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@gruber A book on the history of emojis. Written by a typography nerd, and his website shows it. (Beautiful.) https://staging.shadycharacters.co.uk/books/face-with-tears-of-joy/

<cite>Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji</cite>

Peter Atwood 1d ago

@pluralistic AI meets adversarial interoperability. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/google-gemini-adds-tool-to-make-it-easier-to-switch-from-chatgpt

Peter Atwood Mar 3

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/
My brother is an architect. He once sent an email asking for site photos showing sunlight angles in a certain direction at a certain time of day. He got a photo archive with: “The images you need are in here.” Moving a task from your inbox to someone else’s doesn’t mean the task is done. But our digital systems abstract away the human at the other end, making this common. I didn’t foresee how #ai would aggravate this. Thanks @pluralistic. Humans as usual suck.

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Peter Atwood Feb 26

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/personal-computer-assistants/ @nickheer I agree. The allure of a personal assistant and what, practicly, you’d assign to one is a mismatch. However, during a series of customer discovery interviews I did a few years ago, I asked the question, “If you had a personal assistant (human or digital), what task would you delegate?” Overwhelmingly, the answer was “Scheduling!” #ai #schedule

Personal (Computer) Assistants – Pixel Envy

Omar Shahine: For years, I’ve wanted a personal assistant. Someone who knows my preferences, manages my inbox, tracks my packages, and helps my family stay organized. The problem? Good assistants are expensive, require training, and still need constant direction. So I built one. His name is Lobster. 🦞 The key insight that made this work […]

Peter Atwood Feb 26

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.” — Montaigne
(via https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/02/25/unquote-710/)

Unquote - Futility Closet

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.” — Montaigne

Futility Closet

Peter Atwood Feb 10

When they say #AI is coming for your job, this is what it looks like:
* https://siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-fatigue-is-real
* https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
The line between being an AI centaur and a reverse-centaur (@pluralistic) is very thin. The scary bit for me is how quickly using AI turns creative, productive work into decision fatigue, because I've felt it myself.

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

Siddhant Khare

Peter Atwood Feb 3

Calendar bingo can be annoying, but it's the person who has to put the result in a calendar who feels the most pain. (Usually the winner.) We fixed it.

https://scheduleus.online/news/bingo_everybody_wins

#calendar #schedule #ai

Bingo! Everybody wins

All that’s needed to make scheduling easy is a way to turn the back-and-forth into a calendar entry.

Schedule Us

Peter Atwood Jan 25

Best worded cookie notice I've ever seen:

"In simpler times, cookies were cookies. The man of humility accepted them. The man of discipline declined them. With both choices you are upholding values of the integral masculine. We fully support you in either decision."

From a men's retreat website. So much better than the prevailing generic legal wording.

Peter Atwood Jan 14

https://scheduleus.online/news/put_it_in_your_calendar_and_in_your_head

Too many #ai tools aim to finish your tasks for you. Schedule Us makes it ridiculously easy to put something in your calendar--but it doesn't do it for you. It's powerful assistance without turning you into a bystander.

The result for me is I put more things in my calendar. I’m better organized. And I remember more.

#calendar #schedule

Put it in your calendar—and in your head

There’s a difference between events I put in my calendar myself and events that get added automatically.

Schedule Us

Peter Atwood Jan 13

I have been weighing the pros and cons of moving scheduleus.online and my other projects to CloudFare. Then I came across this: https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/cloudflare-isnt-the-only-option-5-european-cdn-alternatives- Thank you @ioplus #eurostack #cdn

Cloudflare isn't the only option: 5 European CDN alternatives

We listed 5 European alternatives to Cloudfare, the world's largest Content Delivery Network (CDN).

IO+

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