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Loved House, give me that vibe but sexier.

Easiest block of my life. Imagine saying this and expecting anyone to consider you a serious person.

Strutt ev¹ Wins Red Dot: Luminary 2025 | Innovation Meets Design Excellence

Full disclosure: I am working on this account, and with my MS I’m intrinsically biased to think the subject is cool. But seeing some of the recent developments in accessibility like this has been heartening for me given everything else that’s going on.

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Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

It is 2025 and somehow I still can't rely on a phone camera to reliably and consistently choose landscape vs portrait correctly. And, worse, the process to fix that before sharing a photo is still more than a single extra tap.

Thank god I have a bunch of Al features I'II never use, I guess?

Loved the first but was a little eh on how short it was and how small the world was. 2 seem longer and bigger so far?

From the PR side: that sounds like a failure on my end to do my due diligence. as long as you’re not misleading folk into thinking the site still exists and not guaranteeing coverage, that would be on us.

Used to say I felt like a mechanic of the English language. None of it was perfect, just as functional as I could make it for the information it had to deliver.

Embarrassed to say: I never really understood or experienced writers block, not sure what it is. I either had a story to write or I didn’t. At most I’d run into some trouble with how to approach structure or information content and try a few approaches before just settling.

Holy cow this looks awesome

Premium and tech brands should be TERRIFIED of these AI purchase integrations. Agentic product purchasing is a fast-track for commoditization. Fast way to ruin brand image and margin.

There’s this combo Google Drive/project management system called Feishu (or Lark) that a lot of our clients use, and it’s the single most sociopathic, unintuitive, garbage UX I have ever experienced.

I hate everything about it and despise that it even exists.

If the AWS stays down for more than 15 minutes you are legally allowed to go home, it’s the law.

hilltop steak house sign, route 1, saugus, massachusetts, 1984

hilltop steak house sign, route 1, saugus, massachusetts, 1984

Cc @farcicles.bsky.social

I definitely don’t miss all the 90s era ads filled with mnemonic devices to help people remember phone numbers for their services.

Pre-roof-rage Carrot Top screaming “DIAL DOWN THE CENTER” in our sleep, for all time.

Gotta pay the troll toll to hike behind the cottage.

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

I grow scotch bonnets and it’s close, but not quite that shape. top seems noticeably different, but it’s possible it could be.

Would love to hear a podcast with you, @farcicles.bsky.social, and @milesintransit.com discussing this.

Bari Weiss steps onto the CBS News glass cliff of doom | The Verge Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

Glad to have this piece from @lopatto.bsky.social this morning summarizing the Bari Weiss CBS lunacy.

Things move so fast now that I figured it would just get brushed under the rug until Weiss did something (else) insane at the new gig.

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“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases | Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering | The University of Chicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering researchers led by Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell showed that their compound can eliminate the autoimmune reaction associated with multiple sclerosis in a laboratory setting.

And lastly, if the “Inverse Vaccine” research inspired by their work pans out, I’ll even be able to hold disease progression at bay indefinitely without the cost of immunosuppression.

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To be clear: the work they specifically did doesn’t yet have direct clinical applications as far as I know, but it’s guided other research that has, as science tends to do!

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win Nobel Prize in medicine | AP News They won for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, which is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues..

As someone with an autoimmune condition that only recently became controllable as a result of discoveries from their research, I owe my quality of life and continued health to the work done by Brunklow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi.

They absolutely deserve the Nobel Prize.

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All this to say: Van broke, but Van fixed.

Owning an old and unreliable car is frustrating but rewarding.

When something doesn’t function and simply through the work of deductive reasoning and testing you find the cause and fix it, making a broken system whole and functional again, the result is wildly gratifying.

Doesn’t someone make a drop-in PCB for those that lets them boot modern Android?

Therapy night.

“Bay Staters” is not the preferred nomenclature. Masshole, please.