Dan McCullough

@thecriterion
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Coffee professional, ex-web designer & ex-front-end developer, Audiophile, VW enthusiast.
Websiteshttps://linktr.ee/thecriterion
Over on Flickr, Armina Ghazaryan just dropped hundreds of photos of lettering examples from Belgium, the Netherlands, France… There are carved, painted and tessellated letterforms, with contemporary examples next to such from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, the 1970s. Browse ’em all: https://www.flickr.com/photos/arm79/
I keep thinking about what the desired endgame is with AI. So you’ve made worse things with AI, but as expensive or more expensive, just with a smaller workforce. As a result, more people are out of jobs, the wealth gap widens, and people can’t afford to buy the product anymore anyway.
🏄‍♂️ Ride that nostalgia wave with iPod Socks hard drive icons!
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Fascinating deep research on the origins of Lorem Ipsum. Lots here I didn’t know, including that there were so many holes in its history. We’ve had it all wrong! What a fun ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

Plus a @BijouType cameo!

The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum

YouTube

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

Frank Herbert, Dune.

I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now

I love watching documentaries about people achieving incredible feats, because every time, the people interviewed say something like, “I said I could do it, but the truth is... I had no idea how to do it.”

You *can* bullshit one thing. You can oversell *one or two* abilities if you think you could figure it out. But just to compare this to today, jobs often have like *30* qualifications, and... you can’t realistically bullshit 30 things.

*Opportunity* is often the factor that matters.

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

#WordPress 7.0 rolls out AI integration for everyone, opt-out.

Not 100% sure about the full implications of this, but if you want to disable the #AI Connectors, add this to your wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_AI_SUPPORT', false );

More info:

https://www.itsucks.fyi/disable-ai-in-wordpress-7/

Via Reddit (r/Wordpress).

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