I owe you all the deepest and sincerest apology. It has been brought to my attention that my facts are enabling fascism and destroying democracy. I am especially sorry for the harmful facts stating that:

-Every month is National Potato Month.
-George W. Bush has a Foo Fighters tattoo on his back.
-Optimus Prime is the only heterosexual Transformer.
-The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New York City.
-Cher’s full name is Chernobyl.

I pray that you can all find it in your hearts to forgive me.

Google's decline in search quality could be explained a lot of ways. But something that must be a factor is changing from being led by computer scientists to, in 2015, being led by a an MBA from McKinsey. I think MBA dogma is ultimately poisonous to long term quality.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/google-search-is-losing-the-fight-with-seo-spam-study-says/

A friend asked me "how do i get amazing frontend chops?"

I answered off the top of my head:
- Go implement some challenging designs
- Go sit with a designer who really cares about their work, and iterate like mad in parallel with them.
- Animate some complex shit.
- Drive your browser with only a screen reader for a week.
- Go work on implementing data tables with 100,000 rows.
- Oh, and try using the web at 400% zoom for a while. Fix everything that's busted on your site when you do.

(Add your own! There's so many great ways to learn the expertise required)

The saga of the #Sacklers, a multigenerational billionaire crime family of mass-murdering dope-peddlers, is an enraging parable about how the wealthy, the courts, and sadistic high-powered lawyers collude to destroy the lives of millions, profit handsomely, and evade justice.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

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Thanks Apple for my new email signature:

"Please do not reply this message to avoid starting a new interaction."