I found out that Slack shows a "So happy you're here!", "Welcome to the team!", or similar banner on your profile if you set a start date within the last month. I appreciate that there was probably a meeting or two and a combined UI/UX/graphics effort just to make this happen.

Spent ~1 hour figuring out what a hotkey was triggering on macOS: Settings just said it was in use, the only dedicated app I found was outdated, and even disabling SIP to use opensnoop didn't help. Turns out it was in a nested menu all along. Could this please be made more transparent in the future?

This is rather impressive over such a broad array of metrics, although now I'm curious about exceptions to this trend.

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I was mildly excited that it was a postal van that slowed down and flashed its headlights to let me cross when I wasn’t even at a crossing. Two things I like in one scene.

This is a bad plan, with little to no rationale provided. China isn't "racing" to acquire AGI, and the US shouldn't either.

A glimpse of my walk yesterday, when I realized DC could be beautiful even while close-ish to a metro station and major streets.

Lots of new AI people on Bluesky today! I updated my highly-opinionated starter pack of who to follow: go.bsky.app/V62wBer

If you don't want to commit to another platform or manually post on multiple sites, this is a quick reminder that cross-posting tools exist, e.g. Buffer.

It doesn't address content engagement, but making content more widely available feels like a good start.

I'm impressed that my grocery delivery, which due to my mistake was left outside on a commercial street with plenty of foot traffic for over an hour (in an open shopping bag!), was completely untouched. +1 faith in humanity.

Makes sense, although they may be better served by also endorsing an alternative (as did NPR... eventually).

I appreciate the near lack of advertisements on platform walls of the DC Metro, with a few escalator walls featuring poetry instead. While limited in other ways, this and the lower fares compared to e.g. London make it feel a bit more like a public service than a business to me.

A great take on the promises being delivered (or not) by this Indian government's economic reforms, and favouritism alongside protectionism diverging from the East Asian model.

Apparently Siri does not do bigrams…
(I wasn’t able to reproduce this, to be fair)

Some opponents of direct democracy claim voters may not understand what they're voting on, perhaps true at times given the scale and specificity in e.g. California (esp. SF) or Switzerland. But how well do voters understand how legislators would vote on similarly specific laws?