Hoping Tarantino disses me next. I could use the boost.
The early web revealed how many of us are creative.  The current one shows how many are morons.
“One small thing designers and developers can do is to make accessibility and usability Job 1 on every project. And to take a broad view of what that means. It means taking people’s messy humanity into account and designing for extreme ends of the bell curve.” #BlueBeanieDay is 30 November.
“If it was anybody else, we would arrest him tomorrow.”
The party of Lincoln cheers as masked vigilantes who can’t pass an open-book test aim guns at pregnant women, an alcoholic TV host murders unarmed fishermen while lecturing the US military on “manhood,” and the GOP keeps the government shut down to keep the content of the Epstein files a delightful secret.
Congrats to The Guardian on hiring Doctorow to explain enshittification to the non-tech masses. #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #software
See whose work tech companies are using to train their generative-AI models. Search for authors, YouTube channels and creators, or screenwriters. Here are nine books I worked on that were used to train LLMs:
Imagine a web page that loads instantly, deploys effortlessly, and never needs a security update.
 #webstandards #html #css
“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany.
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Abraham Lincoln image