Creator owned models are interesting too, like means.tv

Having to do any kind of testing of stuff on iOS -- *cough* Apple Pay *cough* -- will quickly show you that all of Apple's talk about what makes good UX "are for thee but not for me"

Just atrocious UX and system design. Same for App Store Connect, etc. total disregard for users

"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters.

The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.

These are the only "AI" takes I want to see tysm

People running technical interviews at work are saying some candidates are clearly using LLMs "let me think about that" and giving canned answers as they clearly read out the result. Unbelievable gall

I love the idea of this but we're already seeing so many candidates use LLMs (yes even in live sessions!) that I imagine it's getting less and less representative of how that person works and thinks on their own.

Americans are so used to assuming that "propaganda" is something that "those people do over there" that they are unable to notice an analyze the fact that it is done to us all the fucking time

How anyone lived through 9/11 and still didn't work this out is beyond me

Schreiner is solid. I watched the Northern Ontario one and he stood out there as well. Thanks for the summary so I don't have to watch another 😆🙏🏻

Musk has no technical skills whatsoever, but he wants to appear smart. So he takes bits of information like this, told to him by junior engineers, and regurgitates it to appear smart.

Musk did this with the Twitter stack and Twitter's senior architects called him out publicly, then he fired them.

When the two options available to voters are basically identical, posting electoral maps to make a point is dumb as shit

If you're a member of another party do you have to leave that one first?

I'll be looking for Marco's statement of outrage when they drive across an overpass in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood

That looks like a scene out of War of the Worlds 😥

Still haven't gotten to the main storyline yet but I love this quote:

"While the armies of empires dominate the open plain, rebels and patriots gain advantage in the shelter of trees -- right beside outcasts, outlaws and mystics"

Haida Gwaii sounds majestic and its people fierce, to match their environment.

I don't think I would have picked up a book marketed as focused on a history of logging, but the tidbits in there about how the industry evolved, how people were drawn in and played their role, is fascinating

Photo of a book on my table showing the cover that reads "The Golden Spruce" by John Vaillant overlaying a forest off green with a vibrant gold spruce in the middle with the caption "A true story of myth, madness and greed" In the top right corner partially visible are some bananas for scale

Meant to start reading The Golden Spruce over the holidays but just getting into it this weekend and so far a great read. Enjoying how much it goes into setting the stage for the environment, early time period, people and cultures. I haven't explored the west coast at all and now I really want to.

Yup, CBC management pandering to the future gov it seems

Full read: bsky.app/profile/owen...

It's heartening to know there's a continued effort happening inside the BBC to right these wrongs but it's also enraging to see how management is responding each time

Shameful racism and bias in the BBC's coverage

Important work by Owen here and proud we were a tiny part of it @techforpalestine.org

Spicy mayo on sweet potato fries 😗🤌🏻

There are 2 million people in Gaza, they have access to the internet, very very few ways to earn money and there is a famine. They don’t want to ask for help like this- many of them refrained from doing so for months and months. But they are desperate and that’s why they are here.

Just to come out the other side reassembled in the Minecraft realm

Lol, stay humble React Native

I appreciate you

Can you remove yourself from starter packs or are you out of luck once that happens

Saint Luigi fan art

I'm obsessed with how good these are. People really care

Someone told me there's signs on some of the wood in the basement of the Great Fire of London but I don't know how true that is... probably just from the smoking days

+1 whoever thought burying albums was a good idea needs a talking to...

Wood sculpture by Han Hsu Tung of a hand in mid-pixelation

Wood sculpture by Han Hsu Tung of a terracotta soldier in mid-pixelation

The work of Taiwanese sculptor Hsu Tung Han 韓旭東 - of wood sculptures carved as if pixelated and uploading

[Via his Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/hsutu...