Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

i’m sick of white men with bad opinions controlling open source if you are a maintainer of an OSS project and you also are not a fascist, reach out if you need design support from world-class design talent. i will either do it myself or find a friend that isn’t a fascist to help out.

As an immigrant in Copenhagen, a British citizen, a child of immigrants, a grandchild of immigrants and refugees, and fuck it, a person with a heart, DHH can still get fucked. As a friend of people who left that company, I’m not surprised.

I’m sorry but D gets Calabria, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, and Japan. And Sydney. There’s no contest. G gets an honourable mention mainly for Mexico and Morocco.

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Every day, somewhere between 10 and 20 times as many Palestinians are slaughtered by Israel. It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians. British politicians continue to arm their murderers.

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

After a year of being a full-time dad, I'm looking for what's next. With a career in fintech, SMB and dev tools. I've built products, shipped code and managed teams as both a designer and director. I'm looking for small teams with conviction to be profitable. Building low and slow. jonathontoon.com

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Whenever it gets above 25 degrees in Northern Europe it’s a great time to think about stereotypes of people from warm countries. Because everyone here is like “I can’t do anything it’s impossible my brain doesn’t work” Getting anything done in the tropics is impressive.

This kind of wilful misunderstanding is what fuels bubbles.

Personally, I think Perry Bible Fellowship had a pretty solid take on AI taking our jobs. pbfcomics.com/comics/autom...

And as an aside, it’s nice to find more interesting design voices like @carlyayres.com and @goodspeed.bsky.social here on Bluesky. Makes me optimistic.

A nicely balanced take on the conflicting messages you might be hearing about the design job market right now from @carlyayres.com carly.substack.com/p/designers-...

"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps

If I ran a software development organisation, I would start drawing up contingency plans in case GitHub becomes an AI slop growth casino.

GPT-5 is so amazing it can make 52.8 higher than 69.1 on a bar chart It can even make 69.1 and 30.8 THE SAME SIZE

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.

If all the big LLMs were, because of their use of the public sphere, free and open, would we feel different about them?

Mobbin.com is such an underrated tool, way better than the days of looking at hypotheticals on Dribble for inspiration.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

This is pretty shite www.bbc.com/news/article...

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

I love walking past engineers and only getting one half of conversations where they say things like “…and how do I continue on the journey towards the firehose?”

One of the big problems discussing "AI" (as I've said before) is that it's not an industry term of art, it's a marketing term that companies chuck about to make it seem like they're on the cutting edge. Some of what's called "AI" is useful, some less so, and a lot is badly designed to the use case.

Look, I'm just saying that in 1920 people thought Zeppelins were inevitable.

Actual engineers who could code anything they want still use tools to visualise ideas, concepts, and decisions before they code. Yet people keep talking about prompts and code replacing visual tools when building visual interfaces.

I really enjoyed Psalm for the Wild Built (and its sequel) and this is a really nice interview that explain why it felt different to many other sci fi books. It’s interesting to hear a sci fi or speculative fiction writer talk about how they wanted people to feel. grist.org/looking-forw...

It was one of the greatest privileges of my life to visit Iran in 2014. It’s the place I wish I could return to most. Stunning natural beauty, deep reverence for artists, and people of profound kindness, wisdom, and warmth. They don’t deserve USrael’s barbaric violence. They never have.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

So when AI agents start browsing more on our behalf, will this make accessibility important again, or will it ruin it the same way search engines and SEO ruined things?

Seeing oklch was the default for @tailwindcss.com and then finding out it still isn’t supported in @figma.com was an emotional rollercoaster yesterday

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

I’ve started work on some projects at work where I’m leaning into Cursor and Claude a lot more (and betting on some gains from that). Based on my experiences this is one of the better takes on what LLMs mean for software development.

shorter WWDC: we added a transparent gradient! please clap

If we can admit that we got rid of rich Corinthian leather and wood grain because we were bored with it… we can also admit that we’re excited to bring back whatever people are bringing back now because we’re bored. And that’s ok.

LLMs are showing a lot of people don’t understand why we make certain artefacts. If you believe the value comes from the artefact rather than the understanding that comes from making something together… LLMs won’t bring much.

“Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study.” fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

It’s fascinating how one of the arguments against breaking up Google’s monopoly is “their business is in trouble anyway”

Ok so Figma came for Framer, Webflow, Canva, and Lovable in one keynote. Trying to work out if this feels more Apple or Microsoft…

And there you have it: Israel has confessed, indeed heralded, its intent to complete the Gazan genocide. And the EU? Mrs von der Leyen? Our great and good leaders? They are consenting through a studied silence. 80 yrs after its defeat, Nazism in back. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

It’s a rare joy in these times watching in real time as an absolute cunt gets rinsed in an election. So. Good.

Listening to BBL Drizzy and thinking maybe what America needs is for JD Vance to do an interview where he says that he, Kendrick, and Trump are maybe top 3.

This will indeed be judged on the edge cases.

Also was anyone else briefly jealous of Spain? Imagine that feeling after you realise it’s just a black out, and normality is suspended for at least a few hours.

Some people will never understand how soothing the built in window organisation in MacOS Sequoia is.

“Aspiring monopolist tells judge they would buy part of current monopoly”

A lot of people talking about using Cursor et al for prototyping from scratch, but I don’t think enough are talking about how much it can enable a designer with a little technical knowledge to make a lot of small tweaks in a complex codebase without getting lost.

As someone who lives in Denmark, has my devices set to en-UK but wants their numbers to be formatted as the country I live in formats them,I am doomed to be forever a localisation edge case. And a huge pain to all devs I work with.