A subway ad: Robyn Emotionally intelligent. Deeply _human_.

What stage of sloppification do we need to be in for an LLM chatbot to be advertised as "deeply _human_"?

A group of eleven MTA officials in high-vis jackets stand around a floor scrubber

Death of a Floor Scrubber (c. 2025)

A google slide labeled "Our LLM policy". Beside it, the meme format of two children in a pool, one is a smiling girl being held by a woman, the other is a boy who appears to be on the brink of drowning. The girl is labeled "Artisanal slop" and the boy is labeled "AI slop".

You've heard of proofs without words, now it's time for AI policies without words

Text messages: Nowuh Nevens Oh also I felt like this was a banger point. This would be a head turner in a Socratic seminar Nowuh Nevens Like head turning downwards to sleep

I’m aware of the effect I have on Socratic seminars

A to do list written on a crosswalk pole

Street infrastructure as distributed to-do list: public accountability ✅ write-optimized ✅ read-optimized ❌

Al Search No thoughts yet? No problem. Just give us details about your idea and we'll suggest some…

No thoughts yet? No problem.

Enjoyed watching @kevinpowell.co crack csshell.com! This is the UX testing I should have done two years ago haha

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When people’s reasons for rejecting a message are more about the communicator than the message itself, presenting it from multiple sources can confines turn a failure into a success

Feels like an important mechanism behind fringe ideas gaining a huge following

The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make the world’s deadliest infectious disease untreatable again, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social writes.

The person who made that “select your phone number” dropdown with 2 billion options got hired at Citi

I was actually wondering the same thing

A screenshot of Stuyvesant St from above, which is a short street oriented east-west in a sea of the tilted NYC grid system

Peter Stuyvesant brought a sort of true-East-West-oriented vibe to Manhattan that 19th century urban planners didn’t really like

At some point there will be programming nonsense here but first, a moment of unadulterated joy