www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art... This is exciting. My Nonna and Nonno had a dairy along this Estero. Been wanting to hike on nearby trails. Now we can

Today a friend and I had lunch and discovered the true form of liquid categorisation. Join me on a journey of stupidity.

Freedom from consequence is the greatest privilege. (It explains why so many work so hard and spend so much on consequence insulation.) bsky.app/profile/nico...

I’ve finally figured out why IKEA doesn’t have a store in Chennai; it’s because they can’t keep their chairs and cots straight! (This is a Tamil joke that would’ve killed back in the bad place)

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

I feel very strongly about this one. We absolutely risk creating a future for the ‘average’ human which, as we well do or should know working in research & design, does not and has never existed.

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

It increasingly seems to me that we cannot save our online information and ecosystem unless we massively restrict or remove ads from everywhere. That might be the best (and only) defense against LLM pollution.

Ideas are common, but not equally distributed. Some people try to force meme their sole idea for their entire lives. For a certain class of person, that idea is "what if we could deskill workers?" And so (decades before computing became male-dominated) tech has been trying to replace developers.

Most profound writing I read in 2026 was "The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy" by a Nairobi man who dreamed of working in air traffic control but instead winds up sexting & chatting w ppl who think they're talking to AI (while AI trains on him). 16 pages & free - READ IT data-workers.org/michael/

You can have two completely different PhDs and research areas and the world somewhat inevitably pushes you toward the same issues if you're a person who decides to care and pay attention over your career.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

User researchers already document findings at a faster velocity than orgs can act on them. It strains credulity that tech leaders are clamoring for even more yet worse AI-generated findings. My new blog post, "The only winning move is not to play." gregg.io/the-only-win...

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Just thinking of soil as akin to a coral reef was enough to set my mind alight.

Questions already answered by the t-shirt dot gif

This is really useful and clear analysis that converts vibes into even more emotional facts. Recommended reading for anyone who votes in North America.

I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you, Charlie Brown!

very funny to read the responses here as someone who works in the data space in tech. tech people by and large have no theory of what data is or isn't, and mostly think of it as "objective recordings of the truth." it's rather horrifying! i hate it! (the responses here are great)

As holiday season comes and more in-person gatherings happen, here's a reminder to reach out to your local mask bloc if you would like free masks / tests. find your local one from maskbloc.org SF / NorCal people can connect with linktr.ee/maskblocsuns...

Please let us stop putting people whose only skill is debate in positions of massive power. They do not know how to make things; they only know how to argue; their only recipe for conflict resolution is compromise; they cannot deal with losing a local optimum in order to gain a global optimum

I updated my phone to iOS 26 but that is nothing compared to how all of the news today has made me wish I had not been using my eyes.

This is a whole new level of minimalism.

Proudly comparing your app to both black mirror and squid games has to be a bit

I went check in on the bad place and found that the url contains ‘logout’, which explains why I keep having to login on my monthly visits. My guess is they’re force-logging people out to get them on the app. Hostile AND incompetent, as usual.

I went on a stupid mental health walk for my stupid mental health and now I have to thank @danhon.com for the only usable frame I have ever found for doing this annoying activity.

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

Here's a thread full of Yeogno of every shape and size. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Crime in San Francisco is getting out of hand - Giant skeletons are roaming the land. People fear walking the streets at night Lest they encounter fright – then delight!

Actually here’s another question: if you don’t cook/don’t cook much for reasons relating to your own knowledge/skill/confidence, what would help? What kinds of things would you like to learn? Reposts very welcome on this!

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

You guys, this is not funny, an internet only does this is when it is in distress.

SNAP benefits are going to be paused on November 1. If you are able, now is a good time to give to food banks, food pantries, or local mutual aid groups.

Ooooh is your internet broken. Did someone's immaterial web of financial speculation and surveillance turn out to have a failure point in material infrastructure

I’ll going to start calling any AI-enabled user / design research “vibe insights” unless an inductive analysis process can be demonstrated. (Narrator: this could not, in fact, be demonstrated.)

Yesssss!!! Our lab has a new paper out, and it comes with an awesome story:

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

(Not a dunk on Sage) There are professionals whose entire skill set lies in understanding feedback deeply & making the truth of it accessible to the rest of the organizations w/o asking everyone to do emotional labour to deal with the anger and frustration that passionate users bring. Hire them!

You do not have your shit sorted as much as you think; you are not old; this is not your last chance to get strong but it’s the best time to start; life is not an exercise in what is enough; shitty jobs and spouses to the airlock; get free, get fed, then help others do the same.

Ooh this is juicy. Professionalisation is alienation from context. Cut off from your “local” context, meaning is altered, and things get permissioned which would otherwise be forbidden by the relations in context.

Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert, Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that the rest of the statue is in the vulture nest.

They keep it fun and engaging!

I have decided that the number of emails I would like to receive per day is five (5). Please coordinate among yourselves to not exceed this quota.

Looking at the state of the world, I have decided that I permanently can’t even, until further notice.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Folks, I'm sick, cold, broke, my teeth hurt, winter is coming, my housing situation is precarious again, and Putin is my neighbor. If you could please help me reach this month's goal I'd be mighty grateful. A repost may reach sympathetic eyes, a small dono goes a long way. Also:

The Liquid Glass approach raises the visual stimulation and noise baseline across all devices and with less contrast and legibility where it matters, which is an extremely ableist decision. An increase in visual stimulus is an increase in cognitive load for some brains, one they cannot opt out of.