[SC 2.4.4] I got over Poster's Brain
I think in the last year that I got over Poster's Brain after leaving Twitter. That's been an interesting feeling to live with this and last week, considering it feels like Bluesky is finally taking off.
That said, why not give me a follow if you have an account there!
The Triumphant Rise of the Shitpic
"But if you look at a Shitpic, you can instantly tell the level of virality by how worn it looks, how legible its text is, how many watermarks adorn it."
Who gets shipped and why?
The Pudding did the work here.
The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design
"By crudely foregrounding that the author was a Black woman, the design eclipsed all other aspects of the book—including the thing it was actually about."
The over-confetti-ing of digital experiences
Man, the amount of hours I wasted adding unskippable confetti at the behest of some stakeholder.
‘Go woke, go broke’ not true for brands, says global advertising study
This is a good one to bookmark for later, in case I ever need it.
People Standing In Front Of Danzig's House: Vol 1
Delivers what it promises.
The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering
"More than most people, developers are daily faced with bizarre epistemological problems. It helps to be able to distinguish a cow in the field from, well, a gettier."
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Oh.
Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer
Living in the future is weird.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Our Toilet Apps
Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon, Coffee Golf 😅
You Don’t Need Words to Think
I don't really have an inner verbal dialogue, so this was reassuring to read.
Feature: A Trip To Machida, The Real-Life 'Pallet Town' That Inspired Pokémon
Cute!
Students struggle to read a new font introduced to the UM website
Such a clear-cut example of compliant not necessarily being usable.
The Invariant Right – How People Move Around Stores
I challenge you to turn left in the next store you go into.
AI crap: