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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

A small but good example from work today about how accessibility accomodations for disabled folks can help everyone.

One of our Deaf staff asked for blinds to be installed in a conference room, because in the afternoon the sun glare is bad and can impact her ability to see the ASL interpreter. 1/

YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.

It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.

Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

Being a parent is such an embodied experience. You read, and you talk to people, and all that, and it's all useful, even essential, but you learn how to be a parent most of all by being physically present with, engaged with, connected to, your kid.

You, as a person. With your specific kid.

i wonder if there is a precedent for what IT companies are doing, which reduces to "we're going to sell the products WE want", ie not what customers want, or the public wants

i mean i'm sure there are historical examples of a similar *kind*, but it seems like an unprecedented *degree*?

Fri PM Deploy octopus whistling, pushing out v1.1, v1.2, v1.3, and v1.4 on a conveyor belt A purple tiger or leopard cub with DEPLOY ON FRIDAY text in comic sans shown on top other stickers on background, including an octopus steering a 7 spoked kubernetes helm, if you liked it you should have put an SLO on it, and that span could have been an attribute.

@octopus.com 💪 @honeycomb.io stickers at #YOW25!

Augsburg president decries ICE detention of a student on private campus University officials say agents refused to provide a judicial warrant before taking the student from a private parking lot on campus.

Tiny Augsburg College (about $70 million endowment) doing more to combat fascism than powerful Ivy League schools (with endowments over 800x larger)

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Nine: Strictly Ballroom A personal story to begin: I was a film critic at the Fresno Bee newspaper when Strictly Ballroom came out in 1992, My review of it was an unqualified rave, and I said something along the line that…

Today in The December Comfort Watches, I'm essaying Strictly Ballroom, a loving look at a delightfully weird little subculture, that is, in its way, an absolutely perfect film:

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Today, for variety, Fury has her nose buried in my armpit. I am trying to convince her that if she would transfer to the left armpit, I could at least use my right arm to edit.

My blandishments are going nowhere.

Name a Snowplow: MnDOT asks for name ideas for sixth annual contest Perfectly timed for the winter weather blowing in on Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Transportation kicked off its annual Name a Snowplow contest.

Perfectly timed for the winter weather blowing in on Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Transportation kicked off its annual Name a Snowplow contest. It’s the agency’s sixth annual contest to name the beloved road-maintenance machines.

Excerpt from article from The American Prospect with headline, "Other Victories for Working Families." Mamdani got the headlines, but New York was not a one-off. Candidates endorsed by the Working Families Party had amazing election successes elsewhere in America.

When Zohran Mamdani won, pundits tried to say it was a fluke.

Joke’s on them. In Jersey City, voters not only turned out in force to elect a new mayor, but for the first time ever, the Jersey City Council will have a Working Families Party majority.

Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant – Melissa Scott (Queen of Swords Press) Buy from: Queen of Swords Press After seven long years, Melissa Scott has returned to Astreiant! Point of Hearts, her sixth foray into Astreiant, the quasi-Renaissance city-state she created with h…

#Booksky Terrific review by Keith John Glaeske of "Point of Hearts: A Novel of Astreiant," by Melissa Scott at Out in Print.. outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/p...

Why Every Conference Needs a Nursing Room I didn’t truly understand the value of a nursing station until my health and career were on the line....

We ask why are there no women in leadership? or why are there no women speaking at this conference.

The lack of nursing rooms at conference is a contributing factor..imo #blogvent

Here's a blog post about my alarming, but naive experience
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- you got that Aryan propaganda done?

- sure did boss, nice and Arian just like you asked

Ask your doctor for a prescription. Point out any history of suppressed immune function, like cold sores.

My parents up by Mt Rainier got 3.9 inches… yesterday.

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform

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a guillotine made from gingerbread, decorated with white icing snow and icicles

I am brimming with holiday spirit

He invented the ACA

Worf (Star Trek) on a Dwarf (Gimli from Lord of the Rings).

you’ve definitely heard of elf on the shelf but are you ready for

I don't know which of these I've done/heard more often:
- Talked about how CI / CD is man in the middle attacks as a service
- Told companies that "allow all actions" on their internal GitHub Enterprise is a bad idea
- Argued that GitHub, security wise, is somewhat of a corporate nightmare..

Updating the "everyone is 12" theorem to add "everyone is 12 and can't read"

also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist

Milwaukee Avenue Historic District - Wikipedia

This is one of my favorite places in Minneapolis. It's a lovely couple of blocks and worth taking a stroll down.

Also the story about it is wild. The city tried wrecking the whole block, the locals got it historical protection & only hopeless houses were wrecked.
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I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

Regret to report…cruising around on a fat bike in a snowstorm is a fkn blast

Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...

“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said

and what about the adults who now have to surrender their anonymity to post online?

That WOULD be interesting. Alas, no.