wrote about this and more reflections on this alternate internet of Chinese apps & design news.spencer.place/p/the-chines...

is Claude conscious? is the Pentagon feminist? is mastercard a queer ally? is this TV show my friend?

happy birthday to women

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

I see we've reached the "Coca Cola considering water a competitor" stage of things in the valley - honestly this looks like about as garden variety an example of silly adherence to an overdrawn mission as you'll see

an attempt to articulate something hopeful in the face of a never-ending stream of horror. it felt like good time to reflect on design as politics, as someone who was born in the US and now works for the NHS. mikegallagher.org/posts/design...

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/g... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWng... - video

“What we put into the world, as action or artefact, is how the world is made. Design is a way of engaging with the greater conversation of how to live together on a planet with limited resources. Design is thus politics.” @mikegallagher.bsky.social

while tim cook is riding trump in the white house, maybe it's time to deconstruct the myth that apple is a good example for the design world: their products are by default ecocidal, their aesthetics do not age well at all, their creative choices are rooted in the racist philosophy of modernism.

i think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators

No way we let Sweden get over the line on this ahead of Ireland. Tell your friends. This isn’t just any old petition, this mechanism has EU clout.

Generative AI is not just the instrument and aesthetics of fascism, but it has permanently sewn itself to fascism in a fucked up human centipede of scammers and grifters and guys who've long ago forgotten how to think.

this is not the first fight. this will not be the last fight. we do this in memory of those who came before us and fought too. we do this for love of those who will come after us. there is good in this world and it is worth fighting for.

BlueSky won’t let me share the video, but you can see one of the ICE agents rip a gun out of this man’s waistband *before* the shooting starts. From this angle, it’s hard to see how this was anything but an execution, unless simply carrying a gun is now illegal in America.

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

what is going on at bsky point app, 1k likes for ai slop damn

"hey gemini where should i put this plant?" "in the sunlight" "wow so helpful!"

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

Wrote about digitally cloning your loved ones, immortality, death cults, and Silicon Valley. Plus: an old essay on Russian Cosmism and its perversion by today’s accelerationists. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

Thankful for all my fellow luddites today. Hammers up 🤖🔨❤️

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

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

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...