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My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Still from Apple iPad commercial Crush, which shows a huge machine crushing musical instruments, art supplies, materials used in creative pursuits, and machines.

100% agree. I remember when they inadvertently told us as much in an iPad commercial ....

I think they write such things because it's what they believe. People, including journos, steeped in neoliberal lore, are semi-secretly terrified of the big changes that are likely to occur over the next 30+ years. Chloe and her peeps are activated by it and offering ways forward.

Hey Russell - I'd love to see you writing about this. I think that shorter supply chains is a big part of a large range of other food suppliers / growers, esp in the organic / organic-adjacent world. Lots to discover and discuss. On ya.

Glad to see the traditional trajectory for Labour's neo-lib brigade still intact.

All this Foucault makes me wonder if _the internet as digital panopticon_ is getting a 'look-in' for your new book :)

Precisely. I wonder if one of those local aviation journalists might take a break from their junket-based articles about the comfort levels of the new business class seats and follow up?

hmmm ... www.airnewzealandnewsroom.com/press-releas...

Apple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UX Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.

The mission of UX is being changed: from making shit work, into branding

This does explain some of the thinking at the time – thinking by 1980s Labour leaders who were a) into University of Chicago economics, b) made neo-liberal policies law in the 1980s, and c) left Labour and created the Act party. I'm hopeful left-wing political thought in NZ has come a ways since

YouTube video by sjimflav SJD - Beautiful Haze

SJD - Beautiful Haze ... simple and perfect ... middle-aged men will be weeping into their craft beers ... "It might be good to tell the boss I don't give a toss, to stick his lame-ass job but I'm not sure I can ..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb-4...

Penpot - About

When you get a chance you might want to check out Pen Pot. I'm only just starting to explore myself. They don't have variants or variables yet but say they're working on those. So far, they have made noises about being more interested in ML than AI ... we shall see. penpot.app/penpot-vs-fi...

This is such an important point, well made. I'll be sharing with my postgrad UX students. Thanks very much.

Video Dispatch #20: Kill Magic Thinking

Bulls**t isn't created or destroyed, it just takes on different forms

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Video Dispatch #18: Finding Purpose is the Fool's Errand

If they don't say what it's for, don't help them.

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My Feelings? Sneaky.

not anywhere near me, it won't

#aifraud

You might enjoy getting his (almost daily) email which I reckon is great mail.flarn.com/mailman/list...

The enshittification of public services because 'ideology'

Cartoon. Title: Mr Seymour came to work on Wednesday and checked his Treaty Principles Inbox. The image shows a man at a computer being knocked back by a deluge of mail pouring out of his computer. The mail has NO! written on each piece, and one has YES. The man is saying, “That’s a ‘maybe’ then …”

The submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill closed last night. My Stuff #cartoon today #nzpol #TreatyPrinciplesBill #ToitūTeTiriti

I enjoy Cory Doctorow's succinct 'on-the-button' ness of many of his words.

"Popular movements should strive to increase their members' joy, not demand their deprivation."

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Frontiers | “No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia Despite thousands of higher education institutions (HEIs) having issued Climate Emergency declarations, most academics continue to operate according to ‘busi...

Terrific thread. Thanks. This feels related / useful and I thought you may be interested, if you've not seen already: www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

that outside of @mckenziewark.bsky.social and some others basically no marxists are even trying to engage with pissed off techies annoyed at how things are currently run would is unbelievably funny

Sharing your iOS screen from the Zoom mobile app When you are in a meeting on the Zoom mobile app for iOS, you can share your entire screen on a device

Yes - here's some words about it. support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...

In the past I've used zoom or similar. Remote participant shares screen while they do tasks.

Line spacing of the theme style is very bad for me as well as the font weight. I'm in dark mode, in Safari and it text/background fails the A11y online checker I've tried. It's so bad I wonder if it's rendering incorrectly? Sticking to system font.

"Over a quarter" would've been more accurate and is the same number of characters

In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.

Also, 'why have a dog and bark yourself'

You're very welcome. Thanks for having a crack at it. Students love the challenge of your draft ethics, their expectations, and the tensions involved in workplace application / motivation.