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Tal Benisty
@talbenisty.bsky.social
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Product Designer at Riverside.fm. Formerly at Circles, Nexar, Cruise, Collective Health, Cooper, Designit, and IDEO. He/Him
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Ten things I took away from one remarkable, history-making moment. Turn the volume up. www.anildash.com/2025/11/05/t...
Turn the volume up. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
talbenisty.bsky.social
Seems Whatsapp (MacOS) doesn't support :emojis (a-la-Slack) anymore, but Rocket gets the job done 👌

matthewpalmer.net/rocket/
Rocket – the best emoji app for Mac
Rocket is a free Mac app that makes typing emoji faster and easier using Slack-style shortcuts.
matthewpalmer.net
October 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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“What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...
Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus
My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...
therumpus.net
October 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
talbenisty.bsky.social
If you liked Transparent, or Cooper Raiff's previous works, watch Hal & Harper asap.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSs...
HAL & HARPER | Official Trailer | On MUBI Oct 19
YouTube video by MUBI
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October 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
Decoder is up for a Signal award for best business podcast! Vote vote vote please vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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September 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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nymag.com/intelligence...
The AI Kids Take San Francisco
Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.
nymag.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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eladn.bsky.social
Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.
Illustration of three people standing on a hill beneath a huge orange sun. Large black text at the top reads: ‘It’s a Beautiful Day to Yell At God.’ One figure raises their arms and shouts ‘WHAT THE FUCK?’ while another says ‘COME OUT! WE JUST WANNA TALK.’ Bold text in the corner says ‘FACE US YOU COWARD.’
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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miniver.bsky.social
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The Copernican Revolution
The Kepler revolution
Darwinian thought
Freud’s ideas of the unconscious
Cyborgs, robots, and automatons
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The 5 Blows to the Human Ego
Donna Haraway, one of my favorite professors from my time at UCSC, came up with a list of the four major blows to the human ego: ideas which caught on, undermined our supposed central place in the uni...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Just got sucked into @neal.fun's "Not a Robot"

neal.fun/not-a-robot/
I'm Not a Robot
Prove your humanity once and for all
neal.fun
September 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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cwashington.bsky.social
Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...
How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left
If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance
The brand conceives of itself as a distribution system for utopian values as much as a clothing company. Can it become the world’s biggest clothing manufacturer?
www.newyorker.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Paging @bomberstudios.com and @miniver.bsky.social

A collection of Thinking Things

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№ 100 | ✨Special Edition:✨ A Look Back at 99 Issues of Thinking Things
Welcome to a rare clip show edition of the Thinking Things newsletter. You can read my rambling preamble, or skip down to this special super-charged selection of thinking things! One reason I maintai...
newsletter.themightymindsclub.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
talbenisty.bsky.social
They don’t post like this on Twitter anymore 👌

This thread gets me.
kelin.bsky.social kelin @kelin.bsky.social · Dec 25
some 2fa codes just feel right and some just feel wrong

603868? right

544517? wrong
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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miniver.bsky.social
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Calmly point out that the statement seems counterproductive and explain why.

Ask for evidence of serious accusations.

Call them out. Establish a norm of not putting up with that shit.

Block them.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
talbenisty.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/in...
Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy.
The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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monteiro.bsky.social
Is this still complicated?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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won’t somebody think of the childrennnn
4 panel comic Panel 1: A dad and his child watch a kids tv show featuring a big cuddly bear and a small cute dog (who is eating a pizza) Bear, gesturing to dog, says: This is Spot. They like pizza a lot. Panel 2: Dad, immediately incandescent with rage shouts: “They” Oh my God what the hell is this?? In a kids show??” Panel 3: Dad, now ascending on a wave of frothy fury points to his child and yells: This is gonna confuse you!! You won’t learn!! You’re gonna need therapy!! Panel 4: Therapist’s office. A therapist makes notes. The child, now an adult, lies on a couch and says: …And my dad would just start screaming at cartoons…
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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NEW: Israelis have marched through the capital Tel Aviv demanding an end to the starvation of Gaza.

Protestors carried images of starving Palestinian children & symbolic bags of flour.

A critical reminder that the genocidal force is the Israeli government & IDF, not all Israelis.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)
July 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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As Israeli mainstream TV ignores Gazans’ suffering, these outlets expose surveillance, brutality and war crimes

Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/israeli...
As Israeli mainstream TV ignores Gazans’ suffering, these outlets expose surveillance, brutality and war crimes
Journalists from Israel’s Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Hamakom Hachi Ham Bagehenom explain how they report on the conflict for a reluctant audience.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
talbenisty.bsky.social
Great question

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
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July 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
pivot-to-ai.com
July 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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miniver.bsky.social
I have walked away from D&D but I like this reading of it

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Dungeons & Dragons is a pretty damn good game to play wrong
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I am reminded of a thing an engineer told me about how their VW Beetle never ran right but ALWAYS ran

h/t @overpoweredginger.bsky.social
Malserac: A Foreword | Adam Rutskarn DeCamp
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July 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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@zeldman.bsky.social, casually dropping king-level ALT text on a Good morning post. Ever the legend 👑
zeldman.bsky.social zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · Jul 20
Good morning, Bluesky!
In this frame from the Animated film “Porco Rosso” by Hayao Miyazaki, the title character gives a thumbs-up from his pilot seat at the front of his biplane. Porco is a man who became a pig following a massive aerial battle during WWI. The magic spell that transformed Porco into a pig may be his guilt as the battle’s only survivor. The film is warm-hearted, comical, and exciting, and may even make you cry. (I always do.) The film came out 33 years and two days ago.
July 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM