It's really instructive when you replace "Millennials" with "middle-aged adults" in headlines. '"Middle-aged adults" are swimming in student debt and may never own homes.'

My contribution to the math discourse is that it would be cool to have a middle school class that's just defense against scams & manipulation: Compound interest Gambling odds Survey sampling The field of economics etc. Word problems aside, I never understood why math is taught absent context.

My calculus teacher was a Burmese refugee who told us how to shoplift the most food without getting caught, passed around information sheets on FGM, and always had a holiday time project to help local families in need. Good stuff.

Limoncello 👌

back when i was interviewing, i recorded myself to practice. now, i'm uploading that take as a resource for others on what a "principal product designer"-level presentation looks like: jedmund.com/universe/por... this is exactly what i'd show in an interview, so at 25 mins it is a little long.

This is one of the stupidest thing I’ve read on AI in a while. Clearly from an AI booster and true believer. Go ahead. Let the AI code itself. Seems like a good way to have non functioning AI and we can end this charade sooner shumer.dev/something-bi...

We often do things for the sake of legibility (which can mean playing into an existing story that everyone already knows, e.g. flow state, fix commutes) that turn out not to offer a path to moving the thing that needs to move.

Per AP, the 10 day closure of airspace over El Paso was just lifted, 9 days and 23 hours short of the original duration.

Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful. So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded.

Sure, AI is helping businesses scale like never before — but unfortunately the businesses that are scaling are scams, cheats, and thieves.

I've just realized. Banks used to be big imposing high street buildings because it gave people confidence they had money and weren't fly by night. A big elaborate website was the internet equivalent: proving someone had invested £ and was here to stay. You can't trust that any more.

My "these are not tools for mass surveillance" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Two kinds of Sicilian oranges

”I don’t want to ‘just put it in copilot’ because accuracy matters“ shouldn’t become a conversation about the extra work I can do to check, confirm and correct the errors of the thing that’s ’saving time’. There‘s this thing called reading, let me do it.

i mean hell these people are conditioned to just sign over their patent rights "because of course my employer owns it", they don't even interrogate *that* plus it costs like $50k just to prepare the filing, so if your bonus is less than that the lawyer is making more off your invention than you are

in a way it's arguably a failure* of leadership to let people have technical skills without any purpose, ethics†, imagination, appreciation for history or culture, understanding of their position in the power dynamic, etc etc &c (* or is it? 🤔) († beyond the thing works and doesn't blow up)

This is why I have pioneered a unique style of Ergonomic Posting, where a text to speech interface automatically enters whatever I am saying into bsky and hits "post" every 300 characters

A small price to pay for the colossal cultural value of being able to produce 0.5 second long clips that look like rancid ass

Mystery of the Venus of Willendorf: SOLVED

How very black history month to suddenly discover even more underground railroad

Wait, can we just do that?? Can the federal government divert the military budget to bolster sectors the president likes? Because there are a lot of funny options for 2029

There's better toys out there, there's better books out there, there's better series out there. There's amazing indie ttrpgs like Inspirisles and so many more. There's other card games. There is no reason to keep giving JK Rowling and her Harry Potter franchise financial or social capital.

I would mire these motherfuckers in so much rule lawyering that they would BEG for the end. I am a joy in meeting of associations.

now that i'm thinking about it: • google got everybody to seo the shit out of their websites • it hoovered up that information to train its answer bot • it now cuts out other websites completely • why continue to play along

Fortunately the new Discord algorithm is easily fooled by uploading a photo of yourself drinking water from the hose

This is a reminder to myself to write the thing

If it's not working, you don't have to trouble your brain; Best Practices are interoperable so you can always find a coach/consultant/course that will help you Practice them More Better. Of course, just like metrics, the usefulness of a practice is inversely proportional to its universality.

the most important thing to understand about the Ring Cam ad that says they help find dogs is: we are all dogs

born to write poetry in the woods. forced to develop compelling, insight-led copy across all channels, from brand platforms and campaigns to social, digital, film, and experiential

Every New York food is already done badly the world round. What's left is frankly bottom of the barrel stuff like egg creams or espresso soda that we keep contained for your benefit.

"by highlighting a risk or mistake, you are sabotaging the entire effort" is the stupidest possible attitude. People who care the most will be the ones stepping in to try and identify & fix problems. Your biggest champions. People who don't give a shit will make positive mouth noises & do no work.

Surprised that Apple named their fastest processor after the slowest motorway

First they say, it's not possible Then they say, it's not feasible Then they say, it's not good architecture Then they say, it's not performant Then they say, it's not Agile Then they say, it's not intuitive Then there's no more time in the sprint planning so it never gets built

Your question here is what is key to me: what are we gonna do with that information? Oftentimes, this industry throws dashboards into management and expects it to solve all issues. Measuring flow state didn't solve any of our issues at the time, and yet we invested time on it for a long time

The software bosses are forcing onto workers intensifies work, rather than reducing it. Sure seems to be motivated by revenge against "quite quitting" (aka doing your job). Hence the open-ended implementation: here's a tool with no clear purpose, find your own ways to become more productive with it

Time for my fourth cuppa

Is there a way to remove the "save draft" option from the menu when I cancel out of a post? I keep hitting it by accident and saving shit I don't want to save

people here seeking individual safety leading to a collective problem is the US thing to do. it's how we got infinite surveillance after 9/11, our gun industry, ever larger SUVs. if there's some way for us to each get scared that leads to society being worse we'll do that 10/10 times that's our deal

Me to my developers:

reposting this fucking epic flyer with alt text

If anyone has a grade 1-5 teacher in your network who is a Luddite or AI Hater and who would be willing to be interviewed for Season 2 of the podcast, please put them in touch! Our DMs are open. The guest can be anonymous, as we know that it can be dangerous to speak out against AI in these times. 😞

Have you eaten?

Congrats to Ray-Ban for ensuring most articles about creeps filming women without their consent will now be accompanied by a photo of their product and logo.

still thinking about how that Ring camera super bowl ad was like "we are using our surveillance technology to find one lost dog a day" the weirdos over on nextdoor are finding more dogs than that

Men, I challenge you to try this; - 8 hours for work - 8 hours for sleep - 8 hours for what we will Shall we?

rep. kraft is so whimsical , using his pez collection to show what the ice presence in minnesota looks like

Natural gas forms from dead organic matter. Logically, this must mean that their ghosts can serve as a source of supernatural gas.

RACCOON (in trench coat): one kiss WAITER *suspicious*: you're not from around here, are you? RACCOON: t-two kisses? WAITER: ah yes that is a normal quantity of kisses RACCOON *excitedly*: five kisses! WAITER: *eyes narrow*