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design educator, he/him Atl, GA https://www.michael-lahey.com
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Every time I feel puzzled about the behavior of our elected representatives, I remind myself that it is not normal to want that much power.

Remember "Design Thinking"? lol.

Truly insane FT article on the arms race between investors using algos to do sentiment analysis on corrporate announcements and companies responding by running draft announcements through the same algos archive.is/NPxRk

Rothko chicken crosses the skyline.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Reading entire books is cool and fun and all the world's worst people don't like that

The Witch-king of Angmar.

Termintor 7: The Shitposting Offensive

The happiest parts of my life were the times when bookstores were my goto third place. Somewhere down the road of trying to simplify & curating my life, I started buying digital books in place of physical ones. Unknowingly, I‘ve gradually removed the tangible things that made moments memorable.

Saruman declares the Union of the Two Towers 🧙‍♂️ 🎨 art by Chris_Cold

Finally figured out what the pants (and general vibe) reminded me of

To me, curiosity equals research. Research is articulation of the q that leads to the tactical investigation to reveal the next knowable thing in all its nuances and contexts. Ideas and strategy don’t mean shit without the ability to distill it to some hypothesis to lead you to a definable truth.

waiting for dunks like

I used to mix metaphors but that ship has flown.

I'll say it again: they are Red Lobstering the federal government

Karl-Anthony Towns is making plays.

State of class prep, is this anything

The cause is Ozymandian

I don’t think the internet was a mistake, I think bandwidth was. text is fine, images, some small audio files. but video? I think video is where it all went wrong

If you need me, I'll be crying in the walken freezer.

100% missed opportunity

Parallel universe where instead of thumbs up and thumbs down, Siskel and Ebert used the system of GoGo and NoGo “Enemy of the state is fun it’s clever and fans of the conversation will love to see how those themes play out as a modern techno thriller which is why for me, it’s an enthusiastic GoGo”

LOB OFF GLASS OH MY GOD DUNK OF THE YEAR

It turns out that one of the things I clearly needed to do before I die was watch the Vancouver Grizzlies mascot strip to the song “Pony.”

This constantly gets brought up in response to AI criticism. No one objects to these applications. They object to the consumer facing dreck that's being marketed to us as groundbreaking and forced onto our devices.

People with good intention and good ideas welcome criticism the way writers welcome a good editor.

he tall

Once every two months I just completely forget the shortcut for em-dashes.

Sorvagsvatn, the lake that hangs over the ocean. Faroe islands

Art by Jean Giraud aka Moebius for Moebius 7: The Goddess (1990)

where in hell is carmen sandiego

why o why did I decide to play "just one game" of tetris

The picture of the century.... Nature defeats technology 🦅🔥

exit strategy