Could someone please give me 15 minutes with the @maddow.msnbc.com on-screen graphics template? Because this makes my head hurt

One of the most interesting things to learn about living a corporate life has been that you can criticize anything/anyone only privately, but publicly only praise.

I was looking for cheap stepper motors (there are none, really), and suggestions are to pull them from old printers, etc. I’m not sure I’m that guy quite yet.

Fellow researchers at work have been recently interested in the future of research at companies. I feel like I’ve been having this discussion pretty much on-and-off for the past four years, but for sure AI has made designer-led or PM-led research more than ‘good enough’.

I’m going to try a new way to social media. Privileging people who say things that come from them. Downgrading ppl who are repeaters of other people. Encouraging interaction. Discouraging shitposting. Let’s see how this goes for a while.

By far the best use of AI is goblin tools, and I am absolutely not joking about this.

I’m about to take another run at a Getting Things Done lifestyle, pray for me.

Ppl coming here with a capture of a tweet, that they just want to argue with, instant mute.

The favorite book thing is great for helping me preemptively block a bunch of future Bluesky jackasses.

Bsky trying to ingest new communities + my sparse interactions are making my discover tab amusing: econsky, sociologists, horny people, lots of artists, ex-Twitter shitposters, and John Scalzi.

We’ve been in this house for 8 years, a smoke detector has never once gone off because of battery warning during daytime hours.

One thing I really miss about academia is the ability to just post what’s on your mind.

Working for a company that is Very Online, knowing that your management cares about everything said about them, it is just not as easy to carve out space.