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Dad, Dude, Public Administrator. Rider of bikes. Proud to be a generalist. Working for smarter government. benaiken.com
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Boats are really cool when they are just floating in water. They become much less cool parked in your neighbor's front yard.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

New Fox chyron is excellent. Team names: huge. Score: huge. Logos: none. Colors say enough. Needless chrome: none. Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting. Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball. Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless. Outstanding design.

submitted 39 days ago • 446 comments

Fascinating piece of military cycling history.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

technology trying to evaluate what to spread hate toward:

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

every ai criticism on social: "it's literally just a random character generator, always wrong, and has no redeeming utility whatsoever." meanwhile, engineers and developers responsible for our digital world: "i use it constantly and it's going to reshape the entire technological economy." hmm.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

How many clicks does it take to get to the center of the tootsie-pop?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Painstaking process to manage any settings on Meta feels so intentional because it is. Human centered design weaponized against the human. t.ly/Hc9WS freeourfeeds.com

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

How long before we're marrying off our Bluey generation? Hoping I can be one of the dads who gets a father-daughter "dance mode" in ~2045.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Fairfax County VA contributes a domestic product of $160ish billion dollars annually to the economy and 6 inches of snow closes schools for 4 days. What does that school closure actually cost? Not to mention the fact that any non motor transport is rendered entirely unusable. Make it make sense.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Dogs don't need winter coats. That is all.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Using an electric leaf blower to clear the cars this morning was so satisfying.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Just learned the 2024 word of the year was "brain rot," and ignoring for the moment that it is two words, I can't help but feel like the social zeitgeist has shifted away from the worst sort of doomscroll content. At least that's my optimistic 2025 outlook. Or maybe 2025's WOTY will be apocalypse.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like the lawyers will never let us have iot-enabled clam sensors and it saddens me.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Love this energy

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

My daughter asked us if we knew about cheese, so we of course said "no, please tell us about cheese." She said it "connects us to the mouses." Just brilliant 3yo stuff.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments