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I lead multi-disciplinary, globally distributed Design and Product teams crafting remarkable products for millions of people. Austinite. Barbecue acolyte. Autodidact. Previously @baldman on the bird site.

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Step 1: Get a job as chief of saving money for the Federal government (DOGE).

Step 2: Instead of pushing to simplify the tax code or automating tax collection you fire a bunch of IRS workers.

Step 3: Retweet posts about how your racist AI (aka MechHitler) can do people’s taxes.

09.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The Anthropic versus Pentagon conflict is at least three questions which the media skipped asking

1. Should a computer be able to kill people?

2. What’s an acceptable error rate for that computer given LLMs 5% hallucination rate?

3. Can the government force you to sell them your tech to kill?

08.03.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0
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"in reality, prediction markets produce the opposite of accurate, unbiased…"–Charlie Warzel

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

07.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

05.03.2026 20:45 πŸ‘ 4388 πŸ” 1554 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 75
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1 dataset. 100 visualizations.: 100.datavizproject.com

"Fascinating and a reminder that how data is presented shapes the data's story."

04.03.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bessent Says Trump’s Tariff Hike to 15% Likely Coming This Week Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that President Donald Trump’s plan to increase a 10% universal tariff up to 15% will likely be done this week.

Words cannot express the insanity of slapping across-the-board inflationary tariffs in the middle of waging an inflationary war. It’s like they’re trying to crash the market or somethβ€” ah, I see now

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

04.03.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 322 πŸ” 131 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
UPDATE ON THE TEXAS SENATE PRIMARY  #news #shorts #texas
UPDATE ON THE TEXAS SENATE PRIMARY #news #shorts #texas YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox

Today's the Texas primary and all eyes are on the context between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico. I have exciting news: They are both excellent candidates with a path to victory; the GOP candidates are trash/weak. I explain what that means here. GO VOTE.

youtube.com/shorts/9VnVr...

03.03.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 7

JFC you guys β€” do better.

He literally shrugged and said β€œβ€¦that’s the way it is…”

01.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1076 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 3
Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: 
Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security.
Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

01.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 1525 πŸ” 418 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 15

Tell me you don’t understand…anything

27.02.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 507 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 2
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The Everdeck: A Universal Card System: thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/t...

"This is a nifty bit of design"

23.02.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

23.02.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 3739 πŸ” 1374 πŸ’¬ 176 πŸ“Œ 114

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

20.02.2026 01:45 πŸ‘ 2732 πŸ” 1020 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 13
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Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css: modern-css.com

"A collection of modern CSS code snippets. Every old CSS hack next to its clean, native replacement, side by side."

18.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey @Anthropic / Claude team, I haven't used Cowork, and while I may in the future, this is pretty unacceptable when trying to restart an app that I rely on to be responsive. I'm now *far* less inclined to let Cowork do anything for me.

Please do better.

#Claude #Anthropic

17.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Watching crypto exchanges pivot to prediction markets confirms they were always casinos masquerading as investment institutions.

17.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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Indicate Mono Condensed: www.designmadeingermany.de#230649

"Introducing Indicate Mono Condensed, the second style of my monospace typeface in ongoing development. While preserving the strict order of a monospace typeface, Indicate Mo"

16.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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President Obama to Dems: Stop nominating old people!

16.02.2026 11:19 πŸ‘ 247 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 7
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Style Headings using the CSS :heading pseudo-class Use the :heading pseudo-class to style all headings (h1-h6) with a single CSS rule. Reduce repetition in design systems and component libraries while maintaining consistency.

πŸŽ‰ New Blogpost πŸŽ‰

Style Headings using the CSS :heading pseudo-class

CSS just got tidier.

Say goodbye to verbose selector groups and hello to cleaner, more intentional styling for your design systems.

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/sty...

#CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd #WebDesigin

16.02.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

This is happening because OpenAI - a company that does not have anything even approaching a viable business model and is setting money on fire - used borrowed money to advance buy all of the raw materials for RAM production so competitors couldn’t get it

16.02.2026 13:01 πŸ‘ 3403 πŸ” 1291 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 45
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NotebookLM for Product Designers: uxplanet.org/notebooklm-f...

"NotebookLM for Product Designers NotebookLM is one of the most interesting yet often overlooked free AI tools from Google. As the name suggests, NotebookLM is basically a notebook with access to…"

14.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Completely agree

14.02.2026 13:44 πŸ‘ 1245 πŸ” 237 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 0
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X Subscriptions Hit $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Exec Says X recently hit $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue from selling subscriptions, head of product Nikita Bier said in an xAI all-hands meeting on Tuesday. The subscriptions X sells include Basi...

Twitter was a $5B/year business when Elon acquired it. Now the only revenue numbers they quote are a fifth of that.

The guy is almost as good at running social networks as his buddy Trump is at running casinos.

13.02.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

The SAVE Act (which is designed to save the GOP by preventing as many as 21 million people from voting) was passed by the House today.

Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO or we can all kiss this democracy goodbye.

12.02.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 40531 πŸ” 13806 πŸ’¬ 1373 πŸ“Œ 891
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Live Updates: F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days

The total lack of explanation or comprehension from all sources contacted I this article is really unsettling - nobody has any idea why a major city was just suddenly grounded - with lethal force authorized against any aircraft that didn’t get the memo.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

11.02.2026 12:39 πŸ‘ 356 πŸ” 141 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 11
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FAA closes airspace around El Paso International Airport for 10 days | AP News The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

What the hell. Why would the FAA close El Paso’s airspace for the next 10 days?

apnews.com/article/faa-...

11.02.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Webspace Invaders Β· Matthias Ott There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

This is the same bot attack that nearly took down the A11y Project site last year. @matthiasott.com describes the problem in detail.

matthiasott.com/articles/web...

09.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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EyeDrop - AI Alt Text Generator for Mac: eyedrop.ai

"Generate AI-powered alt text for images, locally on your Mac."

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