Joe Winter 🏳️‍🌈

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

A photo of two bells labeled “Ring for a hug” and “Ring for a cuddle”.

Furiously ringing both

I honestly feel like this win is the best political night in like, at least a decade, probably more

Last chance to turn it off.

On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Browsing Netflix is scrolling just fast enough to keep it fucking quiet.

Not using my extra hour for sleep, but for evil

Look who my family and I ran into on Halloween. !!!

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

Day 2 of Out in Tech’s 2025 Leadership Institute. 🩷 @outintech.bsky.social

Is Jakob ok? I’m not convinced his brain isn’t slowly being taken over by white thin AI women. #designsky

Screenshot of a search bar with the Google logo and a lines-and-arrow glyph and the text "Press tab then enter to ask AI Mode"

What's the key combo for get the fuck out of my face

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Maybe time to give V for Vendetta another watch.

this moment is so deeply fucking infuriating to live through

Imagine saying nothing about school shootings, or the genocide in Gaza, or the kidnapping of our neighbors, or the vilification of trans youth. Imagine saying nothing about these and so many other tragedies.

And then finding your voice for Charlie Kirk.

Today I baked muffins for a new neighbor and sold a bike trailer to an old neighbor. Yay neighbors!

the NYT made the mini crossword subscription only. all hope is lost

Pre-K first day drop-off this morning. I'm not crying, you're crying!

Loving Obsidian Bases! Having trouble focusing on actual work. O_o

Images showing computers shrinking greatly over 25 years, phones shrinking greatly over 40 years, and cars getting much bigger over the last 40 years.

Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic

This stings. 🫠

Professor Oak says: this isn't the time to use that!

Dear product managers trying to build high fidelity prototypes during the problem definition stage:

Photo of the USPS commemorative Good Night Moon forever stamps.

We must preserve the US Postal Service because UPS or FedEx would never do this.

One measure of a successful career is the number people you admire that also admire you.

How dare he bring the Death Star into this.

Two three-guess Wordle days in a row ok lfg Monday

“But people can't, unhappily invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

Reading James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” for the first time. Damn.

The way to do the Mamdani thing is not to copy the surface attributes of his communication pieces, it's to

1) know yourself
2) stand for something
3) understand and respect your audience

In Maine over the weekend I met a nice man with a walking stick. After we chatted for a bit he gave it to me to keep. He made it himself out from a sassafras tree in his yard. It’s beautiful and strong. I’m a walking stick person now.