I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design. If it was so damn helpful, people would be falling over themselves to use it. That's clearly not happening.
The AI design revolution hasn't come to pass. This needs to be said louder.
@hipsterelectron it still bugs me every time people say web browsers are operating systems
@babble_endanger they are parroting propaganda. an operating system provides affordances to the user that a web browser does not. much like the way private corporations want to be allowed to provide government services for profit without the corresponding anti-discrimination clauses and equitable distribution that government provides, google wants to power to profit from an operating system without providing services to the user
BREAKING: Trump to use IRS to enable pursuit of left-leaning groups, per WSJ
@hipsterelectron it still bugs me every time people say web browsers are operating systems
I really want to get this printed to hang over my bed but then I won't have anywhere to hang the periodic table that's currently there.
@Alice maybe you can display this mighty piece during the periods when the table isn't one. elementary.
why is it pretentious to say everything is graph theory but normal and cool to call everything a compiler which is not remotely true. saying everything else is just a subset of the thing you are paid to work on is really obnoxious imo
@hipsterelectron it still bugs me every time people say web browsers are operating systems
"If armed, masked, federal agents are snatching US citizens off the street as they walk to work and throwing them in unmarked vehicles, you can only imagine what these agents must be willing to do to our immigrant neighbors" and people who dare speak out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/chicago-ice-tv-producer-arrest
using the definite article "the" compiler perpetuates institutions of hegemonical control over the language which all users contribute to defining. "the compiler invoked by the user" or even better "the user's compiler" can help to temporally and contextually situate the compiler and to understand it (like all software) as a constantly shifting result of human effort, amorphous and alive. the compiler is not out there, defined by the result of a CI job. it's in here. the compiler is within all of us all the time
literally the compiler https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/115381253434961645
Developers beware. Here's an attack vector we didn't expect.
https://blog.daviddodda.com/how-i-almost-got-hacked-by-a-job-interview
'Obfuscated. Sneaky. Evil. And 100% active - embedded between legitimate admin functions, ready to execute with full server privileges the moment admin routes were accessed ...
When I first hit the URL, it was live. I grabbed the payload. Pure malware. The kind that steals everything - crypto wallets, files, passwords, your entire digital existence.
Here's the kicker: the URL died exactly 24 hours later. These guys weren't messing around - they had their infrastructure set up to burn evidence fast.'
Looking in the general direction of Mastodon Social GmbH as well.
Looking in the general direction of Mastodon Social GmbH as well.
@ancient_catbus jack dorsey also did this at least once probably more. he and musk are basically interchangeable except that jack was slightly less of a greedy lecherous manchild
@ancient_catbus used to admire him when i worked at twitter. the naivete of youth
My cooperative development organization, Carolina Common Enterprise, lost federal funding earlier this year. We've re-engineered our business model to not depend on grants and internally to operate as a worker cooperative. There's a lot of need for our services. We have new projects in the pipeline and prospects to break even soon, but our cash has run out.
Please help us keep going for another month or two. Even a few dollars. Donate here:
https://givebutter.com/c/CCEBetterWorld
The revolution will not happen on the platforms owned by the oppressors.
A supercut of all the scenes of forced laughter
At bad jokes told as comic relief
From the ends of Star Trek episodes
@ancient_catbus jack dorsey also did this at least once probably more. he and musk are basically interchangeable except that jack was slightly less of a greedy lecherous manchild
We sat down with @gavinnewsom for an interview you won't want to miss. We cover a lot of ground and have some very unexpected laughs as well. And the ending might be my favorite part of any episode 😊
https://youtu.be/tHsT4a6KRjk?si=ZvVgbiDjs_u-O6Jt
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