Thomas Cannon
@thomascannon.me
Web developer, musician, semi-pro party mom. +3 to Persistence Rolls. Operations & systems nerd.
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
Building my own apps on the side @practical.computer
https://thomascannon.me
https://little-crm.com
https://practical.computer
Having a normal one while writing docs
December 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Having a normal one while writing docs
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the damage to the public health workforce — which is already burned out from the pandemic and decades of underinvestment — is really bad. we don’t grow on trees
December 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
the damage to the public health workforce — which is already burned out from the pandemic and decades of underinvestment — is really bad. we don’t grow on trees
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what else is there to say
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
what else is there to say
Surely this Hobonichi planner will fix everything for me, right? Right?
December 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Surely this Hobonichi planner will fix everything for me, right? Right?
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By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television
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We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television
December 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
This (admittedly) looks a bit “…and?” But it’s some of the first real polishing work done in a systemic fashion, with the 2013 OS X HiG & 3rd edition of Designing Interfaces in hand as reference material. And that’s just a few hours of work in between errands
Before and after today’s polishing round. Slowly, but surely, getting there
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This (admittedly) looks a bit “…and?” But it’s some of the first real polishing work done in a systemic fashion, with the 2013 OS X HiG & 3rd edition of Designing Interfaces in hand as reference material. And that’s just a few hours of work in between errands
I refuse to let these chuds drown me in psychosis.
Craft & care matter. I’m explicitly getting a copy of the 2013 OS X HiG printed for my desk, as an explicit pushback against this garbage.
Craft & care matter. I’m explicitly getting a copy of the 2013 OS X HiG printed for my desk, as an explicit pushback against this garbage.
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I refuse to let these chuds drown me in psychosis.
Craft & care matter. I’m explicitly getting a copy of the 2013 OS X HiG printed for my desk, as an explicit pushback against this garbage.
Craft & care matter. I’m explicitly getting a copy of the 2013 OS X HiG printed for my desk, as an explicit pushback against this garbage.
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This is kind of what it’s all about, isn’t it? Hayao Miyazaki, 1979
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is kind of what it’s all about, isn’t it? Hayao Miyazaki, 1979
Gah, I would genuinely love to see a show about sports broadcasting crews, in the style of The Pitt
The Netflix and Amazon broadcasts are a great reminder that live sports is a deeply, deeply difficult type of TV that requires huge crews of profoundly skilled and experienced people who have worked together for a long time to look natural
December 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Gah, I would genuinely love to see a show about sports broadcasting crews, in the style of The Pitt
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
Jealoussss a.wholelottanothing.org/a-2-200-mile...
A 2,200 mile EV test drive from Texas to Oregon
I just got back from a long drive in my wife's new-to-her car, a 2025 VW ID Buzz 1st Edition 4Motion in blue. On Thursday of last week, I flew to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, got picked up by the de...
a.wholelottanothing.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Jealoussss a.wholelottanothing.org/a-2-200-mile...
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it feels like our society has forgotten what it means to be human, to have a single life and to have how you spend it matter. we’re supposed to want to upload our consciousness to the cloud so we can be entertained by genAI “content” for eternity. it is a new circle of hell
December 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
it feels like our society has forgotten what it means to be human, to have a single life and to have how you spend it matter. we’re supposed to want to upload our consciousness to the cloud so we can be entertained by genAI “content” for eternity. it is a new circle of hell
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This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...
Love that I’ve been sick as a dog all weekend; and that the only highlights have been getting the estate plan outlined & the boring wiring up done for my framework’s guide site. 😵💫🫠
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Love that I’ve been sick as a dog all weekend; and that the only highlights have been getting the estate plan outlined & the boring wiring up done for my framework’s guide site. 😵💫🫠
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Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
AI is not going to go away
December 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.