Human creativity in the age of AI My perspective on the uniquely human aspects of creativity that can’t be replaced by AI.

New zine by Tess Needham: Human Creativity in the Age of AI. Download, print and fold.

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Sorry to hear!

With the possible exception of JK Rowling, who missed the point of the Harry Potter books.

Evolution followed by sudden devolution as of 2023.

Twitter (X) logo evolution 2006–2023

Twitter (X) logo evolution 2006–2023

Good luck! It will feel real once you start. And eventually, as you regain strength and stability, it will start to feel great. Days I have PT are the best.

Overheard: “My 11 year old just taught me you could press the F6 moon icon to put your Mac in do not disturb mode. Super handy for meetings. How did I miss that!”

Java script error: why The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Starbucks tie-in leaves a strange taste A theatrically released movie about glossy magazines, released at a time when there are minimal audiences for either, has ordered up a no foam, extra shot, venti facepalm

It's refreshing to read an article about JavaScript without any mention of React or tech bros: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

You got me! I read the whole thing—enjoying it, agreeing with it, yet waiting and waiting for the Javascript until I realized what you’d done. Clever lad!

P.S. I wonder why the author or editors omitted the *union* issue, which speaks the most to Starbucks’s sins and our time.

My UX Superpower: Nothing Works! Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journalism, advertising, and music composition and production, I poured myself into web design in early 1995, understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and enjoyed a steep and probably undeserved rise in the field until the summer Steve Jobs fired…

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me.

Discovery will be fun.

MF DOOM at the mic.

MF DOOM's Operation: Doomsday came to the surface 27 years ago today, on April 20, 1999.

My UX Superpower: Nothing Works! Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me. After mastering academia and enjoying some early success in journalism, advertising, and music composition and production, I poured myself into web design in early 1995, understood it in a way most designers didn’t, and enjoyed a steep and probably undeserved rise in the field until the summer Steve Jobs fired…

Maybe I’m special. Or unlucky. But things that supposedly work intuitively for most users tend to fail spectacularly for me.

It is!

From ASCII to Unicode: How Computers Understand Text - Tiniaco Leyba Ever wondered why “é” sometimes shows up as “é” or why emojis break text? This a short guide to characters, Unicode, encodings, and mojibake—with Python examples you can run.

Long before #standards bodies agreed on how to encode diverse scripts and symbols, computers used incompatible character sets.

Understanding how modern systems evolved from #ASCII to #Unicode helps any developer, writer, or interested reader grasp the complexity in what looks like ordinary text.

With the possible exception of JK Rowling, who missed the point of the Harry Potter books.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy

Life imitating art.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:

Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...

This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.

State AGs must step in and block it.

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

US Southern Command: On April 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered three more people in boats today

In a nutshell. 😊

Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?

We are 7 weeks into the most egregious stock market manipulations of our lifetime.

Orchestrated by a crooked president and his underlings.

Billions siphoned via false proclamations of ceasefires and peace talks.

With the criminals in charge, every day is a crime spree.

Celebrating Community at WordCamp Asia 2026 WordCamp Asia 2026 brought the global WordPress community to Mumbai, India, from April 9–11, gathering contributors, organizers, sponsors, speakers, and attendees at the Jio World Convention Centre…

Over three days in Mumbai, WordCamp Asia 2026 brought together contribution, learning, and community. From Contributor Day through the closing keynote, the event balanced hands-on work with bigger conversations about publishing, technology, education, and the open web.

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