Matthew Warland
@warland.bsky.social
Designer. https://warland.ca
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“America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle”
too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle”
too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
www.404media.co/americas-pol...
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It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It was strangled in its cradle by powerful people who didn't want to be subjected to its searching gaze. It didn't go even close to far enough.
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ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
This is so awesome I love it
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is so awesome I love it
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
Not that I'm the biggest fan of the American copyright system, this feels like a no-brainer. Effort will always be better than slop.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Not that I'm the biggest fan of the American copyright system, this feels like a no-brainer. Effort will always be better than slop.
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AI has a purple problem
Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?
I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...
Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?
I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
AI has a purple problem
Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?
I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...
Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?
I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...
This is sickening.
October 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is sickening.
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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can't bring back bourgeois 'good taste' wo bringing back the bourgeoisie, civil society, the public sphere, etc
slop is the aesthetic manifestation of more fundamental power relations/the reframing of everything around private wealth & responsibility
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
slop is the aesthetic manifestation of more fundamental power relations/the reframing of everything around private wealth & responsibility
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
can't bring back bourgeois 'good taste' wo bringing back the bourgeoisie, civil society, the public sphere, etc
slop is the aesthetic manifestation of more fundamental power relations/the reframing of everything around private wealth & responsibility
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
slop is the aesthetic manifestation of more fundamental power relations/the reframing of everything around private wealth & responsibility
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
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Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
China enlists solar panels in war to halt desert sands
In arid northern China, dozens of workers prune goji berry bushes that stretch out under the protective shade of thousands of solar panels.
www.reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.
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idk man i'm starting to get suspicious
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
idk man i'm starting to get suspicious
After losing JD Twitch last week another giant of eclecticism has left us. This is a great article from Gilles Peterson about who he was: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing
The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of pers...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
After losing JD Twitch last week another giant of eclecticism has left us. This is a great article from Gilles Peterson about who he was: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Welp. That kinda backfired.
A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...
AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable
AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."
www.404media.co
September 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Welp. That kinda backfired.
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As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft
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They were going to do it anyway.
A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me.
The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.
A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me.
The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.
Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) on Threads
I tend to see a lot of things through the lens of history and the assassination of Charlie Kirk—especially the Trump administration’s response to it—has me thinking of one historical analogy in partic...
www.threads.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
They were going to do it anyway.
A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me.
The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.
A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me.
The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.
Country music and Lo-Fi beats 100% had this coming: notagspodcast.substack.com/p/52-will-th...
52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good?
Blobby.
notagspodcast.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Country music and Lo-Fi beats 100% had this coming: notagspodcast.substack.com/p/52-will-th...
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the craziest part of superman (2025) is that jimmy olsen writes a world changing story directly in the CMS
July 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
the craziest part of superman (2025) is that jimmy olsen writes a world changing story directly in the CMS
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i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were
June 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were
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evil doesnt die. it reinvents itself
May 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
evil doesnt die. it reinvents itself
May 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sometimes the org. chart ships you.
April 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sometimes the org. chart ships you.
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through a certain lens, a design system is just very expensive way for developers to avoid needing to write CSS
March 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
through a certain lens, a design system is just very expensive way for developers to avoid needing to write CSS
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"did you make that logo signifying Europe's grim duty to rearm in the face of a hostile United States and expanding Russia?"
"Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"
"Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"did you make that logo signifying Europe's grim duty to rearm in the face of a hostile United States and expanding Russia?"
"Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"
"Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"