"The strategic value of design systems in driving brand coherence, empowering creative execution, and enabling confident decision-making has never been higher." #designsystems #mustRead www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-at-w...

what does the pope have to say about tailwind

“You either pay the tax deliberately or you let it quietly destroy your understanding of your own system.” addyosmani.com/blog/orchest...

“The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect…” geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll...

The AI buildout needs $650B/yr to break even. It's pulling $25B. #mustRead nooneshappy.com/article/the-...

Happy 16th Birthday Responsive Web Design! On May 25, 2010, web designer Ethan Marcotte published an article entitled "Responsive Web Design" in the online magazine A List Apart. #WebDesignHistory

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for. airesistlist.org

AI fills a lot of gaps. Depth isn't one of them. New post on why that matters right now. pixelflips.com/blog/ai-fill...

"The current generation of models only knows about work that has been done. Humans know about what needs to be done, right now, at this moment. ...Making expert work cheaper does not simply replace experts. It creates more situations where expert judgment is needed." every.to/p/after-auto...

Amazed how many people are straight up worshipping a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves.

“When we collapse roles, we also collapse judgement.” - @derekfeatherstone.bsky.social

Seriously though, this industry-wide psychosis is starting to get on my fucking nerves.

“Not because AI replaced design systems. Because AI exposed how critical they really are.” #designsystems www.designsystemscollective.com/ai-generates...

"A design system is really an operational platform that supports product delivery at scale." #designsystems medium.com/p/selling-yo...

✎ Grief in the AI Age https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/grief-in-the-ai-age/ The explosion of AI has triggered a grief response in many people —myself included. I'd love to hear if this resonates with you at all.

Mute remains one of the best features in social media.

over six years of building something I believed in. now I'm asking an autocomplete to help design what comes next. I really don't know what to do with that feeling.

Week of May 17, 2026 https://designsystems.news/#week-2026-5-17

“The design system is the part of the codebase that makes everything else cheaper to maintain. It is also, more and more, the part that decides whether your AI tools make you faster, or just faster at creating a mess.” samanbaboli.medium.com/why-design-s...

“They were symptoms of a frontend that had grown for a long time without a strong system…” tilankamihingu2018.medium.com/the-hidden-c...

The wait is over! Starting today, May 15, you can stream The AI Doc on Peacock. The film takes the dizzying complexity of AI — its promise, its perils, the competing ideologies, the economic incentives shaping it all — and turns it into a shared experience we can watch and respond to together.

Apparently I swear at Claude the least.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Facebook employees: “Software that tracks what people do? Well, I never!”

Is it copyright infringement if I make some for myself but don't sell them?

My personal experience is that at minimum AI usage leads to skills regression, and for lack of better word, codependency. The thing to be terrified about with AI is not supposed super intelligence, it’s your labor being sold back to you. www.404media.co/software-dev...

“That is an infrastructure standard, not a product standard, and measuring it with a product metric produces exactly the wrong incentives.” #designsystems www.designsystemscollective.com/the-infrastr...

For anyone else who feels conflicted about AI and afraid to talk about it: I wrote this for you. Obviously these are just my opinions, but I hope this helps at least one person. annies-brain.offprint.app/a/3ml6zdf5f5...

This started as humour. Now I'm not certain.

My brain is breaking by vibe bros discovering that Tailwind is shit and it’s better to use external CSS with classes (because it uses “fewer tokens”)

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

“…AI should be treated as what it is: a national and global security risk of the highest order” spectator.com/article/we-a...

We've stopped picking our styling layers. The autocomplete is picking them for us. So what happens when the autocomplete changes its mind? pixelflips.com/blog/when-th...

Friends, the now billionaire co-founder of Facebook, who we have to thank for the unlimited money going into the effective altruism cult who has now given us "AI", with all its "glory" including kids' suicides, has a dream good social media platforms good people like him dreamt up years ago 🙄

Oh no! 🤨 qz.com/meta-new-mex...

Worth a watch! youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8?...

Real talk.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

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Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, Vivaldi on my machine: #Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

“The public tone is notably starting to shift…” futurism.com/artificial-i...

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

“The administration's recent deal with ChatGPT means AI-powered mass surveillance is no longer theoretical.”

The AI industry is unregulated, unaccountable, and unchecked. These are some of the people sounding the alarm, and why you should be paying attention. #ai #humanmovement pixelflips.com/blog/unregul...

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

"OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Breaking: Trump-supported Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán has lost re-election in a stunning defeat. This comes just days after JD Vance traveled to the country to campaign for him. www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...

First Canada Then Australia Then South Korea Now Hungary Next — America Fascism is failing - democracy is winning

Barack Obama sent seasoned diplomats and nuclear scientists to negotiate the Iran Deal. Donald Trump sent a few real estate bros and JD Vance. Failure was a foregone conclusion.

"As the scale of AI capability accelerates exponentially, the current gap in governance is becoming a crisis. This must change." theelders.org/news/governm...