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So sad. Had tix to his Nov. 7 show. Also have a signed photo somewhere from back in the day that says: Save the planet, love the world.

RIP

Opinion | The Lovely Loneliness of Sunday Afternoons in Autumn

A beautiful essay for a Sunday afternoon. I have fond memories of Sundays with neighborhood kids doing what seemed like nothing and going home when it got dark. @margaretrenkl.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Keeping Yorgos Lanthimos Movie Posters Weird

This is truly brilliant design work and I'm struck again at how movie posters so often prove the initial and most experimental sites for artistic innovations. Gift link: a lovely feature from Carlos Aguilar (@carlosfilm.bsky.social) for the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

Bee Happy: They’re Saving Pollinators in Kansas

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I love when my yellow hibiscus bloom orange in autumn.

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

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Dial-A-Poem, a Very Analog Project of the ’60s, Goes Global

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On even-numbered years I've seen @wearejames.bsky.social perform at overseas venues (2012, 2014), the @sfgiants.com have won the #WorldSeries .

The band just announced an April 2026 UK tour.

Don't you think the Giants should pay for my next trip as a good-luck charm? 🍀🍀🍀

YouTube video by dreamlion JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

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YouTube video by Bryan Do James - Five O - at the Filmore San Francisco on September 30 2025 video by Julie Angilo

Still floating from @wearejames.bsky.social show last night! Thank you! #NBL
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The father-daughter chefs behind House of Nanking are finally sharing their recipes House of Nanking has long been known for simple and fresh homestyle multi-regional Chinese food. Now, Peter and Kathy Fang are sharing their story and culinary secrets in a new cookbook.

This is epic.
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Curious why you felt it important to break out each line? Because the graphic's labeling is ambiguous?

@wearejames.bsky.social So what's up with the VIP passes? Less than a week before the shows, and no additional information...

What's most frustrating about #OpenAI's free plan is how much of a daily allotment a person has to spend to challenge and correct blatant biases it taps into and re-generates in its responses.

I hit my daily limit pretty quickly.

What Was Behind David Bowie’s Genius? His Archive Holds the Answers. (Gift Article) The David Bowie Center in London is a new home for the singer’s 90,000-item archive. It holds the key to the pop star’s dramatic reinventions.

What Was Behind David Bowie’s Genius? His Archive Holds the Answers. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wake Forest University will be tuition-free for admitted students from North Carolina families earning less than $200,000 | Wake Forest News Wake Forest University announced today that undergraduates from North Carolina with annual family incomes less than $200,000 per year will attend tuition-free, beginning for students admitted for the ...

This. ⤵️
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I’m going to send this to my kitty corner (ha! Get it?) neighbor who put up a sheet metal barrier in hopes that the combo of slippery and hot metal would deter feline escapes.

It doesn’t, BTW, because cats are smart and bendy.

3. When I pointed *that* out, Claude said it could try to list the links if I screenshot and showed the links to it. Which I did.

LOL moment: It then said it the text was too small in the drawer to be credibly read. Exactly. #UXfail

2. When I pointed this out to Claude, it first refused to paste those sources into the thread so I could copy. Then it argued that it had only 7 sources and not the 20 links that it had generated and that I was clearly seeing.

Problem is, once you end a session with Claude, all the work goes away. So a user is either taken out of immediate flow, or has to copy and paste what's generated for follow up at another time.

What happened:

1. In an answer, #Claude listed 20 sources in a teeny, tiny drawer with links that can't be copied or downloaded. The link copy was also too small to read.

Apropos of nothing: If you do 20-30 minutes of #Duolingo every day, you'll advance from start to A2 in about nine months.

Neun Monate, um die Grundlagen der deutschen Sprache zu erlernen. Es war wie die Geburt eines Babys.

To Chat Bot or Not? Over the weekend, I stumbled upon a 2017 hard copy deck of work I did on AI in conversational design. It’s thinking that is still ahead of the curve today. The idea: For a 3rd party AI named …

I am still trying to find the digital copies of the deck and my 2017 explorations. But I jotted a few thoughts here as a starter. I'll add on as I find my notes. :)
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The idea in the deck: For a 3rd party, an AI named XOEY, to remain mostly in the background, be called upon when needed, and to step in to facilitate and keep conversations going between a home buyer and their real estate agent.

Over the weekend, I stumbled upon a 2017 hard copy deck I created that has good thinking on AI in conversational design that's relevant today.

Now I'm on the hunt for the digital copy.

Design, In All Its Forms I found myself talking about both my dad and grandpa this week in context of design, dreaming and innovation. My grandpa tinkered with his experimental 2-seater commuter jet until the day he died. …

On my dad's birthday, I found myself reflecting on his and my different relationship with design and ways of working.
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Puttanesca is seldom in stores and expensive when you do find it. So I made my own.

Yesterday’s rain is helping the late summer blooms on my patio!

Five years ago, midday in San Francisco.

@adobe.com why does intrusive #UI on PDF open for an AI activity I won't know if I immediately need?

And why does it take clicks into two areas to get it out of the way? The AI assist is visually prominent in navigation. There's no missing it, so likely not as much need to force UI as you think.