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We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with: 1) Block all far right figures/accounts 2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them 3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them Completely cut their algorithmic advantage

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

I see @gailsimone.bsky.social is in good form this fine day

when ai leaves u behind

mood

posers always seem to work harder in pretense than legit experts / high-performers do i see this in business too

Today’s stories from Ireland

Yet another way AI is ruining the internet: online shopping

i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

Why is it so weird that an expert in THING says THING is bad? Trust the expert. An assistant professor of Rare Diseases that is anti Rare Diseases? Yhea, no shit.

I haven't been following the light/dark toggle discussions, but my uninformed take is pretty simple: Stop Acting Like Design Decisions Have A Correct Answer (and then stop acting like the correct-answer machine is a real thing worth building)

Every Daily Mail headline, summarised

the single most accurate description of CrossFit I’ve ever seen

i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”

student:been using claude opus 5, order of magnitude better than other models. you need to try before dismissing it. i got free tokens me:here some data. plot a gantt chart for me in this format (provides example) student: me: student 2hrs later:i’m actually making your chart manually, quicker

UI/UX is my passion!

Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content. The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had […]

Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

*rolls dice* I got a 4 so that moves my character directly from "forgot to telephone" to "will put off letter", your turn

Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

The only inevitable thing is death after all

Mr. Gaeta, start the clock, 120 hours

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

We have a new entry in the climate dictionary under “irony”

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

At #CSSday the Google Chrome team are asking developers “What’s missing from the web?” …I needed a few post-it notes for my answer. 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22602

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

"AI colonizers" available to oppress you soon!

I'm not saying we should abandon electrical technology, it's very good. But I will say I think we should return to mechanical means for many things. You do not need an app for your door lock. You do not need a smart fridge. You do not need a coffee machine with a camera. Bring back the mechanical.

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”