this stage of humanity's development.

🆕 handmirror.app update from @rafa.design!

spot how many of these risks are due to/powered by the tech industry source: www.weforum.org/publications...

you’re telling me this week has an end?

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

“You can’t talk about people losing their Medicare and have a slick website,” says Paula Scher about the new federal National Design Studio. “It just doesn’t go.” www.fastcompany.com/91458973/chi...

New blog post about a little tool I created to manage multiple localhost web servers from the macOS menu bar. Controlling local web servers using xbar: blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/12/x...

you’re telling me this medium is a message