Daniel SaidiI miss the days when big tech was medium tech and changes were driven with standardization and interoperability in mind. I doubt that email would have been created today.
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Jeff Watkins
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Caitlinmonster“Come on in, the water’s full of fucking sharks!”
https://www.caitlinsteele.com/inundation-the-yachts-vs-the-have-nots/
I don’t think how we are working in software is working… but I do have ideas how we can do it better
Tolerance-Oriented Futures
On Prototyping the Conditions and Why Clarity is the Deliverable In May 2026, I sat in a room outside Amsterdam at the Hatch Leadership Atelier and listened to Giulio Frigieri give a talk called Prototyping the Conditions: Design as Governance. I had hypotheses going in and I left with confirmation
I've received multiple robocalls from an _alleged_ Visa / Mastercard fraud protection “from my bank” (although they never say which bank) and ask me to press 1 to speak to a fraud agent.
This has to be a scam. On the one hand, the charge is for Remitly, which I don't recall making. But I'm keenly aware of the possibility of them capturing my voice and using it for nefarious purposes.
If it _were_ my bank, they have my email or they can send me a push message. Who calls any more?
RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116793150095913490
The UK hasn’t had a forward-looking government in decades. Labour has been such a disappointment.
Zack PolanskiRT: @mabintou The Labour Party is not progressive enough to fix the country and for that reason alone Andy Burnham is destined for the same fate as the last Keir Starmer.
Pause AI in BC Schools"We need to teach them to use it ethically."
It is built on stolen data, it is not possible to use ethically.
"If we don't, they'll just use worse tools at home anyway."
So if students use drugs at home, you give them clean drugs at school? If they cheat at home, you let them cheat in school?
CORRECTED HEADLINE: Trump unveils his biggest foreign bribe to date.
This post brought to you by my failure to contact an artist we saw in the Scottish Design Exchange, because the only contact info they list is Instagram.
If you’re an artist or business and the only way you have for customers to contact you is via Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you’re telling everyone under 16 (who might want to buy a gift for a parent, say) and all of us who don’t participate in toxic social media to fuck off.