Visual Fragments

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UX designer, digital nomad, photographer

Worker: I can't live on $7.25/hr

GOP: So go to college

W: I can't afford $100K tuition

GOP: Take out loans

W: I can't afford to pay these at 8% interest

GOP: No one forced you to go to college

W: But you just said—

Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!

GOP: Here's a $2T Tax Cut

First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS

In the same way that the introduction of multitouch with the iPhone removed a layer of conceptual abstraction — instead of touching a mouse or trackpad to move an on-screen pointer to an object on screen, you simply touch the object on screen — VisionOS removes a layer of abstraction spatially.

Daring Fireball
Finally going on our honeymoon next week 🙂

In Texas, Daniel Perry—a white man—posted "he might kill a few people," drove his car past a red light & into a previously peaceful BLM march, shot & killed a protestor, was duly charged, unanimously convicted—& TX Gov Abbott is pardoning him.😳

Texas is announcing to the world that in their view, murdering people for exercising their First Amendment right to peacefully protesting racism is OK.

This isn't democracy. It's fascism. This sets a literally deadly precedent for the future.

I am trying to switch my search engine to DuckDuckGo, and it is surprisingly difficult to not ignore the first few results and automatically scroll down the second the search results load since I'm used to the entire above-the-fold being ads. It's just so ingrained in me now that I have to do a double take and be like "wait, how did the link I want end up up there?"
shout out to whoever designed the "non-fiction" icon in Apple Books

UPDATE: The Turkey/Syria earthquake death toll has now surpassed 35,000 people, & tens of thousands more are still in harms way.

Thank you to the thousands who have donated. We are past $50K on our $100K goal.

I leave for Turkey soon.

Please Donate what is in your capacity, and signal boost if possible. I'm grateful to each of you for stepping up: https://fundraise.humanityfirst.org/fundraiser/4441555

Turkiye/Syria Earthquake: Disaster Relief Efforts

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how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it
UPDATE: The six #StopCopCity arrestees charged with "domestic terrorism" following a raid on the Atlanta Forest two weeks ago were granted bail today totaling $51,000 with amounts per defendant ranging from $6,000 to $13,500: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/swat-teams-attack-atlanta-forest-encampments-activists-charged-with-terrorism/
SWAT Teams Attack Atlanta Forest Encampments, Activists Charged with 'Terrorism' - UNICORN RIOT

Atlanta, GA – On December 13 and 14, 2022, SWAT teams and other armed police officers from eight different federal, state, county, and city police agencies conducted a raid on those camping out in the Atlanta forest in hopes of preventing the construction of a 85-acre police training facility that opponents have dubbed “Cop City.” […]

UNICORN RIOT

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa