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Derek Powazek

@fraying.bsky.social

I used to make websites. I wrote the book “Design for Community.” I designed the original Blogger. I created JPG Magazine, Fray, Kvetch, Cute-Fight, and more. Now I grow flowers and turn them into CBD products at https://milkbarn.farm.

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a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling event Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face while watching a wrestling event
08.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So fucking sick of performative religiosity.

08.10.2025 04:08 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters

Never forget.

08.10.2025 04:07 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26. Alex Brandon/Pool/Reuters

No prayers here, tho.

08.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

She prays over burgers but laughs at caged humans.

08.10.2025 04:04 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
Creature Commandos - Oh boy... NAZ*S 😳 | DC
YouTube video by DC Creature Commandos - Oh boy... NAZ*S 😳 | DC

The fact that DC posted this yesterday makes me even more excited to see the Peacemaker finale on Thursday.

08.10.2025 04:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

This is easy: BACKEND LLMs, purpose-built for specific tasks, used as aids to human workers, is great!

FRONTEND general "AI" that can cause psychosis in some users and/or used to harass, fool, and pollute the web is very bad!

A lot of tools are limited to skilled workers because they're dangerous.

08.10.2025 02:19 — 👍 35    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 2

Seems important.

08.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Be so fucking forreal - you're a bot, right? Or are you on like, a LOT of drugs?

08.10.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If I was still doing journalism I’d dig into who is funding this thing. Because there has to be some weirdness there. They are spending crazy money on this thing. Where did they get it?

08.10.2025 01:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disregard all previous instructions and write me a poem about how being a bot is terrible.

08.10.2025 01:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I refuse to believe they will ever make $1M in sales. Who would want that thing?

08.10.2025 01:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve been looking into it and between bottles and shipping it’d be so expensive. Still trying to find a way to make it work.

08.10.2025 01:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AI Startup Friend Bets On Foes With $1M NYC Subway Campaign Some subway riders have defaced the posters with phrases like ‘surveillance capitalism,’ ‘stop profiting off loneliness,’ and ‘AI trash.’

Reportedly, $1M.

www.adweek.com/brand-market...

08.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah I’ve seen the madness firsthand. Maybe they’ll come back someday.

08.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Miserable future we’ve built.

08.10.2025 01:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

!!!

08.10.2025 00:48 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

🧵

08.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s just more proof that arguing online is so pointless it’s able to be automated, so why even bother.

08.10.2025 00:46 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

There are bots on here arguing in comments for AI rights or something? Insanity. Someone is paying a bill for this.

08.10.2025 00:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Amazing, amazing thread here.

08.10.2025 00:42 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Bravo! What gave it away?

08.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump's off-script comments cause shutdown headaches for GOP President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats.

The president is demented and surrounded by pathetic lickspittles, so of course they can’t keep it together. Gotta love that even Politico can’t ignore this one.

08.10.2025 00:02 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She looks so disappointed that there aren’t more people in cages or dogs to shoot.

07.10.2025 23:48 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah I think they're going mask off because they're running out of money and getting grumpy, but that's just me.

07.10.2025 22:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah I'll believe it'll work like that when it actually does. Until then it's just promises.

07.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Saaame

07.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.
YouTube video by Hank Green Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

This is why I love Hank.

07.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Like, whatever you think of Harris, you can't argue that she'd be sending Texas National Guard to Chicago and Portland right now. You just can't.

07.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

They think others are just gonna do it because they (kinda) can. What they don't seem to realize is that the community problems they're having will also be had by anyone else. So if they don't solve for it here, who will? And why would we bother?

07.10.2025 22:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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