#nba This has been a terribly reffed game

#NBA OKC are just expert foul grifters. It's not basketball, but I guess it falls in the 'rules.'

Last week, IT employees at the University of California system across the state formed the largest tech worker union in the United States. This is how they now plan to confront tech industry layoffs, rein in AI, and push for tech for the common good:

If you are in the SF Bay Area and can show me a pneumatic tube system in action (the bigger the better), please get in touch! I am writing a story about a future pneumatic tube system and need to experience how they sound and smell and everything else.

WEMBY

Don't restrict the content they can read or watch. Kids can manage their own tolerance. If they want to watch horror films or read sexy books, let them. (And good luck preventing them from watching porn if they want.)

The stupidest fucking people run these companies

This week marks the return of Open Streets season in Montreal, featuring some of the best pedestrian streets in North America. It’s a powerful example of what’s possible when we prioritize people over automobiles on even just a small fraction of our streets. 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦

TIL the TED conference is still a thing. kinda fascinating how its cultural cachet just kinda vanished

This is Edward. He was given 6 months to live after being found as a stray. His family was determined to give him the best few months possible, so they introduced him to the ice cream truck. That was 27 months ago. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: magnificent_foster_dogs)

Teenagers in all societies get delayed sleep phase. Researchers think it’s an evolved mechanism for them to practise partial independence. Historically they’d be hanging out with each other. The nuclear family made them do it alone. Social media has made it communal again.

DEVIANTS ARE SACRIFICED TO INCREASE GROUP SOLIDARITY

A friend who was formerly a sr director of UX at a midsize tech firm said the most concerning thing in his 18 month post layoff job search was the lack of questions about how he had grown people and teams - just no interest at all in the human side of management.

#nba Is Caruso the MVP of the Thunder so far?

That designer...

"the go the fuck to sleep baby is a they / them going to Bard, feel old yet???"

#NBA Gonna start calling that 'miss with the right hand, tip in with the left" a Wemby Drill.

#NBA Spurs definitely gonna send tape of Hartenstein shenanigans to the League Office after this game.

#NBA Someone should tell the Spurs players they don't have the throw the ball around the gym willy-nilly. 17–7 turnover disparity. The Spurs could be ahead if they weren't so careless.

#NBA Hartenstein's primary role is to make life difficult for Wemby, and use all 6 of his fouls in the process.

Harsh. But true.

The desert is where the Venn diagrams of “dog” and “kitty” truly overlap:

#NBA 10 turnovers in a quarter-and-a-half of play is not a good luck for the Spurs. OKC only has 3.

#NBA This game makes Knicks-Cavs look like junior varsity.

Doordash only became essential after women joined the workforce, leaving men no other way to obtain food. But nobody wants to talk about that

Full images with Denishawn founders Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. “Louise was the absolute standout, the one. She possessed a quality of strength, an inner power that one felt immediately in her presence. She was very much a loner and terribly self-destructive.” — Martha Graham

I wrote two blog posts on this — one on why it matters, one on how to actually build it. Both links are below if this is something your product team needs. Part 1: Standards, Levels & Paths www.buildcrescendo.com/blog/standar...

Learning some cool California facts

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social any ideas?

#NBA Is Caruso the best player on OKC this game?

Among the many reasons I want OKC to lose, toward the top is that Oklahoma City is a decidedly Republican city (one of the few cities that votes red), and, so, fuck them.

At the risk of getting all LinkedIn here, this is what I've taken away from seeing all these different levels of PM power: 1. A PM's power is proportional to how close they are to the money, or some proxy for the money. Decisions with dollar signs attached to the outcome tend to carry more weight.

a lot of folks on here think "everyone i know hates AI, so i can extrapolate that everyone hates AI" and that's... not accurate.

Tomorrow @hodgman.bsky.social and I are headed to Tijuana to visit our friends at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social . Can you believe @judgejohnhodgman.bsky.social listeners gave $400,000 to support their services for migrants? I mean holy cow. So excited to go down there.

UK TRAIN STOP NAMES

Mapped all the social networks

Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice and Grogu

Video game brain. Any thing must have some relevance to some puzzle or whatever later on.

James Harden will finish with more turnovers than made field goals for the 31st time in his playoff career & the 5th time this postseason.

before online-poisoning was economics-poisoning which is still happening

Gilligan, the Skipper, The Professor, Ginger, Mary Ann, and C Thurston Howell III

TIL I'm not the only one who reflects on the sociocultural specificity of The New York Times Connections. Today, homophones tripped up folks, because accents. For me, in the past, I've blanked on categories that were gendered (e.g., types of bras). It's good to be de-centered every once in a while.

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard