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Work is a social relationship. We create things together. This is especially true of UX design. AI's value proposition is freedom from relationships. So when designers champion AI tools, we are not making ourselves layoff-proof. We are reinforcing a system that frames us as unnecessary friction.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

“It’s clear that user feedback is influencing Microsoft’s moves around AI on Windows... The Copilot rollback is just one of the changes being made.” Keep it up, haters🤗 techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/m...

We were remarking recently that nobody thinks AI can do their job - but so many seem certain it can do somebody else's. And that should be cluing them in, but it isn't.

If only more people understood this

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Gorgeous Maserati 3500GT that I saw in our neighbourhood today. They made these from 1957-64. This one was concours condition by the looks of it.

#Scrivener 3 on macOS & Windows Tip of the Day: To see where a project is saved, use ‘File > Show Project in Finder’ (Mac) or ‘File > Show Project in File Explorer’ (Windows).

Dorian is underplaying how good this piece is

new newsletter (finally): buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

Note from my notebook (2017).

Please suggest books on “setting up a nonprofit for dummies” to me!

somehow they've made job hunting more dehumanising this is based on two sets of 2.5 minute time-limited maths puzzles

Born to type "colour", forced to type "color"

Ditto UX and code: most of what's out there is already mostly people half assedly filling out templates, so when the AI half assedly fills out a template they shrug and ship it

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”

If you watch only one Van Damme movie, watch Universal Soldier. But you'll want more than that, and it so happens that two of them are worth your time - Time Cop and Bloodsport!

Bernie bros came for me on Muskrat's platform when I quote tweeted this Calude ad saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic." So let me elaborate. Bernie has been repeating, almost verbatim, Dario Amodei's talking points, for a while now, even quote tweeting him.🧵

Both versions of this delightful lil sticker are in my shop, plus I got an excuse to use this audio 🤌

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked gay marriage, and fell flat on his ass. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He’s worrying about gay marriage. Chuck Norris’ tears cure gay marriage. Too bad for him he never cries. newstechnica.com/2012/10/30/c...

.The Metaverse exits its Weekend-at-Bernie's phase davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-metave...

“Lime scooters in Seattle will soon be equipped with artificial intelligence and cameras that, it's hoped, will shame people into not riding on the sidewalk.”

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

I hope Chuck Norris is in hell getting roundhouse kicked in the face for eternity

Bluesky is so intolerant. You can’t even have a rational discussion about The Torment Nexus without people getting all up in their feelings.

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs venture capital discovers there’s no exit www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMh... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260320-ope... - podcast time: 6 min 41 sec

i wonder if the people who insist that LLMs are getting better all the time realize that, if true, that's the *worse* timeline

I can no longer communicate via laptop with the factory that makes my pins, because communism. (Literally. I got a device update from UT, and they blocked my laptop from being able to access most Chinese websites, including AliBaba, which is literally just a platform to let me talk to factories.)

Perfect sentence: “Everything is 3-D TV until proven otherwise.” - @brbarrett.bsky.social, on the Uncanny Valley podcast.

I submit to you that The Verge loves tech but the audience hates Marc Andreessen

Old man yells at Claude

Shame is a powerful force in shaping which uses a society will tolerate for a given technology, and which it will not. There may be many reasonable uses for LLMs, but when they are used to degrade writing and writers' livelihoods, yelling 'we think this is bad' is a justifiable and moral response.

a red flag in a sea of red flags

I hope the toxicity of the meta ai raybans spills out to rayban's non-ai frames that look remotely similar

sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass

somehow they've made job hunting more dehumanising this is based on two sets of 2.5 minute time-limited maths puzzles

had a feeling the spacex logo would look good as a knock-off shoe brand

This is the thing. Call it a “technology” or a “product” - it should initially be defined by the uses it was designed for. Even if it turns out people find other ways to use it.

+1 to everything Karl is saying here. And also: The *logic* of the metaverse press coverage in 2021-22 was, “there is SO MUCH money and SO MUCH engineering talent pointed at this stuff that it is bound to amount to something.” That’s facially reasonable, so it gets repeated every time.

When people keep saying “you can’t deny it’s useful” it’s a pointless argument because, at best, it’s only useful in the absence of a purpose built tool. Which puts it on par with a rock for hammering in a nail.

Open UI, a W3C Community Group, aims to establish a standard process for developing high-quality UI controls suitable for addition to the open web platform. open-ui.org h/t @adactio.com Not to be confused with www.openui.com, an AI design service. #w3c #OpenWeb #WebStandards #openUI

Technology is whatever we design it to be - and tech companies are designing AI to help fossil fuel companies dig up the single most harmful substance our species has ever encountered globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Damn, it's not only a license to all your shit, but a *transferable* license to all your shit. Anything you publish, Vercel has the right to sell or give away, to anyone they choose, who can use/adapt it for any purpose regardless of your moral rights.

I can't stress this enough, do not host client work on Vercel. bsky.app/profile/konn...

This video is an incredible example of how even in a crippling crisis the media focus always remains on non transformative solutions that preserve the status quo, even if that means less protection for consumers

So Bluesky raised 100 million USD in April last year from a bunch of crypto scammers and just "forgot" to tell people? And they released it after getting a new CEO who will push for growth (and probably monetization)? Sounds super healthy and normal.

The "power user" persona exists only to justify features that are interesting for the developers to build, rather than features someone will actually use.

Perfect 2026 headline, no notes.