Hope

“But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good.”

www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is agentic .... Please....

Kevin Roose: *points at seagull flying past* agentic

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

“This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics.”

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

What toll does a “high-performance culture” take? What are the more sustainable alternatives?

Great piece by @jessicaeddy.bsky.social

www.everydayux.net/performance-...

Fun fact: Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal and her husband John Roth are among the biggest funders of highly divisive, far-right lobby group Advance, which aggressively spreads hateful propaganda, racist tropes and bigoted imagery. 🤔 #Zionism #racism theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

If ever there was a time for beef wellington

Barbara Smaller cartoon reminding me of how Adam Smith went back to his mum’s so she could cook and do laundry for him while he wrote ‘The Wealth Of Nations’.

The Invisible Hand of Economics is women.

Excellent advice: respectful but also retains space for the designer’s work

Typical Designer : PM meeting 😅

“In the land of the attention economy, the malignant narcissist is king.”

Atomic designer Brad Frost turns his down-to-earth, no-bullshit attention to where we find ourselves after ten years of relentless battering. Great read.

bradfrost.com/blog/post/pa...

Great story!

(And pleased to see TT here)

So much for “Leaning in”

www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-b...

Repeat after me: generative AI does not and cannot ever represent disabled people. A great article by @ashleemboyer.com, who explains why solutions who pretend to do that are dehumanizing the lived experiences of disabled people by replacing authentic stories with synthetic, generative AI outputs.

Remembering when everything had an RSS feed, and trying to make a habit of checking Feedly more often. Look what I found: something from Christina Wodtke (who I can’t find in here yet)

eleganthack.com/why-we-strug...

Shifting over here feels a lot like the early days of Twitter. Finding my tribe again.