Wendy Xu

Why it’s time to end the grim march of the touchscreen Self-service kiosks make us buy more stuff and feel more lonely

“The existence of technology can lead us down many paths. That does not mean all should be taken.”

the ft slowly embracing the luddite cause

addressing the ways in which the greeks were fucked up but still with the sincerity of the kid who was obsessed with mythology? it's more likely than you think

daedalus is dead by seamus sullivan

oooooouuuu this was short, concise & intense. crazy stuff (complimentary)

sketch & photo of dumbo

back on my weekend shit

it can't tell if the output is true because *it has no concept of truth*. The only thing it "knows" is "this output is correlated"

It is structurally indifferent to truth

The Publisher Weekly announcement of a 3 book deal Laine Falk and I have with Scholastic for an early readers graphic novel series: Pine School Pals.

A drawing of all the pals from our series. They’re in 2nd grade and are named as followed. Top row (left to right): Nora, Jack, Riley, Ava, Sara and Malik Bottom row (left to right: Niki, Jun, Zoey, Tate, Ben and Theo

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT!

I’ve been working on an early readers graphic novel series with Laine Falk: The Pine School Pals! The first book of the 3 book deal will be out this Fall (and you can already preorder it). Shoutout to my agent, Hannah Man @ Writers House

Can’t wait for y’all to meet the pals!✏️🐸

how else will they feel important tho!!

If the PM panics → the team panics. If the PM hesitates → Slack explodes. If the PM reacts emotionally → congratulations, you just created another problem to manage. So you become the company's human shock absorber. Turning chaos into: "Yep, we're on it." The weirdest side effect? You start doing this in real life too. Family argument? Stakeholder alignment. Grocery planning? Prioritization framework. Weekend trip? Roadmap with dependencies. The better you get at it, the less visible it becomes. We call it ownership. But sometimes... it's just pressure management with better vocabulary.

we need to put these ppl in reeducation camps

cake and assorted desserts

1/8 EPHEMERAL MATTER Mujiangzi Financier Sichuan Green Huajiao and Mujiangzi Oil + Taiwan Longan Honey Pu'er Black Sesame Triple Cream Cake Black Sesame Chiffon + Puer Fermented Tea and Hongtang Triple Cream Layers Hongtang Brown Butter Niangao Sticky Rice Cake +Shaanxi Persimmon + Aged Yunnan Hongtang Syrup + Laozao Fermented Rice + Flake Salt Jasmine Green Tea Salted Cheese Jellos Sichuan Molihua Flower Tea + Salted Cheese Cream Sichuan Zongzi Sticky Rice, Auntie Liu's Smoked Wind-Cured Sichuan Pork Belly, Flower Shitake, Red Bean, Pea, Red Huajiao Sunday 8, March @wei.collective @misesame @long-_pang

middle of the day dessert tasting. niangao my fave (& the standout!) but everything was lovely!

YUKO NOOOOO LMAO

my dad tried to convince me to outsource some comics work to him.... no 😭😭😭😭😭😭

OP making a really silly face on Fox News

lmaooo

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

cannot even begin to tell you how offended the cat is that i have to vacuum today

digital red ink gesture drawings of malenia from elden ring

malenia warmup

All Robot & Computers Must Shut The Hell Up To All Machines: You Do Not Speak Unless Spoken To → And I Will Never Speak To You + I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk I am a Divine Being You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

re "claude is conscious explain human consciousness"

EGGDOG!! godspeed!!

painting of a white chrysanthemum

painting of a red chrysanthemum

drawing of the head of a chrysanthemum

One aspect of Mondrian's early work I wish was better known are the many gorgeous paintings and drawings he made of chrysanthemums, which tend to focus on the flower's detailed structure

This thinking is not different from antivaxx, it just says “tech” more

move slow and repair things

magical girl mentality truly does help 😭

While I have a distrust of many people with responsibility and authority, I fundamentally believe in the power of truth and love. My work regularly connects with incredibly smart and compassionate people too
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I know some of you might read this and say "these people can't be stupid! These people run companies! They make huge deals! They read all these books!" and my answer is that some of the stupidest people I've ever met have read more books than you or I will read in a lifetime. While they might be smart when it comes to corporate chess moves or saying "this product category should do this," none of these men - not Altman, Pichai or Nadella - actually has a hand in the design or creation of any of the things their companies make, and they never, ever have. Regardless, I have a larger point: it's time to start mocking these people and tearing down their legends as geniuses of industry. They are not better than us, nor are they responsible for anything that their companies build other than the share price (which is a meaningless figure) and the accumulation of power and resources. These men are neither smart nor intellectually superior, and it's time to start treating them as such.

I also recommend if possible to find whatever humor you can. Make fun of these people. Lampooning them doesn’t discount the seriousness of their actions or the destruction of their works - it undermines their power and status and names, and lightens the soul

www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...

scribbly jabba the hutt with a lollipop

elden ring

IM CRYING youraislopbores.me

A LIST OF WORDS FOR COOL.

A DUDE THINKING SOME SERIOUSLY DEEP THOUGHTS.

THE BEST HOODIE OF ALL TIME

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MACHINE. A "CUTE CATBOY" AND BEANS.

SO THIS SHIT RULES. youraislopbores.me

[doing an elden ring replay] i want to slap varré every time he calls you "my lambkin"

also (sorry i'm genuinely so fucking pissed about this): "chatbots help people" when for the last 5 years it's "try our cheap therapy app that makes mental health more accessible" from silicon valley assholes like WHICH ONE IS IT THEN

that's actually exactly what i was thinking, that saying "ai helps people" is like saying "meth helps people"

anyway today i hit a punching bag so hard i bruised my knuckles

also: if these ppl truly cared about censorship they'd be fighting book ban bills with all their might but for some reason all their energy is saved for tech company founders