[SC 2.4.4] What are we doing here, people?
I had a difficult conversation at work today about not using toxic positivity in my communication style, and then saw the Teams-generated summary had rephrased what we covered into neutral-to-positive sounding talking points.
I realize every villain is the hero of their own story, but seriously: What are we doing here, people?
The advertising cartel coming to your web browser
"When Meta, Google and Apple agree on a “privacy” feature, watch out."
They're Made Out of Weights
laughcry
Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees
Good job, bees!
Artist Works With Bees To Repair Broken Ceramics in Kintsugi-Inspired Honeycomb Pottery
Also good job, bees!
Why millions of adorable bees are emerging from this cemetery
Again, we must commend the bees!
Webrings as collective OAuth
As someone who runs a webring: I don't think this is feasible but in the same breath I also love where the thinking is at.
Vladimir Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'?
Haha, what?
Books Unbanned Library Card
Hell yeah.
The Design Brief That Never Mentioned Disabled People
"Twenty years of experience building things people can’t use isn’t twenty years of expertise. It’s twenty years of an incomplete brief, executed well."
If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
looooooooooooooool
‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces zine trend
Big fan of zines.
Email Sent - Dark Souls Notification
I shared this extension in a Discord some friends and I hang out in. One person replied, "There’s a darksouls drumming game", and someone else fired back with, "of course there is".
Getting a stream of HTML via fetch()
I'm gonna need to some time thinking through the implications of this.
‘Running out of money’: Kraft, McDonald’s, Whirlpool CEOs all issue same dire warning about US consumers. Get ready now
The last thing Capitalism will eat is itself.
AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
I also think there's definitely an undertone of authoritarian classicism going on here too.
The Great Hotel Blanding
As someone who stayed in a trying-too-hard-to-be-cool hotel recently: A little character, not too much.
The Last Trial – Russian Dragonlance Musical
Holy goddamn shit.
There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find
Good job, bacteria!
Samurai city
"Tokugawa Edo stands as a monument to the power of rent-seekers, producing little and demanding immense resources as a condition of civil peace. "
Dopamine Fracking
"After all, who doesn't want to solve things? Who doesn't want to optimize? But the more this happens, the more we see just how destructive, devastating, and unsustainable living like this is."
How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?
Well, now you know.
Websites, Done Cheap
Such a clever way to get this really pitch-perfect aesthetic.
Who are the random people on these famous album covers?
Answers within.
What I think about when I edit
Really solid advice.
Why you should refuse to let your doctor record you
Not for therapy, not for health.
From garbage can to compost heap
"Better still might be the image of a compost heap: it is messy and a little terrifying, it confounds easy analysis, it has a certain life of its own and over time, if you keep turning it and adding to it, it becomes generative."
Three Inverse Laws of AI
Uh oh.
Off-Grid Communication For Everyone
I freaking love mesh networks.
Local AI Needs to be the Norm
"It has become so normal for folks that any AI use is happening server-side. We have a lot of work to do to turn this around as an industry."
The Third World Ocean Assessment (WOA III)
oh
Fuck|Thank you
I like this post format. I should copy it.
I want my friends to have blogs too
Yup!
Prototaxites
Good job, ancient macroscopic eukaryote!
ASCII Aquarium Flasher
I want to make this so hard, but also have no use for it.
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
Most websites don't need to be SPAs.
Manifest.
Well, this is a cool idea.
