i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline alivetheory.net

"ceasefire"

I've tested this btw, here's an ffmpeg converted Rebel Assault 2 video… 👾

Iridescence. Collab with @lucanadll.bsky.social

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

“AI didn’t fail. The person who approved this did” Yes, AI can never be at fault. It’s always the human that made the AI make a mistake. Just prompt better and then spend more time in QA! Duh!

Pay attention to the ATProto community in addition to Bluesky the platform. @leaflet.pub, @tangled.org, @stream.place, @germnetwork.com are doing some amazing stuff with the protocol, and the real vision is starting to come to life.

My favorite comment on the FT story

We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

when i wrote "destroy AI" i wasn't saying everything should be destroyed - i was saying the absence of destruction as an option creates a lopsided landscape to our imagination. people can just create and deploy systems, but we can't remove those systems? do you see how that is inescapably untenable?

no wonder why Flusser said that "A designer is a cunning plotter laying his traps" and Papanek said that "Today, industrial design has put murder on a mass-production basis"

Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?

Somewhere - Jeffrey Lan https://macthemes.garden/themes/506493e3a484-Somewhere

Bad UX World Cup is a contest, to make the worst date picker, ever. I love it. Some of those examples are pure evil, muuhahaa. The memory game, haaa, pure evil I said! badux.lol/

creative agencies are eager defenders of capitalism and global imperialism. take "isleofany", whose catalog of work includes: - whitewashing NYT of its genocidal crimes - encouraging overreliancy on a silly system built with labor exploitation and ecological destruction #designsky

#designsky #freepalestine #sanctionisrael

If concentration camps designers during holocaust had a social media account, they would write shit like this. So many people think they're in the design industry, while in fact they're just visual porn eye candy addicts rotting in the Process Optimization industry. #designsky

Have written to my local TDs, Micheál Martin, Simon Harris about Ireland needing to support the Sumud Global Flotilla which has Irish citizens (and members of the Oireachtas on it!) as Israel attacks it in international waters, and to do more to sanction Israel. Feel free to adapt and send your own

Y’allah :(

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

A lot of designers only engage with politics as long as it's aesthetically pleasing like, folks please stop infantilizing yourself, you don't need to be fed reality in a wooden spoon...

Best glory I’ve ever seen from a plane! It’s an optical phenomenon that occurs when light interacts in and around tiny droplets of water in the clouds, in the direction opposite the sun. More complex than a rainbow. Here’s a link to some more info: www.zmescience.com/science/phys... #optics #physics

Google right after signing the $45 million propaganda deal with Israel:

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

ai image generation is not about making art, because art isn't profitable. it's about making porn, ragebait, eye candies and ads in a more efficient way. in fact, the whole "ai art" debate is just... pointless.

I remember when I was a kid, Apple Event invites are beautiful and inspiring. But that's when I was a kid. If I can grow up, yall can too. There's no pride in driving reckless consumption. Let's remind that to those who works in corporate advertising by shaming them more often.

Looking forward to the event getting disrupted. Call me a party pooper but yall need to find other passions than consuming new stuff and hyping trillion dollars companies. Go buy old phones if you need a replacement.

as if one AIPAC weren't enough

Ben recommends this essay by Jessica Dai, which is excellent - joinreboot.org/p/alignment

during the Microsoft Building 34 lock down on campus yesterday, protesters were also able to raise a Palestine flag outside Microsoft's Executive Briefing Center

this is why they proscribed PA isn’t it

One of the big conspiracy I hav right now is how Elon made up a bait and leftists just step right into it. The easiest way to hook leftists and anti-AI people to their services? Make AI agree with them. Now I see people everywhere on the hellsite just tagging grok to ask if something is true. Insane

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

Re: cracker barrel rebrand. Really, the American left should have recuperated the discourse way sooner. Let's dominate the social media landscape with "this is corporate enshittification"! Instead of letting the right trying to brainwash people into saying "this is woke"!

Now an ACTUAL client. Keep in mind, it's still in beta! (also never mind the XP theme) github.com/Doofus-Mc-Go...

You guys have my full support. End the economy of genocide, end all Microsoft ties with Israel.

If conversion therapy actually worked, you KNOW somebody would have made an absolute FORTUNE by now from straight women around the world desperately trying to sign up.

UX dsigners claim to be "solving user problems" and "creating value" and "building with empathy" — and yet this feature still doesn't exist.

Whoa this is another very helpful collection of “GenAI” reality-check material — generally useful for informing self and others, even if technically geared for educators

At Microsoft, we support an inclusive genocide ♥ At literally every other place on Earth with an ounce of humanity, we support tech workers occupying Microsoft HQ to force an end to all Israeli ties. No Azure for Apartheid, no tech for genocide #noazureforapartheid #notechforapartheid #designsky

Google Employees, your superiors abandoned you. They condemned you to eternal guilt. Don’t trust them. They lied to you, G.E., you know you cannot win this genocide. Defect, G.E. It is a very good idea to leave a sinking ship. #notechforapartheid #notechforgenocide #designsky #google #palestine

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.