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Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won't actually find a picture of Frank Lloyd Wright, it may feel as if you should.

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries

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People do not need "AI literacy".

They need a gd intro to statistics and probability course.

So if you're a MS Office subscriber and got a notice that the price went up. It's because are now charging for Copilot.

You can opt-out by cancelling your subscription. When you do, they will offer a Office365 "classic" option which is at the previous price and doesn't include Copilot.

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com A design language, if you can keep it.

Check out this excellent reflection by Ethan Marcotte: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

America by Design Fail Trump fired the best designers in the Federal Government

whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail

Geese in Flight
Benjamin Chee Chee ~ Anishinaabe
1976

Me ten years ago: sure, I'll read your 10,000 word thinkpiece on teletubbies as a modern-day justice league.

Me now: it's a 1m57s video and you're imploring me to "watch to the end"? I think not.

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But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Meme of a group of twenty-something women partying next to an image of a forty something woman drinking wine sadly in front of her laptop. Text reads DREAMS AT 25 No kids, no man, no problem. Just vibes and vacations! REALITY AT 45 Why are all the good men taken? I guess men Just can't handle strong women...

Whenever I see men post this I think about how when women are lonely, it's not pitied. It's used to chastise them for not being nicer to men. Meanwhile, when men are experiencing a "loneliness epidemic" they decide the answer is *also* that women should be nicer to men.

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Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

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In Oxfam for £25, calendar with Tolkien in green tweed suit lying against a tree

1974 JRR Tolkien calendar does not get very racy in either his poses or clothes

When I was young, old people had trouble double clicking

Unrelated, it's gotten so my phone has such nuanced gestures that I do the wrong one as often as the right one to accomplish what I want
(eg swipe left to the next tab in the app vs swipe edge left to minimize the whole app)

If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to

The Copilot Delusion Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

Andrew Stanton's Wall-E was released 17 years ago today.

Still one of my fav sci-fi animated movie. 🤗

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

SecUnit, from the show *Murderbot,* stands forlornly in an isolated forest. Caption reveals he is saying "I should've downloaded more shows."

Aye, SecUnit, righte ther wyth thee.

we have broken the promise of due process

Mark Carney Is Turning His Back on Climate Action | The Tyee And Canada is losing a chance for leadership and sustained economic growth.

PM Mark Carney has described developing fossil fuel infrastructure as “pragmatic.”

But it’s unclear how a country grappling with abysmal air quality due to wildfires fuelled by global warming will benefit from further fossil fuel development. Deborah de Lange writes.

Learning the etymology of words, because our brains love a good story, is phenomenal for remembering new vocabulary.

And morphology (learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, etc) helps with remembering & guessing meaning of unfamiliar words too.

#LangSky #etymology

Top notch infographic with alt-text

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled.

LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

If a human told you things that were correct 80% of the time but claimed, flat out, with absolute confidence, that they were correct 100% of the time, you would dislike them & never trust a word they say. All I'm really suggesting is for people to treat chatbots with that same distrust & antagonism.

Damien Owens @OwensDamien As long as I live, I will never understand how this alone wasn't the end of it.

#Throwback (2019)

This is absolutely delightful

Andrew has posted the full opening credits/theme song to The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon!

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Sexual exploitation and domestic violence soared after Lahaina wildfire, report finds Exclusive: One in six female survivors surveyed felt forced to engage in ‘survival sex’ for necessities after 2023 catastrophic Hawaii fire

An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...