Thomas Cannon

My hottest AI take is that the executive class is petrified of labor and saw that whatever else LLMs are/aren't, they're fine labor-smashers + that a ton of ordinary people find the artificial hyper-complexity and scamminess of modern life and work so unbearable that they'll throw a god-box at it.

Folks is it good if I feel the Citizen Sleeper soundtracks in my bones?

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So! Blue Ridge Ruby 2027 is happening (yay!) I’m on the conference committee (yaaaay!) Tickets will be on sale soon, and we’d love to have you there! blueridgeruby.com

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

Hell yeah Jessica Walter in Columbooooo

This is the argument about AI that grinds my gears. “Well, I can’t do xyz, so clearly I need to steal it.” Orrr you could do what the rest of us do. Learn (while accepting you’ll be bad at first). Do a service swap with a cover artist, narrator, editor. Or lump it.

The other thing that this friction accomplished was forcing you to think about purpose (like a professional designer does, or used to do). With only so much *stuff* we can make, that stuff needs to solve our most important problems. So you start by thinking about needs and prioritization.

EA's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

Uh. Yikes

I really want to like The Department of Truth; it’s riiiight up my alley, but this art style is hell on my eyes & comprehension

www.theverge.com/tech/1014533... lol why did he steal my EWI?

Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)

Think of it this way: do you think it was the responsibility of a tobacco company employee to "reform" big tobacco from the inside? Or was it down to the rest of us to push through political and societal changes that loosened tobacco's stranglehold on society? Why do we think tech is different?

Truly one of his bests!

Important: Regal is offering Wicker screenings in 4DX

Scrib And I cannot emphasize this enough Doon

Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.

That’s my friend!!! A Peak talk that I’m sad I’m missing

Democrats and white liberals constantly treat Southern Black voters fighting and overcoming voter suppression as some sort of Aaron Sorkin-esque inspiration porn

This is not beautiful to see. This is the most racist democracy on planet earth, and people just expect Black people to sing negro spirituals and "overcome." It's not working. This still happens for one reason and one reason only: white US folk don't hold each other accountable for this racism.

"shouldn't be this hard" is an all-encompassing, feel-it-in-your-bones summary of modern American life -- of difficulties big and small, existential and annoying -- that should be at the core of every Democratic candidate's message for years to come.

I posted a joke the other day about how my kid wanted a Mickey song that didn't exist, and a bunch of people were like "just AI to make it." I understand needing to please a toddler, but man--that's just not how I want him to think about music at all. It's not a vending machine.

I was thinking about atproto more and had a thought: no one needs to know or care about the protocol. we just need to normalize the idea that it’s bonkers to allow any company to own part of your identity it’s like how you used to lose your phone number if you switched carriers. that sucked

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

hbomberguy had a great joke about how he didn't think YouTube videos had souls until he experienced ones that don't. I have been feeling that about *everything* over the last few years. You don't notice fundamental values like "thoughtfulness" and "human connection" until you see their absence

Big day for me

Okay, time to dust off the old poasting button to ask a Little CRM question: do you consider conferences *different* than conventions? In my mind, a conference is for professional development, while a *convention* is a celebration of a cultural/social aspect.

Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

If he wanted to protect his team, he should have hired more people, or reduced the scope of delivery. Simple. But someone needs to get rich, right? So that is not happening.

You’re not beholden to the Indoor Kid label you’ve given yourself

rip annie dillard

The new shows, and current television in general, puts focus on the overarching story of each season told in like 8 episodes, like an 8 hour movie or something, when TNG and DS9 are like “we gotta fill time for 24 episodes this one is uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what if Quark thought he was dying”

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

Also! As a former student who very much looked up to his teachers: these letters are a LIFELINE/shining point for students. That’s arguably even more important than the college rec commendation part. Do you really want to outsource that? What message does it convey to someone you’ve taught?