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Platforms say kids are protected.
Research says otherwise.
In a new Superbloom piece, @veszna argues that harm doesnât come only from what children see online â but from how platforms are designed around them: defaults, friction, dark patterns, and âsafetyâ features that exist on paper but fail in practice.
The real question isnât whether platforms have safety features, but whether those work for children.
https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/2026-the-year-we-choose-to-protect-childrenor-fail-them/
Kipling apparently wrote a poem about #undersea #telegraph cables. He's the worst, but this is pretty good and super weird!
https://www.poetryverse.com/rudyard-kipling-poems/deepsea-cables
In general, @Vivaldi is so great. So great, in fact, that I find myself with endless UX quibbles.
Examples:
- why can't I add a tab to my reading list when not on mobile?
- why don't browser configurations like putting your tabs on the left sync between devices?
- why don't workspaces and pinned tabs sync between devices?
Is there a word for an uncanny valley of great software - where you have such a solid product that it actually generates *more* feedback from users?
Four months in, the new Trump administration is already moving from self-deception and deception on to âimage makingâ and âideologizingâ; it is fast approaching complete âdefactualization.â
Una strana macchia nel cielo: come la Silicon Valley sta preparando un colpo di stato contro la democrazia
(TL;DR: Non comprendiamo piÚ la realtà che ci circonda e viviamo in uno stato di crescente confusione. La colpevole è la Silicon Valley, che sta preparando un colpo di stato distopico contro la democrazia.)
(TL;DR: We no longer understand the reality around us and live in a state of growing confusion. The culprit is Silicon Valley, which is preparing a dystopian coup against democracy.) Wherever you go these days, everyone expresses in one way or another that reality seems to have stopped making sen