BREAKING: Contrary to rumor, the Bremen Town Musicians will not be performing at Donald Trump's Freedom 250 concert.

Productivity tip: you can save so much time by not clicking on links to substack

Please, call me Guyp

When forgetting to buy milk and laying off 10% of your employees get the same “my bad!” energy

UHF and Top Secret! were the two movies that informed my sense of humour

Already seeing those great AI benefits

I was sad for all the thought leaders who missed the “how to do AI” train, but happy they’re now getting on the “you’re not seeing the value of AI because you’re doing it wrong” train

Worth it for the Balcony Report alone!

hi yall. i'm looking for work. writing things like this has been a severely career-limiting move, but i am as sharp as ever, and very good at what i do. i know the industry cannot stay this way, but if you want to toss my CV over to HR, it would help a lot in the meanwhile. jneen.ca/pages/cv

NFT is here to stay. We need to stop fearmongering about NFT and start finding the ways that NFT can be used ethically and to support our causes. Naysayers need to realize that this technology is inevitable.

This is fun trek.epicrandomness.com

This week I wrote about how people need to get over themselves and promote their work. Humility is expensive. So tell us about your new thing. You wrote a book? A song? Made a zine? Threw a pot? Made a t-shirt? Knitted a sweater? Drew something? Stickers? SHOW US! Is it for sale? Include a link!

A fascinating conversation with @garymarcus.bsky.social, highly recommended on a rainy Sunday morning

Trekkies everywhere learning that it’s ok to like a bad movie

Excited to see @scottaukerman.bsky.social @pftompkins.bsky.social and @cbbworld.bsky.social for the seventh time (!) next week in Toronto. Any Toronto folks going?

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live Sonic Youth Viagra Boys The Breeders They Might Be Giants Butthole Surfers Sigur Ros Neutral Milk Hotel Pom Poko Guided by Voices The Bug Club

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Tomorrow we can finally go back to being blissfully unaware.

Hello new followers! I'm a design director from Toronto, working on design systems. I also host a podcast called Design Downtime, where I talk to design professionals about a hobby or interest of theirs that has nothing to do with work, because it's ok to not be about productivity 24/7!

Cassie Groos is my co-host this week for Episode 075 of The Question! We're talking about the #designsystems identity crisis—how our roles are rapidly shifting in real time. Join us by answering The Question before Wednesday at 5pm Eastern: bit.ly/answerTheQuestion

In much happier news, the ol' computer is all calibrated and we have started to work on season 5 of the Design Downtime podcast!

So disappointing to see design and accessibility leaders praise AI as a tool for artists.

My 3 year old boy is moving away to university this fall and now I’m crying.

How much do I need to pay to never hear the word “agentic“ again?

Make a band out of two others: Wet Wet Wet Leg R.E.M.inem Jay-ZZ Top Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Yeah Yeahs Green Day-vid Bowie

The only impactful work I need from agents is drink coffee and solve Laura Palmer’s murder.

Make a band out of two others: Wet Wet Wet Leg R.E.M.inem Jay-ZZ Top Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Yeah Yeahs Green Day-vid Bowie

Make a band out of two others: Lambrini Girls Against Boys

My one wish is for people on the internet to learn how to read

People famously go to film school to learn how to prompt AI to “light a scene in the style of Roger Deakins”

For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

Share a song from the year you turned 18. 1993.

The AI boom is driven by people who want to have created without the inconvenience of doing the work. But this pattern isn't new. It's manifested within software for over a decade as the feature factory: playing make-believe that our decisions are informed & the garbage being shoveled out is useful.

1. This is a good list (but also why would you want to argue with someone else’s taste?) 2. I’m so proud that my son’s favourite movie is Spirited Away 3. You should watch House

Not too political, nothing too clever

Word of advice: maybe don't rush to deliver bad news on a Friday afternoon, right before the weekend.

Every time you start a new substack, substack management kills a kitten.

Hey friends! I currently have availability for UI/UX design/development work, but I'm also looking to be part of a team again. I've been passionate about the web platform for over 20 years, and would love to find folks that care about process and craft as much as I do. 💜 www.mandynicole.com

I saw a design “thought leader” recommend adding the phrase “think deeply” to your prompts and I think maybe we’re just done as a species

This month, I've published two articles and a workbook as a follow-up from my design keynote at axe-con 2026. TLDR: AI doesn't "fix" accessibility. It reproduces the structural debt it was trained on, at the speed and scale that AI-assisted coding now operates. annaecook.com/writing/2026... 1/2

What if, hear me out this idea might be out there, people didn't have to fight to do the job they were hired to do?

Design system folks, if I were to run a half day design system strategy workshop online, would you be interested in that?

Can I blow your mind for a second? Calling it “agent” doesn’t mean it has human agency, it’s still a computer program 🤯

There are zero benefits and exactly one reason to start a substack. Don’t do it.

would anyone want to collab on building and maintaining a site for people to submit tech stories? i have a domain and some early concepts, but tbh, the prospect of moderating submissions while i’m still dealing with my own burnout feels daunting

Holding all Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli government is antisemitism. Criticising the government of Israel most definitely isn’t. Which is good, because they’re genocidal cunts.

The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.

It’s here! cc @monteiro.bsky.social

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Someone compared being anti-AI to being an anti-Vaxxer.