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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

This interview feels like a tremendous missed opportunity: it reads like an airing of talking points, rather than properly interrogating a billionaire donor who’s comfortable slapping some nice fonts on openly fascist policies: https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/18/america-first-chief-design-officer-joe-gebbia-interview/

#uspol

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Stuart Langridge
@sil@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep design is about ̶l̶i̶s̶t̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ doing what you’re told while making it look pretty. And wearing a scarf.

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@sil —hang on hang on, let me get a pen

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Paul McAleer
@paulmcaleer@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep The incompetence will continue until morale improves

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a new hope :blobcatcoffee:
@latte@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep UGH

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@latte WEIRD THAT’S WHAT I SAID

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jenny (phire)
@phire@phire.place replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep tech press* ask a single critical question challenge (difficulty: impossible)

*404 excepted

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D2
@InkomTech@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep the term “unfunded mandates” comes to mind, since that article repeatedly talks like ‘if mgmt says so, everything old and new will magically align’.

Change costs.

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Stephen Farrugia
@fasterandworse@hci.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep I've never seen the word 'design' so egregiously misrepresented

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@fasterandworse this is the whole entire other thing to be upset about

so many talented people pushed out of the federal workforce, and replaced by someone woefully underprepared for the scale of the problem

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Doug Wilson
@onpaperwings@typo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep This — and I say this with all disrespect — fucking guy…

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@onpaperwings doug: you get me

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

And I just want to say again: suggesting that this is the first time design’s been practiced at the federal level is, in and of itself, an extension of this administration’s fascist relationship with history. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

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Zach Leatherman :11ty:
@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep

“Design is now in the highest level of the government ever” a quote from the article typeset in Shelley Script (the same typeface used for the recent super-gaudy sign outside of the White House)
“Design is now in the highest level of the government ever” a quote from the article typeset in Shelley Script (the same typeface used for the recent super-gaudy sign outside of the White House)
“Design is now in the highest level of the government ever” a quote from the article typeset in Shelley Script (the same typeface used for the recent super-gaudy sign outside of the White House)
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Gabriel N
@wtrmt@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@zachleat @beep this lacks polish: maybe some gold leaf and dingbats would make it be best.

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@zachleat zach the way my eye just twitched

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Zach Leatherman :11ty:
@zachleat@fediverse.zachleat.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep the graphic in graphic design refers to graphic violence

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Cory Dransfeldt :demi:
@cory@follow.coryd.dev replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@zachleat @beep

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Ethan Marcotte
@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@cory @zachleat both eyes twitching now, thank u both

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Cory Dransfeldt :demi:
@cory@follow.coryd.dev replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@beep @zachleat If it's good enough for Avatar

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