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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms

you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction:

- forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe
- incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents
- immediately starts dating her manager
- quits after two days to move back home

BC billionaires hoard more wealth every year — and it’s making life worse for…literally everyone else. 2 minutes on how we got here and our game plan to fund the future⚡️Share & join us: bcgreens.ca/join/

But what is the “religion” of our age? Rugged American individualism?

I’m so excited about the season after the movie

I’m also scared about where this series is going. If you follow the core pacifist philosophy to its conclusion, it would be boring. But if it follow the core dramatic tension to its natural conclusion, it could really turn the audience off as well.

Pluribus is incredible. I need to talk to someone about it

I need to remember this

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Things I never thought I’d enjoy: an exhalation so deep that it created a little crack in my spine where it meets the ribs

I think I’m long overdue for a cry-wake-up

I’m begging some of you to get therapy. Please. I can’t take it sometimes

Some people don’t actually practice Socratic dialogue, what they do is SoCRAPtic dialogue. These kinds of dialogues give the illusion of good-faith truth-seeking debates. But in actuality it’s an exercise of strong arm wrestle that seeks to put the opponent into submission or humiliation

The area between oversimplification and inaction

Day 4/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.

a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

Thinking about how the tech ecosystem prioritizes all else above longevity

But my HTML websites from back then still work beautifully today, whereas my pals’ masterpieces can only be experienced on old computers running obsolete OSes, browsers, and plug-ins. So, there’s that. Better to have bread for 100 years than cake for 5 minutes. 2/2

Counting things is, actually, political. It’s laden with choices about what to count, who gets to count and who gets counted, how to display numbers in ways that shape the possible frames for interpretation or which are more or less accessible, etc

Tommy Lee Jones in the last scene of No Country for Old Man

Increasing feeling like this guy these days

This is a great post, and it uses simple, compelling visuals to get its point across wonderfully: elroy.bot/blog/2025/07...

What it highlights for me is how professional, high quality graphics are often LESS valuable than amateur-ish, but viscerally obvious ones.

i think we face two separate problems here:
1. people are desperate for connection, living in increasingly isolated conditions thanks to less-walkable cities and communal spaces
2. people want friends that will basically operate as unpaid general contractors for emotional labor

Right?? Like where is Anomalisa?

And it’s not just ChatGPT. This is the logic of every platform that values retention over reality, clicks over care, and profit over people. We’ve spent the last decade getting hooked — not held. Stimulated — not supported.

These tools were never meant to understand us.

a woman stands in a kitchen looking out a window with a cakes box in the background Alt: Brie Larson’s character in Lessons in Chemistry stands in a TV kitchen set, turning towards the audience saying “Shall we begin?”

Just finished watching Let Her Cook. Love this show so much

It’s ironic that every time I open BlueSky, despite its name, I would feel “This is the Bad Place!” I really need less depressing accounts to follow

Fruit Loops box edited to say Feedback Loops.

The breakfast of champions:

there is a widespread problem of governments taking at face value whatever their tech vendors tell them - often because of lack of capacity to verify, but sometimes because of what I could charitably call wishful innovation

Perversion is the name of the game

Watch and learn. 👀 🧠

I’ve written often about how infants learn language not just with their ears, but with their eyes.

But I’ve rarely run across a better video example than this lovely moment shared to IG by seanandcaitlin.

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