Cambridge just voted to remove ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, after more than a decade of use. City data showed only 35% of alerts were confirmed as actual gunfire, with some notifications triggered by things like balloons and backfiring cars.

The thing is that movies with older women in leading roles like Harold and Maude, Fried Green Tomatoes, Moonstruck, Sunset Boulevard, Steel Magnolias, The Queen, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, anything with Dame Judi Dench, are just some of the best of cinema.

Realizing it's been years since I've had an actual paid holiday.. yeah, I feel like I've earned this lol

Weird how people criticize Bluesky users as if "not wanting to engage with nazis" is not justifiable reason in itself to not use a certain platform

In 2027 can we officially retire "overhiring" for layoffs and talk wage suppression instead

Management may be nonexistent at most companies already but that doesn't mean AI can fill the void

If we continue to allow companies to collect massive amounts of personal information but only ban them from using it in very narrowly defined circumstances, we have not really solved the problem.

This is a death spiral if I’ve ever seen one. What the hell is Spotify thinking?

No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.

At work, as a last resort, I sometimes have to use AI tools to investigate why everyone else's AI tools are delivering inaccurate outputs and it is very much this energy

Pluto having Halt and Catch Fire makes it easy to be dazzled by Lee Pace and suddenly it's 4 episodes and 4 hours later

We keep us safe. Minneapolis. Wheat paste poster on wall.

These tools really are perfect for people who are allergic to accountability.. Nothing is ever their fault

It is funny to be in the middle of an energy and medicine revolution while the part of the tech industry that draws attention to itself is entirely devoted to scams and exploding rockets.

Within a 3-6 mile radius. In a city filled with wealth. It is horrifying and infuriating.

Finished up the customization screen for my desktop pet idler! Overall, there are 100+ planned cosmetics for them! (I like customizing lol) That said, here are some cute accessories that @scoutylanks.bsky.social made for them recently :) #lowpoly #godot #screenshotsaturday #tamagotchi #indiegame

One time at a tech co, we hired in a new dept head (over the misgivings of multiple eng mgrs in the hiring circuit). Over the course of his first month, he said, verbatim: "Oh I'm not good at running meetings" "Oh I'm not good at writing emails" "Oh I'm not good at extemporaneous speaking"

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

oh my god i've been trying to manage my xfinity plan for the last three hours. maybe i don't need internet at all because i'm going to put my laptop in the toilet, strip naked, and just walk east until i end up in the atlantic ocean

great stuff google thank you so much!!!!

calling this shit like babe ruth: the opex & capex of AI stuff are staggering for even them, but the darker scenario for them is major advertisers are turning down paid media by massive amounts because of how dogshit the ROI has become compared to almost any other platform meta is the new Yahoo

most of the time when people say things like "technofeudalism" or "serfdom" to talk about modern conditions, I would urge you to consider instead the "company town."

Shout-out to whoever makes the trailers for PTCGP.. they're having fun, I see it and I enjoy it

It’s also a reminder how tech companies have long been experts at creating make-believe play activities for their employees and outside governance orgs to have the opportunity to feel like the are participating in shaping the business, like a toddler with a fake toy steering wheel in their car seat.

This is such a pure distillation of circa 2010 tech-optimism into 2026 tech-fascism. Did they get t-shirts?

It is genuinely disturbing how much of the current economy is based on having to pretend everything random rich guys say is true.

My new conspiracy theory is companies must not care about these kind of inactive accounts because they can say they have "x accounts" in a slide deck somewhere

I hate when someone uses my email to sign up for an account somewhere and I can't even close it 😒

An iPad that doesn't lose 20-25% battery every day while it's just lying on your desk in standby

Thinking about how Figma should've focused first on better generative design (specifically the "give me 3 options" type of use-case) rather than first focusing on "design to code" Feels a little backwards that they're coming up with that now

Every web form should give you the option to submit it normal, or extra enthusiastically, relishing the experience

the new Google Apps icons just rolled out and it’s messing with me how the favicons on my Bookmarks bar look worse imo

On the tube

AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

There’s something cute about tech from the 90s

Watching #survivor and I'm still mad at Jonathan sticking his tongue in the uncooked rice

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

they should invent software updates that make the software better over time instead of worse

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Actually, as has been widely reported, the “Melania” film was a flop that cost Amazon tens of millions of dollars bsky.app/profile/atru...

money isn’t real, the people interviewing job candidates aren’t real, the animals in videos aren’t real, all that’s real are cybertrucks stuck in the water and energy bill increases

people are out here proposing "agentic welfare" while we still don't treat human employees well. new blog post on why agentic management is a skill issue.

The 'friction' actually helps you ask better questions in your search. AI is, to coin an old phrase, garbage in, garbage out. If you trust it you'll never know if the results are actually what you are looking for, or just what the programmers of the AI want you to see.

Google is justifying a move to default AI search by saying it "removes friction." The problem is that friction is a necessary part of life and this incessant need to rid ourselves of it is going to lead to so many problems we can't anticipate.

Dancing Baby, also known as "Baby Cha-Cha" or Oogachack Baby was one of the first viral internet memes back in 1996. The 3D-rendered baby was dancing to the intro of “Hooked on a Feeling” by the Swedish band Blue Swede.

AI voice capabilities only get creepier, not "better"

Me watching the one American guy on Made in Chelsea: why are you so *loud*

I really wish streaming platforms let you mark a show or movie as “not interested” so it would permanently disappear from your recommendations.

The only thing wilder than Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA is the Japanese promotional material for that movie! #Argento #Giallo #Horror #Italy