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.

Ok that’s it I’m nuking npm from all my machines. What a curse for amateurs trying to self-host their own tech infrastructure. www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-ti...

I feel like the X-men movies missed an opportunity to do a Mystique espionage thriller. How does all of that work if spies can be shapeshifters? How would you know if someone was actually a double agent or being framed as one? Who would feel safe? etc

We used to dream wonderful things.

If your yak shaving velocity is slow enough then you can achieve continuous yak shaving.

Ok now who replaced the shaved yak with an unshaven one?

This one gets you both in the chuckles and the feels.

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Hahahahahahaha, they tried to take WhatsApp away from the youngs??!! In a South Asian country??!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Slightly diminish a boook: Discipline and Counsel

🎉 Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out Tue Sep 16! A short game about housing shortage and horror in architecture. A wayward history of Amsterdam that has evaded archival capture. A weird, disquieting, experimental non-fiction piece. Free on Steam / PWYW on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...

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. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Noodling today morning on the idea that database ontologies are human interfaces. The database design is at the base of how software teams construct reality but they don’t think of it that way. Eventually the database becomes the IA, but is not seen as the source of it.

I am trying to do yak shaving but someone keeps taking away my shears.

Hey we found the thing that is worse than a crisis of replicability. If I knew that bullshit blog posts could get published in Nature I’d have been farting them out every weekend.

GPT-5: There are definitely 5 lights in the room.

It feels like this “agentic AI” stuff is a really long road to finally just doing what we should’ve done all along which is invest in the semantic web. So many use cases are just “use an unreliable language machine to transform unstructured info into semantically meaningful structured info”

macOS really needs a services dashboard: one place that is not the menu bar where you can see all running manageable background services you have installed or activated, and ways to list and protect all their network interfaces, and open their UIs.

Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like basic human decency has been in much shorter supply this last decade, everywhere you look.

This is going to be like microdosing on cognitive LSD every day all day. On the other hand we will get to see fragile cyborgs with invisible backdoors wandering around the world, so maybe that could be fun. techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/z...

This a great example of what I call the principle of conservation of use-labour: The amount of work involved in a scene of use never changes with the introduction of products that solve problems, instead producing new problems or transforming the scene of use

Age verification? My internet connection was made of sounds.

The great James Doohan, gone 20 years ago today. He once received a letter from a fan who had threatened suicide — and he reached out to her. “To me, it was the best thing I ever did in my life.” 💕 #RIP