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June 18, 2025

[SC 2.4.4] How to think about ARIA

Smashing Magazine published what I consider the second opus I've written in my career. It's all about how to think about ARIA, and it's been a long time in the making. I'm really happy it's finally live to share.


If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
Space is big, y'all.

www.rithm.love - find ur scrollmate
A deeply cursed dating app based on your Instagram explore page.

seven39
"Social media that's only open from 7:39pm to 10:39pm EST."

Meet the marine worm with 100 butts that can each grow eyes and a brain
I need you to understand that I am a very serious person with very serious thoughts who is sharing this for a very serious reason.

Preparing devices for travel through a US border
Helpful!

How to Be an Activist When You're Unable to Attend Protests
Also helpful!

Here comes the AI sponcon
Nobody wants this.

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
More of this, please.

Is AI the Reason for Your Layoff? New York Becomes the First State to Require Companies to Disclose If So.
With more cruel and pointless layoffs happening soon, all I can say is we need this yesterday.

The Best Interfaces We Never Built
This is a cool article all-in-all, but we also have to acknowledge that the opening line of, "Every piece of technology is an interface." is a hell of a sentence.

Stop calling the Super Productionizer a 'baby blender'
"Plus, just saying that SP™ has “blended babies” and we should “stop blending babies” doesn’t offer any actual, real, working solutions."

AI Art Installation Swaps Diffusion For Reflection
Art continues to be rad.

Photos: ‘No Kings’ Protests Across America
Uplifting!

trap
A great product offering.

I Deleted My Second Brain
"The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold. That self never arrived."

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Clergy Blown Away by Psilocybin
Today I learned we've been jamming clergymen full of hallucinogens for a decade for science reasons.

A deck of powerful questions
"One of my work highlights this year has been co-designing a series of five workshops to teach coaching skills to open scientists. […] For the knowledge transfer part of the project, we made a card deck of powerful questions for open scientists."

'Slippin'' played in court before rapper DMX gets a year in prison for tax evasion
It's a bold strategy Cotton.

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Every billionaire is a policy failure.

Sunburnt
I really want solar, but I've heard so many stories like this.

Forest in sync: Spruce trees communicate during a solar eclipse
Good job, trees!

How Compassion Fatigue is Crushing Disability Allyship
"When compassion fatigue sets in among non-disabled allies, disabled people are left carrying both the harm and the burden of explaining the harm. That’s not sustainable."

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Tissues Directly Inside the Body—No Surgery Needed
Well, this is damn cool.

Combination eating utensils
Sporks are merely the tip of the iceberg here, folks.

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Safari really is such a trash browser.

Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends
I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

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