Squidward Tufte
@squidwardtufte.bsky.social
Living under the sea, hating PowerPoint
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Here's my PDF of the Trump allegations and associations timeline with linked citations.
Many outlets have listed all of these in long, scrolling pages. I have yet to see one put their design staff to the task of making a single encompassing graphic. Publishers, consider it!
bit.ly/trump-allega...
Many outlets have listed all of these in long, scrolling pages. I have yet to see one put their design staff to the task of making a single encompassing graphic. Publishers, consider it!
bit.ly/trump-allega...
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
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Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
YouTube video by Faster and Worse
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Dispatch #31: Anti-Design
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
1/x
Design to compensate for a lack of design
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3eL...
Audio: pnc.st/s/faster-and...
1/x
”You’re absolutely correct!”
It watches you
December 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
”You’re absolutely correct!”
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“What if we do our own Brexit? But from reality?”
December 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“What if we do our own Brexit? But from reality?”
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
Credit default swaps in the news, probably no big deal.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Explainer: What are credit default swaps and why are investors watching Oracle's?
The cost of insuring Oracle's debt against the risk of default has shot up after its latest earnings reignited worries about how much the broader corporate sector is spending on AI and the borrowing s...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Credit default swaps in the news, probably no big deal.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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The KS is almost to $100k! Thanks everyone for supporting the book. I’m excited that we’re getting an English edition so American readers can finally see it.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...
FROM CHILE TO THE EDGE OF IMAGINATION—JODOROWSKY & RODRÍGUEZ
Two comic book giants raised in Chile present their new graphic novels in a joint dual launch.
www.kickstarter.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The KS is almost to $100k! Thanks everyone for supporting the book. I’m excited that we’re getting an English edition so American readers can finally see it.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hum...
Is a friend messaging you on LinkedIn? Be kind to them; No one uses that site unless they are in a bad way.
December 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Is a friend messaging you on LinkedIn? Be kind to them; No one uses that site unless they are in a bad way.
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New York Times cover, four years ago yesterday
www.nytimes.com/issue/todays...
www.nytimes.com/issue/todays...
December 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
New York Times cover, four years ago yesterday
www.nytimes.com/issue/todays...
www.nytimes.com/issue/todays...
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Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
All these people on LinkedIn who have added AI to their titles... What will become of them
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
All these people on LinkedIn who have added AI to their titles... What will become of them
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"ai is inevitable" is a high accuracy indicator of "I am a sucker"
"the tech is inevitable" is not the winning argument you think it is in this debate*
*applies to many debates
*applies to many debates
December 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"ai is inevitable" is a high accuracy indicator of "I am a sucker"
microsoft should offer a version of all of their products without copilot. call it "nopilot" edition or something. give the people what they want!
which is not to have copilot, which sucks, in their lives.
which is not to have copilot, which sucks, in their lives.
everyone wants Copilot to go away
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
microsoft should offer a version of all of their products without copilot. call it "nopilot" edition or something. give the people what they want!
which is not to have copilot, which sucks, in their lives.
which is not to have copilot, which sucks, in their lives.
everyone wants Copilot to go away
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
everyone wants Copilot to go away
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This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
every time I open Illustrator I see these stickers I started @marisakabas.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
every time I open Illustrator I see these stickers I started @marisakabas.bsky.social
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This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia ended their lives in Kherson few days ago..
She was 34. He was 6.
On 26 November, a Russian attack drone targeted a civilian car in Kherson.
Inside were 34-year-old Alina — a nurse who cared for stroke patients — and her six-year-old son, Vladyslav. 👇
She was 34. He was 6.
On 26 November, a Russian attack drone targeted a civilian car in Kherson.
Inside were 34-year-old Alina — a nurse who cared for stroke patients — and her six-year-old son, Vladyslav. 👇
December 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is Alina and Vladyslav. Russia ended their lives in Kherson few days ago..
She was 34. He was 6.
On 26 November, a Russian attack drone targeted a civilian car in Kherson.
Inside were 34-year-old Alina — a nurse who cared for stroke patients — and her six-year-old son, Vladyslav. 👇
She was 34. He was 6.
On 26 November, a Russian attack drone targeted a civilian car in Kherson.
Inside were 34-year-old Alina — a nurse who cared for stroke patients — and her six-year-old son, Vladyslav. 👇
Pantone picked _white_ as the color of the year?! www.pantone.com/color-of-the...
www.pantone.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Pantone picked _white_ as the color of the year?! www.pantone.com/color-of-the...
The metaverse was just to distract from Francis Haugen, and it worked
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The metaverse was just to distract from Francis Haugen, and it worked
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Any single NATO country could probably march to Moscow at this point
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Any single NATO country could probably march to Moscow at this point
Like, Microsoft has invested so much in this that it seems they are now compelled to put it everywhere they can in their new operating system. I can't find any enthusiasm for it anywhere; no lists of favorite Copilot "agents" to set up, no tutorials on how to do cool things with it. No one wants it
the AI bubble is crazy bc like AI just came out of nowhere and it's stupid and obviously not as good as anyone thinks it is and no one wants it and somehow it is propping up the entire economy rn even tho it's literally terrible and dumb and, again, came out of nowhere
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Like, Microsoft has invested so much in this that it seems they are now compelled to put it everywhere they can in their new operating system. I can't find any enthusiasm for it anywhere; no lists of favorite Copilot "agents" to set up, no tutorials on how to do cool things with it. No one wants it
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the AI bubble is crazy bc like AI just came out of nowhere and it's stupid and obviously not as good as anyone thinks it is and no one wants it and somehow it is propping up the entire economy rn even tho it's literally terrible and dumb and, again, came out of nowhere
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
the AI bubble is crazy bc like AI just came out of nowhere and it's stupid and obviously not as good as anyone thinks it is and no one wants it and somehow it is propping up the entire economy rn even tho it's literally terrible and dumb and, again, came out of nowhere
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
“[Eventually] humanities depts will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.”
really important thread ⬇️
really important thread ⬇️
in the near future, after the crash, someone is going to have to write about how the Al businesses led us into it. this would be a good starting point ainowinstitute.org/publications...
AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model - AI Now Institute
By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Mar...
ainowinstitute.org
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
in the near future, after the crash, someone is going to have to write about how the Al businesses led us into it. this would be a good starting point ainowinstitute.org/publications...