RIP to 'that peculiar chimp lady' 🦧

CommunAT 🥁

Pondering the multi-layered genius of the @protopro.blue brand name

Got to use @leaflet.pub `Docs` for the first time today in a business context and it was soooo good for quickly capturing meeting notes and sharing them with peers. Will not be using Notion (sooooo slow to get to 'new page') or Google Docs (cos evil af) in future. 💚 🍃

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Continuing on from @danabra.mov 's "we can just do things" renderghost.leaflet.pub/3m24k4xaiyc23

Five years. A promising startup. An exit. And not a penny for the team.This happens more than you think. Equity sounds like ownership — but unless you're very early, very lucky, very senior, or in the room when deals are made, you may be left with nothing at all.

The youtube algo serving me up one of the greatest music videos of all time youtu.be/VtYEz4OKCn8?... @jasonforrest.bsky.social 's War Photographer, brought to life by Joel Trussel and the Viking Gods of Funk. It just gets better with every viewing.

EA is going private after an #AI gamble left it drowning in debt in a hype-chasing, cash-burning spiral; heading for massive downsizing; staff lose equity and job security; company reduced to a logo; offshoring to cut costs. Way too familiar 🗑️🔥🙃 www.reuters.com/business/ele...

I've created the ultimate #DOI feed which tracks all forms of DOI links. bsky.app/profile/did:... Feedback welcome in thread or DMs. #Academia #AcademicDiscovery #AcademicNetworking #AcademicResearch #AcademicSky #HigherEd #OpenAccess #Research #ScholarlyArticles #ScienceCommunication

@leaflet.pub yall spoke about custom domains last night. Do you have a guide on how to add them? I’ve been trying for a while and it remains pending. Thanks

Small internet is back.

#AcademicSky I built a feed to spot posts with DOIs—now I need your help to make the regex more accurate. 🙏

Published a new feed—Latest Leaflets—to collect the latest @leaflet.pub articles 🍃 as they drop. bsky.app/profile/did:...

OMFG I have found the ultimate @bsky.app client at @skyspace.me

Talking to some disenfranchised young engineers today about how the old web was better, and was saddened to know they’d never heard of Aaron Swartz. I know the dead are fast forgotten but that just seemed wrong. #DemandProgress www.aaronsw.com

Actually delighted to see how @popfeed.social has picked up my book reading activity — originally added to @bookhive.buzz — thanks to the power of #ATproto

We are seeking a versatile design unicorn, who thrives in ambiguous fast-paced environments, and can work independently across the full product lifecycle: vision, strategy, research, content, UX, UI, design systems, and stakeholder alignment. We offer a competitive salary + mental health app subs.

Read the long version here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

women changing their names after marriage is a deepstate plot to muddy their citation records

Made my first #feed (using @graze.social) which aggregates posts from 1️⃣ official verified accounts (where possible) of 2️⃣ EU-based news media outlets, that 3️⃣ publish news in English 4️⃣ sorted by latest first. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Actually, that was so much easier than expected - yay @bookhive.buzz 🐝 bookhive.buzz/profile/rend...

I built this site ages ago to share my favourite books for designers that aren't (all) the typical recommendations read.renderg.host but I think I'd move them all to @bookhive.buzz if there were custom lists 📙➰🐝💨

write stories that make unimaginative people say 'oh my god!!! whoever wrote this must have been on drugs!!!!!!'

Maybe pick a different icon

If there's a better band name than 'The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza', I've yet to hear about it youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Yeah but did you buy the domain name for it that you’ll never use?

#PSA if the EU company you’re recruiting with rejects or ghosts you and you want to know why, instead of asking for reasons or feedback, raise a GDPR request. You’ll usually find the email address via their website footer.

@deceptive.design ✌️ look what you did

Soren is one of the top minds in UX and can imagine the impossible.

“Absolute dogshit” The new AppleOS branding looks like a Chrome New Tab Page extension.

Academia is stuck buying innovation like it buys photocopiers. Tenders entrench incumbents, block innovation, and waste so much money. There’s a smarter way: outcome-driven, agile, collaborative procurement.

This @frontendmasters.com take could not be more wrong. A wireframe has one job: ignore visual design and focus *only* on content. Structure, hierarchy, flow. Wireframing without (some) real content is scribbling meaningless boxes and arrows. As form follows function, so must style follow content.

Having an incredible burst of writing creativity this last 2 weeks. Coming very soon to my @leaflet.pub at renderghost.leaflet.pub

The best products grow from ambiguity. I've seen many promising SaaS startups endure the same pains by creating beautiful mockups too early. Hi-fi visuals feel like progress, but they anchor teams to assumptions and turn guesses into specs. renderghost.leaflet.pub/3lzlf5lrlps2f

Not only this 💯 but designers should be present with engineers defining that data model together. Engaging in this collaborative process early will inevitably lead to better organised, labelled and understood UI later.

“Components as Data“, my latest on Medium: medium.com/@nathanacurt...

@leaflet.pub has made it so easy for me to write and post daily. Medium and my own long since abandoned blog require more “finished” work and the casual unpolished nature of leaflet means I feel I can just write and publish my unpolished thoughts faster and with less pressure.

lagunaseca.bandcamp.com/track/hougen Jazzy psychedelic beat curios from Laguna Seca. Full album coming soon on @throttleclark.bsky.social Throttle records 🥳

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Sepultura Ratos de Porão Celtic Frost Entombed

"Everywhere you look, generative AI is creeping into intimate relationships."

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

"Today OpenAI charge about $1.25 to process 1m tokens. That's about $0.0000016 per word. Our 5,000 word manuscript costs less than a cent to process and yet we paid $25 per check. A 300,000x markup seems outrageous, bordering on immoral to me!"

The prophecy!

Genuinely saddened to see a generation of UX design pioneers trashing their brand, reputation and accomplishments with undifferentiated LinkedIn-boomer slop.

"The terminator wanted to better understand people in order to kill them better"

Horrifying

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