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Content designer. Views are my own, all that jazz.
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Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

I'm mildly obsessed with the story of Ea-Nasir and how much the internet loves him/loves to pile on him.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I am always saying this

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

We've been busy making starter packs for all the speakers from the last 8 conferences. You can view the schedules and recorded talks for those conferences here. Starter packs to follow in the thread!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Because I would like a distraction from The Neverending Crisis, tell me your favourite GDS component. I'll go first.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 13 days ago • 274 comments

Reminds me of the end of Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Which, if you haven’t read it, is about his time fighting the fascists in Spain.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics existentialcomics.com/comic/588

submitted 25 days ago • 23 comments

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

submitted 34 days ago • 275 comments

The 5 steps of the design process are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and whiteboarding

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded

submitted 37 days ago • 63 comments

Terrifying and depressing.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI

submitted 42 days ago • 88 comments

The responses to this heartbreaking news are all along the lines of “We would DM daily and she was always full of ideas”, or “I never met her but she really inspired me with her writing”, which tells you something of the impact one person’s generosity can have on people’s lives.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

a hate crime has been committed against my people

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

I often get a bit of an urge to start a blog. However, I'm not sure that "painfully average content designer shouts into the void of late stage capitalism" is a genre that's going to attract any readers.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

The most directly I've seen the "imperial boomerang" spelled out

submitted 55 days ago • 21 comments

I really do believe AI is inherently fascist. Both the resources it takes to generate and the soullessness of its output render it entirely irredeemable, but it also hollows out any meaning we can get from communication and art and reduces human life to an aesthetic it wears like a skinsuit.

submitted 56 days ago • 72 comments

As we approach 2025, I can only hope mankind realises that no-one cares about your daily ice bath.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I keep warning you that generative "AI" is a threat to the processes of making & certifying knowledge & consensus reality, thus leading us to the verge of an epistemic & heuristic collapse of just catastrophic proportions but y'all keep slathering it on yourselves like it's butter & you're corncobs

submitted 64 days ago • 19 comments

UHC acting as though it owns the copyright to Luigi is peak late capitalism

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

Possibly unpopular content design opinion (I know, I do more than repost about The Adjuster). I'm not sure it's effective or useful to crit websites/services via social media when you can't get the input of the team who worked on it.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

Copilot is by proxy, an NDA risk

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

submitted 72 days ago • 35 comments