The Straight of Hormuz could never. The Gay of Hormuz would be thriving: overflowing with seamen and trade. International waters, henny. 💅🏼

I think the emojis in Teams are generally well done, but how did they miss the best one? 👯

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era \ Anthropic A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

Mythos, Anthropic’s recently leaked model found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD, one of the most hardened operating systems in the world. And it did it autonomously. Shit is about to get wild… www.anthropic.com/glasswing

Looking straight up at some hanging crystal lights, each one glimmering and sparking creating little amorphous blobs. They scatter across the frame from the top left to the bottom right.

Looking up ⤴

😮

Car infotainment screen showing GM’s interface with multiple rows of icons including Vehicle Status, Drive Modes, myCadillac, Play Store, Charging, Camera, Trailering, Settings, Ambient Lighting, and Auto Park Assist against a purple-blue gradient background. The UI no different than any other poorly designed stock automotive interface from 2015

this is what GM thinks we want instead of CarPlay or Android auto

photo of a beautiful white horse with black and white mane looking at the camera over the gate of her stall. She has a sprig of hay on top of her head.

Beautiful Tessa trying out a new look with her little hay fascinator.

Turn off infinite battery mode. You’re welcome, I just saved you a trip to the genius bar.

Hey if your internet is full of bad things right now, here’s a reminder that all 403 episodes of Bob Ross are free on YouTube.

use focus modes to hide apps!

iPhone lock screen showing the time as 11:05 on Monday, January 26. An alarm is set for 7:15 AM, with icons for flashlight and sleep at the bottom. The background features a blurred red graphic of oversized digital numbers.

iPhone home screen with red and black theme, showing widgets for sleep tracking, moon phase, analog clock, and weather in Troy with a temperature of 9 degrees and partly cloudy skies. Weather forecasts span from Monday to Thursday, and the dock includes phone, messages, email, and apps folders with red icons.

I think I’m pretty close to perfecting my Sleep focus theme. 😌

A SKLETTON AT DA GULLITINE "BRING IT BACK " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

So you agree… you think you’re really pretty?

Chasing Originality Is Like Chasing Perfection The wall isn’t an obstacle so much as a signal. It’s telling me it’s time to reframe my intentions.

I kept running into the same creative wall and finally stopped to ask why. It turns out chasing originality looks a lot like perfectionism. What do you think?

New post up: thoughts.himitcho.com/chasing-orig...

Alan Cumming as the host of The Traitors in a magnificent yellow lace garment.

“Hello, my beautiful muffin gobblers”

Is it a rule that all college bands play the same 10 songs?

They’re all posting their statements on the child porn platform? That’s a wild choice.

A lot of this came from noticing what actually works for me after trying systems that didn’t. Curious what’s worked for you.

I’ve been writing more as a way to explore ideas and think with focus instead of just carrying them around in my head. My latest post is on noticing patterns in how I think and designing systems that cooperate with them.

I’d love to hear what you think, too.

thoughts.himitcho.com/making-peace...

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

A vintage-style newspaper front page titled “THE TROY RECORD” dated Thursday, October 29, 2026, with “PRICE ONE TREAT” in the header. The main headline reads “BREAKING NEWS: The News Cat Care Co-op Takes Shape” in large bold typography. The article describes a cooperative for cat care in The News Apartments building in Troy, NY. A sidebar quote reads “It’s not pet sitting. It’s more like… free cuddles.” The page includes a halftone-printed photo of a black and white cat. Below are two sections: “CO-OP NOTES” listing participation details, and a boxed “CAT CO-OP SEEKING MEMBERS” section with contact information instructing people to “TEXT MITCHELL.” The design mimics early 20th-century newspaper layout with classic serif typefaces and column formatting.

The need to create has been so strong lately that a basic flyer becomes a full design odyssey.

Hot take: ice cream tastes better when it's cold out.

Context: it's 11° F (-12° C) and I just enjoyed a waffle cone.

I took my time.

I, for one, support he discontinuation of Calibri, not because it’s woke, but because it’s ugly AF

I’m not sure if I get the hype about Pluribus…

Air: Tiny Desk Concert

youtu.be/jjuorGiEUS4

A sliced panettone (Italian sweet bread with raisins) on a wooden cutting board, with a Pantone color swatch card overlay reading ‘PANETTONE OF THE YEAR: Raisin-Studded Gold 2024’ that mimics the official Pantone Color of the Year format

Wow, I can’t believe Pantone chose Raisin-Studded Gold this year. absolutely wild. groundbreaking even.

Unplugging the cat heating mat in the evening because I can’t compete with that. 🙃 Followed by guilt (with a cat laying on me)

Now that Thanksgiving is over, it’s time to dust off the Christmas classics:

RuPaul - Christmas Party

Good improvement, love the callback to the (really cool) shopping bags they use in store with the knitted paper handles.

Damn, this keynote I just finished designing is frankly inappropriate in how hard it goes.

No templates here… 😮‍💨