“Before dawn on June 21, Narciso Barranco loaded his weed trimmer, lawn mower and leaf blower into his white F-150 pickup. He had three IHOP restaurants to landscape and then seven homes. His goal was to finish in time to cook dinner with his wife, Martha Hernandez.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Can’t wait for this crap to end.

Seems like the richer or more powerful one gets, the more their childlike nature comes to the forefront. MINE! *WAH* *ACT OUT* Toddlers with zero empathy, but with private jets and, from time to time, nuclear codes.

You ever do one of those weird Paul-Rudd-in-I-Love-You-Man brain farts, where you're finishing a call with someone on the phone—like, say, a service provider or something—and instead of saying the normal words you utter some gibberish non-word and everyone pretends nothing happened? Me nethered.

To all those making a video #podcast — I don't want to watch your Zoom calls. The pandemic is over.

I don't hate any country. I hate this, right here, with the heat of a supernova. Love one another. Feed these families. #war #israel #gaza

Sometimes, and only sometimes, the inexorable passage of time gives me hope that these times shall pass and the clouds will make way for new light

Top 10 TV shows of all time, in no particular order: 1. The West Wing 2. Deadwood 3. The Wire 4. Breaking Bad 5. Better Call Saul 6. Scrubs 7. The Sopranos 8. The Office (UK) 9. Curb Your Enthusiasm 10. Succession

Fantastic piece by @meghanor.bsky.social about the effects of AI, its inevitability, and our response. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Yeahhhhhhhhh boi

Using AI reduces cognitive load significantly, it seems, which makes sense and is also a real concern/consideration. Genuinely curious followup question: No one seems to be asking whether or not our cognitive loads, in general, at this point in history, are normal, low, or high?

Meanwhile, my flag quietly waves in the warm, midsummer breeze, longing for a change of season. bbc.com/news/article...

One day, we're going to cringe our collective butts off that we ever endured a sitting president who was hawking, among many other things, his own fragrance line. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Brilliant line from @christophniemann.bsky.social in this lovely piece about the intersection of #AI and #art. "I can’t make art when I’m excluded from the most crucial moments." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With AI, as with everything else it seems, there are only two camps of thought: 1) AI is the way of the future, we must embrace it, and 2) AI is the harbinger of doom, we must fear it. If I could improve humanity in one single way it would be to stop carving every topic up into two opposing camps.

Do you hear the people sing?

I will always love working on the details of interactions within a UI. Years later, it's still surprising how difficult it is to make something feel both simple and clear. #ui #ux #design

A trio of books that changed my life over the past couple years. I'm a little late to the party on, well, all of these. But seriously, folks.

To every podcast producer on earth:

I'm now noticing sweeping, large price jumps on most of the products I buy regularly. It was sporadic before. Now it's a wave. 🌊 #tariffs

No kings. Ever. 🇺🇸

Dear @figma.com - please let us turn Comments on or off as a default behavior when opening a file. Every file I open, my first step is to turn them off. As a result, I start every project with an eye roll and a pointless key command.

How am I just now finding out about obsidian.md?

Ariel Kleiman and Tony Gilroy. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 #andor

Wouldn't mind having a time machine, so I could bring George Washington to 2025 and try to explain to him what "the President of the United States is running his own crypto scam" means.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.

Just a midweek love letter to Bill Watterson. charliepratt.com/thank-you-mr...

Hey @support.bsky.team - can we make it so when you tap the search icon in the tab bar it clears out the big blank type-to-search screen and shows me trending, etc again? Please. Having to reach up to tap cancel is no bueno.

Streaming music platform model idea. Users select artists a la carte. Standard price is set to have access to their catalogs. Price is set by analyzing current value of an artist's revenue from record sales over time. I.e., older, more successful artists are more expensive than indie acts.

Just some AI-generated thoughts. charliepratt.com/attack-of-th...

Rep. John Larson of Connecticut. That’s what I’m talking about, sir. 🇺🇸

One of the biggest challenges we face, in my opinion, is in the way we view and treat each other as individuals. It's disheartening to see how few people I speak with about political and social issues can parse the difference between a party and a person. Words and phrases matter. A lot.

Absolute embarrassment from POTUS and VPOTUS. And if you think I'm just some pinko lefty, I encourage you to read what the most conservative news magazine in the country has to say about it. www.nationalreview.com/corner/this-...

Watching Ken Burns “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” I can’t help but notice ripples and echoes in our current public discourse, not at all dissimilar from some of the foulest ideas put forward then, as a way to make us afraid of our neighbors and to justify our basest instincts.

I like this one.

This is the season three low point where the baddies take over everything. It’s gotta happen if you want a solid season four. Hang on.

Note to #AI devs: It's a good idea to have an honest chat with your prompt overlords about how likely it is that it can actually do the thing you want. Here's Replit keeping it real:

Called my Senators this morning. Both of their voicemail inboxes are full.

How do we know for sure that Replit, Claude, etc., aren't building in a percentage level of slop in their processing, which leads to repeated prompts and more cash out of pocket? Is there a way to be sure that's not happening? For instance, Claude (via Replit) just did a thing and borked my app —

Wasn’t using them anyway, but I deleted all my Meta accounts and X accounts. I kept them around in hopes that maybe there’d be better days ahead, but recent events have made it clear that won’t ever, ever happen. All things end. It’ll be fine.

Absolutely fascinating and a breath of fresh air in the online space. Really hope the folks at Bluesky can continue to do honest work without psychotic billionaires getting their mitts on it. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Everyone acts like there's no other choice but to engage in the madness of Facebook, Instagram, X, cable news, TikTok, etc. You can literally just turn all this s**t off. Make room for other things. Don't be afraid.

Anything at all happens > Polarized into two camps based on politics > Presented as black & white from opposing points of view > Tribal war ensues > Nothing improves > Blame game persists > Alienation, depression, & detachment metastasize > Things get worse > Things collapse > Rebuild > Repeat.

Remember, kids: You do not have to play with the billionaires toys. Facebook, X, Instagram. They are not built for your best interest. Quite the opposite, actually.

Thank you for your service, all. 🇺🇸 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

I’ve don’t know about you guys, but I’ve just about had my fill of narcissist billionaires.

In doing some A/B comparisons between Bluesky and X, and the contrast is painfully clear (regardless of the political differences, mind you). Bluesky is just fundamentally less manic. It feels calmer. The moderation controls make all the difference. In a world of nonstop noise, it's *really* nice.

Just a morning reminder that you get to decide what you put into your brain, over and over again.